Friday, November 6, 2009

DQ's on Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects -Tess Gannaway

1. Is it possible for our culture or any other culture to have a “third gender”? Do the Yorùbá people have a “third gender”? If not then what do they have?

2. How is the argument of Nature vs. Nature intrinsic to the second wave feminist discourse on gender vs. sex?

3. Examine the quote, “When we are busy arguing about the questions that appear within a certain frame, the frame itself becomes invisible; we become enframed within it” (13). How does this relate to Westernized feminism?

4.Why is it wrong to assume that a familial group in any culture that is made up of a man a woman and a baby is a patriarchic one? How does this relate to looking from the inside out instead of from the outside in? (21)

No comments:

Post a Comment