Feminism/ Post-feminism

Question 1

Marian Wright Edelman

Answer 1

“you can’t be what you can’t see”

idea being that representation encourages individual aspiration, post-feminist because it draws on individual activism instead of decrying the structures of oppression

Question 2

Peggy Phelan

1933: “unmarked: The Politics of Performance”

Answer 2

challenges Edelman because identity can lie in what you can’t see ie. what is invisible
representation and power

“if representational visibility equals power then almost-naked young white women should be running Western culture”

Question 3

Laura Mulvey

Answer 3

Laura Mulvey has looked at the position of the male gaze in film but narratology has not considered it as much in the position of the narrator

Question 4

Susan S. Lanser

Answer 4

‘Towards a Feminist Narratology’

• highlighted that perhaps the gender indeterminacy of the heterodiegetic narrator itself may be an indication of increased gender fluidity and the recognition that representation through a single identity category is not satisfactory