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Week Four: Contemporary Feminist Debate - Seminar

Ponzanesi, S. (2015). The Postcolonial Cultural Industry: From Consumption to Distinction

What should we do with our privileged post-colonial habitus? How are we responsible for our cosmopolitan distinction?

Is the emergence of success for post-colonial authors a new expression of colonialism? Do these authors serve the consumeristic ideal of being interculturally sophisticated?

Intercultural sophistication - having access to cultural capital of postcolonial subjects

Is the culture industry a direct result of colonialism?

Capitalism hijacking feminist rhetoric, and this is internalised by women themselves, done to make sure the new women's movement will no re-emerge

The seeming empowerment of women makes feminism seem redundant

Women-centric media and popular media - what role can they play in empowering women? Is it possible to have feminist media in a capitalist world?

Everyone is on a different feminist journey, and we all started somewhere. For some people that was through women-centric media/popular discourse. "Popular media is not dependent on capitalism"

Refinery29 - women-led media that doesn't uphold feminism - vacuous articles

Bringing feminism to popular culture is a way of making academia accessible.

Is feminist discourse on the internet dependent on capitalist products?

Manipulation of feminist rhetoric within Western government - to show the rest of the world how underdeveloped they are

Is capitalism compatible with feminism, or does it have to be socialist?

Feminism as the questioning and break down of the historical, patriarchal societal structures - no I do not think it is compatible with feminism.

Femonationalism - used by the state to oppress those who are not emancipated - women's rights are used against others (Muslim women) 


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