Wednesday, 21 November 2018

Perspectives - Postmodern Definitions #5

The Canon - a term applied to something that is generally accepted as superior to other things in the same field.

DWEMs - Dead white European Males. A person viewed as unjustly dominant in culture, and archetypcally despised by feminists, multiculturalists and postmodernists.

Phallocentrism - the ideology that the phallus, or male sexual organ, is the central element in the organization of the social world

Eurocentrism - a worldview centered on and biased towards Western civilization.

Postcolonialism - the political or cultural condition of a former colony.

Multiculturalism - the presence of, or support for the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.

Feminism - the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.

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