a) Introductions and Analytical Possibilities

Developing a common language of visual analysis

visual analysis protocol

excerpt from “Oppression,” by Marilyn Frye (1983) in Women’s voices, feminist visions, page 85

“The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or occasional and hence avoidable, but are systematically related to each other in a way as to catch one between and among them and restrict or penalize motion in any direction… one can study the elements of an oppressive structure with great care and some good will without seeing the structure as a whole, and hence without seeing or being able to understand that one is looking a cage and that there are people there who are caged, whose motion and mobility are restricted, whose lives are shaped and reduced…. A network of barriers which are systematically related and which conspire to the immobilization, reduction and molding of women and the lives we live.”

Reading for Next Week: "Cheerleading and the Gendered Politics of Sport"(download from attachments section below)