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millicentthecat:
Honestly I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
Apparently, there’s always been some kind of beef between structuralists and feminists in the SW fandom.
If one group of theorists is writing through the referential framework of existing structures–which are built by power and for power, and thus have taken on a quality of universality–and another group can only speak from their own experience, because the structures to represent them simply don’t exist yet…
You have the mythologists writing about what is and isn’t “there,” in terms of patterns, and neglecting to focus on who put things “there” in the first place. Meanwhile, you have feminists and cultural materialists, picking out the paths from individuals to power in the story, picking apart dynamics by actually reading how people and forces relate to each other inside that framework.
It’s a binary that feels familiar to me.
(I’ll save you the time. The link goes to the Jedi vs. Sith codes. And if it seems like I’m the only one brain-weirding feminism to Dark Side ideology, I’d like to recommend one of the essays in the book: Veronica Wilson’s “Seduced by the Dark Side of the Force: Gender, Sexuality, and Moral Agency in George Lucas’ Star Wars Universe.”
millicentthecat:
Honestly I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
Apparently, there’s always been some kind of beef between structuralists and feminists in the SW fandom.
If one group of theorists is writing through the referential framework of existing structures–which are built by power and for power, and thus have taken on a quality of universality–and another group can only speak from their own experience, because the structures to represent them simply don’t exist yet…
You have the mythologists writing about what is and isn’t “there,” in terms of patterns, and neglecting to focus on who put things “there” in the first place. Meanwhile, you have feminists and cultural materialists, picking out the paths from individuals to power in the story, picking apart dynamics by actually reading how people and forces relate to each other inside that framework.
It’s a binary that feels familiar to me.
(I’ll save you the time. The link goes to the Jedi vs. Sith codes. And if it seems like I’m the only one brain-weirding feminism to Dark Side ideology, I’d like to recommend one of the essays in the book: Veronica Wilson’s “Seduced by the Dark Side of the Force: Gender, Sexuality, and Moral Agency in George Lucas’ Star Wars Universe.”
