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Post-structuralism is a philosophical movement that questions the objectivity or stability of the various interpretive structures that are posited by structuralism and considers them to be constituted by broader systems of power. [1]
Feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis; Field (Bourdieu) Foreclosure (psychoanalysis) Form of life; Foucault–Habermas debate; Four discourses; French post-structuralist feminism; From Bakunin to Lacan
Feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis (FPDA) is a method of discourse analysis based on Chris Weedon's [1] theories of feminist post-structuralism, and developed as a method of analysis by Judith Baxter [2] in 2003. FPDA is based on a combination of feminism and post-structuralism.
The term continental philosophy, in the above sense, was first widely used by English-speaking philosophers to describe university courses in the 1970s, emerging as a collective name for the philosophies then widespread in France and Germany, such as phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, and post-structuralism. [11]
Fundamentally, queer theory does not construct or defend any particular identity, but instead, grounded in post-structuralism and deconstruction, it works to actively critique heteronormativity, exposing and breaking down traditional assumptions that sexual and gender identities are presumed to be heterosexual or cisgender. [6] [31]
Though elements of their work necessarily relate to structuralism and are informed by it, these theorists eventually came to be referred to as post-structuralists. Many proponents of structuralism, such as Lacan , continue to influence continental philosophy and many of the fundamental assumptions of some of structuralism's post-structuralist ...
An example of binary opposition is the male-female dichotomy. A post-structuralist view is that male can be seen, according to traditional thought, as dominant over female because male is the presence of a phallus, while the vagina is an absence or loss. John Searle has suggested that the concept of binary oppositions—as taught and practiced ...
A rhizome is a concept in post-structuralism describing an assemblage that admits connections between any of its constituent elements, regardless of any predefined ordering, structure, or entry point.