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Talking pomo: An analysis of the post-modern movement, by Steve Mizrach; Information on Michel Foucault, including an archive of writings and lectures; poststructuralism.info - A collaborative website that aims to allow users not only to describe post-structuralist ideas but to create new ideas and concepts based on post-structuralist foundations
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.
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
Like post-structuralism itself, the feminist branch is in large part a tool for literary analysis, but it also deals in psychoanalysis and socio-cultural critique, [3] and seeks to explore relationships between language, sociology, subjectivity and power-relations as they impact upon gender in particular. [4]
Structuralism is less popular today than other approaches, such as post-structuralism and deconstruction. Structuralism has often been criticized for being ahistorical and for favouring deterministic structural forces over the ability of people to act .
Informal use of the term "queer theory" began with Gloria Anzaldúa and other scholars in the 1990s, themselves influenced by the work of French post-structuralist philosopher Michel Foucault, [6] who viewed sexuality as socially constructed and rejected identity politics. [7] Teresa de Lauretis organized the first queer theory conference in 1990.
The pedagogy of post-structuralism is marked by an attempt to redefine rhetoric as it relates to composition, drawing on post-modern ideology calling for new ideas in a modern world. For example, Victor Vitanza suggests that writing is an entity of its own, existing apart from institutions, social mores, and even writers.
The post-processualists' approach to archaeology is diametrically opposed to that of the processualists. The processualists, as positivists, believed that the scientific method should and could apply to archaeological investigation, therefore allowing archaeologists to present objective statements about past societies based upon the evidence.