Lecture Four

Power and Production - Eliza Fellows, Dr. Grumbings

Key Concepts:

• Zines: Independently produced books promoting alternative perspectives.

• Ways of Knowing: Highlights the dominance of white, powerful perspectives in knowledge production.

Scientific Method Components:

• Systematic, Method, Procedure, Fact, Discovery, Hypothesis, Empirical, Objectivity.

Notetaking Insights:

• Participation credit for zine outline submission.

• Zine is a significant assignment due November, focusing on critique of pop culture (e.g., clothing, family dynamics). No artistic ability graded, citations not required for zine, but scholarly reflection needed.

• Zine size: 8.5 pages, can be halved.

Discussions and Themes:

• Androcentric Bias: Gendered perspective limiting research inclusivity (e.g., airbags designed for male bodies).

• Overgeneralization: Examples from the Olympics highlight pitfalls of ethnocentric views of gender and sexuality, especially towards women of color.