Images of sexually transmitted infections in public health campaigns have long drawn on tropes related to pollution, contamination, and a decaying society in order to dissuade the public from engaging in “irresponsible” sexual behavior (Brandt 5). From early twentieth-century government posters, such as the one pictured above, that linked disease to gendered and racialized tropes…
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Representations and Discourses of Indochinese and North African Women in French Colonial Postcards (1880s-1920s), Part I
In the opening of his influential book Orientalism, Edward Saïd exposed the dominance and hegemony of Western authors and artists in shaping and formulating the fundamental narratives about the ‘Orient’, emphasizing the binary and self-consolidating character of colonial discourse: A very large mass of writers, among whom are poets, novelists, philosophers, political theorists, economists, and…