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Problematize
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Prob´lem`a`tize
v. t.1.To propose problems.


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Her central argument is that the act of rape takes place within a symbolic order that systematically and symbolically erases or problematizes women's sexual subjectivity, thereby simultaneously erasing and normalizing the damage of rape, which repeats the larger order's erasure of women's sexual subjectivity, an erasure that stems from the dichotomizing of female sexuality and female agency.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Through her categorization of public art as monuments, amenities, parks, agoras, and pilgrimages, Knight problematizes the previous historical understanding of public art, expands its scope to include memorials, Land Art, Cyber Art, and other artistic practices, and also examines the museum as "a potential site for public art" (50).
Azoulay, in her writing, continually problematizes these sweeping definitions of identity, by showing that those who might seem to be trying to pass for something other than what they are, are actually trying to distance themselves from an externally defined stereotype of their community of identification, that holds no meaning or truth for them as individuals.
 
 
 
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