Anne Dalke's blog

PLEASE POST AGAIN BY 5 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY, SO I'LL HAVE TIME TO SORT/THINK THROUGH OUR VARIOUS PROPOSALS...
since in class on Thursday we'll need to construct a shared syllabus that allows us to go on exploring critical feminist studies in ways that will continue to interest us all. I'm seeing below several postings that list multiple, multiple possibilities--for which yeah!...

PLEASE POST AGAIN BY 5 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY, SO I'LL HAVE TIME TO SORT/THINK THROUGH OUR VARIOUS PROPOSALS...
since in class on Thursday we'll need to construct a shared syllabus that allows us to go on exploring the emergence of genre in ways that will continue to interest us all. I'm seeing below postings from froggies315 and dglasser that list multiple, multiple possibilities--for which yeah!...

Since a # of you are interested in the question of motherhood, I thought you might be interested to learn about Demeter Press: a peer-reviewed scholarly press focused specifically on the topic of mothering / motherhood. It came to mind because this week I received two calls for papers: one on "Stay at Home Mothers: An International Perspective," and another on "Criminalized Mothers: Criminalizing Motherhood." There are others, viewable from the home page, on "Reconceiving Black Motherhood," "East Asian Motherhood," and "Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices."

Just wanting to be sure that "everyone" knows about the interesting and adroit (feminist?) move our team made last week: Bryn Mawr College books performance artist Villanova cancelled.

Also, here's French feminism updated -- a new study showing that young women deserve credit for pioneering vocal trends and popular slang: They're Like, Way Ahead of the Linguistic Currrrve.

This weekend, please post as a comment here your proposal for the remainder  of our semester's work together. Begin with a paragraph or two of a mid-semester evaluation of how we're doing in learning together:
what's working? What needs working on? What should we keep, of our shared practices? What might we change up?

Turn then from questions of "form" to those of "content": What evolving genres would you choose to explore, if the remainder of the class were an independent study? What do you recommend our exploring together? Why? (i.e. how do your selections expand/extend/challenge what we have already done?)

I have two more weeks of material planned for after break (wiggle room, to order new books, do some course planning), but we will select material together for NINE [AS YET UNPLANNED] CLASSES.

This weekend, please add as a "new comment" here your proposal for the remainder  of our semester's work together. Begin with a paragraph or two of a mid-semester evaluation of how we're doing in learning together:
what's working? What needs working on? What should we keep, of our shared practices? What might we change up?

Turn then from questions of "form" to those of "content": What other genres, geographies, forms of gender or sexuality studies would you like to explore, if the remainder of the class were an independent study? What do you recommend our exploring together? How action-based or action-directed do you want our work to be? Say "why" in answer to each of these questions (i.e. how do your selections expand/extend/challenge what we have already done?).

I have two more weeks of material planned for after break (wiggle room, to order new books, do some course planning), but we will spend next week selecting material together for NINE [AS YET UNPLANNED] CLASSES.

Just in case you've been waiting breathlessly for a link that works,
you can now find Luce Irigaray's essay on "This Sex Which Is Not One"
@ http://picard.montclair.edu/%7Elorenzj/unisinos/irigaray-sexnotone.pdf .