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For the remainder of the semester, we turn our attention to questions of education: how can we most effectively talk/write about/represent/act on the issues we've been discussing? What are the implications for your own educational trajectory latent in the material we have encountered so far?

This week, we are reading McIntosh's call to curricular revision; Sosnoski's similar invitation not to participate in what he variously metaphorizes as a "competitive family quarrel," "contest for a prize," and the "mindless man-driven theory machine"; and Derrida's related challenge to women's studies not to become just another "cell in the beehive" that is the institutional structure of the university.

How can you make use of these analyses? How might they help us select together a final text for the course? Where-and-how do they intersect with--and where do they fail to--with your own experiences in the academy, and anticipation of your life after you "get out" of it? What larger challenges (or affirmations) do you see to the way the College, and the world it studies and participates in, conducts business?