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Notes for 3/16

- Re-evaluation of how resources are being spent -> should we be making decisions differently in some social issues?

- Re: situation in Japan --> Does nature always really win? What would Haraway say?

- For the three open class slots: Look through list by Friday and respond

- Music

-->about 1/2 or a little more of us play an instrument 

--> only one of us performs music

--> a little less than half of us performs music

- Subramanium

What is this field? A field of intersections between women in science and feminism in science

What are the fields that intersect? feminist studies, science (historically focused on biology, but hoping that we move on from this), sociology, gender studies, anthropology

What did it used to do?  looked at women working in the science field, asked why there is an absence of women in science

Where did it go? looks at women AND science rather than women IN science; a critique of the structure and culture of science

Where is it going? Participation of more fields; restructure what science is.  Move from critique to creation, imagines a better kind of science.  The boundaries btw humanities and sciences must be removed.  Gender studies scholars must start learning more about science-->there was no science in gender studies and this needs to be changed in the future.

Do you place this course as an example of feminist science studies? 

-->Lately, we have been looking less at feminism.  At the beginning, we did talk about breaking down boundaries, which is a big goal of feminism

--> Brings science to the humanities.  We aren't doing fieldwork, but our texts are science-based.  It may be a more feminist science class if we practiced science.

-Barad

-->Very much motivated by the desire for a just world

--> What is close reading? 

• read it twice.  Pay attention to each word; read once to get the gist, then read again to analyze
• Would looking up a reference be looking closer into the text or an example of hyper reading?
• Take notes as you read; underline
• How do decide what's important? --> depends on the reader b/c our present condition determines what stands out to us
• Look at the text as an aesthetic form