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Race, Place, & Gender (A Poem & More Questions)

Submitted by tbarryfigu on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 3:56pm

The world that we live in is

separated by more than just oceans, rivers,

 mountain ranges and borderlines.

The world that we live in is

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Feminism: A Definition?

Submitted by smigliori on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 3:43pm

            What is feminism?  Many people feel strongly about feminism, and I have often heard individuals proudly declare that they are or are not feminists. Yet, I have never had a satisfactory definition of this term.  One month into a course entitled “Critical Feminist Studies”, I still have not been given a definition of feminism which I feel is sufficient.  Google returns 19,100,000 hits in .12 seconds in a search for the term “feminism”, the first of which is a lengthy and heavily annotated Wikipedia entry. Though Wikipedia is not normally a reliable source for any paper, the

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Slogging Through

Submitted by ndegeorge on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 2:22pm
Upon entering this class, I had never taken a course in gender and sexuality. However, I found that the issues often came up in my history and film classes (among others), and that inspired me to give this a try. I must admit in this short month, my world of feminism has been turned upside down. We've been bombarded from all sides with so many different ideas, but I'm confident that by the end of the semester I'll be able to tidy up the mess that is my brain right now. That said, I would like to get out of this class a working definition of feminism, since the one I had is currently in pieces. However, I do not necessarily want to limit my final project to that. I would just like that to be a stepping stone to help me get where I'm going (though

A Visit with Susan Stryker

Notes towards Day 12 of
Critical Feminist Studies

coursekeeping:
--sign in, conferences, papers due on-line t'morrow @ 5
--events: Latina/o Studies/Transgender History/Raka Ray on Feminist Revolution
--reading assignment, Tuesday after break:
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, "La Respuesta/The Response" (1690)
--Wed. evening quarterbacking re: revised syllabus/more tweaking/commentary?
--mid-semester evaluations: what's working? what needs working on??

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How To

Submitted by One Student on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 1:29pm

A question on my mind is how to live as a feminist, a writer, and a scholar. Where do I stand as a feminist, a writer, and a scholar? To put it another way, how do I write as a feminist scholar?

 

Refusing to Remain Figurative

Notes towards Day 9 of
Critical Feminist Studies

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Blow Out

Submitted by matos on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 1:20pm

            I’d like to begin my paper be referring to something that was said in a previous class that’s been stuck in the back of my mind ever since.  I think it was in the class where we discussed foregrounding and the topic the dynamic between race issues and gender issues came up.  Someone said that they couldn’t, as a woman of color, focus on both at the same time, and that usually race issues came first and feminism faded to the background.

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Hi Ho, Battling Your Needs and Desires Must Go!

Submitted by Elizabeth319 on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 1:10pm
 

Hi Ho, Battling  Your Needs and Desires Must Go!

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What am I thinking?

Submitted by lvasko on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 1:00pm

Where are my thoughts? To be honest, my thoughts are telling me that I dislike this assignment because it is actually requiring me to think, hard, rather than just regurgitating information, quotes, or an analysis of the reading. My thoughts are that I would rather be studying for the LSATs, which I take on Saturday, instead of sharing my thoughts with the world.


But since I must, because I have not, yet, disconnected myself from the hierarchical patriarchy of logos that is academia, I will write and we shall see what my body puts forth in an attempt to brighten my dark continent.

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"She writes in white ink..." -Cixous

Submitted by llauher on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 1:00pm

Weezie Lauher

September 28, 2007

Intro. to Critical Feminist Theory

Professor Dalke

 

 

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