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Slogging Through

Submitted by ndegeorge on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 3:22pm
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
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How To

Submitted by One Student on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 2:29pm

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?

 

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Blow Out

Submitted by matos on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 2:20pm

            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 - 2:10pm
 

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 - 2:00pm

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 - 2:00pm

Weezie Lauher

September 28, 2007

Intro. to Critical Feminist Theory

Professor Dalke

 

 

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Feminism and the Self

Submitted by EMaciolek on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 11:25am
Although I already had a pretty shaky definition of what a feminist is when I began this course, my definition has become even more opaque and indefinable. However, I feel as if something even more important has happened – I have a definite feeling toward the word. Whereas, before I started taking this course I was (dare I say it?) indifferent to feminism. Now I know its importance and the word has become internalized. Maybe by December I’ll be able to give a definition using words, which, of course, will serve me better in the long run.
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What Is Feminism Anyway?

Submitted by YJ on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 11:46pm

It is only halfway through the semester and already it seems clear to me that much of what I thought I knew and/or understood about feminism can essentially be thrown out the window. It has been both refreshing and a bit unsettling at the same time to tread this new ground and think these new thoughts. In fact, all of the readings have really pushed me (as well as our sometimes intense class discussions) to examine my preconceptions and assumptions of the meaning of feminism on the one hand, and the meaning of being a feminist on the other. Whether or not these two things are necessarily incompatible is not something I am ready to deny or confirm-just that there certainly seems to be a fundamental

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Applying Feminist Theory To Literature

Submitted by hslavitt on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 5:08pm

Hannah Slavitt

Professor Dalke

Critical Feminist Studies

9/25/07  

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