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Baby Steps Towards Ecological Intelligence

Who is your mother? Are you someone’s mother? According to Oxford Dictionary of English, the prior meaning of ‘mother’ is ‘a woman in a relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth.’ Original meaning of ‘mother’ was a biological mother. However, the meaning of ‘mother’ has altered so far. It is no longer simple as such.

In Baraitser’s postscript of Ruddick, she introduces Ruddick’s argument saying “maternity is only ever a social practice, one that can be performed by men and women alike, and with a range of ‘others’ that may or may not be our biological children.” She says ‘mother’ neither has to be a woman who gave a birth to her children nor even a woman.

Joie Waxler

12/12/15

A Second Chance for Educators

Project Proposal- BMC and HC Contact Zone

Caitlin Otter and Alison Shao

October 23, 2015 

In America, as we have often discussed in class, incarceration is more often viewed as a space designed to punish, rather than rehabilitate or empower people to escape a system designed to capture and isolate them.  Further, the prison system tends to punish a very select group of individuals, those labelled “dangerous” by our white, patriarchal society. It is rigged to take in greater numbers of the people deemed most contrary to said world, as evidenced by the fact that the numbers of black women in prison is swelling the most (Halkovic).  Removing them from general society not only allows society to create many lies around them, but keeps them from expressing their own needs and having them resolved. Out of the public eye, they are easily forgotten.

When what's learned here doesn't leave here: Prison education with a life sentence

(Sorry I am late, I took a nap that lasted longer than I anticipated it would.)

I’m fascinated by my subject. I have been for a long time and I won’t stop soon.  I have a few people that I wanted to/made plans to interview for this project but didn’t get a chance to before presenting, so I plan on going through with those interviews anyways.  Through one of my interviews I was asked to consider writing a column for *the college news*, Bryn Mawr’s feminist newspaper. I want my first one to be about underwear (bras/binders/etc included) at Bryn mawr. There are two style Instagrams at BMC, HepClo and it’s parody account, SchlepClo, but neither of them address the actual implications and very interesting social and historical implications of clothing. The name for my tentative column is Beatrice’s Boudoir Banter. Stay tuned.

Abby Rose

Arts of Freedom

Prof. Joel Schlosser

12/11/15             

Confronting Ageism and Embracing My Mother’s Feminism: A Second Look at Women’s Lib

I have not been able to post this paper in the format I created it in so I am posting it as an attachment.