"The first profession opened to women consisted of the sale of sexual love
and was called prostitution; the second...
was a traffic in maternal love and was called pedagogy."
(Redding Sugg, Motherteacher: The Feminization of American Education, 1978)
7:45 Tuesday, Nov. 1, TGH:
Natalie Zemon Davis, "A 16th Century Muslim Between Worlds"
Maureen Dowd, 'What's a Modern Girl to Do?"(New York Times Magazine, October 30, 2005)
For Wednesday:
read three short (and very readable!) essays about "breaking down" and "re-making,"
by Michael Warner, Dorothy Allison and Cherrie Moraga
You're warmly welcome (but not required) to post responses
For Friday: post on-line a 100-word prospectus for your next paper:
What aspect of the current politics of sex and gender most interests you?
What is your understanding of its current state?
How do you imagine an alternative to what now exists?
What research do you need to do, in order to explore this issue?
Paul Willis's Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs--
Jen's thoughts and questions
Anne's reading notes and quotable quotes