Day 21: On Reading Women
Discussion of your proposed book projects

Announcements:
What's past:

Elle report back re: The Politics of Sexual Orientation?
Anna, Lindsay re: Re-presenting Parenting?

What's upcoming this week:

4:30, Tues, Nov 15, Carpenter 21: Keeping Our Heads Above Water: No Buoys Allowed
A Feminist Scholar and Swimmer Reflects on 21st Century Athletics at Bryn Mawr
7 p.m., Wed, Nov 16, Stokes Auditorium, HC: Screening and discussion with filmmaker
Priti Chandriani will show and talk about her film "Rani Hindustani (Indian Queen)": a 24-minute documentary about a woman who rebelled against many social traditions and today lives by her own rules. Leaving behind an oppressive, insensitive family life, Rani Hindustani took on a totally new name and a profession entirely dominated by men, truck driving. Denied the ability to adopt a child, Rani Hindustani chose to have a child out of wedlock. Her unusual path is charted in this film.
Noon, Fri, Nov. 18, MCC (w/ lunch!)
Florence Goff, Karen Tidmarsh and Elena Bernal
"Examining Our History: Inclusion/Exclusion at Bryn Mawr"

Corot, Woman Reading

Complicated Assignments also upcoming: listen up!

Today: report in on the shape of your books
Wed, 11/16: take the survey, Which Feminist Icon Are You?
Which Western Feminist Icon do you most identify with?
Also begin to think about/do some research into which feminist foremother
might best give you a hand up on your upcoming paper.
(See suggestions in syllabus;
most are available in the packet).
Post on-line both what you learned from taking the survey and
who you're considering using in your paper-- and why.
To help you think about this process of selection,
Anne and Jen will "tell their origin stories" on Wednesday--
how we found our way to feminist scholarship,
who was most useful to us, why and how.

"Woman Reading," @ Lost and Found: Old Photos
By 5 p.m., Sun, 11/20:
Read the work of the "foremother" you'll be using in your paper.
Post a description of her thinking on the forum, and
tell us why you are interested in her.
Of what use might her history be to you,
in your thinking about contemporary political action?
M, 11/21:
Small group discussions about which origin stories
might be most useful to us in strategizing for the future
(and/or: IS it useful to look back,
in order to move forward? How and why?)
W, 11/23: No class
By 5 p.m. post a 5-pp. paper on-line AND submit it in hard copy to your instructor
(in a folder, with your earlier papers and introduction to this one).
Be sure to "situate" the essay both within your "book" and
within the "history" provided by your feminist foremother.
Woman Reading on a Bench, from Goatee
AFTER THANKSGIVING:
Schedule a writing conference with us
Read Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas
F, 12/2 : post revised introduction to book on-line
F, 12/19: post final 10-pp. paper
(expansion of what you submitted before Thanksgiving)
Questions about any of this?

Your Book Introductions:
How are you defining--and addressing--the issues?
Is your book coming together as a joint argument
(with different shades and nuances, perhaps),
or more as a debate?
(Either way, describe that terrain of overlap.)

Woman Reading. Pakistan. From British Council Arts

Presenting
Social Structures, Science, Agency:
The Impact of Reproductive Rights and Technologies on Women and Men
Flora Shepherd, Alex Heilbronner, Samantha Martinez
Alex: birth control accessibility and sex ed for teenagers
Flora: pharmacists rights to refuse to distribute Plan B emergency contraception
Samantha: new reproductive technologies and the devaluation of feminist ideology

Collabrative Introduction
Kelsey G, Kathryn Corbin, Sarah Halter, Elle
Sarah: including gays in hate crime legislation
Kat: anti-sex and sex-positive feminism
K: sex industry and sex slave trade
Elle: sex-negative U.S. politics

The Talents to Balance or the Struggle to Juggle
Lindsay Updegrove, Talya Gates-Monasch, Emily Madsen, Anna Mazzariello
Talya: the problem w/ classifying and describing oneself
(the difference between intentions and interpretations)
Anna: how the political culture of BMC deals w/ working moms
EmJ: women "acting like men," in the workplace and the bedroom
Lindsay: see-saw of the closed economy, vs. collapsing the gender gap:
can we not hurt one sex while championing the other?

Our Intro
Patricia, Orah, Amy P(squared)--> (Amy Ph and Amy Pe)
Amy Phillips: what does it mean to be transgendered?
Patricia: inside the pleasure-dome: taking hold of our identities
Orah: unbounded imagination as the source of our politics
Amy Pennington: sex kitten as media archetype and role-model

Sample Introduction: Table of Contents and Introduction. After Shock: September 11, 2001. Global Feminist Perspectives.
Eds. Susan Hawthorne and Bronwyn Winter. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2003.

"Woman Reading," @ Martha, Martha
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Day 21: On Reading Women Discussion of your proposed book projects

Your Book Introductions: How are you defining--and addressing--the issues? Is your book coming together as a joint argument (with different shades and nuances, perhaps), or more as a debate? (Either way, describe that terrain of overlap.)

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Day 21: On Reading Women
Discussion of your proposed book projects

Your Book Introductions:
How are you defining--and addressing--the issues?
Is your book coming together as a joint argument
(with different shades and nuances, perhaps),
or more as a debate?
(Either way, describe that terrain of overlap.)