WGS.615  Feminist Inquiry

Hi Everyone:  Thanks to Jackie, Lindsey, Feyza, and Nicky for presenting 5/2.  For 5/9, time will be tight with 14 to present.  Please plan to arrive promptly, and remember presentations should be 8 to 10 min max; and for any visuals, these must be on a flash drive.   Also for submitting your essays for our collaborative grading/commenting process, Word docs best; no pdfs please.  Thanks so much; it has been a very special semester!  lmb  

Hi again:  I'm very excited as have confirmed that Modhumita Roy, Prof. of English, Tufts Univ., will be visiting for the first half of our next class.  While Group B is up for Reaction Papers, if anyone in Group A would like to submit a question to the 5/2 Forum, please do!  After our guest (and break), we will then begin student presentations:  as Kim explained, we do need a few more volunteers for 5/2.  And for those who had to miss this week's class meeting, the ground-rules for presenting are:  8 to 10min max; any power points or visuals must be on flashdrive; video clips strongly discouraged.  And please know that if you have any questions or concerns, we want to help, so feel free to contact us!  Thanks so much for your engagement and honesty -- lmb

Hi Class --

For those of you who were not able to be in class tonight, and for those of you who we did not get round to in our discussion of your final project research expansions, please do consider posting something about what you plan to do for your paper, so that Linda & I (and other classmates) may give you some feedback and/or suggestions to consider. I've opened a new Forum Topic for this purpose. We are sorry we ran out of time this evening and weren't able to get to everyone.

Also, we really do need three more volunteers to present on May 2 (next week) -- this would NOT mean that your paper would be due then, but rather that you might have the benefit of some additional feedback in advance of the deadline of May 9. Presentations should be no more than 8-10 minutes so that we can accommodate everyone in the last two weeks.

Many thanks for a good discussion tonight and all the energy and preparation you each bring to our class -- we know this is especially challenging at the end of the term! We are looking forward to our final visitor in the first half of next week's class. See you then!

--kim

Hi everyone:  We've posted guidelines for the second research inquiry/expansion paper due May 9th on Stellar (on "Materials" at the top).  Since this is a longer assignment and carries more weight, we hope you'll find these helpful.  At Wed's meeting (4/25), we'd like to spend about the last 45 minutes hearing what each of you has in mind for the essay, raising questions for each other and for us.  Thanks! lmb  

Because Prosser's Second Skin can be challenging reading (depending on your background in feminist and queer theories), Kim had a good suggestion; and I'll add another.  From Kim, if you are pressed for time, please skim Chapter 4 on The Well of Loneliness.  But do read the short Epilogue on Transexuality in Photography.  *Also the Spade essay, strongly rec'd and on Materials, is much easier, overlapping in some ways.*  From me, I suggest as a reading strategy: just keep going when you're in midst of dense theory-laden discussion.  I find that Prosser's examples make the theory accessible, and before long, he usually brings in another.  And I say this as someone with less familiarity with the films, poems, texts he draws from.   (Though isn't this amazing weather making it hard to stay indoors and read!)