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Humor and the Feminist Classroom: An Experiment
Submitted by sarahk on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 5:55pmLiz Lemon's Feminism
Submitted by sarahk on Sun, 12/07/2008 - 9:05pm
Sarah Kaufman
Critical Feminist Studies Web Paper #3
Man as Comrade vs. Enemy: Is a Proletarian Feminist Superior to a Capitalist One?
Submitted by sarahk on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 7:17pmCritical Feminist Studies Second Midterm
Man as Comrade vs. Enemy: Is a Proletarian Feminist Superior to a Capitalist One?
Shattering Discourses
Submitted by sarahk on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 1:58pmIn their article, “Toward a Theory of Gender,” Suzanne Kessler and Wendy McKenna urge us to believe that gender is primarily “socially constructed” as opposed to a natural, biological fact. In their 20 questions-like game employed to figure out what constitutes gender, Kessler and McKenna find that “certain information (biological and physical) is seen as more important than other information (role behavior)” in the process of gender attribution. More specifically, knowledge of which genitals the person has always constitutes the gender of that person. Moreover, once that gender attribution is made, it is the umbrella through which to observe



