Critical Feminist Studies course

To Conform or Not To?

Notes towards Day 22
Critical Feminist Studies

Gertrude Stein and Marilyn Hacker
The Lesbian Poet: To Conform Or Not To Conform?

(Okay, so that's not actually the title for the class,

Licking The Book of Salt

Notes towards Day 21
Critical Feminist Studies

Licking
The Book of Salt


"Powered sugar, cracker crumbs, salt...forgive my lack
of appreciation, my nonaffection for the snow." (225)

Reading Kindred

Notes towards Day 19 of
Critical Feminist Studies


Reading Kindred:
Science Fiction as "Feminist Didactic"?

Continuing Our Discussion of Disability

Notes towards Day 18 of
Critical Feminist Studies

Continuing Our Discussion of Disability

I. the arrival of "Generous Feminism"!

II. continuing thoughts from Tuesday's discussion about feminist disability studies

Is Gender Burning?

Notes towards Day 15 of
Critical Feminist Studies

Is Gender Burning?
A Conversation About Reading,
among Livingstone, Butler and hooks

'The strange ambiguity of existence made body"

Notes towards Day 14 of
Critical Feminist Studies

"The strange ambiguity of existence made body":
Nature and Culture, From
Sor Juana to Simone de Beauvoir--


Naming the Silence

Notes towards Day 13 of
Critical Feminist Studies

Naming the Silence:
Moving from Susan Stryker to Sor Juana


"...que se etienda que el callar no es no haber que decir,
sino no caber en las voces lo mucho que hay que decir/

One must name the silence, so that what it signifies may be understood."

A Visit with Susan Stryker

Notes towards Day 12 of
Critical Feminist Studies

coursekeeping:
--sign in, conferences, papers due on-line t'morrow @ 5
--events: Latina/o Studies/Transgender History/Raka Ray on Feminist Revolution
--reading assignment, Tuesday after break:
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, "La Respuesta/The Response" (1690)
--Wed. evening quarterbacking re: revised syllabus/more tweaking/commentary?
--mid-semester evaluations: what's working? what needs working on??

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