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Tag Archives: feminism
On The Masculine Archetypes in Herland
September 5, 2007 – 10:57 am
Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote Herland as the recollected narration of a male sociologist. The narrator’s profession allows Gilman to present her vision of a feminist utopia from a generalist’s perspective, devoid of any of the difficulties of the details of life. Instead of showing us the life and habits of a single Herlander, the narrator [...]
Toke Like a Girl
August 20, 2007 – 10:17 am
From The Stranger’s article, entitled, Toke Like a Girl: “Perhaps the obstacle to female toking is a fear of looking lazy. Getting stoned is, in effect, a great way to relax. Men are allowed to be lazy—being stoned is part of their farting, pajama-wearing, video-game-playing pantheon of acceptable male relaxation techniques…But modern women are not [...]
What A Woman Wants
April 13, 2007 – 11:28 am
Three desires drive the narration of Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale: the desire to know, the desire to have, and the desire to be. The novel takes place in an America taken over by Christian fundamentalists. It paints life inside a Christian theocracy, and the picture is not much different from life under the [...]
More men taking wives’ last names
March 22, 2007 – 06:29 pm
From More men taking wives last names: “The California Legislature is set to consider a bill this month that would allow men to change their surnames upon marriage as seamlessly as women now can. Only seven states now allow a man who wishes to alter his name after his wedding to do so without going [...]
To Do Ought Good
February 28, 2006 – 12:21 am
In all of the relevant conversations occurring today, there needs to be a denouncing of the dualisms. Denounce any dualistic, antagonistic formulation that does not announce itself as a power relationship. The power relationship is nothing more or less than a strong power and a weak power. This power relationship must be met by the [...]
Where do all the books belong?
February 21, 2006 – 12:57 pm
Over on Ain’t I A Woman, in a post entitled, “How do we hear certain voices?,” Dawn’s started an interesting discussion about the concept of minority shelving in bookstores — you know, the whole “Gay/Lesbian Literature” and “African-American Literature” thing (actually, the post is about the more abstract concept of “categorization,” but she gets [...]
Ain’t I A Woman
February 7, 2006 – 01:52 am
Dawn is the teacher’s assistant for a Feminist Philosophy class at Green Mountain College this semester. She had the idea to put together a class blog for the course, where she would post links to news articles and intriguing questions about the week’s assignment, and the professor of the class thought it was a great [...]
Thank you
February 5, 2006 – 03:49 pm
What a sad week, not only for the participants in all the different forms of the civil rights movement, but for everyone who has ever realized that the world isn’t quite right yet, and hoped to do something about it.
On January 31, Wendy Wasserstein died from complications of lymphoma at the age of 55. Wasserstein [...]
