Hello readers! Everyone here at ShoutOut is thrilled about the start of the school year, and we can’t wait to start blogging again! As your new editors, eszenyme and I are looking forward to all of the great writing for our new and returning bloggers. But before we get around to business as usual, eszenyme […]
Read More A new semester, a new perspectiveThat’s right readers, for my first installment of Working Women and Feminism, I’m talking about the (in)famous Betty Friedan. *SCREEEEEEEEECH* But wait…Betty Friedan? The author of The Feminine Mystique? Who so blatantly ignored the problems of low-income women and women of color, and even referred to lesbians as “the lavender menace?” Yes. Believe it or not, […]
Read More Working Women and Feminism: Betty FriedanMy majors have done a lot for me. As a political science and justice studies double major, I may not have job security immediately after college as opposed to my business major counterparts, but I can guarantee you that I will get a job I love…eventually. But even if I don’t, I’m satisfied knowing that […]
Read More African ‘Her’story: Overcoming obstaclesSo as an English major, I’ve considered (an insanely large amount of times) the narrowness of the literary canons we study. Furthermore, as a Women’s Studies minor, I’m constantly noticing the absence of multi-ethnic women (and women in general) in my literature classes. Unless you’re taking an English class that’s cross-referenced with Women’s Studies, you […]
Read More The Power of Patriarchy“Adrienne Rich would follow the banner cry of the “personal is political” to argue for a “crossover between personal and political” and applaud the efforts of her fellow women poets to “write directly and overtly as a woman, out of a woman’s body and experience, to take women’s experience seriously as theme and source for […]
Read More Poetry beats Patriarchy?Happy Sunday! I will be speaking at the Associated Colleges of the South Women’s and Gender Studies Conference at University of Richmond, April 1-2, 2011. I want to share my abstract, and then comment further on Reconstituting, Redefining, and Integrating Heterosexual and Homosexual Males into the Women’s Studies. Abstract: Defining Women’s studies as an area of […]
Read More The Reconstitution of Women’s StudiesIn my “Major Authors: Women Writers from 1900 to 1950” class last Tuesday morning the professor raised an important question: Where, in any major works of fiction (particularly American fiction) were mothers? After much deliberation, awkward silence and head scratching; the class concluded that mothers were notoriously absent from major works of literature. Amazingly, the one […]
Read More In Search of Mama Dick: Where Are The Mothers In Literature?
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