A new semester, a new perspective

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 […]

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Working Women and Feminism: Betty Friedan

That’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, […]

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The Power of Patriarchy

So 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 […]

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Poetry beats 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 […]

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The Reconstitution of Women’s Studies

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 […]

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In Search of Mama Dick: Where Are The Mothers In Literature?

In 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 […]

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