To be fair, everything in this course is relegated to one week of the year. It's a general 'writing theory' course and we cover one 'ism' each week, pretty much. Which is a bit whirlwind and doesn't give you much depth on anything, but does, I suppose, give you the basics.
I suppose any radical idea is bound to have backlash (though, you know, I don't really see how the idea that women have brains is overly radical). I suppose third-wave feminism is still trying to find it's footing after the second-wave and the backlash.
I've always called myself a feminist, but I at least one person who doesn't think I am because my views and hers are quite different. That's possibly accounted for by age and culture, and the fact that I've grown up with a certain sort of feminism, rather than seen it happen as a movement. I think it's probably more like 'feminisms' now than there being one simple way to define it.
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Date: 2006-09-06 09:02 am (UTC)To be fair, everything in this course is relegated to one week of the year. It's a general 'writing theory' course and we cover one 'ism' each week, pretty much. Which is a bit whirlwind and doesn't give you much depth on anything, but does, I suppose, give you the basics.
I suppose any radical idea is bound to have backlash (though, you know, I don't really see how the idea that women have brains is overly radical). I suppose third-wave feminism is still trying to find it's footing after the second-wave and the backlash.
I've always called myself a feminist, but I at least one person who doesn't think I am because my views and hers are quite different. That's possibly accounted for by age and culture, and the fact that I've grown up with a certain sort of feminism, rather than seen it happen as a movement. I think it's probably more like 'feminisms' now than there being one simple way to define it.