Месяц: Сентябрь 2015

I Small Group Pedagogy Consciousness Raising in Conservative Times

This essay applies some of the historical lessons about feminism to teaching. Long before the consciousness-raising groups of second-wave feminism, women relied on personal networks and separate organizations to support the work of transforming society. In teaching “Introduction to Feminist Studies,”I sought to have the students, both male and female, rely on each other’s insights […]

OUR time: the myth is magnified

We have seen how the increasing privatization of family life brought ever more oppression to its dependents, wom­en and children. The interrelated myths of femininity and childhood were the instruments of this oppression. In the Victorian Bra they reached such epic proportions that finally women rebelled—their rebellion peripherally af­fecting childhood. But the rebellion was destroyed […]

Biological essentialism and performative genders

Traditional conceptions of sexual difference view sex as a biological category dividing men from women on the basis of their chromosomal, anatomical or hormonal charac­teristics. This biological difference then determines their ‘gender identity’, and for the majority, their ‘sexual orientation’ towards the opposite sex. This binary model of the sexes is known as biological essentialism. […]

Two Boards and a Passion

On Theater, Academia, and the Art of Failure anjalee deshpande nadkarni I had gone to the annual conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education to present a paper entitled “The Maternal vs. the Pater­nal: Navigating the Divide in Rehearsal and in the Classroom.” The paper, which explored differences between male and female directorial […]

LIGHT AND HEAVY

American and Japanese Advice Books for Women WITH KAZUKO TANAKA Nowadays husbands and wives, parents and children don’t say "hello" to each other in the morning. Sometimes not only does the wife not prepare breakfast, she doesn’t even get out of bed. If you think this is sex equality and that the man is a […]

LIGHT AND HEAVY

American and Japanese Advice Books for Women WITH KAZUKO TANAKA Nowadays husbands and wives, parents and children don’t say "hello" to each other in the morning. Sometimes not only does the wife not prepare breakfast, she doesn’t even get out of bed. If you think this is sex equality and that the man is a […]