Friday, January 25, 2008
Questions while I am gone...
If you have questions while I am gone, you can post a question under the comments section here or you can email me: lindsay.peifer@spps.org
Feminism: Some definitions
On the first day of class, I asked you to define feminism. Here are a few defintions to compare yours to:
Oxford Concise Dictionary of Politics:
Feminism is a way of looking at the world which women occupy from the perspective of women. It has as its central focus the concept of patriarchy which can be described as a system of male authority which oppresses women through its social, political, and economic institutions.
Chambers Dictionary:
Advocacy of women's rights or of the movements for the advancement of emancipation of women.
Rebecca West:
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
A political interpretation of the condition of being a woman and it urges the recognition of that condition as the basis for political identity.
A movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
Oxford Concise Dictionary of Politics:
Feminism is a way of looking at the world which women occupy from the perspective of women. It has as its central focus the concept of patriarchy which can be described as a system of male authority which oppresses women through its social, political, and economic institutions.
Chambers Dictionary:
Advocacy of women's rights or of the movements for the advancement of emancipation of women.
Rebecca West:
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
A political interpretation of the condition of being a woman and it urges the recognition of that condition as the basis for political identity.
A movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
If you were absent Thursday, your homework is to read an excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft. You can find the excerpt at:
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_vindication000.htm (You may have to cut and paste this link into your url if it doesn't link to it).
You should start with the paragraph, "After considering the historic page, and viewing the living world with anxious solicitude, the most melancholy emotions of sorrowful indignation have depressed my spirits, and I have sighed when obliged to confess, that either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial" (Wollstonecraft).
You should end with the paragraph, "Discussing the advantages which a public and private education combined, as I have sketched, might rationally be expected to produce, I have dwelt most on such as are particularly to the female world, because I think the female world oppressed; yet the gangrene, which the vices engendered by oppression have produced, is not confined to the morbid part, but pervades society at large: so ht when I wish to see my sex become more like moral agents, my heart bounds with the anticipation of the general diffusion of that subline contentment which only morality can diffuse" (Wollstonecraft).
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_vindication000.htm (You may have to cut and paste this link into your url if it doesn't link to it).
You should start with the paragraph, "After considering the historic page, and viewing the living world with anxious solicitude, the most melancholy emotions of sorrowful indignation have depressed my spirits, and I have sighed when obliged to confess, that either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial" (Wollstonecraft).
You should end with the paragraph, "Discussing the advantages which a public and private education combined, as I have sketched, might rationally be expected to produce, I have dwelt most on such as are particularly to the female world, because I think the female world oppressed; yet the gangrene, which the vices engendered by oppression have produced, is not confined to the morbid part, but pervades society at large: so ht when I wish to see my sex become more like moral agents, my heart bounds with the anticipation of the general diffusion of that subline contentment which only morality can diffuse" (Wollstonecraft).
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Welcome to the Feminist Literature Quest Blog!
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