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Understanding Transsexuality

Hilary Polak

Intro to Critical Feminist Studies

October 3, 2008

Understanding Transsexuality

Notes Towards Day 11: "Nudge"

Nudging Our Way Towards Day 11, Food for Thought

I. coursekeeping
clarifying conference schedule (w/ break)
Thursday's class: "Caterpillars Make Choices," with Wil Franklin

By classtime on Thursday, post on-line
1) the 5 questions you will use in your survey
2) a description of your subject group
spend some time thinking about how to ask your questions
so you can put a value on the answers (for ex: use a scale, 1-5)

those of you who will be gathering mostly "qualitative" data,
(i.e. interviewing counselors, coaches, deans) can still

Notes Towards Day 12: Tasting the Book of Salt

Notes towards Day 12 of

What his tongue can do:
Tasting The Book of Salt

Notes Towards Day 10: Lesbian Love Poetry

Notes Towards Day 11
Critical Feminist Studies
Lesbian Love Poems


I. coursekeeping

read through Chapter 12 of The Book of Salt
$$ from Allie, Eve, Raina
conferences with Hope, Eve...?
sign-ins, first set of papers...
on titling, not numbering;
on having a thesis/making a claim;
on backing it up w/ evidence ("proof"? what's that?)

other thoughts about audience?

See Emily on race, Kendalyn on religion,
Janet's play; Eve, Julia, Sarah's studies of Clinton/Palin...
In "Talking in Points," Gail Collins argued that
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Making Sense of Gender and Sex

Questions: What is gender? What is the importance of gender? Is it useful? Does it hinder people? What does this say about feminism?

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When I Grow Up...

When I Grow Up… (please read attached files)
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Palin' Comparison: Why a "Gynecological Twin" Could Mean 2008 Steps Backwards for Feminism

 

 

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Why a“Gynecological Twin” Could Mean 2008 Steps Backwards for Feminism

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Under the Eye of the Pantocrator

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Gender and Religion in Middlesex: An Unorthodox Treatment of Gender Identity

Gender and Religion in Middlesex: An Unorthodox Treatment of Gender Identity

 

It was all around me from the beginning, the weight of female suffering, with its biblical justification and vanishing acts. (Eugenides 215)

 

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