Okay, time for more venting and dissertation blues. Haul out the tiny violins, please, and also everyone get ready to sing along with Arethra Franklin…
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Reading & voting: Williams’ “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family & Place”
As I write this I’ve just spent the past two or three hours sitting in the tire shop and waiting for a tire change. It…
Continue ReadingThoughts on V. Shiva’s “Staying Alive”
I’m reading Vandana Shiva’s Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, & Development for an on-line class on Ecofeminism which I’m TAing. The following are two comments made…
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So I’m thinking about books and research, as I’m driving back home from turning in yet another handful of library books, several of which were…
Continue ReadingThe unexamined dissertation: not worth writing?
As some who read my blog may know already, I’m currently struggling with the process of writing my dissertation proposal. Despite writing being one of…
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Being a student on a very tight budget, I am particularly fond of restaurants with cards that give you a free meal after a certain…
Continue ReadingA Paean to the Librarian
My dissertation proposal research continues apace – sometimes stutteringly slowly, other times with a swiftness and surety which reassures me that I’m on the right…
Continue ReadingRefusing Standard Masculinities
The following was part of a subsection in my comps essay which was titled “Theorizing Patriarchy Past & Present,” which performed said theorizing via a…
Continue ReadingA History for Women and a Feminism for Everyone
…and now back to my comps essay book reviews! :) A more sweeping view of women throughout history, including both their loss of power and…
Continue ReadingWay too much sexual analysis ;)
As was noted yesterday, Biaggi’s essayists examine the emergence of patriarchy in order to persuasively analyze and explain our current global issues — such as…
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