May 2009
2 posts
Final Cyber Body: Virgin/Whore Dualism
Virgin/Whore or Good Girl/Bad Girl:
First of all let me explain what this whole dualism term is, a dualism is the view that the world consists of or is explicable as two fundamental entities, such as Virgin/Whore or Good Girl/Bad Girl. The broader dualism as it is understood more generally is that good girls do not talk about sex and bad girls do talk about sex. Women are put in one of the two...
Week 15
In “Talking Back,” Hooks reveals her childhood experience of having a “voice.” In class we discussed how Hooks was prohibited in some ways to claim her voice. For example, when her sister found her journal she laughed at her. Also, she was not allowed to speak unless spoken to. In the article Hooks states that if she had been a boy then maybe she would be punished...
April 2009
3 posts
Week 14
This week we read, “Jane Fonda, Barbara Bush, and Other Aging Bodies,” by Myra Dinnerstein and Rose Weitz. We are introduced to two women and how they have aged. Jane Fonda has surgically enhanced her face and breasts. Barbara Bush who exhibits a “resolutely natural” look. In the article Dinnerstein and Weitz mention how the women’s...
Week 13 "Oprah plans to devote this Thursday’s...
This week we read three articles, “Ending Violence,” by Hooks, “Word Warrior,” by DiMarco, and “History and the Politics of Violence Against Women,” by Castaiteda. In “Ending Violence,” Hooks constructs a new term, “patriarchal violence.” According to Hooks, although “domestic violence” is the common term “patriarchal...
Week 12 "Against Abortion? Don't have one" (car...
This week we read “Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies: Disability and Queerness,” by Eli Clare. Clare writes about the body. Clare states, “The pernicious stereotypes, lies, and false images can haunt a body, stealing it away as surely as bullets do,” (414) In other words our bodies are stolen because of the stereotypes of society. Clare writes about disabeled bodies and how...
March 2009
5 posts
Week 10 Women want Bonobos?
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This week we read “What do women want?” an article by Daniel Bergner. The article is about Meredith Chivers and her research. Chivers is a psychology professor and creator of the “bonobo pornography.” An interesting part of her research is that using plethysmographs for the men and plastic probes for women she...
Week 9
This week we read, “Hottentot 2000,” “Selling Hot Pussy,” and “Why Black Sexual Politics.”
“Hottentot 2000,” discusses Jennifer Lopez and the reputation of her buttocks. At one point in the article she is compared to Saartje Baartman, better known as the “Hottentot Venus.” The reason why the comparison according to the author, is because...
Week 7
This week we read, “Fantasies of femininity,” by Ussher.
The article starts off with the topic of “Make-up,” and how it is not necessary but a choice. Girls have the choice to wear it or not, however the pressure put upon many of us from society forces us to do so. This reminds me of the discussion we had in-class, does the media/magazines send false messages and does it...
Week 6
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This week we watched the film , “Kinsey.” Kinsey is the one who developed a scale that attempts to describe a person’s sexual history or episodes of their sexual activity at a given time. This was the first time I had seen this film and I have to say that I did enjoy it. However, there were parts in the film that were...
February 2009
6 posts
Week 5
“An image of the ‘reclining hermaphrodite’, a 1st-century BC sculpture from the collection of the Museo Nazionale de Roma’s Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme.”
(Wikipedia)
Week 5
One out of every two thousand births is an intersex child, and the new baby presents the parents with a sudden gender dilemma. A tradition of secrecy means most parents are totally unprepared. (By Alice Dreger)
This week we were challenged by the question of what would you do if your baby was intersex? Most people in-class argued that it should be the child’s choice, therefore it would be...
Week 4
This week we read, “Sexing the body,” by Anne Fausto-Sterling and “Rethinking sex and gender,” by Christine Delphy.
In the beginning of “Sexing the body,” we are confronted with the dualism theme. Sterling begins with Maria Patino, and how the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had tested her for “femininity.” After the test they had found a...
Media Post (Week 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpKa9AioyaA&eurl=http://tv.popcrunch.com/nbc-pulls-sexy-peta-vegetarian-commercial-from-super-bowl-ad-lineup-video/&feature=player_embedded
This is one of the commercials that was suppose to air for the super bowl but it was banned since it was “too sexy.” An example of how women are used to portray something.
Week 3 Post
This week we started reading “My Gender Work Book,” by Bornstein. One of the most fundamental topics was the theme of genderlessness. Borstein claims that genderlessness can be achieved. I have to disagree. I believe that genderlessness is a state of mind, therefore it cannot be achieved in the real world. One will always have to be conscious once one defines as having no gender. For...
January 2009
1 post
Week 2 post
We were discussing the article in-class about the “virgin-auction,” some were saying that it was not right because it was putting a price on someones body in other words it can easily be said its prostitution. I wonder if this auction she is doing is legal?
As we were going into the discussion I could not help but wonder what the whole fuss was about, yes a girl auctioining her body,...