Thanks Chris.

Breaking any norm really has punishing consequences, and I'm certainly paying!

And there really is a new norm.
I was at a SWIP conference recently where we ended with a long and very heartfelt, moving debate around one of the young academics declaring that she was determined, or at least desirous, never to write her name on anything for publication, that she wanted to move through her career in print anonymously, completely divorcing from the entire intellectual property competitive genre of academia.  I was startled at the self-annihilation this represented, given the struggle for recognition women have to face still in our academic discipline and also at the heroism.  It's one thing for Otto Neurath ... Anyway it's a poignant move, and in step with the current times where we all move forward embracing one shared mind with our many perspectives and talents.

Students do the same thing of course, although clumsily and without responsibility, just lifting things off the net and presenting as their own in various contexts. Of course there will be a furore now that there's no comparison between an open discussion about how to teach a course, and use of the internet to incorporate passages of other people's work into one's own in fulfilling academic responsibilities for assessment.  But on another, deeper, perhaps more philosophical -- gasp! -- level, the two ways of using the internet have elements in common.  

Maybe it's all part of moving away from the use of language as a representative tool in the way it has functioned before the printing press, and then much differently after the printing press, and now much differently again since the electronic transmission of information and ideas.  Soon, for instance, the notion of correct grammatical structures won't make a whole lot of impact either, or its significance will change.  Certainly already property and ownership of ideas is being contested and challenged, as the vision of going through an academic life never identifying any published work as one's own.

Helen

From: Christina Rawls <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: introductory essay on feminist theory/philosophy recommendations

Although I've taught for a few years now, I'm teaching my first feminist text(s) this term. George Yancy's edited volume The Center Must Not Hold is good for upper level philosophy students, but I'll be teaching Moira Gatens' Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Politics and Power.

Several other texts and authors already mentioned have been helpful personally, but Sandra Bartkey was particularly helpful in my earlier graduate years for the MA. As Helen said, reading the bibliographies of various texts that one finds important to their own development of the subject is also a great way to go.

Christina

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I start my feminist theory/philosophy class with Gloria Anzaldúa's "La Conciencia de la Mestiza" from Borderlands/La Frontera.  We read it together in the first class and then discuss it. It's not an overview, but it is short, brilliant, provocative, accessible, a model of intersectionality and contextuality from the get-go with which to frame the class (after that we take a historical approach, back to Wollstonecraft, thence to De Beauvoir, Marxism, Structuralism, Black Feminism, etc. before going on to some themes). Students respond really well to it.
 
Best,
Emma
 
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Subject: introductory essay on feminist theory/philosophy recommendations
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:12:05 +0000
 
Hello,
 
I was wondering if any of you have had success providing lower-level feminist theory students with an introductory piece on "what is feminism/feminist theory/philosophy?" and if so, what piece you might recommend.
 
I teach a wide range of majors in an upper-level Feminist Theory undergraduate course at a state university. My students tend to be motivated but do not necessarily possess any background in philosophy or theory. 
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Talia
 
 
 
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