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Hi everyone,
I have the flu and cannot make it in to our class today. Please complete the following written assignment on Cathy Cohen’s piece and post your response on our WordPress website. You can complete the assignment on your own or with another colleague from class. If you work with a partner, make sure that both names are listed at the top of your assignment. For full credit, make sure your response is posted by 5pm today. Your response should be at least 300 words or more, and everything should be written in your own words.
In her essay, Cathy Cohen argues that “…a truly radical or transformative politics has not resulted from queer activism.” Drawing on details from the text, what according to Cohen has inhibited the radical potential of queer activism?
I look forward to seeing you after the break.
Elizabeth
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Due Monday, April 3rd, by midnight. Word count: 300 words. Please make sure everything is in your own words. Absolutely no quotes should be used. If you paraphrase from the text (from Collins’s work or anywhere else), you must be sure to include the proper citation (either MLA or APA).
In her essay, “Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought,” Patricia Hill Collins argues that, “Black women’s experiences highlight the tension experienced by any group of less powerful outsiders encountering the paradigmatic thought of a more powerful insider community” (S29). According to Collins, how can “outsiders” contribute to the field of sociology and our understanding of society and culture?
Y A few more thoughts on Gilmore
I was thinking about our discussion on my commute home this evening, and about Ellie’s comment / question about whether it is profitable to invest in protections and entitlements for labor. What Gilmore brings to this discussion is how the expansion of prisons is becoming a solution to a problem that was at one time viewed as the state’s socio-economic problems. She argues (1999:174) that this expansion of prisons is part of the state’s reorganization and restructuring of itself so that capitalist production in the U.S. is becoming more aligned with “supra-national trade” in a global political economy.
It is interesting to read what Gilmore writes about Angela Davis’ work. She notes how Davis (and others) argue that the (capitalist political-economic) system pose a limit to reform. Attempts to reform the system end up strengthening institutions rather than transforming them. As Gilmore (1999:183) explains, “At first, California planned simply to replace decrepit facilities with small (500 person) new ones. However, that plan never materialized. Instead, new power blocs (which took office in 1982 using a strategy similar to Nixon’s 1968 ‘law and order’ campaign) used the improvement plans as a template for the ‘megaprisons’ that have since been built.”
Here’s more you can read, if you are interested:
As I mentioned, Aihwa Ong’s work, Neoliberalism as Exception, lends support to the climate that Gilmore describes. Ong addresses how the terms of citizenship are altered by global capitalism. Mark Duffield’s work, Global Governance and the New Wars, traces a shift in discourses on “development” that is also connected to the global economy Gilmore describes.
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Due Monday, March 27th, by midnight. Word count: 300 words. Please make sure everything is in your own words. Absolutely no quotes should be used. If you paraphrase from the text (from Peterson and Parisi’s work or anywhere else), you must be sure to include the proper citation (either MLA or APA).
In their work, V. Spike Peterson and Laura Parisi argue that we should interrogate the connection of “human rights” in connection to heterosexism rather than focusing on, as other feminists have, the androcentrism of human rights discourse. In your own words, explain why they believe heterosexism is a more precise way of analyzing the relationship of gender difference and human rights.
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Hi everyone,
This is just a quick note to let you know that the midterm will take place this Friday, March 17th, as scheduled. If you have questions, please post them to our website so that your colleagues can benefit from reading your question and my response.
Elizabeth
Y For your interest, a thread on intersexuality
This thread from Laverne Cox on twitter seems germane to our interests. Be sure to read through to the end.
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3094897/Readings_S17/Student_Work_12_16.pdf
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Please Note: This writing assignment has been cancelled to give you extra time to study for the midterm exam this weekend.
Due Monday, March 13th, by midnight. Word count: 300 words. Please make sure everything is in your own words. Absolutely no quotes should be used. If you paraphrase from the text (from Rich’s work or anywhere else), you must be sure to include the proper citation (either MLA or APA).
In her chapter titled “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” Adrienne Rich argues that heterosexuality is institutionalized. Drawing on the examples she introduces in her work, explain her characterization of this institutionality in relationship to the potential of feminist thought.
w Geary assignment March 10, 2017
w Midterm exam March 7, 2017
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