CUNY Academic Commons

Anisa Khan

Professor Shaw

Women’s Studies

5/10/20

                                                            Independent Study Prompt

            For my project I decided to celebrate […]

The three posts that were the most impactful to me were posts eight, six and fourteen. It was so fun learning about the histories of our interviewee’s. I learned so many lessons from them such as how they […]

I chose to read the ” Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison for my book report. The book is about two girls named Claudia and Frieda. They are living in Ohio in 1941. They become friends with another girl named Pecola and […]

Material feminism is understanding the oppression women face from patriarchy. It also tackles the differences of gender roles, what is perceived or what it takes to be a normal man or a woman and what is expected […]

To me Judith Butler is saying that there is already a existing idea or belief of gender roles and how we are supposed to act even before we are born. ” Nobody is really a gender from the start”. Our culture […]

To me the culture wars are the clashing of opposing sides of different ideas and beliefs. There is a struggle to cooperate and finding equality. This relates to feminism because Heywood specifies an example of […]

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I interviewed my mom because she grew up in the 70’s and 80’s in Trinidad and Tobago and she had a rich and memorable childhood.

Question: What were the early years of your childhood like?

Answer: I was […]

Hi everyone! I hope you guys are safe and keeping yourselves busy with school, family etc. I’m fine and I adjusted well to being at home. But hearing about the tragedies as a result of the pandemic everyday […]