Doctoral Certificate Programs at the GCAlthough getting  your Ph.D. might seem like enough work (for a lifetime…), the GC offers several unique opportunities for additional […]

Hi all,Just a reminder that I’m doing individual conferences this week. Come to the classroom and I’ll let you in: https://meet.google.com/kar-veuv-zot

If you are wondering what you signed up for, you can […]

Hi All,Please sign up for a conference time with me! We’ll go over your progress in class and anything else you want to talk about. You can choose from days this week or next week. Use this doodle poll >> […]

Hi all,As I work on a schedule for one on one conferences and progress reports, I found myself amazed by your tenacity and continued good work on the course site. You are killing it! Keep up the good […]

Hi all,Just a reminder that I’ll be hosting a virtual meeting of class today at 3pm. Here’s the link to the “classroom”: https://bit.ly/WGS-Shaw-20

Please–if you can–try to submit a question about the […]

Show that you have learned: Choose three posts/reading responses that you have done that were most important or impactful to you. What about them or the week’s topic was  most important to your understanding of […]

Book Report—tell us about the Morrison book you read. Give us plot details and major characters, but also a spoiler alert if necessary. Draw connections between Morrison’s essay Playing in the Dark and the book you read.

What is material feminism and what does it offer that we haven’t yet seen? (use the texts and your annotation from hypothesis as an example)

What is Judith Butler talking about? What does it mean for gender to be a performance? Can you think of an example of performing gender (from personal experience or in the culture at large?)

What are the culture wars, and what do they have to do with feminism? (Use the Faludi and Heywood readings to find an appropriate definition—whose definition are you using?)

What does it mean to disidentify with something? Can you identify a time in your life when you disidentified with something you encountered? (note a passage in hypothesis with a definition and explain what you […]

This Bridge Called My Back: Choose a passage from TBCMB, highlight it in hypothesis and explain what it is that you cited and why it is important to the larger text

Please write up instructions for how to use hypothesis to annotate a text (similar to your first blog post of the semester on how to post).

Interview someone you know personally who has lived through the 1960s or 1970s about the women’s liberation movement and intersections with civil rights or other social justice movements in the US or abroad.

How are you doing? How are you getting by and staying busy, or at least not bored out of your mind? Please share as much or as little as you’d like, and if you need me to know that you don’t want to post, you can email me. 

Hello everyone!

Lots to do! A couple of logistical pieces

We have a virtual classroom: https://bit.ly/WGS-Shaw-20. I would like for us to meet to check in for the first time around 3pm on Wednesday, March […]