CUNY Academic Commons | Gwen Shaw | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/gs2232/activity/ Activity feed for Gwen Shaw. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 f75c5823975a4e960f19e55e23a3a01c Gwen Shaw commented on the post, Blog post 14-Final Reflection, on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/blog-post-14-final-reflection-3/#comment-349 Fri, 29 May 2020 17:44:01 -0400 Your last sentence is a really great turn of phrase. Very well put and succinct–excellent synthesis!

]]> 30f4d361dedb72578164bb94b7e12695 Gwen Shaw commented on the post, Judith Butler Presentation By Ramy Mohamed, on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/judith-butler-presentation-by-ramy-mohamed/#comment-275 Tue, 05 May 2020 00:03:17 -0400 Ramy, per our conversation today, this is a good example of a presentation and hits all the notes I would want in one. Thanks!

]]> 80c9546a8f339d6ca8bac1e68264c7ce Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2887 Mon, 04 May 2020 15:13:13 -0400 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 […]

]]> 668cefea40802b70a12634da57d3c562 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2800 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:49:23 -0400 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 >> […]

]]> 5b96db746d80cc9abaee333c2808399a Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2773 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:48:46 -0400 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 […]

]]> 49fa626da7b2faa37ebd7b1b00dff6a3 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2708 Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:11:01 -0400 96ced9a37845ff1d0f14937945e7b6b8 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1374 Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:35:00 -0400 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 […]

]]> 22f0eaa01f5499247e5fb577531b5e83 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1164 Mon, 06 Apr 2020 14:29:56 -0400 6ca0ce116b528bdae11daa16d64a0e54 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=959 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:21:06 -0400 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 […]

]]> efc4d267f9a6b5fb1eba364288e8873d Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=957 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:19:56 -0400 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.

]]> 5157b488804bd83d3633278d53d09df4 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=955 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:19:13 -0400 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)

]]> 9cc2f1736494ed962138fa3d3b1ac956 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=953 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:18:07 -0400 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?)

]]> feec2ee35181155ca5232c6f5c3c9501 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=951 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:17:33 -0400 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?)

]]> e21f8b31645da0e12231fb83b0920005 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=949 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:16:58 -0400 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 […]

]]> 5ce8f9be4f5d8e763924a98cb2e4592b Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=947 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:16:23 -0400 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

]]> 156f79cace36bbe3a6ca8a451531bf37 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=944 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:15:31 -0400 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).

]]> e49515035e830540b8b9ac94c9bbca77 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=942 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:14:18 -0400 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.

]]> 79447629ec74f609f37f5ccea68b8c8a Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=940 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:12:30 -0400 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. 

]]> dde53fc8fe2cf553645fc09464deb88e Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=915 Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:51:22 -0400 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 […]

]]> 208b1f3f0049a5334f40dc5b070e9b08 Gwen Shaw started the topic Sample topic in the forum This Bridge Called My Back https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/forums/topic/sample-topic/ Mon, 16 Mar 2020 20:45:35 -0400 alkdfa;slkfj reply!

]]> 545de6bae43851e2cd0d6761f1c64906 Gwen Shaw started the topic This Bridge Called My Back in the forum This Bridge Called My Back https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/forums/topic/this-bridge-called-my-back/ Mon, 16 Mar 2020 20:21:03 -0400 9dead3a18bf13d0d2d7baf949d220c41 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=856 Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:58:54 -0400 Hi all,

For a closer reading of texts, we will use hypothes.is which is a collective annotation tool. I’ve made a private group for us–please join it. You may have to make an account first–I know it’s a […]

]]> 963352e0e711eff90b1f312099ddc664 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=845 Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:01:27 -0400 30272614d7e174eba9567caadc822350 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=677 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 20:52:46 -0500 What do you need to know about in order to contextualize and discuss your subject? Meaning, what academic subjects does your project relate to? Through research at the library and on the web, identify the […]

]]> 54bebb7fe87c4b26de8ae935d92d3d00 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=675 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 20:47:42 -0500 For this assignment, choose any movie you want to watch that has a connection to women’s, gender, and/or sexuality studies. Your task:

Choose a film or series (you should be watching for at least one hour) […]

]]> 31a53f74749ee3cc20f8c1cbf6fba132 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=672 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 20:44:15 -0500 In your third blog post, imagine that feminist and anti-racist activism has succeeded and we live in a more egalitarian and less oppressive world. Imagine that world (an ideal world?). Describe what that world […]

]]> fc16c8dc9bde8c47b2fe788c4eed093c Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=667 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 20:41:15 -0500 Readings by LaDuke

]]> 1c119e16bb317fabe4b0a58ef9bd957f Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=519 Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:34:37 -0500 Fill in the blanks to think about what you want to study:

I am interested in exploring issues of ____________ (this can be a word or phrase) as they related to women, gender, and sexuality studies, especially […]

]]> 0ef679e8d3b5983965979f4031019bd4 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=375 Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:12:56 -0500 For your second post, identify at least one definition of feminism. Do you agree or disagree with this definition?

Using some of the texts we have read as a starting point, come up with your own definition of […]

]]> 3740db8f83fc19bbc6ad03f410502604 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=373 Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:10:12 -0500 For your first post, please write up instructions on how to make a post, from start to finish. Don’t forget to include a picture!

]]> 18981fab34215d38e9bafcd8ce5ad1ca Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=371 Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:09:05 -0500 Updated March 24

For the remainder of the semester, you should comment on at least six different presentations, which will be posted under the presentations category.

Presentations should now (As of March […]

]]> ebfeacef293625a2e5d2db09a65d0afb Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=307 Mon, 03 Feb 2020 03:59:41 -0500 May 4

Katherine McKittrick, The Last Place They Thought of….

Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl….

May 6

McKittrick

]]> 331aeaef46e99f4161bbc554e0bd919d Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=305 Mon, 03 Feb 2020 03:57:42 -0500 Apr 27

Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark (Preface and Ch 1)

Apr 29

Choose your own Morrison book and present it to the class (in class presentations on a book that you have already read)

]]> b7574346e209cb03b5118588fa958599 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=187 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:16:30 -0500 7c641aa4a6ac33815c600cefed60a832 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=184 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:16:18 -0500 Apr 20

Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter (ch 1)

Apr 22

Mel Chen, Animacies (selections)

]]> 13fe53283dab24bbdd1c2b8bd5de0d2b Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=182 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:16:10 -0500 5427bb66fabdc8a5963be105efb64df1 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=179 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:16:02 -0500 Apr 6

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble

Apr 7 (TUESDAY!)

Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself

]]> 9e9826a5760eed51829a5310a2646c72 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=176 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:15:53 -0500 Mar 30

Riot grrl and grassroots activism

Third Wave Agenda (selections)

Apr 1

Gayatri Spivak, TBA

Lila Abu-Lughod, Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?

]]> 02e455008aa240c6b03460f96f55e5f2 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=174 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:15:46 -0500 Background reading on Third Wave:

third-wave-agenda_intro_heywood-drakeDownload

Mar 23

Muñoz, Disidentifications (see week 8 for reading link)

Mar 25

Susan Faludi, […]

]]> 1a1975f270b8a8e403bec556e7f7a5f4 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=172 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:15:33 -0500 Mar 16

This Bridge Called My Back report-back and jigsaw activity

Mar 18

Jose Muñoz, Disidentifications

]]> f73652df0728fc3c3964206d2d19c7e3 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=170 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:15:26 -0500 Mar 9: TBA

Mar 11: TBA

]]> 4530d569fa6cf6a8a05fbc939f7688e4 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=168 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:15:18 -0500 Mar 2

Michele Wallace, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (selections)

The New York Times, “What I see: Steinem and Intersectionality”

Mar 4

This Bridge Called My Back (annotatable PDF)Download

]]> 4233b6d4943b1911878d8dc779b02812 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=166 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:15:08 -0500 Feb 24

Simone de Beauvoir (see week 4 for link to reading)

Feb 26

Jeanne Theoharris, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (beginning section(s))

New York Magazine, On the founding of Ms. Magazine

]]> 052377980b0917ee5260e156dd157c3c Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=164 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:14:53 -0500 Feb 17: NO CLASS

Feb 19

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (First chapter and as much as you can/will after that)

]]> 776c039162af10b7e60ff93cec5f353e Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=162 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:13:56 -0500 Feb 10

Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Solitude of Self

Belle Kearney on Women’s Suffrage, “Durable White Supremacy”

Feb 12: NO CLASS

]]> 454b2451d9f30ebaf4a29114db9c4635 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=160 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:13:43 -0500 Feb 3

Roxanne Gay, Bad Feminist (selections)

Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me (selections)

If you have time: Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges

Feb 5

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, Book V: […]

]]> 7435def3dcac884749b01bc5b0eb4897 Gwen Shaw wrote a new post on the site Intro to Women's Studies https://wgs1001shaw20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=156 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:12:51 -0500 For Jan 29:
While you are reading or watching, please take note of at least one passage that you found powerful or thought provoking. We will share these in class Wednesday.
Watch: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We […]

]]> 38b822190f579de4bc20c946bd56db3a Gwen Shaw created the site Intro to Women's Studies https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/641771/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:27:24 -0500 ce5dba48ce230bb176a19f829f0236ee Gwen Shaw created the site Fall 2018 Art 1010 at Brooklyn College https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/512876/ Mon, 27 Aug 2018 03:23:53 -0400 800a1e516e15759cd3ecea8dd134edbf Gwen Shaw and Francesca Manligoy are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/490089/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 01:03:18 -0500