I really enjoyed reflecting on this class and all the material we discussed this semester. Although this was an unconventional semester with a lot of rapid change, I’m pleased to know that I did take a lot from […]

“Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood.” Choice Reviews Online, vol. 39, no. 02, 2001, doi:10.5860/choice.39-0825a.

The Relationship Between the “Invisibility” of African American Women in th […]

My topic for my independent study is on the “Me Too” movement. This movement is in effort to create social change by victims of sexual assault sharing their own experiences in hope to show just how common sexual […]

In Toni Morrison’s Song Of Solomon, the legacy of racism affects every single character in implicit and explicit ways. The Dead family in particular struggles to deal with the multi-generational trauma that r […]

Material feminism is a way of understanding women’s oppression through capitalism and patriarchy. Material items play a huge role in the production of gender normalities. Industries such as the beauty industry m […]

Judith Butler believes that gender is a performance by claiming, “It would make no sense to define gender as the cultural interpretation of sex, if sex itself is a gendered category”. Because of these lim […]

The culture wars were the cultural conflict between social groups and power struggle of their values and beliefs. The culture wars tie into feminism because of the fight women still have to gain equal rights. […]

Munoz states that, “Disidentification is a strategy of resistance and survival for minority subjects such as queers of color”. By this definition, Munoz not only suggests a level of bravery to disidentify, but […]

In order to annotate a text on hypothesis, all you need to do is login, visit the latest chat, click on “Visit annotations in context” and read the article. Once you’re done reading, highlight an excerpt, choose […]