Word: feminist
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Kavulla’s critique of the committee’s foundation courses is also without merit as he neglected to fully investigate the fact that students are engaged in grappling with the tensions that have been a part of feminist theory since its inception. Students are constantly examining the core questions that underpin feminist theory: how to define feminism, how to construct a theory and a praxis that is meaningfully inclusive, how to describe the subject of feminism, how to examine an array of areas of feminist inquiry (including motherhood, marriage and sexuality) and how to engage with...
While Kavulla claims that women’s studies promotes a “tunnel vision” where students are encouraged to engage in ”feminist thought first,” the very notion of what constitutes “feminist thought” is problematized, interrogated and critiqued as part of the central project of women’s studies. This is not unlike the work that occurs in any other department. That is, history concentrators study history as they also grapple with what constitutes history, who crafts history, what methods are used to collect history...
Women’s studies concentrators are required to engage in the project of theoretical and political positionality and to grapple with complex questions surrounding identity, subject position, intersections of social hierarchies, feminist methodology, etc. That Kavulla failed to represent any of this in his simplified caricature of women’s studies is a disservice to members of the community who have not yet taken a course in women’s studies and who take Kavulla’s representation to have merit...
...were forced to dedicate their efforts to fashioning glitter-dusted posters (“Kosman ... He’s Yet to Take Out the CLIPPERS at Falmouth”) for the football team; still more disturbing were the sexual implications of their decorating his bedroom. And apart from my feminist objections, I felt pretty bad about the fact that poor Shelli and her cohort had to squander their efforts on so marginal a football player as my brother...
...know The Second Sex is down there somewhere. Or, I tell you what, I’ll just dash down and grab something by Gloria Steinem. You can hand it to them on their way out. We’ll evangelize. We’ll be like the feminist version of Jehovah’s Witnesses...