Work on sheets given in class.
Aim to complete re-casting task based on Erica Jong article.
Also reflect on my notes on your essays and do some work in preparation for your tutorials with me next week.
Saaema please get you essay to me asap.
Friday, 4 March 2011
Thursday, 17 February 2011
The Women at Houston
CK Houston
A reminder that all pre-drafts must be in by end of tomorrow if you want them marked.
Please email them to myself and Ms Massiah.
A reminder that all pre-drafts must be in by end of tomorrow if you want them marked.
Please email them to myself and Ms Massiah.
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
THE WOMEN AT HOUSTON
REMINDER
Please ensure that ALL the homework is completed for tomorrow's lesson.
Thursday's lesson
Research Questions : THESE MAY BE CONSIDERED BEFORE CLASS
You must each answer a minimum of three questions and you need to organise yourselves to be able to feedback to the group in 30 minutes time and then as a group present the information in such a way as to make the piece clearer for everyone.
Please ensure that ALL the homework is completed for tomorrow's lesson.
Thursday's lesson
Research Questions : THESE MAY BE CONSIDERED BEFORE CLASS
- What was the new law on sex discrimination in employment in 1966?
- What did the Equal rights amendment seek to achieve?
- What rights did President Carter backtrack on in 1977?
- Why did the UN proclaim an International Women's Year in 1975?
- What was the legal position on abortion in the US in 1977?
- What was the Bakke case?
- What does it mean to mobilise people?
- Who was Phyllis Schlafly and why is she relevant in this text?
- What did John Birsh groups stand for?
- Why would the Mormon Church be anti-ERA and/or anti-abortion?
- Why would the Klu Klux Klan be anti-ERA and/or anti-abortion?
- What is a cabal?
- What was in the Plan of Action for Women?
- Why does Friedan imply that a department of Women would not be a good thing, comparing it the the Bureau of Indian affairs?
- What is tokenism and why is it seen as dangerous?
- Who are/were AAUW?
- Who are/were BPW?
- How is it that Friedan concludes that the conference was positive in the end?
You must each answer a minimum of three questions and you need to organise yourselves to be able to feedback to the group in 30 minutes time and then as a group present the information in such a way as to make the piece clearer for everyone.
EXAM DETAILS
Ladies
Your exam is really late this year on the 24th of June, a Friday afternoon for two and a half hours. This means that we will have the chance after the coursework submission for some serious synoptic work to prepare you for the big test.
If any of you were considering taking study leave (or just not coming into school for a while) on the lead up to the exam, you may like to think again as Ms Massiah and I will be running intensive revision and exam praration sessions during the month lead up which we know will benefit you in the exam.
Your exam is really late this year on the 24th of June, a Friday afternoon for two and a half hours. This means that we will have the chance after the coursework submission for some serious synoptic work to prepare you for the big test.
If any of you were considering taking study leave (or just not coming into school for a while) on the lead up to the exam, you may like to think again as Ms Massiah and I will be running intensive revision and exam praration sessions during the month lead up which we know will benefit you in the exam.
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Monday
Monday's Lesson.
Ladies, please note that Monday's lesson with me has been converted into an extra lesson with Ms Massiah. You are expected at Ms Massiah's room at 8.50, if by any chance she isn't there then you can ask Ms Conran to let you into my room and work on the various tasks I have already set you.
See you all on Thursday with your pre-drafts (if not already received). From my records I have had completed drafts from Chervaughn, Lania and Fifi. If the others of you have indeed sent me a draft please re-send.
DON'T SKIP CLASS...
Ladies, please note that Monday's lesson with me has been converted into an extra lesson with Ms Massiah. You are expected at Ms Massiah's room at 8.50, if by any chance she isn't there then you can ask Ms Conran to let you into my room and work on the various tasks I have already set you.
See you all on Thursday with your pre-drafts (if not already received). From my records I have had completed drafts from Chervaughn, Lania and Fifi. If the others of you have indeed sent me a draft please re-send.
DON'T SKIP CLASS...
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Thursday's lessons
Please find embedded powerpoint.
The 3 HOMEWORKS are all clearly marked on the presentations, please ensure that you complete these.
CK Why I Want a Wife
The 3 HOMEWORKS are all clearly marked on the presentations, please ensure that you complete these.
CK Why I Want a Wife
WHY I WANT A WIFE
In this article, Judy Syfers, a 'prominent voice' of feminism in the 1970's explores the relationships between husband and wife through a classical technique that of reversing the roles.
Syfers imagines life as a married man, taking a traditional stereotype as her starting point. Not only does she stereotype the male perspective 'I want a wife who will keep the house clean', she innumerates the myriad duties which a wife is tasked with and which by implication a husband is not bothered about. The use of repetition in the text re-enforces the demanding nature of the stereotypical man she creates as her literary avatar. He/she demands 'I want a wife...' like a child wanting a sweet or perhaps reflecting her view that men are the demanders and women the suppliers. The detailed job description she creates is balanced between the things which the husband wants and expects and those things which he clearly doesn't want. The effect of this is show the women as passive and reactive on one hand and anticipatory perhaps even visionary on the other. A wife who 'will not bother me' as well as one 'who will prepare a special meal'.
Syfers balances the satire between the subtle truths and observations which are less acerbic and those which are provocative, humourous even disturbing. The focus seems to be on showing how double standards are the norm in married relationships. That wives and husbands do not share the duties of the home and family and that a wife is effectively a social and sexual slave to her husband.
Focussing on the detailed techniques, it is significant that she uses the repeated main clause: I want a wife to begin most sentences with variety created by the use of assorted connective words and phrases. The personal pronoun 'I' keeps us always in the first person and always, if we are reading aloud or in our heads thinking from our own perspective - putting ourselves into the position of the man, the husband. The abstract verb 'want' in present tense form maintains this demanding and very alive feel.
To be finished...
Syfers imagines life as a married man, taking a traditional stereotype as her starting point. Not only does she stereotype the male perspective 'I want a wife who will keep the house clean', she innumerates the myriad duties which a wife is tasked with and which by implication a husband is not bothered about. The use of repetition in the text re-enforces the demanding nature of the stereotypical man she creates as her literary avatar. He/she demands 'I want a wife...' like a child wanting a sweet or perhaps reflecting her view that men are the demanders and women the suppliers. The detailed job description she creates is balanced between the things which the husband wants and expects and those things which he clearly doesn't want. The effect of this is show the women as passive and reactive on one hand and anticipatory perhaps even visionary on the other. A wife who 'will not bother me' as well as one 'who will prepare a special meal'.
Syfers balances the satire between the subtle truths and observations which are less acerbic and those which are provocative, humourous even disturbing. The focus seems to be on showing how double standards are the norm in married relationships. That wives and husbands do not share the duties of the home and family and that a wife is effectively a social and sexual slave to her husband.
Focussing on the detailed techniques, it is significant that she uses the repeated main clause: I want a wife to begin most sentences with variety created by the use of assorted connective words and phrases. The personal pronoun 'I' keeps us always in the first person and always, if we are reading aloud or in our heads thinking from our own perspective - putting ourselves into the position of the man, the husband. The abstract verb 'want' in present tense form maintains this demanding and very alive feel.
To be finished...
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Thursday's lessons
Remember to have all your work completed for Thursday's lessons so that we can review, do some assessment and see how you are developing at this process.
- Reading articles and annotation
- Writing emulative text relating to both subject and style of article read
- Commentary on own written piece demonstrating your knowledge of an ability to apply language and literary terminology and concepts.
What you should have completed:
- novel extract and commentary relating to 'The BITCH Manifesto'
- magazine article and commentary relating to 'Should Married women work' and 'Women talking to men'.
- modern radio interview suffragette and commentary relating to first two articles in the section we are reading
I am very much looking forward to reading them.
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Novel extract based on BITCH manifesto
His hand touched mine and I froze. The gesture was meant to be comforting, consoling, complimentary even but we both knew that it wasn't, that it had misfired, that it'd be perceived another way. A flurry of sideways glances exchanged, tossed brushed hair and flickering lashes. Underneath the hubbub, barely whispered but still audible like the distance stamping of heels on a glass ceiling a word, 'bitch!' He heard it too, I know he did because his touch lingered longer, squeezing lightly, his marriage band mocking my naked ring finger. Suspicions. Speculation. Gossip. Doesn't he know how such gestures are perceived? I pull my hand away but too late, the damage is done. I shouldn't care really, and I don't much, if I'm brutally honest. I'm not what they say I am, well not that way anyway.
What a word it is, 'bitch'.
Once upon a time when feminism was young and women's dreams of separatism and independence included the reclamation of this much abused word, it must have been liberating to choose Bitch-hood and damn the male dominated world. Now, I fear we have forgotten what our mother's, aunts and big sisters fought for.
I looked Hugh in the eye, touched his face with my fingers and kissed him, long and hard and without caution. I kissed him aggressively, assertively, candidly and without sanction. I kissed him for everyone to see but especially those 'bitches' who had it in for me. I kissed him to give them what they wanted and because I wanted to prove that their disapproval, their 'bitchiness' couldn't stop me. I kissed Hugh because I knew that he wanted to kiss me but felt he couldn't and because I shouldn't, because society had told me that I mustn't. And I enjoyed it. Maybe because I am a BITCH!
300+ words
(Time taken to write - 20 minutes, commentary to follow)
What a word it is, 'bitch'.
Once upon a time when feminism was young and women's dreams of separatism and independence included the reclamation of this much abused word, it must have been liberating to choose Bitch-hood and damn the male dominated world. Now, I fear we have forgotten what our mother's, aunts and big sisters fought for.
I looked Hugh in the eye, touched his face with my fingers and kissed him, long and hard and without caution. I kissed him aggressively, assertively, candidly and without sanction. I kissed him for everyone to see but especially those 'bitches' who had it in for me. I kissed him to give them what they wanted and because I wanted to prove that their disapproval, their 'bitchiness' couldn't stop me. I kissed Hugh because I knew that he wanted to kiss me but felt he couldn't and because I shouldn't, because society had told me that I mustn't. And I enjoyed it. Maybe because I am a BITCH!
300+ words
(Time taken to write - 20 minutes, commentary to follow)
Sunday, 23 January 2011
INCOMPLETE
Listen, make some annotation on what you have listened to:
The whole passage is quite disturbing and raw and it goes in to depth of how the women got treated. The beginning is followed by an interview with a women who gives her thoughts and opinions about the women in Afghanistan and how they are treated. The interview consists of adjacency pairs also the lexis of....
Write an imagined interview (250)words between a modern journalist and a suffragette exploring what they experienced and drawing on the two texts you have to read:
Interviewee:
Write a short commentary (150words) on you own choices in writing:
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