Monday, December 4, 2006

Oh no!

I feel horribly, horribly guilty for requiring the book we're covering in class, today.

It was new... it looked interesting... the author is someone I hadn't read before, but seemed up-and-coming...

It sucked. It essentially characterizes all "western feminists" as dumb-ass racist bitches who write for Vogue and spend their spare time picking flowers to decorate the goddess statues in their white, middle-class communes.

We've covered some really difficult modern feminist thought in this course, and this is some retreat into brow-beating Carol Christ and Mary Daly.

Sigh. That'll teach me to end with new text.

2 comments:

mediajunkie321 said...

hey, you tried. use this as an opportunity to talk about feminist publishing in academia perhaps.

Margie said...

Thanks :) They did okay with it -- we had a little discussion about whether the book would have fit better, earlier in the course (before the harder theory).