Year of the Flood: Post 2
As I got more deeply into the Year of the Flood, I began to take a closer look at the different female characters are how they are portrayed. Specifically, I was interested in Amanda and Lucerne, and of course, Toby and Ren. Amanda interests me because thus far she seems to be a female in […]
Reading Response: Atwood
Atwood’s The Year of the Flood is a dystopia, so it is always interesting to see what authors do with gender and gender roles in these novels. In this futuristic world, it seems that gender relations have only gotten worse from the present day. Toby’s experiences working at SecretBurger are horrible and worse off than […]
Reading Response: Brograms and #femfuture
“Brograms and the Power of Vapoware” by Hicks and “US Centrism and inhabiting a non space in #femfuture” by Dzodan both highlight ways in which technology is NOT intersectional and leaves people out. The Hicks article discusses the “bro culture” involved in STEM jobs and computer programming, and how it leaves women out in a […]
Technology Diary: Smart Phones
After reading these articles regarding jobs in technology, Facebook, and Sheryl Sandberg and her book Lean In, my thoughts were immediately drawn to the technology of “smart” phones. As Kate Losse quotes from Lean In, “technology extends the weekday.” I think this is very accurate, especially in relation to smart phones. With a smart phone, […]
Haraway/Halberstam
Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto one of her main points is that “We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.” According to Harraway, a cyborg is a “cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of […]
Technology Diary: Books
The piece of technology I chose to discuss today is one that people probably do not associate as “technology” anymore, but I believe that books were one of the first forms of technology as they helped to spread new ideas. The two readings assigned specifically focused on the categories assigned to people based on sexual […]
Reading Response: de Lauretis
The part of the de Lauretis reading that interested me was the discussion of the sexualization of the female body. In Western culture, a connection is made between the woman and sexuality, and the woman’s body becomes something sexual. This is prevalent in many films, where, according to feminist film theorists, the female body becomes […]
The Hunger Games and TV
There were a lot of pieces of technology that I felt I could relate to the Hunter Games, but the one that jumped out at me the most, of course, was television. The Hunger Games was aired on TV so that everyone could watch, and included a lot of elements that actually apply to television […]
Rosser/Freedman/Fausto Sterling
All three of the readings included discussion of the particular viewpoints that society has had about women and gender. The chapters in No Turning Back focused on women in the workplace – from the wage gap to the amount of work women have to do every day that isn’t considered to be real work at […]
Introduction
My name is Caroline Kaleda and I am an English major with a concentration in Creative Writing at Hunter College. I am taking this class because of my interest in feminism and gender issues, especially in the media. I often frequent various feminist blogs online and am constantly discussing feminist issues amongst everyone I know, […]
