Paired Discussion – 11/21
Check out my discussion with Caroline over comparisons between YOTF and Butler!
Reading Response – 11/14
On Thursday, Professor Brundage posed the question, “Is Year of the Flood a feminist novel?” While I don’t believe that the characters themselves would be labeled as feminist, the novel itself may be labeled as such due to its evident eco-feminism. While reading YOTF, the God’s Gardeners reminded me of this article, “To Be Feminist […]
Group Project Update – 11/7
Hello everyone! I’m getting the ball started on group project updates. On mura.ly, we have listed the God’s Gardeners (attaching Adam/Eve status, as well); the Saints, Celebrations, Hymns & Prayers (plus their page mentions); different beliefs and practices indicated by quotations taken from YOTF; other religious groups; and references to OUR modern day religion. For […]
Technology Diary – 10/31
I was a bit surprised reading about Toby’s encounter with Mugi the Muscle in “Year of the Flood.” Once again, Toby is sexually assaulted, however this time it’s within the God’s Gardener’s territory. Mugi jumped on her and groped her, yet Pilar normalized the act by saying it happened to everyone. She also said it […]
Reading Response – 10/24
Margaret Atwood’s “Year of the Flood” presents a plausible situation (in my opinion) of biological warfare through corporate consumption of products. For this reading response, I wanted to focus on Toby’s history as it reflects situations for different women currently in the United States. For example, when Toby works as a furzooter after the death […]
Googling Women (and Men)
After seeing that Lisa posted her own Google searches, I decided to as well. In addition, I decided to Google search men. As can be seen by the searches by women, it did not differ that much from Lisa’s searches. While some of the […]
Technology Diary – 10/17
As these readings have shown, short hashtags can go a long way. For that reason I will be writing about how Twitter has been both campaigning for women online and impeding them at the same time. Within Marie Hicks’ discussion of the evolution of coding from a feminine to masculine coding in “Brograms and the […]
Reading Response – 10/10
In Halberstam’s “Automating Gender: Postmodern Feminism in the Age of the Intelligent Machine,” she mentions that Susan Bordo criticizes Donna Haraway for multiplicity (448). This critique of multiplicity can extended to the discussion of whether women can have it all: Do women lean into one identity (ideal worker or ideal mother) or do they try […]
Technology Diary – 10/3
For this week’s Technology Diary, I read Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” and I was hit with an idea almost immediately when I saw the line, “Modern science is also full of cyborgs, of couplings between organism and machine, each conceived as coded devices, in an intimacy […]
Reading Response – 9/26
Siobhan Somerville’s “Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body” and Judith Butler’s “Imitation and Gender Insubordination” examined homosexuality in relation to race and labels, respectively. I found it fascinating that the field I am interested in studying, sexology, had its beginnings “circulated within and perhaps depended on a pervasive climate of eugenicist and […]
