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“Things My Foresisters Saw”

Yazan: Candace | 25 July 2005 | Comments Off on “Things My Foresisters Saw”
Categories: Bodies, Photography, Women's Studies

Leslie McCurdy as Viola Desmond

Historical Bodies

Yazan: Candace | 25 July 2005 | Comments Off on Historical Bodies
Categories: Bodies, Women's Studies

According to the website Shrine of the Forgotten Goddesses, fat and being fat were valuable attributes for female goddesses of the prehistoric era. Thighs, breasts, vulvas, hips were all round and abundant. Women are depicted as fruitful and with great emphasis on their ability to procreate. The Magna Mater, Inanna, and Gaia are all portrayed […]

History

Yazan: Candace | 25 July 2005 | Comments Off on History
Categories: Bodies, Photography, Women's Studies

Could this woman really have existed?

Rethinking Women’s Bodies

Yazan: Candace | 25 July 2005 | Comments Off on Rethinking Women’s Bodies
Categories: Bodies, Women's Studies

Individuals are many-dimensional and I am no different. I share the colour of my skin with the dominant and therefore privileged group of society, but the rest of me, at this time in my life is a myriad of marginalized components. Because I share characteristics of the dominant group there is potential for me to […]

Who am I?

Yazan: Candace | 25 July 2005 | Comments Off on Who am I?
Categories: Bodies, Photography, Women's Studies

Greeting Cards

Yazan: Candace | 20 July 2005 | Comments Off on Greeting Cards
Categories: Language, Life, Relationships, Sexism, Women's Studies

Deborah Tannen says, “women and men have different past experiences.” This different experience means that men and women’s perception and understanding of the world will be different. Tannen supports the dual culture approach to analyzing men and women’s behaviour and the characteristics she describes can be found in an analysis of the attached greeting cards. […]

Binary Opposites

Yazan: Candace | 20 July 2005 | Comments Off on Binary Opposites
Categories: Feminist Theory, Language, School, Women's Studies

Examples of Binary Opposites Young:Old Happy:Sad Awake:Asleep Up:Down Alive:Dead Hot:Cold Open:Shut White:Black True:False Shout:Whisper Fast:Slow On:Off Smart:Stupid Pretty:Ugly Skinny:Fat Tall:Short Soft:Rough Clean:Dirty Chocolate:Vanilla Rich:Poor Treasure:Trash New:Old Wet:Dry Virgin:Whore This paper will examine the following pairs of binary opposition: Young/old, hot/cold, true/false, on/off, and clean/dirty. Young and Old In Western society, youth is valued above age. […]

Use of Language in My Fair Lady

Yazan: Candace | 20 July 2005 | Comments Off on Use of Language in My Fair Lady
Categories: Bodies, Language, School, Women's Studies

In the film My Fair Lady, Professor Higgins endeavours to transform Eliza from a common person to a gentlewoman completely trained in the language and etiquette of the gentry. Professor Higgins is a linguistic purist. He feels that people who do not speak as he does, (i.e. as a proper English gentleman), have “no right […]

Birth

Yazan: Candace | 29 June 2005 | Comments Off on Birth
Categories: Blogging

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