Category Archives: Queer issues and theory

notes from the interblags

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Michael

• via The Feminist Underground: A UC Irvine professor is throwing a fit over mandatory sexual harassment training. It’s rather hard to believe. • Oregon State has joined iTunes University! I had students give a pretty good presentation on this … Continue reading →

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584: Weekly Position Paper #11: Questioning the Private Body

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Michael

Three essays in Freedman and Holmes’s collection The Teacher’s Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy center around pregnancy. All three essays call into question dominant narratives and conceptions surrounding pregnant bodies. Noting the dis-ease of others around her … Continue reading →

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Lloyd: Beyond Identity Politics (2005)

Posted on November 19, 2008 by Michael

Beyond Identity Politics: Feminism, Power and Politics by Moya Lloyd My review rating: 5 of 5 starsLloyd’s book is an excellent book for those interested in feminism and post-structuralist theories of identity and politics. Lloyd is able to articulately and … Continue reading →

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definitions: marriage

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Michael

Tomorrow in class we’re talking about definitions. In particular, there are four ways you might define a term in an essay: formal (like a dictionary) extended, historical, negative (what it’s not), and stipulative (“for the sake of this essay, I … Continue reading →

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notes from the interblags: some points of interest as the winter draws near

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Michael

• Michael Bérubé points to the funny little blog fafblog, which back in 2004 might have coined the best little phrase I have read in a while, during a spoof interview with James Dobson (which sounds eerily like a real … Continue reading →

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