WGSS | Sex Carnival Topics & Concepts
For Stout’s first annual Sex Carnival, my WGSS classes are creating interactive booths and displays. Current topics include:
Counting Beer Bottles
*This story talks about abuse and alcoholism* Today, we’re listening to Miller & Januszewski’s StoryCorps, “I Remember Counting the Beer Bottles” As you listen consider the following questions:
Kasnitz Disability Performativity
This week we’re reading Devva Kasnitz’s (2020) “The Politics of Disability Performativity: An Autoethnography” from Current Anthropology. As you shape your response to the essay, you may find the following questions helpful:
Frank & Treichler Gender & Language PTC
Today, we’re reading some selections from Frank & Treichler’s Language, Gender, and Professional Writing: Theoretical Approaches and Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage. As you formulate your response, you may find the following questions helpful: The first reading you’ll encounter discusses the history of pronoun use. What does this history of Old English pronouns reveal about English… Read More Frank & Treichler Gender & Language PTC
Gruwell Wikipedia Politics of Exclusion
This week we’re reading Leigh Gruwell’s “Wikipedia’s Politics of Exclusion: Gender, Epistemology, and Feminist Rhetorical (In)action” from Computers & Composition. As you formulate your response, you may find the following questions helpful: How do the systems of Wikipedia exclude women’s voices? Why is this important to understanding knowledge online? How is understanding the human subjects… Read More Gruwell Wikipedia Politics of Exclusion
Davis Feminist Rhetorical Practices
Today we’re reading Carleigh Davis’s article, “Feminist Rhetorical Practices in Digital Spaces” from Computers & Composition. As you prepare your response, you may find the following questions helpful: What is dialogic collaboration? How is it also a hallmark of professional/technical writing? What does this say about gender in this field? Similarly, multivocality seems to be… Read More Davis Feminist Rhetorical Practices
Royster & Kirsch Feminist Interdisciplinarity
This week we’re examining Jacqueline Jones Royster and Gesa E. Kirsch’s chapter “Feminist Rhetorical Studies as a Robust Interdisciplinary Framework” from Feminist Rhetorical Practices. As you formulate your response, you might one of the following discussion questions helpful: What does it mean to be interdisciplinary? How is this essential to feminist rhetorical methodology? Royster and… Read More Royster & Kirsch Feminist Interdisciplinarity
Rawson Queering Feminist Canonization
This week we’re reading K. J. Rawson’s “Queering Feminist Rhetorical Canonization” from Rhetorica in Motion. You may find the following discussion questions helpful in shaping your response: Rawson asks how we might define a “woman.” Why is this question essential to his argument? How is this question particularly relevant in today’s political climate? What is… Read More Rawson Queering Feminist Canonization
Owens Writing Childbirth
This week we’re reading and excerpt from Kim Hensley Owens’s Writing Childbirth. You may find the following discussion questions helpful in formulating your response: Owens argues that “women who write birth plans expect to be ‘rhetorically disabled’ during childbirth” (69). What do you think this means? How does the genre of a birth plan attempt… Read More Owens Writing Childbirth
Hartsock and Feminist Standpoint
This week, we’re reading Nancy Hartsock’s essential reading, “The Feminist Standpoint Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism” from Feminism and Methodology. One of the following discussion questions may help you formulate your response: Hartsocks’s reliance on Marxist theory may be off-putting for some of you. How and why does Hartsock justify Marxist… Read More Hartsock and Feminist Standpoint
Alison A. Lukowski 