Johana P. Martinez
Nina Perez
4/28/10
Introduction to Women's Studies
Activism: We finally presented our class we the project, we all feel like we did a good job on it and we think it went well when we presented it.
Reflection: This project impacted me in many ways, first of all when we talked about the second half of Gaia Girl: Way of Water, how Miho the main character finally realized what she was fighting for and what she needed to protect. Even though she had to learned the hard way, i feel like that is how it was for myself. I did take this project seriously but i feel like it hit me at home when my parents found out what i was doing and confronted me about my sexual orientation, i felt like i couldn't hide it anymore so i finally had the courage to do it and i did, and even though my parents were more than furious and reacted in a way that i never thought they would. I don't regret ever telling them, it just made me a little more courageous with dealing with this and hopefully one day my parents will come around and accept me how i am.
Reciprocity: After doing this project im so excited to work on other projects and to keep helping out the gay community, I'm so confident with myself and am able to express myself in ways that i never thought i could. I learned how to table and put together petitions together and overall i learned to fight for peoples rights no matter how hostile other people can get when they are against a cause, it just makes me fight even harder for them.
Work cited:
Welles, Lee. Gaia Girls: Way of Water. New York: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Service Learning 9
Johana P. Martinez
Nina Perez
4/16/10
Introduction to Women's Studies
Activism: This week the SAFE board members presented our campaign to UCF's Golden Rule Committee, later that day the group and I found out from Rebecca it was accepted.Which for all of us was the best news we could have heard since we work so hard this semester to get this on the doctrine. Today was the Day of Silence and the the Rally for our campaign, i was able to go but i help make some poster board for it and from what i heard it was a good one, except i heard from my group that there was a group of middle school kids saying profanity to the cause and how one of our group members had a huge argument with someone who was against the cause, though overall they said it was a good Rally.
Reflection: Im so proud that our project was passed and that because of everyone's hard this was way possible. Which brings me to one of our discussion in class, which is when we were talking about the Gaia Girl enter the earth. In this discussion we talked about how the main character didnt give up on what she was fighting for, no matter how bad the situation got. I feel like that was my group this semester and no matter how many people refuse our cause or were against it, we didnt give on anything, on the other hand we tried harder for people to get to know our cause and support us.
Reciprocity: This project was a really good way for myself to open up to new things, express myself without being nervous, it also made me feel more courageous to tell my parents that i was gay and even though their reaction caught me by surprise i was proud that i finally didnt have to lie about a big part of my life. This project has shown me how people are willing to step up and help put when they know or learn what is going on.
Work Cited:
Welles, Lee.Gaia Girls: Enter the Earth. New York:Daisyworld P, 2006
Nina Perez
4/16/10
Introduction to Women's Studies
Activism: This week the SAFE board members presented our campaign to UCF's Golden Rule Committee, later that day the group and I found out from Rebecca it was accepted.Which for all of us was the best news we could have heard since we work so hard this semester to get this on the doctrine. Today was the Day of Silence and the the Rally for our campaign, i was able to go but i help make some poster board for it and from what i heard it was a good one, except i heard from my group that there was a group of middle school kids saying profanity to the cause and how one of our group members had a huge argument with someone who was against the cause, though overall they said it was a good Rally.
Reflection: Im so proud that our project was passed and that because of everyone's hard this was way possible. Which brings me to one of our discussion in class, which is when we were talking about the Gaia Girl enter the earth. In this discussion we talked about how the main character didnt give up on what she was fighting for, no matter how bad the situation got. I feel like that was my group this semester and no matter how many people refuse our cause or were against it, we didnt give on anything, on the other hand we tried harder for people to get to know our cause and support us.
Reciprocity: This project was a really good way for myself to open up to new things, express myself without being nervous, it also made me feel more courageous to tell my parents that i was gay and even though their reaction caught me by surprise i was proud that i finally didnt have to lie about a big part of my life. This project has shown me how people are willing to step up and help put when they know or learn what is going on.
Work Cited:
Welles, Lee.Gaia Girls: Enter the Earth. New York:Daisyworld P, 2006
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Service Learning 8
Johana P. Martinez
Nina Perez
4/9/10
Introduction to Women's Studies
Activism: This past week Rebecca recently let us know that we will be "breaking" the silence of Day of Silence by rallying for Gender identity and Expression Equality. The rally and events will be happening on April 16th. Since we pretty much had done all the tabling, all that was left was the final editing on the video that Jen had made, in which she had to be play the role of being a transgender woman. I havent seen the video yet but im pretty sure Jen did a great job putting it together and making the video very powerful to let everyone know that transgenders need to be treated equally as everyone else.
Reflection: During one of our *class discussion*, we were talking about identity and how women are identify or the myths about how people view feminist, well in this class discussion our group stood up to talk about our project and getting signatures, after we had explain our cause and what we were trying to do there was one person who instead of just not sign it or passing the paper a long they pretty much made a disgusting look and didnt even glance at it. This type of thing is what makes me frustrated because as a group we explain the cause of our project and still people are not respectful or at least try to be a little more open minded.
Reciprocity: This week I was excited that we are getting everything ready for the big day when we are rallying for this cause and also that when this is all over im going to leave with a satisfaction that we as a group fought for something and if we dont get what we want at least we can say we really did try our hard to work for this cause
*Class Discussion about our project*
Nina Perez
4/9/10
Introduction to Women's Studies
Activism: This past week Rebecca recently let us know that we will be "breaking" the silence of Day of Silence by rallying for Gender identity and Expression Equality. The rally and events will be happening on April 16th. Since we pretty much had done all the tabling, all that was left was the final editing on the video that Jen had made, in which she had to be play the role of being a transgender woman. I havent seen the video yet but im pretty sure Jen did a great job putting it together and making the video very powerful to let everyone know that transgenders need to be treated equally as everyone else.
Reflection: During one of our *class discussion*, we were talking about identity and how women are identify or the myths about how people view feminist, well in this class discussion our group stood up to talk about our project and getting signatures, after we had explain our cause and what we were trying to do there was one person who instead of just not sign it or passing the paper a long they pretty much made a disgusting look and didnt even glance at it. This type of thing is what makes me frustrated because as a group we explain the cause of our project and still people are not respectful or at least try to be a little more open minded.
Reciprocity: This week I was excited that we are getting everything ready for the big day when we are rallying for this cause and also that when this is all over im going to leave with a satisfaction that we as a group fought for something and if we dont get what we want at least we can say we really did try our hard to work for this cause
*Class Discussion about our project*
Service Learning 7
Johana P. Martinez
Nina Perez
4/1/10
Introduction to Women's Studies
Activism: This week, because i just got some more signatures and talk to Jen on how the video for the project was going, since she went to Tent City to get more people to be in it, she said it was at first a little awkward to ask people to say discriminating things about themselves but just to make the video more realistic. It would have been fun to have been there but because of work schedule i can only do so much for the cause.
Reflection: We had a reading about the All-American Queer Pakistani Girl, and during class we talked about how for those who have come out to their family have a hard time to do it and how their family will react. Just like Khan had a hard time to relate to her Pakistani background because of her sexuality, and to be accepted i feel like that's the same way it goes for the transgender community(179). Trying to have equal rights and to be accepted is hard for both these parties.
Reflection: This week and remembering the class discussion about coming out made me a little more courageous in coming out to my family. I know that for them accepting my lifestyle is going to take a while to accept but im sure they will come around.
Work Cited:
""The All-American Queer Pakistani Girl"" Women's Lives Multicultural Perspectives. Ed. Gwyn Kirk. Comp. Margo
Okazawa-Rey. By Surina A. Khan New York: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages,
2003. 178-180. Print.
Nina Perez
4/1/10
Introduction to Women's Studies
Activism: This week, because i just got some more signatures and talk to Jen on how the video for the project was going, since she went to Tent City to get more people to be in it, she said it was at first a little awkward to ask people to say discriminating things about themselves but just to make the video more realistic. It would have been fun to have been there but because of work schedule i can only do so much for the cause.
Reflection: We had a reading about the All-American Queer Pakistani Girl, and during class we talked about how for those who have come out to their family have a hard time to do it and how their family will react. Just like Khan had a hard time to relate to her Pakistani background because of her sexuality, and to be accepted i feel like that's the same way it goes for the transgender community(179). Trying to have equal rights and to be accepted is hard for both these parties.
Reflection: This week and remembering the class discussion about coming out made me a little more courageous in coming out to my family. I know that for them accepting my lifestyle is going to take a while to accept but im sure they will come around.
Work Cited:
""The All-American Queer Pakistani Girl"" Women's Lives Multicultural Perspectives. Ed. Gwyn Kirk. Comp. Margo
Okazawa-Rey. By Surina A. Khan New York: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages,
2003. 178-180. Print.
Service Learning 6
JOhana P. Martinez
Nina Perez
3/29/10
Introduction to Women's Studies
Activism: This week, i wanted to go to the Equal at Naturas to help Jen with the film she will be making for this project, but unfortunately because of my work schedule i wasnt able to go. Though i have been getting signatures i feel like i should have been there to help her out. Hopefully next time.
Reflection: Since i wasnt able to do much this week because of my work schedule, in one of our class discussion we talked about Living in the globalizing world and something in that reading that caught my eye was the section on human trafficking. Since there is little being done to solve this problem as well as a lot of people are not well informed of what human trafficking is, and its not just for sexual slaves, or for organs,but there is also trafficking about sweatshops and other kind of work related trafficking (381). The same goes to those who don't understand the term gender identity its not just about transgender, its more to it than what people may think it is.
Reciprocity: During class i learned to have a better understanding about different causes going on and how a simple word can mean so many things, we just got to go out there and leaned more about something instead of being close minded about subject that may be uncomfortable to talk about.
Work Cited:
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. "Living in a Globalizing World" Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 371-390. Print.
Nina Perez
3/29/10
Introduction to Women's Studies
Activism: This week, i wanted to go to the Equal at Naturas to help Jen with the film she will be making for this project, but unfortunately because of my work schedule i wasnt able to go. Though i have been getting signatures i feel like i should have been there to help her out. Hopefully next time.
Reflection: Since i wasnt able to do much this week because of my work schedule, in one of our class discussion we talked about Living in the globalizing world and something in that reading that caught my eye was the section on human trafficking. Since there is little being done to solve this problem as well as a lot of people are not well informed of what human trafficking is, and its not just for sexual slaves, or for organs,but there is also trafficking about sweatshops and other kind of work related trafficking (381). The same goes to those who don't understand the term gender identity its not just about transgender, its more to it than what people may think it is.
Reciprocity: During class i learned to have a better understanding about different causes going on and how a simple word can mean so many things, we just got to go out there and leaned more about something instead of being close minded about subject that may be uncomfortable to talk about.
Work Cited:
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. "Living in a Globalizing World" Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 371-390. Print.
Service Learning 5 ( skipped spring break)
JOhana P. Martinez
Nina Perez
3/17/19
Introduction to Women's Studies
Activism: Pretty much there was no tabling this week but i have been getting signatures about the cause and i also been getting help from my professor and they have been getting signatures too. I believe by next week we will be back to tabling and getting other stuff done for this project.
Reflection: In class we talked the reading on how marriage is a path to liberation, in that reading the author Ettelbrick says just like heterosexuals have the right to marry, lesbians and gay should be able to get married too (318). Pretty much is that getting marry shouldn't be taken as a path of liberation or anything like that, people should do it for the rights reason not just cause its the norm or the right thing to do. Pretty much what ive been doing through spring break is learning more about the cause im doing also letting people know what gender identity is.
Reciprocity: This week was a good learning experience, even though i wasnt on campus that much talking about the project, i was doing outside research about it so i can talk more about it when im trying to get signatures as well as be more educated about the subject. Hopefully by next week we can get back to tabling so i can used the new information i learned to get people to sign our petiticion
Work Cited:
Ettelbrick, Paula. "Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation?"Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 317-320. Print.
Nina Perez
3/17/19
Introduction to Women's Studies
Activism: Pretty much there was no tabling this week but i have been getting signatures about the cause and i also been getting help from my professor and they have been getting signatures too. I believe by next week we will be back to tabling and getting other stuff done for this project.
Reflection: In class we talked the reading on how marriage is a path to liberation, in that reading the author Ettelbrick says just like heterosexuals have the right to marry, lesbians and gay should be able to get married too (318). Pretty much is that getting marry shouldn't be taken as a path of liberation or anything like that, people should do it for the rights reason not just cause its the norm or the right thing to do. Pretty much what ive been doing through spring break is learning more about the cause im doing also letting people know what gender identity is.
Reciprocity: This week was a good learning experience, even though i wasnt on campus that much talking about the project, i was doing outside research about it so i can talk more about it when im trying to get signatures as well as be more educated about the subject. Hopefully by next week we can get back to tabling so i can used the new information i learned to get people to sign our petiticion
Work Cited:
Ettelbrick, Paula. "Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation?"Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 317-320. Print.
Service Learning Log Week 3
JOhana P. Martinez
Nina Perez
3/5/10
Introduction to Women’s Study
Activism: This week was when tabling started for our cause. I went on Tues for an hour and at first i stayed at the table because im a very shy person and so going up to people to ask for signatures was a challenge for me. Though as i started to see how Jen was able to get up and do it and seeing my other class mates do it was ease, i got the courage to do it and i was at first a little nervous but as i got to talk to more people about the cause the more i got better at getting signatures. In that hour i got ten signatures which was pretty good for being my first day. On Thurs i did the same thing but this time around i actually was able to get started right away.
Reflection: In this week's reading we talked about Violence Against Women, and since our service learning project is about getting the transgenders protection, it relates in how in the reading how women are being abused and how they sometimes don't have protection, they same similar pressures goes with lesbians, gays, transgender, so not only do women have to fight to be heard but also the gay community have a hard time trying to get protection for themselves (264). With the cause that we are working for is to stop violence on the gender identity as well as to let people know that they are like everyone else and need to be protected as everyone else.
Reciprocity: Well this week with the project made me more courageous to go up to people and talk to them about what gender identity was without getting shy or nervous, and also to talk about it with my parents but thats going to take a little longer for me to do since they are so close minded.
Work Cited:
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. "Violence Against Women." Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 257-300. Print.
Nina Perez
3/5/10
Introduction to Women’s Study
Activism: This week was when tabling started for our cause. I went on Tues for an hour and at first i stayed at the table because im a very shy person and so going up to people to ask for signatures was a challenge for me. Though as i started to see how Jen was able to get up and do it and seeing my other class mates do it was ease, i got the courage to do it and i was at first a little nervous but as i got to talk to more people about the cause the more i got better at getting signatures. In that hour i got ten signatures which was pretty good for being my first day. On Thurs i did the same thing but this time around i actually was able to get started right away.
Reflection: In this week's reading we talked about Violence Against Women, and since our service learning project is about getting the transgenders protection, it relates in how in the reading how women are being abused and how they sometimes don't have protection, they same similar pressures goes with lesbians, gays, transgender, so not only do women have to fight to be heard but also the gay community have a hard time trying to get protection for themselves (264). With the cause that we are working for is to stop violence on the gender identity as well as to let people know that they are like everyone else and need to be protected as everyone else.
Reciprocity: Well this week with the project made me more courageous to go up to people and talk to them about what gender identity was without getting shy or nervous, and also to talk about it with my parents but thats going to take a little longer for me to do since they are so close minded.
Work Cited:
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. "Violence Against Women." Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 257-300. Print.
Service Learning Log Week 2
Johana P. Martinez
Nina Perez
2/20/10
Introduction to Women’s Study
Activism: Our group decided to go to a SAFE meeting at UCF to learn more about our project that we are doing. There we met up with Rebecca and stayed in to learn what the SAFE meeting was about as well as going to the weekly EQUAL meeting. We were told that in the equal meeting we were going to talk a little more about our project and also the video that Jen was going to make but it got canceled, and we haven't heard when they want us to talk about our project.
Reflection: Since we didnt get to do much for this week, i felt like we were not going anywhere with what we are doing, but like in our reading where Fight like a girl Seely, says that no community act is small, and pretty much what ever you try to do big or small, any little thing can be a big change (25). So what i decided to do is spread the word about the project to friends around campus so they can also spread the word and that way get more people involved in this issue
Reciprocity: With this week, i feel a lot stronger in what im doing in this project, because at first i was a little nervous on how people would react about a group of females fighting to get equal rights for the transgenders community, but after learning more about it and how they are discriminated I had more courage to fight for their rights
Work Cited:
Seely, Megan. "Fight Like a Girl." Fight Like a Girl How to be a Fearless Feminist. New York: NYU, 2007. Print.
Nina Perez
2/20/10
Introduction to Women’s Study
Activism: Our group decided to go to a SAFE meeting at UCF to learn more about our project that we are doing. There we met up with Rebecca and stayed in to learn what the SAFE meeting was about as well as going to the weekly EQUAL meeting. We were told that in the equal meeting we were going to talk a little more about our project and also the video that Jen was going to make but it got canceled, and we haven't heard when they want us to talk about our project.
Reflection: Since we didnt get to do much for this week, i felt like we were not going anywhere with what we are doing, but like in our reading where Fight like a girl Seely, says that no community act is small, and pretty much what ever you try to do big or small, any little thing can be a big change (25). So what i decided to do is spread the word about the project to friends around campus so they can also spread the word and that way get more people involved in this issue
Reciprocity: With this week, i feel a lot stronger in what im doing in this project, because at first i was a little nervous on how people would react about a group of females fighting to get equal rights for the transgenders community, but after learning more about it and how they are discriminated I had more courage to fight for their rights
Work Cited:
Seely, Megan. "Fight Like a Girl." Fight Like a Girl How to be a Fearless Feminist. New York: NYU, 2007. Print.
Service Learning Log Week 1
Johana P. Martinez
Nina Perez
2/17/10
Introduction to Women’s Study
Activism: Throughout the week my classmates and I had to figure out when would be a good time to meet up with our community partner to figure what we were going to do for our project. Initially our goal was to get sexual orientation put on the UCF golden rule doctrine but we later found out that it had been put on recently so we decided to then try to get Gender Identity on the doctrine. After trying to figure out when to meet we decided to meet on Friday the 19th with Rebecca Marques. That Friday she let us know what needed to get done and meeting we had to go to get started on the project. Jen was in charge of making a video for this project while Alex, Jennifer, Racheal and myself were to help get signatures, and we began to talk about when we can start tableling.
Reflection: This week activism can be related to when we talked about the reading on women's sexuality, where in the section on gender binaries is talked about how butch lesbians, cross dressers, drag kings, have challenged the norm of sexual orientation and how this community is trying to let it be known that everyone is equal no matter what they are (155). Starting this project i know its going to be a long and slow process to let people know that the gender identity community needs to be equal too.
Reciprocity: I'm really excited to begin with the service learning project, I feel like my group and the people who are going to support are going to be doing a good cause because like i mention before everyone in this universities deserves equal rights no matter what or who they are.
Work Cited:
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. "Women's Sexuality" Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 149-160. Print.
Nina Perez
2/17/10
Introduction to Women’s Study
Activism: Throughout the week my classmates and I had to figure out when would be a good time to meet up with our community partner to figure what we were going to do for our project. Initially our goal was to get sexual orientation put on the UCF golden rule doctrine but we later found out that it had been put on recently so we decided to then try to get Gender Identity on the doctrine. After trying to figure out when to meet we decided to meet on Friday the 19th with Rebecca Marques. That Friday she let us know what needed to get done and meeting we had to go to get started on the project. Jen was in charge of making a video for this project while Alex, Jennifer, Racheal and myself were to help get signatures, and we began to talk about when we can start tableling.
Reflection: This week activism can be related to when we talked about the reading on women's sexuality, where in the section on gender binaries is talked about how butch lesbians, cross dressers, drag kings, have challenged the norm of sexual orientation and how this community is trying to let it be known that everyone is equal no matter what they are (155). Starting this project i know its going to be a long and slow process to let people know that the gender identity community needs to be equal too.
Reciprocity: I'm really excited to begin with the service learning project, I feel like my group and the people who are going to support are going to be doing a good cause because like i mention before everyone in this universities deserves equal rights no matter what or who they are.
Work Cited:
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. "Women's Sexuality" Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 149-160. Print.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
The Secret Life of Bees
Johana P. Martinez
Professor Nina Perez
WST 3015
April 14, 2010
The Secret Life of Bees
The movie that I chose is The Secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd, which is also a book with the same title. The movie is about how the main character, Lily is very unhappy because her dad doesn't pay attention to her and their relationship is not a healthy one. The abusive relationship is so strong that Lily believes her mother's death is her fault. T-Ray her father barely pays attention to her, he pretty much treat her like a servant and isn't really a good dad figure.It comes to the point that Lily cant take it anymore that she runs away, with her goes her friend Rosalyn, where they end up going to the Boatwright family, which hides a secret of her mother's past. While they are at the Boatwright's residency, August the oldest sister of three, show Lily how to handle the bees, and while doing this Lily becomes more in touch with nature and how the bees honey are processed and other stuff. While doing this though Lily has been fighting of these demons in her head that have tormented her, which are the death of her mum, and why her dad treats her so bad. During her stay at the Boatwright house, Lily getsto experience that warm home loving feeling fro these three ladies, even though one of the sisters who is played by Alicia Key, June at first doesnt like the idea of having strangers at her house, especially a white girl and her black friend. Many things happened in the house that play a role in how Lily matures and deals with her tormented past. The movie has little things that connect to ecofeminism and the feminism, for example in the beginning we see that Lily hides a box under an orchard tree that has her mothers belongings this can be connected with ecofeminism because of the dualism involved in it like her emotions are in that box, and materialistic stuff but underneath the earth, Lily is connected with nature and the thought of her mother with her.(Kirk & Okazawa-Rey 540). Another is the whole concept of the bee procedure, the way the Boatwright sisters handle the process of honey and the way they connect with nature by doing this, this is a procedure that helps them meditate and come one on one with nature(King, 560). There are stereotypes in this movie, first that black people are not educated or cultured, that they are all delinquents and poor, but in the movie they show a black women who can write Rosalyn, three black women that are cultured and not poor but well of, who are the Boatwright sisters, so clearly the author and director wanted to change that image or myths of black people. Also the stereotype that all white people hated black folks, and in the movie it did show those who were against black, but there were also those who were helping black people in that time era. Overall this movie depicts dualism by ecofeminism, because it has nature involved, with joy, sorrow, death, anger, forgiveness and many other things.
Work Cited
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Fifth Edition. Boston: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2010.
King, Ynestra. The Ecofeminist Imperative. Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Fifth Edition. Boston: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1983.
Professor Nina Perez
WST 3015
April 14, 2010
The Secret Life of Bees
The movie that I chose is The Secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd, which is also a book with the same title. The movie is about how the main character, Lily is very unhappy because her dad doesn't pay attention to her and their relationship is not a healthy one. The abusive relationship is so strong that Lily believes her mother's death is her fault. T-Ray her father barely pays attention to her, he pretty much treat her like a servant and isn't really a good dad figure.It comes to the point that Lily cant take it anymore that she runs away, with her goes her friend Rosalyn, where they end up going to the Boatwright family, which hides a secret of her mother's past. While they are at the Boatwright's residency, August the oldest sister of three, show Lily how to handle the bees, and while doing this Lily becomes more in touch with nature and how the bees honey are processed and other stuff. While doing this though Lily has been fighting of these demons in her head that have tormented her, which are the death of her mum, and why her dad treats her so bad. During her stay at the Boatwright house, Lily getsto experience that warm home loving feeling fro these three ladies, even though one of the sisters who is played by Alicia Key, June at first doesnt like the idea of having strangers at her house, especially a white girl and her black friend. Many things happened in the house that play a role in how Lily matures and deals with her tormented past. The movie has little things that connect to ecofeminism and the feminism, for example in the beginning we see that Lily hides a box under an orchard tree that has her mothers belongings this can be connected with ecofeminism because of the dualism involved in it like her emotions are in that box, and materialistic stuff but underneath the earth, Lily is connected with nature and the thought of her mother with her.(Kirk & Okazawa-Rey 540). Another is the whole concept of the bee procedure, the way the Boatwright sisters handle the process of honey and the way they connect with nature by doing this, this is a procedure that helps them meditate and come one on one with nature(King, 560). There are stereotypes in this movie, first that black people are not educated or cultured, that they are all delinquents and poor, but in the movie they show a black women who can write Rosalyn, three black women that are cultured and not poor but well of, who are the Boatwright sisters, so clearly the author and director wanted to change that image or myths of black people. Also the stereotype that all white people hated black folks, and in the movie it did show those who were against black, but there were also those who were helping black people in that time era. Overall this movie depicts dualism by ecofeminism, because it has nature involved, with joy, sorrow, death, anger, forgiveness and many other things.
Work Cited
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Fifth Edition. Boston: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2010.
King, Ynestra. The Ecofeminist Imperative. Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Fifth Edition. Boston: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1983.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Personal Narrative Blog
Johana P. Martinez
Jeannina Perez
WST 3015
April 5, 2010
Baghdad Burning Monday, September 29, 2003
Sheikhs and Trbes
On this blog, Riverbend talks about the different types of Sheikhs and tribes there are. She begins by explaining how marrying a cousin is not as popular as it used to be in Baghdad and other cities surrounding them. Riverbend talks about the history of a Sheikhs and how each one of them is responsible for their tribe. Also how the word marrying your cousin is term is refer as, everyone who is not your grandparents siblings, aunts or uncles, are your cousin and you can marry them. The duty of the Sheikhs is to take care of his tribe, by settling disputes, if they are about war or marital arguments. Even though the Sheikhs words isn't the law most people of his clan will follow what they are told to do. Riverbend goes on telling how this leader of the clan will pick up an orphanage and take him as his own. She then begins talking about how how after the occupation of Irak, Jay Garner met up with leader, religious figures and Sheikhs to propose that they support the Americans. According to the Sheikhs when the americans invaded, bombs were thrown to their houses killings their wives, parents, children etc. It is true what the reading on the "Living in a Globalizing World." when war break out perhaps one of the most far-reaching effects of war is the normalization of violence in everyday life (Kirk and Okazawa-Rey 504). Riverbend tells us about customs in this blog in particular, when she explains how foreign countries like the United states tend to have a misleading perception on leaders of clans. The United States believe that these leaders might all have to be part of a terrorist group or are working with other leaders to attack the states, but Riverbend states is that these leaders are highly respected they are look upon as someone with wisdom, and are there to settle arguments as mention before, that instead of having these misconceptions we should learned to understand someones culture.
With Riverbend i would characterized her blog as personal and political. She writes both her experience as well as the politics behind it. For example in the blog about will work for food, she talk about a women who was trying to help her company since she was an electrical engineer, but because of being a women she was denied to not help, and since she didnt like the answer they gave she protested, and an army came in to her house open fire and killed her (Riverbend529). This is an example of the politics in her blog as well as some of her own experince as being lucky to b enot important or else you are a target to the militia. It seems that because of Riverbends blogs, she is telling us what really goes on on that side of the world, how women are being treated and how media portrays things that are usually in correct or misinformed.
Work cited:
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women and the Military, War, and Peace, Women's Studies. Women's Lives Multicultural Perspectives. 5th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.3-18.
Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq(203-04)-Excerpts. Women's Studies. Women's Lives Multicultural Perspectives. 5th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.3-18.
Riverbend. "Sheikhs and Trbes." Web log post. Baghdad Burning. 29 Sept. 2003.
Jeannina Perez
WST 3015
April 5, 2010
Baghdad Burning Monday, September 29, 2003
Sheikhs and Trbes
On this blog, Riverbend talks about the different types of Sheikhs and tribes there are. She begins by explaining how marrying a cousin is not as popular as it used to be in Baghdad and other cities surrounding them. Riverbend talks about the history of a Sheikhs and how each one of them is responsible for their tribe. Also how the word marrying your cousin is term is refer as, everyone who is not your grandparents siblings, aunts or uncles, are your cousin and you can marry them. The duty of the Sheikhs is to take care of his tribe, by settling disputes, if they are about war or marital arguments. Even though the Sheikhs words isn't the law most people of his clan will follow what they are told to do. Riverbend goes on telling how this leader of the clan will pick up an orphanage and take him as his own. She then begins talking about how how after the occupation of Irak, Jay Garner met up with leader, religious figures and Sheikhs to propose that they support the Americans. According to the Sheikhs when the americans invaded, bombs were thrown to their houses killings their wives, parents, children etc. It is true what the reading on the "Living in a Globalizing World." when war break out perhaps one of the most far-reaching effects of war is the normalization of violence in everyday life (Kirk and Okazawa-Rey 504). Riverbend tells us about customs in this blog in particular, when she explains how foreign countries like the United states tend to have a misleading perception on leaders of clans. The United States believe that these leaders might all have to be part of a terrorist group or are working with other leaders to attack the states, but Riverbend states is that these leaders are highly respected they are look upon as someone with wisdom, and are there to settle arguments as mention before, that instead of having these misconceptions we should learned to understand someones culture.
With Riverbend i would characterized her blog as personal and political. She writes both her experience as well as the politics behind it. For example in the blog about will work for food, she talk about a women who was trying to help her company since she was an electrical engineer, but because of being a women she was denied to not help, and since she didnt like the answer they gave she protested, and an army came in to her house open fire and killed her (Riverbend529). This is an example of the politics in her blog as well as some of her own experince as being lucky to b enot important or else you are a target to the militia. It seems that because of Riverbends blogs, she is telling us what really goes on on that side of the world, how women are being treated and how media portrays things that are usually in correct or misinformed.
Work cited:
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women and the Military, War, and Peace, Women's Studies. Women's Lives Multicultural Perspectives. 5th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.3-18.
Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq(203-04)-Excerpts. Women's Studies. Women's Lives Multicultural Perspectives. 5th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.3-18.
Riverbend. "Sheikhs and Trbes." Web log post. Baghdad Burning. 29 Sept. 2003.
Three facts for Harriet E. Wilson
Johana Martinez
Nina Perez
03/05/10
*In 1867 she joins the Massachusetts Spiritualistic Association, where she talks to a crowd of people about supporting labor reform and the education of children in spiritualistic doctrine
*1859 her book, Our Nig, or sketches from the life of a free black is published
*1867 is known as the colored medium and gives an address in the Great Spiritualist camp, where over 3,000 people attended. she was known for being a great advocate for the spiritualist movement as well as fighting for people rights, like the labor reform and the education for children.
work cited:
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black. 1859
HE Wilson - New York: Vintage, 1983
Nina Perez
03/05/10
*In 1867 she joins the Massachusetts Spiritualistic Association, where she talks to a crowd of people about supporting labor reform and the education of children in spiritualistic doctrine
*1859 her book, Our Nig, or sketches from the life of a free black is published
*1867 is known as the colored medium and gives an address in the Great Spiritualist camp, where over 3,000 people attended. she was known for being a great advocate for the spiritualist movement as well as fighting for people rights, like the labor reform and the education for children.
work cited:
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black. 1859
HE Wilson - New York: Vintage, 1983
Monday, March 8, 2010
Just the two of us.... 97 Bonnie and Clyde
Johana P.Martinez
Jeanina Perez
March 8, 2010
WST 3015
Blog 4
The song I chose for this blog is 97 Bonnie and Clyde by Eminem. First time I heard this song was in middle school, back then Eminem was a hit and everyone would sing his songs. Hearing it now and analyzing his lyrics, this song is full of hatred and violence towards his wife. Which is actually being portray by Eminem's alter ego slim shady, shady is the one singing about how he killed his wife, her new man and her new child. Eminem perpetuates violence towards women who have either cheated on men, neglected their children, or abandoned their marriage life to start a new life with someone else. As mention in the article about "The Incidence of Violence Against Women," the author Kirk states "That at least 20 percent of teenage girls and young women have experience some sort of violence. Kirk also mentions how men use intimidation, threats, and force to established and maintain control of their partners (261)." Which in this song it clearly depicts how Slim Shady violently kills his wife because he dint get his way with her, she was probably fed up with the arguments she had with him so she left him and got a new boyfriend had a son and was beginning a new life. Since that's not what Slim wanted, he decided to take matters on his own hands.
Neither race nor class makes a difference in this song, the only thing is gender. This song is directed to women who didn't do what her partner wanted and decided to live their own life the way they want, but since some men have this machismo ego, they feel threaten when their partner does something out of the ordinary that they react sometimes with anger and violence. Violence is used in this song by explaining the way he killed her, and how things like arguments and unfaithfulness led to the actual killing. As women you would think that all men are thinking this way after hearing this song but in the article "I am not a Rapist," Stolenberg talks about how men in Duke university is actually doing things to make women feel more safe around campus and overall around men (285). The song address physical violence with lyrics such as "and dont worry about that little boo boo on her throat, its just a little scratch it dont hurt," and "No more fighting with dad no more restraining order," these lyrics aren't making fun on what just happen but more of an awareness to women to not do anything stupid with men.
This song will help in a feminist discussion forum, because it will explore the many ways men try to deal with feelings of betrayal, fighting and other stuff. It also will help women to see how sometimes being in an abusive relationship can be dangerous and also how the story line in this song is true, that there are men who beat their wives, or mentally abuse them and how some of them actually end up killing their love ones when they feel defeated or afraid of being left alone.
Work Cited
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. "Violence Against Women." Women's Life: Multicultural
Perspective. 5th ed. New York: McGrawHill, 2010. 257-75.
Hedges, Warren, Andy Moose, Carlton Leftwich, and Erick Fink. "I Am Not a Rapist!" Interview by John Stoltenburg and Jason Schultz.
Jeanina Perez
March 8, 2010
WST 3015
Blog 4
The song I chose for this blog is 97 Bonnie and Clyde by Eminem. First time I heard this song was in middle school, back then Eminem was a hit and everyone would sing his songs. Hearing it now and analyzing his lyrics, this song is full of hatred and violence towards his wife. Which is actually being portray by Eminem's alter ego slim shady, shady is the one singing about how he killed his wife, her new man and her new child. Eminem perpetuates violence towards women who have either cheated on men, neglected their children, or abandoned their marriage life to start a new life with someone else. As mention in the article about "The Incidence of Violence Against Women," the author Kirk states "That at least 20 percent of teenage girls and young women have experience some sort of violence. Kirk also mentions how men use intimidation, threats, and force to established and maintain control of their partners (261)." Which in this song it clearly depicts how Slim Shady violently kills his wife because he dint get his way with her, she was probably fed up with the arguments she had with him so she left him and got a new boyfriend had a son and was beginning a new life. Since that's not what Slim wanted, he decided to take matters on his own hands.
Neither race nor class makes a difference in this song, the only thing is gender. This song is directed to women who didn't do what her partner wanted and decided to live their own life the way they want, but since some men have this machismo ego, they feel threaten when their partner does something out of the ordinary that they react sometimes with anger and violence. Violence is used in this song by explaining the way he killed her, and how things like arguments and unfaithfulness led to the actual killing. As women you would think that all men are thinking this way after hearing this song but in the article "I am not a Rapist," Stolenberg talks about how men in Duke university is actually doing things to make women feel more safe around campus and overall around men (285). The song address physical violence with lyrics such as "and dont worry about that little boo boo on her throat, its just a little scratch it dont hurt," and "No more fighting with dad no more restraining order," these lyrics aren't making fun on what just happen but more of an awareness to women to not do anything stupid with men.
This song will help in a feminist discussion forum, because it will explore the many ways men try to deal with feelings of betrayal, fighting and other stuff. It also will help women to see how sometimes being in an abusive relationship can be dangerous and also how the story line in this song is true, that there are men who beat their wives, or mentally abuse them and how some of them actually end up killing their love ones when they feel defeated or afraid of being left alone.
Work Cited
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. "Violence Against Women." Women's Life: Multicultural
Perspective. 5th ed. New York: McGrawHill, 2010. 257-75.
Hedges, Warren, Andy Moose, Carlton Leftwich, and Erick Fink. "I Am Not a Rapist!" Interview by John Stoltenburg and Jason Schultz.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Legally Blonde
A good movie that depicts a women as a sexual object, with no brains and being ditsy, is legally blonde. In this movie it is clearly seen that Elle Woods, is this peppy white female who is in a sorority, has money, and is very pretty. The movie shows how looks and money can get you some place like a prestigious sorority, good looking boyfriend and such but it also show the flip side of the story. How sometimes being this attractive women who wears pink, is a blonde, and has money can be taken as a joke. In the movie Elle is dumped by her boyfriend because he doesn't see her doing anything productive with her life because of the lifestyle she has. Her sorority as well as herself are seen as unintelligent women, that most of their peers don't take seriously. This film discusses oppression by beauty and intelligence. It shows in the that the women in the sorority are the ones wearing expensive designer clothes and only caring about what the latest style is. While this is being portray with Elle Woods, shes also being portray as this women,that no matter what people think of her will not give up til she completes her law career. The women in this film are with someone except Elle and her friend who does her nails. The only that the nail lady can get the dream guy she likes is if she acts sexy around him. So pretty much the film is selling out that women have to be sexy to get with guy she desperately wants, except Elle, she ends up with the lawyer who didn't just like her for her looks, he looked past that and was interested in her personality. The body type does play a role in this film, everyone is in somewhat skinny and pretty, most of them are smart and the others are there just for the looks. Elle is confident at school towards the end of the movie when she knows that she can actually do something without being told she s just another dumb blonde. In this movie sexuality is demonized in this movie a bunch of times. Since this movie is pretty much based on looks of a women, especially how men view them it goes well with what Jean Kilbourne said in her article about woman's depiction in advertisement, "Primarily girls are told by advertisers that what is most important about them is their perfume, their clothing, their bodies, and their beauty"(232). I agree with this because in this movie and many other movies similar to this, women have to look a certain way or act a certain way but if they are remotely a little smart then they are either not attractive enough or are too much to handle. Another article interesting was that of Abra Fortune Chernik, who tells her story of how advertisement, television, magazines etc, influence her to make drastic changes because of her image (599). Overall this movie is a good example of how women are depicted as sexual objects instead of viewing their personality
Work Cited page
Kilbourne, Joy."The more you subtract, the more you add."Kirk, Gwyn and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 231-239
Chernik, Abra."The body Politic."Kirk, Gwyn and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 599-603
Work Cited page
Kilbourne, Joy."The more you subtract, the more you add."Kirk, Gwyn and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 231-239
Chernik, Abra."The body Politic."Kirk, Gwyn and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 599-603
Servive Learning Proposal
Service Learning Proposal
For Equal
(Formerly G.L.B.S.U. of UCF)
Jen Ackerman
Johana Vanegas
Jennifer Smith
Rachel Miles
Alexandria Bergeron
11 February 2010
Professor Nina Perez
Introduction to Women’s Studies, WST 3015
Community Partner: Equal at UCF
Address: P.O. Box 163245 • Orlando, FL • 32816-3245
Contact: Rebecca Marques
786-271-5382
RMarques@knights.ucf.edu
Equal at UCF Community Profile
Mission Statement:
Equal's mission is to provide a safe environment for students to interact and network with each other, engage in social activities, and develop personal character without fear of discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, and to provide support and resources for students who have experienced such discrimination.
Political/ Social Basis:
Equal's vision is a campus environment where GLBTQ students can feel both a sense of self-worth and pride in their individual diversity and a sense of community and belonging, and where all students can expect to be treated equally, regardless of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
Equal strives to educate its members and the university community about sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender issues, and about issues that affect the GLBTQ community and provide opportunities for the personal and professional growth and development of its members.
Equal’s Needs:
To fully utilize the student body, Equal will need all of its volunteers to be active and committed to our vision of equality. To make sure our goals get met, volunteers will have to expect rigorous schedule of deadlines and work. Work will include behind-the-scenes organizing as well as field work of petitioning and tabling.
The following is a proposal to outline the needs, rationale and feasibility for a service learning project to benefit GLBT student body and faculty. The following proposal contains background on the need for and benefits of getting gender identity listed on the Non-Discrimination policy project, an outline of the work I plan to do, the rationale for its inclusion in WST 3015, and a scheduled timeline. This proposal may need to be revised after beginning the project and must be flexible to meet the needs of the both the service learning project and the community partner.
Need for:
Volunteers who are committed to working for a safer campus that protects its GLBT students and faculty. Volunteers will be expected to help in any way possible including: helping promote the event, outreach to other campus organizations to raise awareness, collect signatures, table in front of the union, and do other various technical tasks.
Plan Proposal:
Our plan is to volunteer for Equal at UCF under Rebecca Marques who is organizing the petition and protest of UCF’s Non- Discrimination Policy. As of right now UCF’s Non-Discrimination Policy does not include gender identity
under the list of minorities currently covered. We will be tabling, petitioning, organizing and participating in the protest and hopeful addition of gender identity to the Non- Discrimination Policy. This project meets the need of the our
Community Partner Equal because one of their goals is to “create a community where gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) students and their allies can feel safe, welcome, and proud, where they can interact and grow with out fear of harassment or discrimination.” Presently the GLBTQ community on our campus is vulnerable to abuse and intolerance which is something that needs to be changed immediately.
Women’s Studies:
Since one of the core principles of feminism is the belief in social, political, and economic equality of all sexes and people, we believe as a group that this project completely encompasses the value and ideals of this course. We are fighting for the protection of this minority, so this group of people feels safe under the Non- Discrimination Policy and on our campus. We are hoping that this project results in more awareness of intolerance, specifically for the
transgendered, and an education in equality for all.
Action:
This project has already begun with meetings and will continue with persistent planning and organizing. The first steps of the project include off campus out-reach and contacting those in the greater community who could also support us. Initially the five members of this group will be Rebecca Marques’ main group of volunteers. We will work directly under her and assist her with paper work, petition-making, tabling and recruiting. Each of one of us will have different responsibilities including creating and running the website (event page) for our project, collecting and sending our petition sheets and letters to the President of the UCF, organizing and planning the tabling efforts, running and assisting in the actual protest for our cause, and lastly fulfilling recruiting and promoting for the event.
As a group we will be working under Rebecca Marques who is an active Equal member on the UCF campus. We will need to be devoted and very serious about the cause in order to really achieve the equality we are striving for.
Timeline:
Event page created February 12th
Group Meeting February 15th
Petition forms created and distributed February 15th
to members
Speak and attend EQUAL meeting February 16th
Group Meeting February 19th
Group Meeting February 24th
Informational video February 26th
Video showcase to EQUAL March 2nd
Group Meeting March 2nd
Newspaper article March 8-11th
Group Meeting March 16th
Tabling and signature gathering March 1st- April 22nd
Emails sent to President Hitt March 1st- April 22nd
Group Meeting April 26th
Event (petition turn in) Tentative date April 28th
For Equal
(Formerly G.L.B.S.U. of UCF)
Jen Ackerman
Johana Vanegas
Jennifer Smith
Rachel Miles
Alexandria Bergeron
11 February 2010
Professor Nina Perez
Introduction to Women’s Studies, WST 3015
Community Partner: Equal at UCF
Address: P.O. Box 163245 • Orlando, FL • 32816-3245
Contact: Rebecca Marques
786-271-5382
RMarques@knights.ucf.edu
Equal at UCF Community Profile
Mission Statement:
Equal's mission is to provide a safe environment for students to interact and network with each other, engage in social activities, and develop personal character without fear of discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, and to provide support and resources for students who have experienced such discrimination.
Political/ Social Basis:
Equal's vision is a campus environment where GLBTQ students can feel both a sense of self-worth and pride in their individual diversity and a sense of community and belonging, and where all students can expect to be treated equally, regardless of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
Equal strives to educate its members and the university community about sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender issues, and about issues that affect the GLBTQ community and provide opportunities for the personal and professional growth and development of its members.
Equal’s Needs:
To fully utilize the student body, Equal will need all of its volunteers to be active and committed to our vision of equality. To make sure our goals get met, volunteers will have to expect rigorous schedule of deadlines and work. Work will include behind-the-scenes organizing as well as field work of petitioning and tabling.
The following is a proposal to outline the needs, rationale and feasibility for a service learning project to benefit GLBT student body and faculty. The following proposal contains background on the need for and benefits of getting gender identity listed on the Non-Discrimination policy project, an outline of the work I plan to do, the rationale for its inclusion in WST 3015, and a scheduled timeline. This proposal may need to be revised after beginning the project and must be flexible to meet the needs of the both the service learning project and the community partner.
Need for:
Volunteers who are committed to working for a safer campus that protects its GLBT students and faculty. Volunteers will be expected to help in any way possible including: helping promote the event, outreach to other campus organizations to raise awareness, collect signatures, table in front of the union, and do other various technical tasks.
Plan Proposal:
Our plan is to volunteer for Equal at UCF under Rebecca Marques who is organizing the petition and protest of UCF’s Non- Discrimination Policy. As of right now UCF’s Non-Discrimination Policy does not include gender identity
under the list of minorities currently covered. We will be tabling, petitioning, organizing and participating in the protest and hopeful addition of gender identity to the Non- Discrimination Policy. This project meets the need of the our
Community Partner Equal because one of their goals is to “create a community where gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) students and their allies can feel safe, welcome, and proud, where they can interact and grow with out fear of harassment or discrimination.” Presently the GLBTQ community on our campus is vulnerable to abuse and intolerance which is something that needs to be changed immediately.
Women’s Studies:
Since one of the core principles of feminism is the belief in social, political, and economic equality of all sexes and people, we believe as a group that this project completely encompasses the value and ideals of this course. We are fighting for the protection of this minority, so this group of people feels safe under the Non- Discrimination Policy and on our campus. We are hoping that this project results in more awareness of intolerance, specifically for the
transgendered, and an education in equality for all.
Action:
This project has already begun with meetings and will continue with persistent planning and organizing. The first steps of the project include off campus out-reach and contacting those in the greater community who could also support us. Initially the five members of this group will be Rebecca Marques’ main group of volunteers. We will work directly under her and assist her with paper work, petition-making, tabling and recruiting. Each of one of us will have different responsibilities including creating and running the website (event page) for our project, collecting and sending our petition sheets and letters to the President of the UCF, organizing and planning the tabling efforts, running and assisting in the actual protest for our cause, and lastly fulfilling recruiting and promoting for the event.
As a group we will be working under Rebecca Marques who is an active Equal member on the UCF campus. We will need to be devoted and very serious about the cause in order to really achieve the equality we are striving for.
Timeline:
Event page created February 12th
Group Meeting February 15th
Petition forms created and distributed February 15th
to members
Speak and attend EQUAL meeting February 16th
Group Meeting February 19th
Group Meeting February 24th
Informational video February 26th
Video showcase to EQUAL March 2nd
Group Meeting March 2nd
Newspaper article March 8-11th
Group Meeting March 16th
Tabling and signature gathering March 1st- April 22nd
Emails sent to President Hitt March 1st- April 22nd
Group Meeting April 26th
Event (petition turn in) Tentative date April 28th
Monday, February 8, 2010
A wive's favorite gift
Kenwood Ads in the 1950's. Telovation. 27th of July 2009. Web 8th of Feb 2010
As I was browsing for an ad, i came across this one and it was surprising how deliberately it portrays women as the maid of the house, pretty much. In this ad you see both the man and women happy because they have this machine that makes it a little easier for the wife to make dinner. She’s shown with a chef's hat pretty much letting the audience know that she will be doing the cooking while the husband relaxes and waits dinner. I believe this ad in the 1950's was probably accepted and taken as a normal thing, but if something like this would appear now, there would be a lot of women who would find this disrespectful, because it shows that women are only good for one thing, cooking, helping around the house and taking care of the kids. This ad also shows how the woman is dress up to cook and how she has to be flawless when her husband is around. This ad is not realistic at least now in our time because of how much we as a society have changed throughout the years, it would have been realistic in the 5o's and nobody would have taken this ad as an insult, probably to those in the 1950's this was normal. This ad is trying to sell the product but also behind the message it’s trying to tell the audience that even though it does pretty much everything the wife still has to cook because that's what they are good for, just to cook. It’s actually pretty disrespectful for me as women to read this ad because the company that put this ad out didn't take in consideration how women can be, they can be executives, lawyers, chefs, professor, etc but no in this ad they are simply just the cooks of the house and nothing else. This portrays the women negatively but since it was printed in the 50's it was probably a positive image. This is a definitely a sexist ad, why can’t it be the other way around show the man with the chef hat and making his wife a dinner? As Judith Lorber said in her article is that throughout the years men and women have been slowly changing role (kirk p.64), you now see men in some commercials doing the laundry, well I’ve only seen it a few times on the Spanish channel but it shows how far we have come as a society to accept these changes. The body image in this ad shows her resting on her husband back but also the way that she is smiling makes you wonder if she is really happy to have one of these machines and if she is happy with her husband. Overall this ad pretty much shows that no matter what new kitchen invention is invented the wife still has to cook the food, still has to attend to her husbands needs and do domestic chores around the house.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Womens Suffragist: who is and who isn't?
The connotation, emotional response or association, with a word sometimes can hold greater meaning to it than the actual definition itself. Comparing both Iron Jawed Angels and Mary Poppins it is easy to see how many different reactions the word suffragist can evoke. In Mary Poppins the women’s suffragist is Mrs. Banks, a wife and mother to the Banks children. In this movie’s representation, the word suffragist is seen in a comedic light almost to the point of satire. Mrs. Banks is a strong supporter of the movement but is portrayed at times as aloof and nonsensical. In Iron Jawed Angels the word suffragist has two kinds of connotations: one being the connotative feelings of the characters in the movie based on the society of the time, and the connotative feelings the movie itself is arising to its audience. The society that Paul and Burns, the main characters of the movie based on real life activists, face is strikingly antagonistic to their cause and holds the word suffragist in the same manner we would hold some racial epithets today. The movie however, is clear in the positive reinforcement of the word to its audience, who are the protagonists. While both main characters are active suffragists, the extent and manner that they remain active are completely different. Alice Paul dedicates her life to the cause, which leads her inevitably, to most of the challenges she faces. Mrs. Banks on the other hand, is active in rallies and marches of the sort in her best wear. She speaks to others about the wonderful women who head up the rallies and get arrested, but ultimately remains free and goes home to her wealthy estate unwilling to sacrifice as much as her admired leaders. Although, a whimsical portrayal of a woman suffragist, I do believe Mrs. Banks was an accurate portrayal of one type of woman suffragist. While Paul reflects the serious and painful side of the struggle, Mrs. Banks represents the women who didn’t sacrifice anything for the movement but stood ready to accept the benefits. Like the women that oppose Paul as a “radical” in the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Mrs. Banks would rather been SEEN at the rallies than actually fight for what she hopes they will produce. Mrs. Banks also portrays female stereotypes of the time by being obviously concerned with her appearance and set on the singing and marching aspect of the movement rather than the less appealing parts. Alice Paul on the other hand struggles through the stereotypes of the day to prove herself as a serious suffragist, and overall human being. Male relationships to the women suffragist are both relatively avoided. Alice has a positive relationship in the beginning of the movie but is cut short due to her commitment. Most other males in the film are in oppressive roles, where as in Mary Poppins, her husband is shown as neglectful rather than oppressive. I believe both women are suffragists, in the aspect of supporting women’s rights and remain so throughout the movie, although Mrs. Banks does want to spend more time with her children doesn’t mean she still doesn’t support the cause. Society connotatively alters words according to the climate of the time. Women suffragist could be compared to any other civil rights movement of the time and we are lucky to be standing on their shoulders today.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Hola a todos, my name is Johana P. Martinez Vanegas but a lot of people have trouble remembering my name i just go by Jo. I was born in Bogota, Colombia and moved here when i was three years old. Though I was sent to Colombia Every six months so I wouldnt forget my culture and to strengthen my Spanish. Im a Senior at UCF and majoring in Cross-Cultural Psychology, the reason for this is that I love to learn new things from different cultures, I also enjoy traveling a lot, meeting people from different backgrounds, and hearing from them how they live their lives that is different from mine. I took this class because my sister had taken it in Chicago and recommend it to me, she said you learn the real meaning of Feminism and not have a misconception about it. Though to me feminism at first was about females not liking men at all and how things could be better if a female could run this country and other stuff, but so far from what i have read its a totally different idea and as the semester goes im pretty sure ill have a better understanding of the term. Another reason i took this class is that i also plan on studying women in the Psychology field and i felt that by taken this course it would help me get a better understanding of things. Im currently involved in YAYA an association for helping farm workers to be heard and to get better laws for them. Ive been to rallies to help these same farm workers to get help for immigration papers and to promote better treatment for them when they are out in the field. I also help out with the GLBSU or Equal as its called now on campus, by doing volunteer work for example helping out in DIVA INVASION, we also due a GLOW event every last Tuesday of the month, to get the gay, lesbian, transgenders etc community together for a night. Recently i have helped out with an association in Colombia pies descalzo, to try to give a child in Barranquilla shoes and an education. To me doing all this things makes me extremely happy because im helping those in need and those who want to be heard but are sometimes forgotten. I'm also taken this class to learn more about gender roles and how its different from the way i was thought growing up in a strict conservative household. At a young age i was told to do certain things a "female" should do, and to avoid anything that was related to boys. It was very strange for me to grow up in this way of thinking because at a young age i knew i was different from the other girls, i would rather go outside and play with GI Joes then Barbies. It was even harder for me to finally come out to myself that i was gay because that is something that is not talked about at all in my family. If i could change something about myself gender wise is to not have to worry about how im suppose to act to feel welcomed in society but to learn to be more comfortable with myself and the way others view me.
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-Jo
I have read, understand, and agree to the terms of the course syllabus and the blogging protocols.
-Jo
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