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yeah! exciting life.
so yesterday was my reading quiz 3 for my women in the us history course. think i bombed it.
oh well. gotta do the paper for that class and it's due thurs. it will NOT be fun.
after class stopped by jules to drop off carton of smokes dad/mom picked up for her when they were at costco. heh. and some ebay stuff that showed up in my mail too.
sharks won. yeah!
did a lot of seaching online for my other paper though. tried searching under 'body mutilation' and 'body modification' and 'foot binder' and found some interesting things online. some puny, and others lengthy and writen by professors at other universities. one in particular i found to be really good because it was bad. i guess the author writes that she does speak from a feminist pov and well, imho, i think she's completely n utterly wrong. it seems some people just lump all body modification/mutilation into a single negative grouping.
here's the 1st paragraph:
This article analyses the developing industry of body modification, in which cutting, tattooing and piercing are carried out in studios for profit. It seeks to offer a feminist understanding of this industry which places it on a continuum of harmful cultural practices that include self-mutilation in private, transsexual surgery, cosmetic surgery and other harmful western beauty practices. The ideology created by industry practitioners, that 'body modification' replicates the spiritual practices of other cultures, reclaims the body, or is transgressive, is supported by the use of post-modern feminist theory. These ideas are criticized here. On the contrary, it will be suggested that such harmful cultural practices of self-mutilation are sought, or carried out on, those groups who occupy a despised social status, such as women, lesbians and gay men, disabled people and women and men who have suffered sexual abuse in childhood or adulthood.
some other links i found constantly link mods with sexual abuse and/or mental trauma. bah.
this particular woman, according to the webpage, is "a Reader in Political Science at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches sexual politics, lesbian and gay politics and international gender politics. She is the author of four books on the history and politics of sexuality, including The Idea of Prostitution (Spinifex, 1997). She is working on a book entitled Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective."
i would hope my professors would have a bit more open and accepting pov if she's teaching courses that follow sexual themes. to me, it seems like her essay puts women and gays at an already accepted lower class status. many of her sources are also the ones i have too although the BodyPlay magazines notes only list the url of fakir's site which i know has very bare information. i would hope as an educator she would have used proper turabian notation and directed credit to the print magazines.
oh. here's the link to read more.
http://www.psy.dmu.ac.uk/brown/selfinjury/jeffreys.htm
so yesterday was my reading quiz 3 for my women in the us history course. think i bombed it.
oh well. gotta do the paper for that class and it's due thurs. it will NOT be fun.
after class stopped by jules to drop off carton of smokes dad/mom picked up for her when they were at costco. heh. and some ebay stuff that showed up in my mail too.
sharks won. yeah!
did a lot of seaching online for my other paper though. tried searching under 'body mutilation' and 'body modification' and 'foot binder' and found some interesting things online. some puny, and others lengthy and writen by professors at other universities. one in particular i found to be really good because it was bad. i guess the author writes that she does speak from a feminist pov and well, imho, i think she's completely n utterly wrong. it seems some people just lump all body modification/mutilation into a single negative grouping.
here's the 1st paragraph:
This article analyses the developing industry of body modification, in which cutting, tattooing and piercing are carried out in studios for profit. It seeks to offer a feminist understanding of this industry which places it on a continuum of harmful cultural practices that include self-mutilation in private, transsexual surgery, cosmetic surgery and other harmful western beauty practices. The ideology created by industry practitioners, that 'body modification' replicates the spiritual practices of other cultures, reclaims the body, or is transgressive, is supported by the use of post-modern feminist theory. These ideas are criticized here. On the contrary, it will be suggested that such harmful cultural practices of self-mutilation are sought, or carried out on, those groups who occupy a despised social status, such as women, lesbians and gay men, disabled people and women and men who have suffered sexual abuse in childhood or adulthood.
some other links i found constantly link mods with sexual abuse and/or mental trauma. bah.
this particular woman, according to the webpage, is "a Reader in Political Science at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches sexual politics, lesbian and gay politics and international gender politics. She is the author of four books on the history and politics of sexuality, including The Idea of Prostitution (Spinifex, 1997). She is working on a book entitled Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective."
i would hope my professors would have a bit more open and accepting pov if she's teaching courses that follow sexual themes. to me, it seems like her essay puts women and gays at an already accepted lower class status. many of her sources are also the ones i have too although the BodyPlay magazines notes only list the url of fakir's site which i know has very bare information. i would hope as an educator she would have used proper turabian notation and directed credit to the print magazines.
oh. here's the link to read more.
http://www.psy.dmu.ac.uk/brown/selfinjury/jeffreys.htm
