Mon Manifesto

This blog will encourage dialogue between my WST320 peers and myself. I envision posts with personal responses to the readings and class lecture topics with critiques of the arguments. What I am most excited about is the further questioning that might not have been addressed in class or the literature at all.

(ie) Contrary to Rhodes advocation, "Substantive and Feminist Girlie Action": Women Online, of the WWW nurturing dialogue to the classroom. Why is it that I have more dialogue regarding women studies topics with my male friends versus my girlfriends?

My male friends and I surf the WWW and always send each other interesting articles, generative literature and websites regarding feminism & anti-feminism. - why is that?

The purpose of this course, Popular Culture/Feminist Culture, is to critically examine AND practice widely accepted (in North America anyways) cultural patterns. I think it is really exciting to read an academic piece of literature, implement the argument and analyze the development.

Rhodes argues that the WWW is a tool to develop agency and correspondence amongst women transcending borders. The WWW is an ambiguous and mutable media enfranchising individuals to express their self free of the usual social constructs. We will be practicing this argument and I am excited to see how dialogue evolves and develops to generate network(s) from the WWW to the classroom. It is also an interesting endeavor to create generative pieces of literature for the purpose of constructing sisterhood. However I predict the ever so inherent social constructs in which we hold discourse in the classroom will transfer over to the WWW.

In attempts to identify with Rhodes' argument the following is a spectrum of ladies' sites which I visit regularly . . . .

http://www.dooce.com
Slightly generative, however I do not considerate it a participatory piece because she does moderate the comments which I think could hinder network building and agency which Rhodes champions the WWW for.

http://feministtoronto.blogspot.com/
Very generative - I think this is what our blogs are trying to achieve in this class. Unlike passive students who are just deposits for information we are forming our own 'community'

http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_mallick/
Not a participatory piece of literature at all (although you CAN email CBC about how you feel it is not as direct or responsive as the link above), however it strongly follows along with Rhodes argument regarding agency.