Category Archives: practice

Martin – Becoming a Gendered Body “Other feminist theorists ( Connell, 1987, 1995; Young 1990) argue that gender rests not only on the surface of the body, in performance and doing, but becomes embodied-becomes deeply part of whom we are … Continue reading →

Steele- ‘Doing it’: The Social Construction of S-E-X “The implications of this perspective challenge many contemporary notions about sexuality” (Steele 2005: 15).

Orwell- Shooting an Elephant “But at that moment I glanced round at the crowd that had followed me.” (Orwell 1950:144)

Steele – Doing It “The association of sex with nature in these models is not unintentional” (Steele 2005:14)

Orwell – “Shooting an Elephant” “The people expected it of me and I had got to do it; I could feel their two thousand wills pressing me forward, irresistibly.” (Orwell, 1950:144)

Orwell – Shooting an Elephant “I was hated by large numbers of people” (Orwell 1950:142).

Rich – Claiming an Education “One of the devastating weaknesses of University learning…” (Rich 1977:01).

Orwell – Shooting an Elephant “I realized I should have to shoot the elephant after all.”  (Orwell 1950:144)

Gilman-The Yellow Wallpaper “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency-what is one to do?” (Gilman 1990:3).

Nelstle – My Mother Liked to Fuck “I made lots of mistakes but one thing I never did, I never allowed anyone to bully me out of my sexual needs,” (Nestle 1983:470).

Martin – Becoming a Gendered Body “These two concepts ‘gender performance’ and ‘doing gender’ are similar  – both suggest that managed, adorned, fashioned, properly comported and moving bodies establish gender and gender relations” (Martin 2003:219).

Rich- Claiming an Education “This is the experience of taking responsibility towards yourselves” (Rich 1977:609)

Rich – Claiming and Education “The first thing I want to say to you who are students, is that you cannot afford to think to be here to receive an education; you will do much better to think of yourselves … Continue reading →

Katz – The Invention of Heterosexuality “…a temple of purity threatened from within by the monster masturbator, an archetypal early Victorian cult figure of illicit lust.” (Katz 1996:51).

Steele – Doing It “Historically this has necessitated vaginal penile penetration.” (Steele 2005:18)

Rich – Claiming an Education “The first thing I want to say to you who are student, is that you cannot afford to think of being here to receive and education; you will do much better to think of youselves … Continue reading →

McIntosh – White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies “They may say they will work to improve women’s status, in the society or in the university, but they can’t … Continue reading →

Orwell – Shooting an Elephant “I was young and ill educated and I had had to think out my problems in utter silence that is imposed on every Englishman in the East” (Orwell, 1950:142).

Freud – Femininity “It was, however, a surprise top learn from analyses that girls hold their mothers responsible for their lack of a penis” (Freud 1965:7).

Steele-”‘Doing It’: The Social Construction of S-E-X” “The bottom line is-sex varies,” (Steele 2005: 15).