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• Posted blog 15 to GWSS3503 Women and Law
  First of all, I'm REALLY glad that we started the semester out with the different feminist theoretical approaches. They pulled all of our coursework together, and cleared up so many questions that I've had in general. Surprisingly, I enjoyed...
• Posted week 14 // employment to GWSS3503 Women and Law
  I worked at a promotions/customer service center for 3 years; it was a family, woman-owned and operated business. Throughout that time I worked in almost every department at lower-lever positions. The vast majority of the employees were women while...
• Posted blog 13 : coverture to GWSS3503 Women and Law
  To whom it may concern, Minnesota Statutes, Section 519.02. states, All property, real, personal, and mixed, and all choses in action, owned by any woman at the time of her marriage, shall continue to be her separate property, notwithstanding...
• Posted week 12 // reproductive rights to GWSS3503 Women and Law
  So far, I can't put faith in constitutional scholars to represent women's rights. Though, that isn't to say that I find elected officials satisfactory. The constant focus on real-life situations through the lens of constitutional framework is frustrating, because...
• Posted blog 11 // sanger and roberts to GWSS3503 Women and Law
  There's a direct conflict approaching birth control, and I don't think there's any value in "choosing" a side. Margaret Sanger appealed to eugenics studies in order to launch birth control into reality. Without that sort of relationship with the eugenics...
• Posted blog 09 // privacy to GWSS3503 Women and Law
  Traditionally, privacy is a defense of personal life. A sort of means of keeping the law out of a particular aspect of life - since you have a right to privacy. By all means, feminist theory complicates that. As...
• Posted blog 08 // marriage to GWSS3503 Women and Law
  I don't think that it's realistic to put too much stock in the law, and I certainly don't think that the law is more capable of change than people are. This, first of all, puts even more reliance on government...
• Posted blog 07 // historical perspective to GWSS3503 Women and Law
  I think that history is a method of understanding and analyzing, most importantly. And learning from history, as cheesy as that sounds, is probably the greatest use of it. Though that can be misconstrued and definitely has complications. With...
• Posted blog 06 // postmodernism & co. to GWSS3503 Women and Law
  When thinking about postmodern feminism in conjunction with other feminist thought, I feel like the underlying force of radical feminism is startlingly similar. Both focus on power, though they might measure power differently. They, similarly, both explicitly address the...
• Posted week 5 // narrative to GWSS3503 Women and Law
  Storytelling gives life to identities in ways that cannot be replicated, and that as a way of changing law is entirely realistic. The authors who discuss narrative may write about race specifically, but I think it would be applicable to...
• Posted blog 04 // research ideas to GWSS3503 Women and Law
  As of right now, both of my projects are incredibly tentative! For my paper, which I prefer to complete at midterms, I plan to explore the way that laws play out in cases of domestic violence. Firstly, I'm going to...
• Posted blog 03 // legal approaches to GWSS3503 Women and Law
  What I gained the most out of the West reading was the exploration of how to handle contradictions. The reading built up to this great difference between cultural feminism and radical feminism, and approaches to feminist theory/activism that are incredibly...
• Posted blog 02 // approaches to GWSS3503 Women and Law
  All of the approaches in this chapter took up woman's equality and justice, but each had varying critical methods and fundamentals in detail. The ideologies were described in a sort of progression - each theory lacked something, after analysis,...
• Posted Blog 01 // Terms to GWSS3503 Women and Law
  Unmasking : This method of understanding the ways that structures affect women was really strong for me, and I would for sure like to look at it further. I don't think I have ever seen it explained or coined...
• Posted What role does capitalism play? to Multiracial Feminist Politics and Policies
  Firstly, I have been really, really enjoying all of our readings and class discussions! I don't yet have anything to criticize, but just a few things that have been thinking about with each reading. That is, I can't help but...
• Posted blog 11 to GWSS 3004 Contemporary Feminist Debates
  This course was a really great scope of feminist issues for all levels of understanding or experience. There were definitely some sections that I felt well-versed in, yet learned entirely new perspectives. At the same time, there were issues that...
• Posted Chapkis and labor to GWSS 3004 Contemporary Feminist Debates
  Wendy Chapkis had some interesting takes on sex work, specifically as in the world of labor. I think her perspectives, while only one view of the issue, are definitely important to consider while perceiving the issue in its entirety. She...
• Posted pornographic and erotic, defined? to GWSS 3004 Contemporary Feminist Debates
  After going through the readings, I understood erotic and pornographic to be very different, but influenced by one another. As Audre Lorde pointed out, erotic is rooted in passion, that it functions "in the power which comes from sharing deeply...
• Posted blog 07 to GWSS 3004 Contemporary Feminist Debates
  Our readings had plenty of concrete explanations of the societal system entrapping people into traditional families, rather than loving ones. The fundamental structure of the traditional family is of male/female roles, the division of labor and then the confining lifestyles...
• Posted blog 06 to GWSS 3004 Contemporary Feminist Debates
  I think that this analysis of family life, and furthermore, definite family roles, by Valerie Lehr provides a great case for reconstruction of the family. Her discussion on lesbian and gay roles, as well as the environment those roles create...
• Posted group 3 to GWSS 3004 Contemporary Feminist Debates
  definitions: Sisterhood: A transcendent personal connection between women that can serve as a foundation, possibly for a feminist sisterhood. pg.15 Political Solidarity: A formalized bond that goes beyond class, race, or gender, with the purpose of having political goals realized....