Archive for 'thesis'
I Ain't No Hollaback Girl . . . & God is Brazilian.
Ok, I know that Gwen Stefani is not everyone’s role model, but she is mine right now, because I ain’t no hollaback girl. Right now, I’m in Rio de Janeiro, conducting thesis research, and there’s so much to see, do, and understand beyond the issue of the postcards with pictures of girls’ butts on them. Same [...]
Posted: January 17th, 2008 under God, beg, beggar, brazil, catholic, child, cristo rendator, girl, gwen stefani, hollaback, hollaback girl, hostel, inequality, jewish, omnipotent, omnivorous, pagan, religion, rio de janeiro, social inequality, thesis.
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Hoody Hoo…. I'm Still Alive, But Mostly To Ponder My Thesis.
Despite requests to the contrary, I’m going chthonic. See y’all in a few days.
Posted: November 6th, 2007 under blog, burrowing owl, cthonic, lame excuses, meta, thesis.
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Power Dynamics: Is Feminism the Crack of the Academy?
This is a long one. If you’re not interested in theory or crack, you might like this instead. I’ve been writing a lot about the machismo present here in Buenos Aires, and I’ve been looking at it from a pretty unilateral and experience-based place. So it was interesting to read Jo Doezema’s article, “Ouch! Western [...]
Posted: July 4th, 2007 under Amsterdam, Andrea Dworkin, Britain, Buenos Aires, Catherine MacKinnon, Coalition Against the Trafficking of Women, Female Sexuality, Japan, Jo Doezema, Once Plaza, Ouch!, Sheila Jeffries, academy, anthropology, autonomy, class, communion, crack, culture, feminism, feminist, first world, geisha, health care, human rights, human rights caucus, identification, injury, kathleen barry, machismo, men, moral autonomy, objectification, oppression, political, power, power structure, prostitute, sex, sex partner, sex positive, sex positivity, sex work, sex worker, sexual objectification, sexual subordination, social stigma, stripper, the state, the west, theory, thesis, third world, white, whore, women, women's rights, wounded attachment.
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