Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Feb. 8th, 2011 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyThis morning from 7am to really my class, with a break to drive up to school I was commenting on the remaining rough drafts. I can’t believe I actually got it all done and my brain was not fried all the way.
We are starting Susan Faludi’s “The Naked Citadel” in my writing classes today. I read it before but never taught it. I’m looking forward to their responses. The story takes place in 1994 when my students were 2. And the military was at peace. The story is about the climate at The Citadel when the first woman wanted to enroll with the ensuing court battle. The article is really about the idea of masculinity and what that means to these cadets and why they wanted to preserve an all-male culture. There is a lot about gender and performance of it and the whole story is pretty fun. It was published in the New Yorker in 1996.
I watching “How I Met Your Mother” I did the powerpoint for Greece lecture tomorrow and found readings on Hellenism.
We are starting Susan Faludi’s “The Naked Citadel” in my writing classes today. I read it before but never taught it. I’m looking forward to their responses. The story takes place in 1994 when my students were 2. And the military was at peace. The story is about the climate at The Citadel when the first woman wanted to enroll with the ensuing court battle. The article is really about the idea of masculinity and what that means to these cadets and why they wanted to preserve an all-male culture. There is a lot about gender and performance of it and the whole story is pretty fun. It was published in the New Yorker in 1996.
I watching “How I Met Your Mother” I did the powerpoint for Greece lecture tomorrow and found readings on Hellenism.
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Date: 2011-02-10 06:05 pm (UTC)“The Naked Citadel” sounds very interesting. I may have to read that myself.
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Date: 2011-02-10 06:27 pm (UTC)I also recommend the book we are using in our writing program - it has so many fascinating articles: "The New Humanities Reader" 3rd edition, by Richard Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer.