Her emphasis on the destructive impact of warfare on family life bothreflected the actual experiences of women in Viet Nam and also resonatedeffectively with maternalist activists in the West who valued the sanctity ofmotherhood and home life.
interesting connection
I didn’t play the tenure game.
I feel like we saw this during the TA strikes during fall... Professors were unable to outwardly support their TAs
We believe that sexual politics undet patriarchy is as perva-sive in Black women's lives as are the politics of class and race.
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because you readinstead of maintaining "the maternal gaze
I feel like this part really highlights the complexity of motherhood. There's no "right" way to mother.
Both the 1946 and1976 editions contain the same language, telling parents: “Don’t take tooseriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the expertssay. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense. Bringing up yourchild won’t be a complicated job if you take it easy, trust your own instincts,and follow the directions that your doctor gives you.”24
I think that this is interesting
point of view of whitemen don’ never see Black anybodies without some violent itch start up
chilling but true at this point in history
We must conquer AIDS before it affectsthe heterosexual population and thegeneral population .
The phrasing of this is eerily homophobic in the sense that the concern is solely heterosexual and general population... no the homosexual population.
Did yourself-esteemplummetwhenyou lostyourvirginity?Did you feeldirty?Bad? Guilty? Ashamed? Damaged?
i think that this line really summates the idea behind this entire piece
curled up at a bad man's feet
this line is very deep and tied the poem together for me
Diaphragm: a contraceptivedevice that Margaret Sanger (I will kiss hershoes if we meet in the afterlife) was jailedfor smuggling into the U.S.,
Although there are still issues around the US concerning access to birth control, I think we take for granted how much we are able to access it (relative to before).
Allaround me are my ancestors,my unborn children.I am the tear between themand both sideslive
I think that this is a very deep perspective, and these lines really ties the whole piece together.
THE APPROACH OF women historians has been to work from within andwith the professional organizations and to use a broad spectrum of forcesto promote change.
I think that it is interesting how the role of women historians has not only been to learn, report, and teach changes throughout women's history, but to also serve as actors in the cause of promoting change and equity.
Even when administrators aren’t ready to abandon traditional report cards, individual teachers can help to rescue learning in their own classrooms with a two-pronged strategy to “neuter grades,”
I think that this is a very interesting and apparent point. I've never personally experienced an institution, as a whole, that utilizes ungrading. However, I have experienced classes that have. These classes have been where I've learned the most.