Week 6 - Webb Ch. 3

Chapter Three - Genderizing The Curriculum: A Personal Journey

I really liked the "Am I Blue" activity with the triangles. I like that the question is posed that "What does it feel like for those of you who do not have blue triangles like the rest of the students?" (45) I liked the honest responses of I wanted one, It doesn't matter, Why didn't I get one?, etc. I liked that the students didn't know what was going on until they read the text, and their response to what the color meant, and how some students threw off their triangles because "they weren't gay". I think Tasha handled the question posed to her very well. In response to being asked if she was gay, she said, "Does it matter?" I think that is more powerful than answering yes or no, because in all honesty it doesn't matter.

Womens and Gender Studies -"an effort no so much to look at biological determinants of sexual difference or sexual orientation, but instead to examine the way that roles for men and women - and for heterosexuals as well as for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons-have developed historically and culturally, and how these roles continue to be made and contested in the present day." (39)