structured thought
Yesterday it occured to me that I might want to get a degree in Women's Studies.
I'm really enjoying being in school, and though I know getting a degree probably won't lead me directly into a career of my dreams (I have trouble even using the word career instead of job), I think it would get me a lot closer to the kind of work I want to spend my time doing.
The class I'm most enjoying now is Women's Literature, taught by a woman named Kristine Kerins. The class is so balanced (there are men in it too) and fairminded that it has made me rethink my ideas about Women's Studies. Before, it just made me think about butch hairy Kootenay lesbians and Glen Henderson, the local flaky "earth steward" I worked for one summer, also known as "dude with a lisp who looks like Jesus".
I looked it up on both UVIC and UBC's websites, and it looks even better. Really interdisciplinary, apparently, exploring "the meanings of such categories as gender, race, class, sexual orientation, age, ability, citizenship, and national identity" and analyzing "the ways these categories dynamically intersect to create a world with complicated systems of inequities both within Canada and across the globe."
At UBC they even call the program "Women's Studies and Gender Relations".
hmmm.
thoughts? comments?
I'm really enjoying being in school, and though I know getting a degree probably won't lead me directly into a career of my dreams (I have trouble even using the word career instead of job), I think it would get me a lot closer to the kind of work I want to spend my time doing.
The class I'm most enjoying now is Women's Literature, taught by a woman named Kristine Kerins. The class is so balanced (there are men in it too) and fairminded that it has made me rethink my ideas about Women's Studies. Before, it just made me think about butch hairy Kootenay lesbians and Glen Henderson, the local flaky "earth steward" I worked for one summer, also known as "dude with a lisp who looks like Jesus".
I looked it up on both UVIC and UBC's websites, and it looks even better. Really interdisciplinary, apparently, exploring "the meanings of such categories as gender, race, class, sexual orientation, age, ability, citizenship, and national identity" and analyzing "the ways these categories dynamically intersect to create a world with complicated systems of inequities both within Canada and across the globe."
At UBC they even call the program "Women's Studies and Gender Relations".
hmmm.
thoughts? comments?