A Woman's Place?

Take a look at this blog post from "The Society Pages" (a blog encouraging people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations through discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry).

This particular post is about a picture taken right here in Fairbanks a handful of years ago.

After you peruse the picture, check out the comments generated by the blog post (scroll down under the picture to see the comments). What points of view, ... waves of feminism, ... or backlashes to particular waves of feminism can you identify in the commentor's comments? (think about the first and second learning objectives/fundamental concepts/enduring understandings for WGS 201 when considering this question).

·         all areas of study arise in historical contexts and all fields and scholarly methods represent points of view (interdisciplinary nature of WMS, 3 waves of feminism, suffrage, diff settings of novels, etc.)

·         ideas about bodies (male and female, raced, or classed, or ethnicized) are socially constructed

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/08/21/a-womans-place-isin-her-union-nuff-said 

AND, then  take a look at this article from the journal Contexts (might take a bit for it to load)  http://lisawadedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/sharp-wade-2011-secrets-of-a-feminist-icon.pdf
Can you see connections between this article and the third and fourth learning objectives/fundamental concepts/enduring understandings for WGS 201?

·         ideas about bodies (male and female, raced, or classed, or ethnicized) are socially constructed 

·         the forms of subordination and power that influence gender are culturally specific and “constructed” through production, circulation, and consumption of representations (ideas and images that pervade the media)