Sunday, April 19, 2009

Kid Asking His Friend If He Masterbaits



After a few years late and many adventures, finally came out this precious and indispensable volume that I also feel proud to be involved.
Right now (and is that the universe has a surprising order and balance) I'm lost in the preparation a workshop on non-sexist language ...
When will speak well and correctly all? Without excluding each other, not despise one sex over another, with propriety, wisdom, elegance (which Politeness does not bold) ...
When will this recognition in the language of our struggle to be and to be present has not been in vain? When do
to endless discussions about the usefulness or uselessness and non-sexist language, but simply unrealistic of those who call themselves intellectuals or scientists or philologists or just smart and do nothing but contempt with attitude to women around them, love them, their caregivers, appreciate them, tolerate them, they have produced, that accompany them, hear them, understand them, coddle them, they wish, inviting them to coffee, talked to men?
Discuss sexist discourse is not exactly the same as speaking of sexist language. What language is not distance himself from the social, but necessarily social. So the classic discussion about whether the English language is sexist or not "as" more sexist or less than other languages \u200b\u200b("as such") is certainly very interesting for us linguists, but probably is " out of focus "for scholars of the social. As a social phenomenon that is, sexism can be manifested in any field, and achieve reflection (explicit or implicit) in the language (though not always or necessarily).
around us (in the media, in literature, in our work or in our daily lives ...) are often events and facts that reasonably would say an underlying viewpoint or ideology clearly sexist sexist speech, but not always easy to find traces involved explicit language and precise words to the phenomenon.

vigara ANA MARÍA Taussig. "of sexism, language, speech and gender discrimination," "Appointment in women. The judge's flagship event." English Language Teacher Professor in the Department of English Philology III (School of Information Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Research work focused on the study of spoken language (especially in its spoken aspect, "colloquial" or conversational) of youth discourse, and the use of language in the media (periodicals, radio, television) and sexism Discourse and language.
BERDET Esther Forgas. "By following clues: the emergence of women in the dictionary." Ph.D. in Romance Philology from the University of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bProfessor of English Language at the University Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona.
EULÀLIA LLEDÓ CUNILL. "In mares, cows, herds and broody". PhD in Romance Philology from the UB, is a high school teacher in Barcelona and collaborative teaching universities.
JOAQUIN AGUIRRE ROMERO Maria . "Women and reading. The formation of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." PhD in Information Sciences and professor. Holder of Journalism Universidad Complutense.
MARIA ELENA GOMEZ . "Women columnists and political events." PhD in Information Sciences and Professor of Journalism Writing at the European University of Madrid. DOLORES
ANNUNCIATION IGUALADA Belchí . "Strategies for the image in the female parliamentary speech (Constituent Assembly). PhD in Romance Studies and Professor of English Language at the University of Murcia.
CASTAÑON JESUS \u200b\u200bRODRIGUEZ. " Women and sport. Evolution of women's presence in football English. "Doctor Honoris Causa by the Latin American Council in honor of the Quality of Education and Doctor of Philology.
IBAIA Aramburuzabala ARRIETA ." We are men! Machismo in men's magazines. "Degree in Translation and Interpretation from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid and has done doctoral courses of the Language and Literature in relation to the media at the School of Information Sciences at the University Complutense de Madrid.
FELIX RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ . "The stereotypical gay feminine characterization. Professor of Philology English at the University of Alicante, and a PhD in Romance Linguistics from the University of Alberta (Canada). ANGIE
SIMONIS . "Lesbofilia: the unfinished business of feminism English." Degree in English Philology.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Early Kates Playground Galleries

warm new book Goddesses and Myths Course Course


gods and myths FEMALE:

Course-workshop to strengthen the self

and power of women

Course Description:

This course examines the different myths and conceptions of the deities women in different cultures with the intention of giving you a part of the culture of women historically silenced and distorted.

From creation myths to the present female latest modern witches, offers a new insight into the power of women dismantling stereotypes and issues related to the culture of patriarchy, since the malignancy attributed to the female goddesses and mythical characters in different cultures, the qualities that ideology has been awarded to women based on the concept of gender dicotonómica as submissiveness, passivity, the ethics of care, reproductive sexuality, the imposition of motherhood and marriage as the only destinations for women, separation of both the public / private, etc.

Receivers

Women of any age without specific cultural level

Objectives:

- Review female myths of various cultures from the perspective of gender.

- Re-female figures mean that the male-centered tradition has considered negative and rescue for the modern woman as emblems of power and personal growth.

- Increase self-esteem of women with the knowledge of the inherent qualities of female myths.

- Promote women's empowerment with new visions alternative culture on women to provide them self-confidence to face conflicts and problems of today.

- detect, prevent and promote the rejection of the attitudes of gender inequality that affect women in our society and which result in violence (real and symbolic) of one gender over another.

- Awakening female creativity techniques simple art.

Content


BLOCK I: Introduction to the culture of the Goddess

1 .- Presentation of the course. Feminine symbols. Masculinity and femininity as concepts transformers.

2 .- Myths of creation and first goddesses of humanity. The trinity of the Goddess: maiden, mother and elderly.

3 .- Sexuality. The divine couple. Female cycles in relation to the seasons of nature.

BLOCK 2: Usefulness of women in modern myths

4 .- Holiday worship the Goddess. Adaptations patriarchal female pagan cults.

5 .- The witches, myths and realities. Pagan culture today: the religion Wicca.

6 .- Goddesses warriors: the Amazons. Amazon's utopia, a society possible.

BLOCK 3: The Goddess as a means of personal growth. Archetypes of feminine power.

7 .- The independent virgin goddesses, Artemis, Athena and Hestia.

8 .- vulnerable goddesses: Hera, Demeter, Persephone.

9 .- The alchemical goddess: Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, creativity through the sex drive.

BLOCK 4: The celebration of femininity.

10. The Goddess within every woman.

11. Rituals of Power and ceremonies.

12. Conclusions and final big party.

Methodology

The lectures are interspersed with artistic activities (painting, writing, etc..) And group dynamics that reinforce the content (games, dances, displays, nature walks ...).

Each session lasts two hours to combine both aspects of the methodology.

Duration: 24 hours

Resources

Ample and clear as possible the movement. It is desirable that students bring blanket, mat or similar to sit or lie comfortably on the floor.

Notebooks for the creation of the workshop daily.

Overhead PC. Music player.

Mango Wood Table Scratches

literature and film course

Justificar a ambos lados SOME BRAVE WOMEN: WRITING WORKSHOP-COURSE OF WOMEN

DESCRIPTION:
This course is an interactive workshop that combines content on women's literature in English, both classic and current techniques of creative writing, covering various genres (poetry, fiction and essays, mostly).

DURATION: 31 hours

OBJECTIVES:
- Meet some of the most significant writers of the English language in Spain and Latin America through its texts and biographies, context and challenges as women faced to write and be recognized as authors.
- Meet women's writing, its history and its ongoing thematic and formal and silencing and historical discrimination that has been subjected by the dominant culture.
- Develop skills to start or continue a writing process that facilitates personal quest for ways of artistic expression.
- Introduce basic techniques of poetry, fiction and essays, based on examples from the works of women writers studied.
- Promote self-esteem of women through creativity.

RECEIVERS:
Women of any age and cultural level. METHODOLOGY


Alternating theoretical notions (authors, texts, literary theory), in digital and printed, using techniques that encourage writing (games, exercises in animation writing, reflection and discussion, group dynamics, viewing movies, etc..).


CONTENTS Item 1. Milestones of international feminism. Mary Wolstonecraft to the present. Workshop: From the window.
Item 2. Feminist Criticism: Virginia Woolf, Ellen Showalter, Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubard. Workshop: What is the women's literature? Debate.
Item 3. Women's Literature and Life. Film: The Hours. Reflection: different ways of telling a story.
Item 4. Brief history of women's writing. Historical overview of its precursor. Workshop: Time, space, point of view.
Item 5. Word of women in English. From jarchas until the late nineteenth century. Workshop: Remembering our ancestors. Description (I).
Item 6. The grandmothers of the literature. Writers nineteenth Gertruidis Gómez de Avellaneda. Workshop: Remembering our grandmothers. Description (II)
Item 7. The Second Republic and the awakening of feminism: Carmen de Burgos. Mary Lejárraga, contradiction between a woman and a feminist. Workshop: The Autobiography.
Item 8. The Civil War: Llum Quiñonero. Women who have lost peace. Workshop: The interview as a literary device. Dialogue.
Item 9. The unjustly forgotten: Carmen Conde. Workshop: Poetry (I): feelings and poetic expression. Metaphors.
Item 10. The mothers of literature in the Franco I. Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite. Realism of the war. Workshop: Storytelling (I).
Item 11. The mothers of literature in the Franco II. Gloria Fuertes, wife of verse in his chest. Workshop: Poetry (II). Reciting poetry.
Item 12. Daughters in the English Transition: Ours is writing. Rosa Montero, Marina Mayoral. Workshop: Narrative (II).
Item 13. Hispanic sisters I. The magic realism of Isabel Allende Workshop: Narration (III).
Item 14: The English-American sisters II. The kitchen and literature. Movie: Like Water for Chocolate.
Item 15. Hispanic sisters II. Gioconda Belli. Workshop: Poetry (III). The verse and the body released.
Item 16. Granddaughters: The new woman. Young Writers: Lucía Etxebarria. Debate: final conclusions and farewell of the course.

RESOURCES:
classrooms equipped with overhead projectors and the possibility of removal of furniture for the group dynamics.
Photocopies of the course material.
notebooks for students.












Pre Workout Suppliment

women and women

English Cinema and women

film criticism and analysis for prevention sexism and gender violence

DURATION: 30 hours

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course aims provide an overview of women in Spain through cinema of directors and national directors of prestige, and analysis from the perspective of gender, have projected images of English women some of the best films in contemporary cinema English, proposed or overcome stereotypes and the most recent issue of the modern English woman.

Following a chronological approach, the course covers the progressive modernization of the concept of femininity in the English State and the peculiar evolution of feminist claims and accomplishments, cultural and social English women.

Separated from the rest of Europe under Franco, the English have been equated with amazing speed to women of other Western countries with a steeper trajectory of feminism and progress on equal rights for women, which has led, paradoxically, a crisis of gender relations, whose most dramatic consequence is the increase of violence against women within the couple.


OBJECTIVES:

- Give introduce students to aspects of English history and culture, focusing on women, to have an overview of developments in the history of our country, which has been silenced or minimized the importance of women so that is valued and taken into account by future generations.

- Unveiled by analyzing film, stereotypes about women prevalent in English society, in order broader prevention behaviors and behaviors that foster gender inequalities still prevalent in our society.

- Prevention, from the critical knowledge of the above, the various forms of violence against women, the consequences are not restricted to military or sexist violence, but encompassing many other aspects such as inequality in the labor field, the lack of parity and representation in positions of power bodies and the impossible to reconcile motherhood and career, discriminatory attitudes against women in immigrant protagonists of sexual diversity, prostitution and trafficking of women, etc ...

RECEIVERS:


Women and men of all ages and cultural . PROGRAM


Item 1: Presentation of the course. Essential concepts of gender. Brief history of English women in the twentieth century, since before the Second Republic to the present. Item 2: nineteenth-century woman. grandfather of José Luis Garci . Item 3: The Second Republic: the "new woman." The Whore and the Whale Luis Puenzo . Item 4: The Civil War: The girls who never grew up. Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro. Item 5: The English Civil War. Live in dark times: Secrets of the Heart Montxo Armendariz. Item 6: The Democratic Transition: Learning to freedom. The Calentito , Chus Gutierrez. Item 7: Current Issue I. Mothers and daughters Single of Benito Zambrano. Item 8: Current Issue II. Gender Violence. Take My Eyes of Icíar Bollaín. Topic 9: Current Issue III: Women at the edges. Immigration, prostitution, crime ... Princess Fernando León. Item 10: Conclusion: better alone than in bad company. Back by Pedro Almodovar. Close and conclusions.

METHODOLOGY:


dynamics course viewing of films and an analysis and subsequent discussion by the students moderated by the teacher, who will provide information and documentation related to the film and the time reflected, leading to the conclusions of participants to a reading of gender.

movies generally last about 180 minutes, which should add about three or so to the analysis and commentary later and fifteen minute break.

RESOURCES:

Classrooms equipped with cannon, PC and audio or, failing with TV and DVD.

Furniture should be movable to facilitate the work groups.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Short Playful Poofy Prom Dresses





'm Angie Simonis, philologist, teacher and writer. I am currently working on my thesis for PhD in Multidisciplinary Studies of Gender. You could say that my field, my field of study and my practice is geared towards the world of women: its history, its culture, its current status, issues surrounding gender, latent inequalities in our society, violence they are exposed to many mujers today, both in the West as in the poorest countries, etc ... But his achievements, his victories, his efforts to make a better world, his hard work and not always valued, their genialiades, diversity and ambition.
This is a blog to publicize my courses for women. I've been working for years on them and are the result of much research and lots of practice with women.
While attending college, I realized I knew little of women. Only men had been studying, what they had investigated, said, decreed, all from his point of view. I found that there had been an injustice to me and to all other students to hide a part of history and culture we had as much right to know as we were taught.
Since then I began to be formed by myself on the topic of women and gender. I was amazed to discover that there were thousands of women, thousands of books, quantity of information and documentation prepared by the women who did not know more than them ... And I thought that surely there would be many thousands of women also would love to know all that wealth of knowledge. That was the seed of my courses, I desire to know and share what I was learning with other women. To present one or other women and help women network created in the world, helping each other, both past and present. I'll
slowly reeled in this blog how are and how to get them. But
advance the overall goal that resonates in all the empowerment of women. Women have limited access to power, held by the male majority. We do not know how to access it to help the organization and development of our societies. Many women do not even think they have within themselves the power to change things. But that's not true, is there, within us and only each of us holds the key to activate. One way to activate the power is to gain confidence, self-esteem as women. And nothing better to do than to meet other powerful women, how they fought, how they fought, how they managed to get ahead, how created.
My courses aim to, firstly, to show female creation to help other women create for themselves. And another to trust that gets to discover that we are not alone and that it is possible to do what we propose. They also show what the weak points which we have been discriminated against, attacked, no, forgot to defend and protect. Cultural knowledge combined with the practice of personal growth.
I hope you like them and enjoy them ...