Stand. Speak. Act.

Tuesday, 28 February – Steps to taking Action

• Look at artists in Perez, Ch 2. Pick the artwork that speaks to you most. Learn about it and tell us. PRINT OUT SOMETHING FROM THE WEB TO TURN IN IN CLASS!

• Read Seely, choose at least one from Chs 4, 5, 6; all read 7, 8, Apxs

4: "At the Table" -- Voting & Political Action; Workplace & Family Balance; Media; Educational & Athletic Equity 

5: "Good Enough" -- Body Image & Fatness; Weight Loss & Plastic Surgery; Global Factory of Fashions & Profit Extraction; Living Wages & Unionization

6: "Knock 'em Up..." -- Women & Girls' Health; Women's Health Movement; Sex Education & Abortion Politics; Reproductive Rights

7: "Fighting Back" -- Intimate Partner Violence; Rape; Men Against Violence Against Women; Sexual Harassment; Homophobia; Global & Socio-economic Violence & War

 8: "Like a Girl" -- Being the Change We Want to See 

Appendices: Checklist for Action; Building a Kit; Writing Press Release; Interviews; Your Media; Socially Responsible Business; Donations 

• What does taking action mean in Women’s Studies? 
• Which chapters in Seely did you choose to read?

• What feminist issues matter most to you and why? 
• How do these issues connect feminists? 
• What different forms of feminism address each? 
• How do you know?

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• Which artwork/artist did you look up from Perez Ch 2: Body, Dress? 

(51): "Within the double metaphor of the social body as text, dress and body ornamentation are writings on the body, and about it.... Dress and body decoration in the Chicana art of the 1980s and 1990s call attention to both the body as social and to the social body that constitutes it as such, specifically through gendered and racialized histories of dress, labor (in domestic space and the garment industry), immigration, urban dwelling, academic discourse, art production, and religious belief." 
 

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From YouTube: "This is the trailer of a 46-minute documentary video by Alma López featuring a roundtable conversation [2008] with Chicana artists Ester Hernández and Yolanda M. López. For the first time, all three artists discuss their "controversial Guadalupes." This video is free when you buy the book, "Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's Irreverent Apparition," co-edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López, published by the University of Texas Press, (Chicana Matters) April 2011. More information at http://www.almalopez.com "

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From the Washington Post, Sunday 26 Feb 2012, Arts section: "Refreshing rediscovery of women's art."

To see this (very good) slideshow online you MUST watch a advertisement first and then see ad on every screen (I had to mask one to make this slide).

About the new exhibition at The National Museum of Women and the Arts: Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections: February 24, 2012 - July 29, 2012 

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