https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six en-us 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC 2026-03-04 17:23:44 UTC hello@padlet.com chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953289 To read and analyse The Left Hand of Darkness and the extract of The Stepford Wives (Marge Piercy’s Women at the Edge of Time if time permits) and to discuss how ideas from second wave feminism is used by writers to challenge gender roles.]]> 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953289 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953290 By the end of the session, you will be able to confidently discuss how science fiction can be used to challenge perceived gender roles.]]> 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953290 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953291 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953291 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953294 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953294 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953295 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953295 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953296 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953296 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953297 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953297 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953298 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953298 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953299 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953299 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953301 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953301 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953302 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953302 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953303 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953303 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953304 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953304 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953305 The “feminine mystique” was the idea that women were most content as wives, mothers, and homemakers.]]> 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953305 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953306 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953306 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953307 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953307 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953308 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953308 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953309 “The Gethenians do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imaginations to accept. After all, what is the first question we ask about a newborn baby? ....there is no division of humanity into strong and weak halves, protected/ protective. One is respected and judged only as a human being. You cannot cast a Gethnian in the role of Man or Woman, while adopting towards 'him' a corresponding role dependant on your expetations of the interactions between persons of the same or oppositve sex. It is an appalling experience for a Terran ”]]> 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953309 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953310 “A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.” ]]> 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953310 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953311 “Consider: There is no division of humanity into strong and weak halves, protective/protected, dominant/submissive, owner/chattel, active/passive. In fact the whole tendency to dualism that pervades human thinking may be found to be lessened, or changed, on Winter.t”]]> 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953311 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953312 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953312 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953313 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953313 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953314 The purpose of the thought experiment explores a society without men or women, not to predict the future, but to "describe reality', the present world.]]> 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953314 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953315 The genre allows the exploration of the the 'real' world through metaphor and complex stories. Science Fiction can use imaginary situations to comment on human behaviour and relationships]]> 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953315 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953316 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953316 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953317 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953317 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953318 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953318 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953320 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953320 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953321 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953321 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953322 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953322 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953324 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953324 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953325 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953325 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953326 A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.]]> 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953326 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953327 The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, and more interesting. The poor and the weak die with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails.]]> 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953327 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953328  Never in your life have you been helpless—under somebody’s heel. You never lived where your enemies held power over you, power to run your life or wipe it out. You can’t understand. That’s how come you stand there feeding me empty slogans!” Luciente bowed her head. “You crit me justly, Connie. Forgive me. I’ll try to see your situation more clearly and make less loud noises in your ears.]]> 2018-05-23 08:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Darlington_Week_Six/wish/262953328