On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, Lisa J. Stevens sent me this e-mail. It speaks so eloquently of the illocutionary force of women's writing that it seemed important to share it with you on this day of remembrance. For the essay by Afshin Levyt, link to Enough Already! jeanne

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Rage: WE ARE NOT STUPID!
Kohlberg Now! As a Performative Illucutionary Act!

I don't care if you called us stupid, or if you merely used your superior position of authority to belittle us to the point that we concluded it on our own. I don't care if you are male or female. DON"T DO IT! It is oppressive; it is morally wrong; it is self-destructive to you as well as to us. DON'T DO IT!

Even though you may get away with it for a while, (Foucault would say it's all about power, of course), we are gaining strength, the strength to transform the social acceptance of such arrogance and stupidity - yours, not ours!

How dare you, whoever you are, imply to one of my students that she is stupid because she did not score as you thought she should on one of the Kohlberg moral development tests? HOW DARE YOU? It bespeaks only your own ignorance of the works of Gilligan, of Women's Ways of Knowing, of Chesler's latest work on our inhumanity to each other. PLEASE DON'T DO IT EVER AGAIN! And the please refers only to my own attempt to bury my rage in illocutionary speech acts. Maybe later I can bring myself to hear in good faith whatever you have to say in your own defense, whoever you are. But I heard and saw the student you demoralized. And I hereby present my validity claim. Hear in good faith. jeanne

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NEW for the Week of September 9, 2002

Announcements:

I will not be in on Wednesday, September 11. As most of you know, from Tuesday, I am having trouble with an asthma attack and aching everywhere it's possible to ache. But it was my own stupidity. I was so determined to finish the site restructuring I worked non-stop over the weekend. Guess you can't do that at 67, and we have Father Obi and Father Nelsen coming in on Thursday, so I have to be able to both breathe and move. See you Thursday morning. Miss you all. jeanne

The site is being restructured to make it easier for all of us to find materials. The site is huge. It will take a little time. Please be patient. But do let me know when something isn't working. jeanne

• On Thursday, at 11:30 a.m., Father Fabian Obi (Nigeria) and Father Ted Nelson Adjakpey (Ghana) will visit with us in our Women in Society Class in SCC E 153. Students from our other classes are welcome. On Tuesday and Wednesday we will discuss questions you may like to ask of them, so that I can see that they get these questions ahead of time. This will be an illocutionary performative act for all of us.

  I hope I'm saying this correctly. I'm having trouble with where to put the adjective illocutionary. Any philosphy experts out there?

• Practice Module of Learning/ Teaching To femwk01 and lawwk01. This practice module will also serve for mootwk01 and thwk01. Added September 11, 2002.

• A Sample of Inadvertent Possible Plagiarism! URGENT that you read!
• Learning Records to Updated Sept. 6 but not complete.
• Commentary on Lectures: September 6, 2002.
• Lecture Notes on Plagiarism, September 9.
• Lecture Notes Up from Thursday, September 5.
• Commentary on Lectures: September 3, 2002.
• Lecture Notes Up from Wednesday, September 4.
• Lecture Notes Up from Tuesday, September 3.
• Lecture Notes Up from Thursday, August 29.
• Lecture Notes Up from Tuesday, August 26.

• Fall 2002 Courses With Susan (UWP) and jeanne (CSUDH).
• Texts for Fall Courses

• Syllabus for Women in Society
  
  • Class Page for Women in Society
  • Weekly Schedules for Women in Society
• Syllabus for Sociology of Law
  
  • Class Page for Sociology of Law
  • Weekly Schedules for Sociology of Law Only up through Week 3. jeanne
• Syllabus for Moot Court and Social Justice
  
  • Class Page for Moot Court and Social Justice
  • Weekly Schedules up soon.
• Syllabus for Graduate Seminar on Reinterpreting Theory
  
  • Class Page for Reinterpreting Theory
  • Weekly Schedules for Theory Class Only hardcopy readings up. Weeklies up soon.

Theoretical Musings for Us by Us

• Sample Contents: Michael Daniels' Article on the Habermas-Foucault Debate Impressive article by a junior at Trinity Univesity in San Antonio. I plan to add explanatiory notes for those of you who may not have an adequate theory background for Michael's thesis, but restructuring the site has to come first. jeanne. Link added August 3, 2002.

Lived Experience: Emancipatory Narratives

• Kohlberg Now! As a Performative Illucutionary Act! Link added September 9, 2002

• Sample Contents: Transforming Discourse: Frankie and Johnny Personal reaction to review of new play; things we do to restructure our identities. Expressions from our own lived experience. Link added August 4, 2002.

Art Shenanigans


• Sample Contents: Ten Little Indians Miller Updegraff, Artist
  September Exhibition at Gallery 825, La Cienega Blvd. Fine art paintings invoke nostalgia which puts us in touch with our authentic history, contributing to transformed discourse. Link added August 7, 2002.

Scholarly Resources

• Women in Crime Start of series for those who wish to read in this area. Link added September 8, 2002.

• Sample Contents: The Journal of Mundane Behavior Online Journal. Free access. Traditional journal, not student directed, not student writing, at least not primarily a teaching journal. At Cal State Fullerton. Link added August 17, 2002.

Classes, Workshops, and Lifelong Learning

• Classes and Lifetime Learning

  • Site Teaching Essays and Preparatory Readings:

  • Site Teaching Modules with Self Tests and Exercises:
    • A Sample of Inadvertent Possible Plagiarism! URGENT that you read!

• Thesis Projects

  • Essays on Thesis Praxis

    Reference Essays:

    • Pulling It Together How to get started writing once you've done your research. From Pat Acone's thesis project: Collaborative Writing in Online Education. Link added August 16, 2002.

    • Getting Started How to recognize what you've really been doing when you thought you were trying to do something else. Berthena Kemp's thesis project: Our African Heritage. Link added August 16, 2002.

    • Recharging Along the Way Millie Coulter has thought of changing topics frequently. Not because she doesn't want to write on her topic, but because barriers, institutional barriers, keep getting in her way. This is the problem of finding your authentic self in writing your thesis. How do you make the thesis fit you in spite of external institutional constraints? Lin to be added August 18, 2002.

      • Through Hot Pink Glasses: Fat Is Fun
        Link added August 16, 2002. This piece will fit into Millie Coulter's thesis project. Link added August 17, 2002.

• Workshops:

  • Alcohol and Aging In response to student requests for our Fall workshop on alcohol abuse and domestic violence. Link added August 21.

  • Menopause: from Sex, Gender, and Menopause Workshop In response to Agnes' request for our Fall 2002 workshop. Link added August 18, 2002.

Index of Site Teaching Modules: Our Topical Index

• Reference:
• Index of Site Teaching Modules
  With teaching essays, analyses of texts, discussion questions, field activities, and self tests.
• Module List Each essay or article paired with its Practice Module. Notation clarifies when Practice Module not yet uploaded.

Navigating the Site

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• Site Map
• Finding Stuff