Re: Krupskaya

Ricardo Ottoni (rjapias who-is-at ibm.net)
Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:00:22 -0200

Kathryn,

thank you for the bibliographic references and=20
comments.
By the way, I'm under the impact of Neo-nazist=20
terrorist action in that school at Denver...

Kathryn_Alexander who-is-at sfu.ca wrote:
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> Further to this I also recommend anything by Francisco J. Carrasco
> Iba=F1ez, a doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University. Francisco =
has
> written extensively on AIDS, safe sex discourses cross cultural queer
> identity, his MA thesis was titled "An ethnographic cross-cultural
> exploration of the translations between the official safe sex discourse=
and
> lived experiences of men who have sex with men" which he wrote from a
> Chilean/Canadian perspective. His work is cited by Patti Lather/Chris
> Smithies, 1997 in her "Troubling the Angels: Women Living with HIV/AID=
S
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> >On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Ricardo Ottoni wrote:
> >
> >> To ancient greeks and some african tribes (even urban tribes)show us
> >> that sexualitty is much more cultural than biological.
> >>
> >> We must not forget that frogs and street dogs have homossexual relat=
ions
> >> very frequently, without any shame.
> >>
> >> Shame to have homossexual relations/feelings and to be homossexual i=
s
> >> culturally determined.
> >
> > Ricardo, these comments, along with Mike's earlier question abo=
ut
> >forms of resistance ..... have brought to mind several texts that i'v=
e
> >read within the last few months.
> >
> > "The women" - Hilton Als, 1996, Noonday Press. Als describes h=
is
> >journey/path/trajectory/progess in becoming a Negress. "Being an aunt=
ie
> >man enamored of Negressity is all I have ever known to be." Als' stor=
y is
> >one of multiple forms of resistance to a wide variety of
> >ethnic/racial/socio-economic norms.
> >
> > "Saying no to a man" - Susan Krieger, in "The family silver;
> >essays on relationships among women" 1996, University of California Pr=
ess.
> >in this text, Krieger's multiple ways of resistance are primarily
> >practiced in academe - as lesbian, feminist & separatist -
> >
> > "Mema's house, Mexico city; On transvestites, queens and machos=
" -
> >Annick Prieur. 1998. University of Chicago Press. A student of Pierre
> >Bourdieu, Prieur uses his theories to understand a community of vestid=
as,
> >living in a world of mayates, jotas, tortillas, bugas, bisexuales, and
> >heterosexuales. one of Prieur's interesting observations is how a loc=
al
> >culture - in this case set in Mexico City - is threatened as well as
> >marginalized through international media information from english-spea=
king
> >north america as well as western europe, in which the 'proper' homosex=
ual
> >is presented as a white-middle-class-professionally educated 'gay' who
> >looks quite mainstream.
> >
> > "Sometimes I can be anything; Power, gender and identity in a
> >primary classroom" , Karen Gallas, 1998, Teachers College Press.
> > Gallas as a teacher researcher follows her first and second gra=
de
> >students for two years (i think it's two years), documenting their
> >multiple attempts and practices to appropriate social power through ge=
nder
> >and identity constructions.
> >
> > "The invisibles; a tale of the eunuchs of India" - Zia Jaffre=
y,
> >1996, Pantheon Press. not an academic text, like the Als' text, but
> >still, a great topic on resistance - particularly through
> >self-castration.
> >
> > Finally, Jose Limon's "Dancing with the devil" don't know the
> >rest of the necessary data. but a great ethnography in which one outc=
ome
> >is how latina/mexican women in south texas use sightings of the devil =
as
> >as form of resistance against male dominance . . . a great read.
> >
> > so, yes, Ricardo, homosexuality et. al. are great cultural
> >constructions, and also, as Foucault has pointed out, arenas of
> >contestation and resistance.
> >
> > and, i realize, Mike, that you wondered about forms of resistan=
ce
> >in education, and Krieger's and Gallas' work comes the closest here - =
but
> >forms of resistance in other arenas can help us identify forms of
> >resistance in education.
> >
> >phillip
> >
> >phillip white pwhite who-is-at carbon.cudenver.edu
> >
> >
> >/////////////////////////////////\
> >
> > A relation of surveillance, defined and regulated,
> > is inscribed at the heart of the practice of teaching, not
> > as an additional or adjacent part, but as a mechanism that
> > is inherent to it and which increases its efficiency.
> >
> > Michel Foucault / Discipline & Punish
> >
> >\///////////////////////////////////////
> >
> >
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> "science does not vanquish mystery" Annie Dillard "Pilgrim at Tinker Cr=
eek"
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