Way Back to Week One
Simon posits the existence of the "Culture of ___________"
What is "Cheap"
The Communist Manifesto was published in this year.
What is 1848
Woolf argues that women need these two things to be able to write.
What are money and a room of one's own
Plato sets his dialogue in this ancient city.
What is Athens
When is the first paper due? 100 bonus points if you can tell us what percentage of your grade it counts for.
When is Monday, February 3rd.
Professor Kimberle Crenshaw coined this term in 1989, meaning ___________
What is intersectionality, a term describing the unique challenges faced by a person with overlapping marginalized identities.
In addition to the abolition of bourgeois property, Marx and Engels propose abolishing this.
What is the family AND/OR What are nation-states
Woolf spends a lot of time exploring how men write about women in this famous center of knowledge
What is the British Museum
Apologia translates most accurately into this English word.
What is "defense".
The text we are reading next week is ________ by _________.
What is Antigone by Sophocles
What is Crenshaw's critique of how the court systems deal with cases involving discrimination against Black women?
"The law seems to forget that Black are both Black and female, and thus subject to discrimination based on both race, gender, and often a combination of the two" (p. 23)
Alienation occurs because workers do not own this, which includes factories, machines, and tools.
What is the means of production.
Woolf describes these two fictional colleges to illustrate gender inequality in academia.
What are Oxbridge and Fernham. Bonus points if you can describe the differences.
In his defense against Meletus' accusations, Socrates uses these three types of arguments.
What are argument by analogy, argument by disjunction, and reductio ad absurdum. Bonus if you can give examples.
Name every author we have read in order AND the name of their texts.
What are Simon - Hamlet Fire, Coaston - Intersectionality Wars, Marx Engels - The Communist Manifesto, Marx - Alienated Labor, Woolf - A Room of One's Own, Plato - Apology & Crito.
Conservative critics of Crenshaw's concept said she was creating _______ but Crenshaw really aimed to abolish _________
1. A "new caste system" which places non-white, non-heterosexual people on top.
2. Racial hierarchies all together
This term means "government for the wealthy"
Plutocracy
Who is Judith Shakespeare and why does Woolf spend so much time talking about her?
What is a thought experiment illustrating women's inequality. Describe significance for points.
After Socrates is sentenced to death he accepts his fate citing this as the reason why.
What is the notion that in order to prevent the collapse of society the decision of the court must be respected, he was convicted and thus must obey the consequences.
Who are we? What are we doing here?
What are Junior Fellows! We liked core so much the first time that we had to run it back.
Simon argues that the factory fire is not the result of personal choices but rather __________.
What is a culture which values cheap goods and individual consumer rights over human rights and collective well being; the culture of cheap.
The Communist Manifesto ends with this famous phrase, "Workers of the world ________"
What is unite
Woolf argues that women are often depicted from shallow, male-centered viewpoints, a sentiment echoed by this cinematic test.
What is the Bechdel test.
Socrates describes this as his mission in life.
Who are (idk whoever is absent I guess)