Blog Post due Tuesday 11:59PM or in class on Wednesday at 9:05AM

Homework due Tuesday Nov 30 11:59PM:

Read Barbara Ehrenreich's “Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women's Work” 479-495 and compose a blog response based on ONE of the following prompts:

1. Consider what audience this piece was written for. What assumptions does Ehrenreich make about this audience?

2. Consider Ehrenreich's ethos. What is the central argument of this piece? In what ways does her personal experience build her case?

3. Ehrenreich incorporates a range of research and statistics into her essay. Which statistical examples surprised you? Which are most persuasive? Least persuasive? Why?

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Children's Culture and Disney's Animated Films.

I personally did not like this reading at all. At first I was excited to read about Disney animated movies because I loved watching them as a kid and I still love watching them to this day. Giroux talks about how the Disney movies suggest racism and gender roles and how the kids watching them are going to pick out thoes subjects, learn from them and in turn act upon what they were taught in these movies. I do agree there are hints of racism and gender roles but I disagree with the thoughts that children will learn from them and act upon what they see in the movies. I disagree because I grew up watching these movies and I never saw these hints until I was older and was able to understand the concepts. The childern who watch Disney movies are so young that they will not even notice the racism or gender roles within the movie simply because they cannot grasp those concepts yet. The children just like the movies for the fantsay world with the happy ending. They will never notice racism, gender roles or anyother negative concepts like those until they are older and can understand what they are. When that does happen it will not affect them because they will already know the difference between right and wrong and have their own views.
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  1. Valerie HewittOctober 20, 2010 at 9:31 AM

    I agree. I understand how after reading Giroux's attack on the Little Mermaid, Ariel can be a case for the idea, "women should be seen not heard". Giroux claims that Prince Eric only falls in love with Ariel after she gives up her voice, or at least Ariel had to give up her voice so Eric would love her. But this is purely a claim, because in reality, Eric fell in love with her voice and there was frustration between the both of them because they couldn't just say what they felt. So yes, as you said there are hints of gender role discrimination, but I think that Giroux's claim are not based properly on the context of the movie. I also liked what you said about how it doesn't even matter what we think kids will learn, they're going to feel and love what they want to.

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