Yesterday, some of my colleagues from Women's Studies at OU, Julia Friday, Judith Grant, and Kim Little visited Chicago from Athens. It was so good to see folks from home! They were in town for the National Women's Studies Association conference. I presented a paper at the conference called "Queering Karen Carpenter: Feminist Political Discourse on Sexuality Through 1970's Rock n Roll" which compared The Carpenters and punk as complementary responses of alienation and destruction in the wake of the lost hope and failed project of the 60's. This is part of the book I will be working on during my sabbatical year entitled See Jane Rock: Popular Music as a Site of Feminist Discourse.
This was not your mother's NWSA conference! I attended several fantastic presentations ranging from Girls Rock! Chicago (a one week music camp for girls held in August which I plan to attend and observe), to how to use blogs and podcasts effectively in the classroom, to Jay-Z videos as subversions of masculinity. After Friday's sessions we all went out for dinner to Mama Desta's Ethiopian restaurant, mentioned earlier in this blog. We had a great dinner and laughed alot!
This was not your mother's NWSA conference! I attended several fantastic presentations ranging from Girls Rock! Chicago (a one week music camp for girls held in August which I plan to attend and observe), to how to use blogs and podcasts effectively in the classroom, to Jay-Z videos as subversions of masculinity. After Friday's sessions we all went out for dinner to Mama Desta's Ethiopian restaurant, mentioned earlier in this blog. We had a great dinner and laughed alot!
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Fantastic to see you guys. I love your neighborhood. Next time - a cubs game!!
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