Feminist theory
From Women's Studies
Intro to Feminist Theory, Spring 2013
Instructor: Jessie B. Ramey, Ph.D.
ACLS New Faculty Fellow in Women's Studies and History
Our Intro to Feminist Theory class created images for the "Who Needs Feminism" (WNF) project in the style of some of the feminist theorists we read together. The WNF project was started by students at Duke University last year to promote a discussion of feminism and to de-stigmatize the term itself. Their work quickly went viral and has spread across the globe. (See http://whoneedsfeminism.tumblr.com/)
As part of their final assignment, students imagined what one of our authors would have submitted to WNF. Students were asked to consider if their author was alive today, what their digital contribution would look like and what it would it say. Students then made an image, sometimes using photographs of the author, or other found-images to evoke the message in the text more broadly. The text in the image was meant to be specific enough that our class could guess the identity of the author. (This made a great game on the final day of class and generated excellent discussion!)
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Lauren Ramage's Image (in the style of Catherine MacKinnon):
Madelyn Kasula's image (in the style of Ynestra King):
Ryan Ricarte's image (in the style of bell hooks):
Vicki Zanotti's image (in the style of Emily Martin):
Sara Ohm's image (in the style of Susan Bordo):
Sarah Kuethe's image (in the style of Anne Koedt):
Breanna Fort's image (in the style of Naomi Wolff):
Liz Dervin's image (in the style of Ynestra King):
Madeline Townsend's image (in the style of Alice Julier):
Jennifer Walsh's image (in the style of Jo Freeman / BITCH Manifesto):
Samantha Harper's image (in the style of Monique Wittig):
Tracy Sun's image (in the style of Chandra Mohanty):
BobbiLyn Anthony's image (in the style of Leslie Heywood and Jennifer Drake):
Alli Mosco's image (in the style of Alice Julier):
Megan Willison's image (in the style of Margaret Sanger):
Kate Eichman's image (in the style of Chandra Mohanty):
Alli Mancini's image (in the style of Betty Friedan):
Funke Akinsola's image (in the style of Rebecca Walker):
Isabelle Carr's image (in the style of Betty Friedan):
Samantha Wager's image (in the style of Bikini Kill):
Mickie Setoda's image (in the style of bell hooks):
