{"id":632,"date":"2012-12-07T20:49:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T20:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/?page_id=632"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:19:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:19:35","slug":"week-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/week-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"weekly-list\">\n<blockquote><p>A beautiful, seductive boy whose narcissism and instinctive cunning hide the fact that he has no mind (and in fact, hardly any sentient consciousness) drives a succession of successful actresses, movie producers, cowgirls, and film directresses wild with desire.\u00a0 They rape him.<br \/>\n<strong>&#8212;Joanna Russ,\u00a0<em>To Write Like A Woman<\/em>\u00a0(80)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Required Readings<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"bibliography-list\">\n<li><em>Native Tongue<\/em>: Chs. 19-25 (225-301)<\/li>\n<li><em>Native Tongue<\/em>: Afterword (305-327)<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/members\/elgin\/NativeTongue\/Index.html\">Native Tongue Trilogy Home Page<\/a><\/em>: Questions and Topics for Discussion; FAQ<\/li>\n<li>Weedon, Chapter 6: &#8220;Feminist Critical Practice&#8221; (132-169)<\/li>\n<li>Lefanu, Ch. 1: \u201cRepresentation and the Natural Woman\u201d (13-20); Chapter 2: &#8220;Science Fiction Narratives&#8221; (21-23) [<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle2.uncc.edu\/\">Moodle2<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Russ,\u00a0<em>To Write Like A Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction<\/em>: &#8220;What Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women Can&#8217;t Write&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle2.uncc.edu\/\">Moodle2<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Hardman, Transcription of Discussion of Women and Science Fiction (1-13, 35 [l. 21]-41, 44 [l. 16]-54) [<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle2.uncc.edu\/\">Moodle2<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Cameron,\u00a0<em>Feminism and Linguistic Theory<\/em>: &#8220;Resistance: The &#8216;Dream of a Common Language'&#8221;(152-157) [<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle2.uncc.edu\/\">Moodle2<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Optional Readings<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"bibliography-list\">\n<li>Lefanu, &#8220;Sex, sub-atomic particles and sociology&#8221; (in Armitt, 178-85) [<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle2.uncc.edu\/\">Moodle2<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Armitt, \u201cYour word is my command: the structures of language and power in women\u2019s science fiction\u201d (in Armitt, 123-138) [<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle2.uncc.edu\/\">Moodle2<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Additional Resources<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"bibliography-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenwriters.net\/editorials\/hadenelgin.htm\">An Interview with Suzette Haden Elgin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/members\/elgin\/\">Suzette Haden Elgin&#8217;s SF Web Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/members\/elgin\/NativeTongue\/Index.html\">Native Tongue Trilogy Home Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A Brief Historical Survey of Women Writers of Science Fiction [<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.uncc.edu\/\">Moodle<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2012\/12\/Science-fiction_journal1.doc\">Sample journal entry 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2012\/12\/Science-fiction_journal2.doc\">Sample journal entry 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/253\/2012\/12\/Science-Fiction_Journal1.doc\">Sample journal entry 3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other Works by These Authors<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"bibliography-list\">\n<li><strong>Elgin, Suzette Haden<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Earthsong; Native Tongue<\/em>\u00a0III<br \/>\n<em>The Judas Rose (Native Tongue<\/em>, Book 2)<br \/>\n<em>Twelve Fair Kingdoms<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Star-Anchored, Star-Angered<\/em>\u00a0(Doubleday Science Fiction)<br \/>\n<em>The Grand Jubilee<\/em>\u00a0(<em>Ozark Fantasy Trilogy<\/em>, Book 2)<br \/>\n<em>And Then There&#8217;ll Be Fireworks<\/em>\u00a0: Book Three of the\u00a0<em>Ozark Fantasy Trilogy<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Yonder Comes the Other End of Time<\/em>\u00a0(Daw Collectors Book, No 663)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Due This Week<\/h3>\n<p>Weekly journal entry including main points from readings and observations about language from daily life.<\/p>\n<p>Peruse\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/members\/elgin\/\">Elgin&#8217;s SF Web Page<\/a>\u00a0and its links; read at least one linked page and discuss it in your journal.<\/p>\n<p>Summarize Cameron&#8217;s assessment of the quest for a common language exemplified by\u00a0<em>Native Tongue<\/em>.\u00a0 Discuss why you either agree or disagree with her.\u00a0 Include in your assessment what the women of the Lines were successful in doing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful, seductive boy whose narcissism and instinctive cunning hide the fact that he has no mind (and in fact, hardly any sentient consciousness) drives a succession of successful actresses, movie producers, cowgirls, and film directresses wild with desire.\u00a0 They rape him. &#8212;Joanna Russ,\u00a0To Write Like A Woman\u00a0(80) Required Readings Native Tongue: Chs. 19-25 (225-301) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":80,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-632","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2YQhd-ac","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}