You may not double up on any article or topic.
I also encourage you to team up or to create a panel/theme for those students presenting on the same day. That is, you may choose to work as a group of five with five articles and five interwove topics that you lead discussion/group work on for that day.
The goal, here, is for me to power shower and for you to take responsibility and lead the focus of our discussion on Twilight.
No more than four/five people on one day.
I would like to go on 11/29. I will be using a chapter of "Seduced by Twilight" by Natalie Wilson. I will be using Chapter 3 "Vamping Femininity: Twilight as (Anti?) Feminist Fairy Tale, Or, We Can't All Be Slayers." This article was interesting to me with its author's discussion of how Bella can be interpreted as a girl trapped between heteronormative-damsel-in-distress expectations (that usually come with a vamp-human tale) and the expectations that she must be able to save herself and do it all while still being a loving responsible daughter and still living out a life that she wants for herself. There is so much pull on so many sides for Bella and I would really enjoy discussing this further with examples from the book. This article was a good introduction to the topic.
ReplyDeleteI would like to present on 11/29/2011. I will be using the article the meaning of Life, According to twilight is Love, only Love. I found this article interesting because although it acknowledges the issues that feminists today largely have with the Twilight saga it focuses on the strong love affair throughout the book and Bella's choices associated with that. I'm so happy to find an article that looks at it from a non critical point of view... and I'm really excited to go into it further.
ReplyDeleteI want to discuss the article on momlogic.com ICA says:
ReplyDeletetitled, "Why Bella Swan is the Worst Role Model."
I would like to to discuss the topic of self-esteem and confidence, particularly in regards to girls' pursuit of leadership.
http://www.momlogic.com/2010/07/why_bella_swan_is_the_worst_role_model_for_girls_eclipse_twilight.php
My last comment is from Erica.
ReplyDeleteI would also like to present on 29 November! I will be using "Heterosexual Vampire Monogamy", available on Ms.com here. The article raises a few interesting points, but I will focus on its note about Twilight's deification of marriage, especially for women, and the implications of this for the existence of queer characters and relationships in the narrative.
ReplyDeleteI would like to present on the 29th as well. I will be discussing the abstinence porn genre and I will be using "Bite Me! (Or Don't)" available through Bitch media http://bitchmagazine.org/article/bite-me-or-dont
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