Posted by yardenxanthe on 2006-09-01 19:47:26
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Wow, that's too bad that they were so stringent w/your questions - especially since VENUS is so in-your-face about feminist issues...
Good job, though, Jenny!
I was thinking about you today because I am watching season 3 of Arrested Development, and one of the girls (Maeby, if you know the show) had a t-shirt on with an appliqued piece of embroidery on it. It looked like a sublime stitching dia de los muertes skull... know anything about it, and whether or not it's yours?
Posted by delqc on 2005-01-28 12:11:33
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Simone de Beauvoir, The second sex (english translation of Le deuxieme sexe), for the beginnings of it all ... You can find a cheap copy in almost any second hand bookstore ...
BITCH magazine a feminist response to pop culture: for a more up to date take on feminist issues in the media
Anything by Audrey Lourdes for a more well-rounded approach of a critique of the social hierarchy, including racial and sexuality issues.
Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw or My Gender Workbook for a personal understanding of the impacts of the gender hierarchy.
Posted by Christy Petterson on 2005-07-31 19:23:25
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I'm just jumping in and just read some of everyone's replies!!!
Growing up I actually WORRIED about what I would do because OF COURSE I would be a famous author by the time I got married...such a quandry for an eight-year-old!
Luckily (!) I had only been published in the local paper by the time I got married--whew! thank goodness! :)
My thoughts have always been that I'd like to have kids and I'd like for all of us to have the same last name. I'd feel wierd if my husband and the kids had one name and then I was odd-man-out with a different name. And on the flip side I wouldn't want to make my husband odd-man-out and have the kids have my name. I just like the idea of everyone having one identity together.
So I took his name. I'm sure if I felt really passionately he would have taken my name but fair or not our society is set up to take the man's name. And I know this brings up all sorts of feminist issues but I just decided the bigger issue for me was having the same name as my husband.
It was, however, VERY hard to change my name. I always loved my last name (Bardis--I liked that no one else had the same name and it is Greek and unique....well, here that is. I hear it's somewhat common in Greece!). No one told me ahead of time how hard it would be to adjust. I guess it was hard also because a lot of people had called me Bardis as a nickname and it seemed like they might stop. Plus it is a pain in the a** to actually get it changed...Social Security office, drivers license, changing credit cards, etc. And learning a new signature. I had to practice!
2 and a half years later, I'm totally used to my new name--Petterson (pronounced Peter-son) But I love it when people call me Bardis. And I decided that my label should keep it real! So my label name is "a bardis" (Bardis on its own seemed a little harsh for purses and clothes so I added the A). And I ditched my middle name--Michelle...I never felt too close to it, except that my Dad's middle name is Michael, but anyway I ditched it and Bardis is my middle name now.
So that's my very long 2 cents! Good luck making a decision! :)
