Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 15:01:54 -0500 From: Rinita Mazumdar <rmazumda-AT-gettysburg.edu> Subject: Re: Intersting: Orientalism Working Again? >X-Sender: jpowers-AT-popserver.facmail.gettysburg.edu >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) >Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 13:39:10 -0500 >To: Rinita Mazumdar <rmazumda-AT-gettysburg.edu> >From: "Janet M. Powers" <jpowers-AT-gettysburg.edu> >Subject: Re: Intersting: Orientalism Working Again? >Cc: wspac-AT-facmail.cc.gettysburg.edu > >Of course! That's why I went into Indian Studies and also into >teaching African American Literature! I'm a big, bad Orientalist! >But I'm also curious and willing to be instructed in the proper ways >of thinking, despite my unreconstructed attitudes. > >At 01:12 PM 11/6/00 -0500, you wrote: >>In my Global Feminism Class students are coming up with interesting topics >>for their final research paper: >>1) FGM >>2) Dowry >>3) Sex-trafficing in Thailand >>4) Women in LAtin /America in the workforce, >> >>All are good topics and we are working on it. >> >>I asked if anyone is interested in working on `Poverty In The US' >>and I had sources for them and they did not want to >>(it is not interesting) >> Is this a kind of `Orientalism' working here again, where you inquiry >>into the other to validate your own subject-constitution? >> >> >>Rinita >> >> >> > >"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi >Janet M. Powers (Jan) >Global Studies Coordinator >Associate Professor > Interdepartmental Studies > and Women's Studies >Gettysburg College >Gettysburg, PA 17325 >717-337-6790 >http://www.gettysburg.edu/~jpowers/janmae.html > >------------------------------------------- > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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