WMST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Adrienne Rich

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 1000
• Professor: Amy Butchart

Document Summary

It implies an ethical and intellectual contract between teacher and students (cid:2) Teacher: student ability respected (be able to demand that your ideas are taken seriously, students have the right to challenge and learn. Students are consumers of the classroom, they are the ones invested) Students: take responsibility for their own learning (ask questions, be involved, challenge your peers and resist doing the minimum amount of work) (cid:2) (cid:2) You cannot think of yourselves as being here to receive an education; you will do much better to think of yourselves as being here to claim one (cid:2) The difference is that between acting and being acted-upon, and for women it can literally mean the difference between life and death . Rich is pointing out this is a continual task and the search for equality is ongoing. Women have traditionally been omitted or marginalized from the classroom. So their voices have been not included or included from a males view.