Hey all! I've been very busy recently and haven't updated much.
Mostly I've been working--school and coffeeshop. School has been going well. A week or so ago I went to a conference in Albuquerque--the Southwest Popular and American Culture Association. I presented on the paper I wrote last year about material definitions of womanhood in the Fairyland series. I'm taking a class on postwar Europe which is excellent. The professor is also my thesis advisor. My thesis is taking up the majority of my time.
I think I've mentioned my subject, but in case I didn't, I'm combining a historical study and an attempt at expanding socialist feminism. I'm specifically looking at the works of Eleanor Marx, Clara Zetkin, and Alexandra Kollontai. Then I'm looking at a few specific Second Wave and modern theorists/theories of socialist feminism and seeing where there are slippages and gaps and trying to fill them with Marx, Zetkin, and Kollontai. As you can imagine, I spend a lot of time reading, writing, and thinking about socialism. And I have opinions.
Once I finish my thesis (or at least the full draft), I will probably write a longer post about socialist feminism. And it will be longer. Socialism and feminism, let alone the two combined, are both muddled in the US, and they take a lot of untangling to understand. I'll let you all know what I find.
