Edited by Kate Blackham, Tuesday, 27 Aug 2024, 18:42
I have pretty much finished my FHEA application. I've uploaded my reference and my monitoring reports and reflection. My 3000-word reflective statement has been edited according to the recommendations of my mentor and staff tutor and then my mapping document is complete apart from the final wordcount of the statement. I've asked for a final read-through and then those two files will be uploaded and I'll be all done and waiting for the assessment.
I still haven't heard about the outcome of the copyediting process on my journal paper - I don't know if that's because it's not been done yet or because it's been done and doesn't need my OK for minimal changes (don't forget I'm an ex-editor).
I've got a couple of books I want to get through in preparation for my work next year - some cosmology textbooks and some feminism books.
When I was 17/18 I had a conversation with an ex-boyfriend. He was a English A-level student. Part of what English students do is learn to analyse texts from different perspectives. One of those perspectives is feminist. I mentioned something one day about being a feminist, thinking it a not very contraversial statement. My ex-boyfriend smiled derisively at me and said "Oh really, which books have you read then?" I was appalled, if the academic field of feminism wasn't concerned with the lived experiences of actual women but only with which books one read, it struck me as a worthless diversion.
As an adult in my mid-twenties I became a Christian and hence an adherent of a patriarchial faith. Because of this, some of what passes for third wave feminsim makes me want to roll my eyes so hard it hurts.
So despite regularly enduring personal misogynistic attacks from men and other women throughout my life (and with hindsight my ex was himself displaying his own misogyny while claiming feminism for his own), I've not felt that feminism was relevant to my life since I was a teenager.
But recently, I've been reading about the early feminists and the fight for female participation in the sciences and I've realised that it would benefit for me to get a better grounding in early feminism to understand the history of science better.
Summer holidays 4: FHEA progress and what next
I have pretty much finished my FHEA application. I've uploaded my reference and my monitoring reports and reflection. My 3000-word reflective statement has been edited according to the recommendations of my mentor and staff tutor and then my mapping document is complete apart from the final wordcount of the statement. I've asked for a final read-through and then those two files will be uploaded and I'll be all done and waiting for the assessment.
I still haven't heard about the outcome of the copyediting process on my journal paper - I don't know if that's because it's not been done yet or because it's been done and doesn't need my OK for minimal changes (don't forget I'm an ex-editor).
I've got a couple of books I want to get through in preparation for my work next year - some cosmology textbooks and some feminism books.
When I was 17/18 I had a conversation with an ex-boyfriend. He was a English A-level student. Part of what English students do is learn to analyse texts from different perspectives. One of those perspectives is feminist. I mentioned something one day about being a feminist, thinking it a not very contraversial statement. My ex-boyfriend smiled derisively at me and said "Oh really, which books have you read then?" I was appalled, if the academic field of feminism wasn't concerned with the lived experiences of actual women but only with which books one read, it struck me as a worthless diversion.
As an adult in my mid-twenties I became a Christian and hence an adherent of a patriarchial faith. Because of this, some of what passes for third wave feminsim makes me want to roll my eyes so hard it hurts.
So despite regularly enduring personal misogynistic attacks from men and other women throughout my life (and with hindsight my ex was himself displaying his own misogyny while claiming feminism for his own), I've not felt that feminism was relevant to my life since I was a teenager.
But recently, I've been reading about the early feminists and the fight for female participation in the sciences and I've realised that it would benefit for me to get a better grounding in early feminism to understand the history of science better.