Flynn

Flynn:

Before you read:  I had a teacher in middle school who always talked to the guys about sports, college football and basketball, he would only talk to the guys about sports, and I took offense to that because I followed college football and basketball religiously, but my thoughts did not matter since the teacher would only talk to the guys, sometimes the guys knew less about the particular game than I did.

Summary: Flynn's article composing as women focuses on feminism. She explains interesting differences between boys and girls relationships with others, including their mother and father figures. Also she talks about the differences in girls and boy writing as students for school.

Synthesis: Flynn's article "composing as women can be related to Milanowitz, both authors talk about identity effecting a students writing. In Flynn's case it is the difference between male and female, and Milanowitz, is discussing sexuality. Flynn can also be connected to Wysocki, she talked about females being used in a provocative was in advertising. How women are looked at sometimes as items rather than as people. This also connects to Berger in the same way. "ways of seeing" was about women being posed for painting and how women are still posed for photos today. How these photos portray an identity for the women that can effect her in the world and in her writing.

Response	Quotation
I liked this quote because in todays society it is important that girls understand that they can make in the the world of professions just as much as guys can.	"it is not easy to think like a women in a man's world, in the world of the professions, yet the capacity to do that is a strength which we can try to help our students develop"
This quote is so true. since the beginning of history it has always been men that have dominated. but as time has continued on. you see how differences between men and women are slowly being erased so that they can be equal in society. we see changes in salaries  stereo typing jobs to genders. we see more stay at home dads instead of only moms.. etc.	"The argue that men have chronicled our historical narratives and defined our fields of inquiry. Women's perspectives have been suppressed, silenced, marginalized, written out of what counts as authoritative knowledge. Difference is erased in a desire to universalize."
This is something that is always talked about when new children are born, like how children form bonds with a specific parent right away. I never thought of how that may effect the child when learning to communicate with others later down the line in life.	"Girls identification processes, then , are more continuously embedded in and mediated by their ongoing relationship with their mothers... A boys identification processes are not likely to be so embedded in or mediated by a real affective relation to his father. At the same time, he tends to deny identification with and relationship to his mother and reject what he takes to be the feminine world."
I thought this was interesting because I had never thought of this before, but it seems to be true. I think it would be fun to look at what every one in our class would write about and see if guys and girls meet these gender writing types.	"The narratives of female students are stories of interaction, of connection or frustrated connection. The narratives of the male students are stories of achievement of separation  or of frustrated achievement. "

QD 3: Silencing of women's voices relates to the marginalizing of minority groups because the majority group dominate over the minority like men have done to women for decades, making the minority voice smaller and smaller till soon they wont have a voice, and they will have to go through a suffrage movement to win it back.

Thoughts: Overall I did not mind Flynn I thought her points were interesting. and her perspective about gender was good. I liked that it was shorter than what we have been reading and she used examples that helped further her point about male and female students writing being effected by their gender.