Activism Log 5

Rachel Collins
Jeannina Perez
WST3015
25 March 2010

Activism:
This week we began to work on splitting up the states and getting the email addresses of the heads of the programs. Adam found this really helpful list of American Women's Studies programs, so I think we're going to use that as a guide to expediate the process. We met with Nina to discuss where we are and what else needs to be done, and I volunteered to create the petition itself. We went over a timeline of what needs to be done and when, and we realized that there is definitely a lot of work to be done.
Reflection:
This week in class, we discussed women's relationship to the military and also global feminism. By its nature, our project is not global. Alice Paul was influential in American suffrage. However, I believe that rights for one group of women affect women as a whole. Maybe we're only as free as the least free among us. The same questions that we discussed in class in a global context are also relevant in a national context. IS there a national feminist movement? Many would say no- the needs and wants of women grow disparate over racial, class, and other differences, but I think honoring Paul is something we could probably all rally around. Voting is a right we all enjoy.
Reciprocity:
Having a definite timeline for our work is a good thing. It makes me beileve that we can actually finish and get something done. And despite how stressed this project is starting to make me, I'm encouraged also by the number of women's studies programs that exist. Though we're only a small group of people right now, I believe that many others out there would and eventually will support our cause.

Works Cited
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. "Living in a Globalizing World."Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 385. Print.