Jessiel Gerena
WST 3015
Activism:This week I finished the political offices list and am working on compiling the west coast list of womens studies programs. . We have our letter done which was approved by our community partner Jeannina Perez which will be sent to Women Studies Departments in order for them to involve their students in our social movement. The letter decribes our purpose and will show why these women studies programs This week for the group I would like to have started emailing the letters to the various departments and finish a petition to be distributed through our facebook group.
Reflection:This has been difficult for Kelly as she was orginally delegated this task but it involves too much time so we divided this task into regions. I found a solution to this problem by searching womens studies programs on google and found website called artemisguide.com that list all or most programs in the United States.I will admit we have gotten a little behind in working on this project, I think this shows the trouble sometimes with service learning projects. I think the problem is individuals get caught up with other things in our daily lives and it keeps us from focusing on our project. think this would be a huge boost for our project as we need national attention to achieve our goal , this proceess would take along time.
Reciprocity:This project and researching the womens studies programs has opened my eyes to the lack of women studies programs , There are 5 states that have no universities with any type of program whatsoever. This reaching out with the educating of womens struggles to attain rights with our Alice Paul National holiday will help increase the need with Womens Studies programs across the country at the university level.The need for Womens Studies programs to get behind this because inorder for them to build their programs . These women studies must begin an interest in feminism from an early age by including womens history in early education , we will have built that interest by the time they reach college they would want to study it in depth. This relates to some of the lack of programs we have . They are some subjects that are merely talked about for 5 minutes or a day when were in school and we don’t get enough to become interested in it.This is one of the downfalls of Patriachy ,Patriachy is a society which is “male-centered and male dominated:”. You can’t learn about something that is suppressed therefore we get a patriachic education system .
Works cited
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. "Patriachy,the System." Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2007. 73. Print.
