Mo' Betta Master's Thesis Topic

Here's what I've got from my local "ideas.doc" file:

It’s got to be on the Second Sex phase vs. the women’s movement phase. When she published second sex, there was no movement and there was no attempt to create one. There was no way to articulate an effective politics. When she joined the women’s movement post-68, however, efficacious politics had become a possibility.

What must be done:

• A reading of Second Sex, which is already done.
• A reading of the reaction. Need to be careful here – the reaction was polemical, but so were reactions to the women’s movement itself.
• More important to get an idea of what the left was all about c. 1947 w/ the Sartrian school. Thus, may be better to get it from her autobiographies and/or LTM. Usual suspects of books about the French left?
• A reading of the interviews from the 70s and 80s about B in the women’s movement itself.
• Secondary stuff on new social movements in France.

The nice thing is that I can work through some of the ideas here for my term paper in the Cultural Studies seminar I'm in. It would be like a thousand guitar solos to have some serious work done on the thesis by the end of summer.

Also, there is a Moustache-a-thon going down in SF. That's so awesome.

Also, people in SC are reminded that we're watching Metalocalypse at this chick's pad on Saturday night. Lest you forget:



(Watch it. You'll be happy you did.)