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Talking About My Vagina: Two College Campuses and the Vagina Monologues |
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In this paper, we examine the influence productions of the Vagina Monologues have on a campus community. At a time when “post”-feminism has been declared and young women and men are portrayed as rejecting feminist ideas, we examine how two college campuses react to the Vagina Monologues. On one campus, we find the Monologues serve as an awakening for individuals through the reclamation of language and sexuality and can foster a sense of feminist community. On the other campus the reaction to the Monologues are mixed with some students embracing them and others dismissing them as exclusionary and one-dimensional. We argue that these different reactions illustrate the complexity and vitality of contemporary feminism. |
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| Reger, Joanne. and Story, Lacey. "Talking About My Vagina: Two College Campuses and the Vagina Monologues" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA,, Aug 14, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p108967_index.html> |
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| Reger, J. E. and Story, L. , 2004-08-14 "Talking About My Vagina: Two College Campuses and the Vagina Monologues" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA, Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p108967_index.html |
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Abstract: In this paper, we examine the influence productions of the Vagina Monologues have on a campus community. At a time when “post”-feminism has been declared and young women and men are portrayed as rejecting feminist ideas, we examine how two college campuses react to the Vagina Monologues. On one campus, we find the Monologues serve as an awakening for individuals through the reclamation of language and sexuality and can foster a sense of feminist community. On the other campus the reaction to the Monologues are mixed with some students embracing them and others dismissing them as exclusionary and one-dimensional. We argue that these different reactions illustrate the complexity and vitality of contemporary feminism. |
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| Talking About My Vagina: Two College Campuses and the Vagina Monologues Jo Reger and Lacey Story Oakland University My vagina’s angry. It is. It is pissed off. My vagina’s furious and it needs to talk. It needs to talk about all this shit. It needs to talk to you. I mean what’s the deal? An army of people out there thinking up ways to torture my poor-ass gentle loving vagina…Spending their days constructing psycho products and nasty ideas to |
| sexuality create different understandings of the social world. As argued by Mannheim these experiences shape a political understanding that can continue throughout and individual’s life.34 Whittier in her discussion of micro-cohorts (i.e. small groups) argues that social movements change as new groups of people enter bringing with them different 34 Mannheim 1952 26 experiences and creating new understandings.35 Contemporary feminism is full of micro- cohorts entering at different times at different places creating a complex and unique understanding of |
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