HI, ladies!!
Cosmos, it's interesting theory that the sizes of animals that live in a small island become medium, isn’t it? If so, English people are medium as well as Japanese. By the way, isn’t it related to their personality?
Sunflower, thank you for sharing Delia’s sentences. Your listening is wonderful! I couldn’t watch the DVD Plum lent me due to my player’s difficulty, but I was able to enjoy the program’s atmosphere. I could not help laughing as she talks that putting a timer on is good because we are sometimes absent-minded! That’s a likely story. I’d like to watch it anyhow.
Alice, I’m glad to hear that you are producing our site on the Net. But I’m afraid it may make you busier…I appreciate your all services.
Well, see you tomorrow, bye!
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Hello friends,
I was given a preview ticket of the Red Cliff, which is a remake of Sangokushi. Director is John Woo (?) who also directed M:I-2.
They spent 10 billion yen, which is huge. Red cliff is a name of fort, but for me the bloody soldiers themselves look like red cliff. I felt sorry for the horses which were injured or killed in the movies.
Good night.
Hi, ladies!
I tried to write something about the extreme in China today, but I have changed my mind and will do a new trial.
As all of you know, I am very poor in speaking English. I make a lot of mistakes when I speak something in English. So I’ll make very simple sentences in order to speak easily in English. Yesterday’s topic of Cherry’s was interesting and understandable. But if I speak using your written English, I probably make a lot of mistakes as usual. Please let me use your content in easy simple spoken English, Cherry. OK?
More and more Japanese young men hesitate to go out and shun associating with others. Why? There are some reasons.
Firstly, Japan’s birth rate is declining. Many young men have one or no siblings. And both father and mother have a job outside today. So, parents tend to spoil their children, because they can spend together only at night and on holidays. That means parents can’t discipline their children properly. They failed to show their children how to get along with others.
Secondly, a computer-game has become a play-mate of children, especially boys love such games. They prefer games at home to playing with friends outside. Children are losing chances to learn through experiences of playing and quarreling with friends.
Thirdly, “Japan’s culture of shame” affects this phenomenon. The young guys raised indulgently don’t have a communication skill and hate to feel ashamed for not behaving themselves in front of others. They tend to shun society.
Lastly, parents should become good role models as a member of community for their children, if parents want their son to become an independent man.
I tried to use easy words and simple sentences. Even though it is very difficult to speak what I want to say.
Now I’ll wrap it up. Good night, friends.
Hi Cherry and wonderful friends,
Today I would like to tell you about the story of Kyogen which I watched last week.
There are two men in this story, a man and his friend who owns a lot of wonderful dwarf trees, or miniature trees, in his garden. The man frequently asked his friend to give him one of the dwarf trees, but his friend always rejected his request. The man was getting annoyed his friend. One night, the man decides to sneak into his friend house and steal a dwarf tree. When he arrives, he finds that the front of the house was sturdily built and it would be quite difficult to break in. So, he goes around to the back, cut the hedge and pops into. Just as he begins to choose which one to take, his friend comes running in. The man quickly hides behind a tree. But his friend notices who he is and tries to make fun of him. He says there must be a dog behind the tree and the man mimics to bark like a dog. Then a cat, and then a fish. The man was in trouble to mimic a fish and gives up and runs away.
Two Kyogen players were so nice that we bursted into a laugh a lot. As you know, the movement, expression, and vocalization in Kyogen are very unique and interesting. Even though, we can not understand what the players says exactly, we can imagine and imagination is important. Much more, laughter is the best medicine.
The Kyogen player said Kyogen had been designated a Cultural Natural World Heritage for the first time in the cultural field in Japan. I didn’t know that. It is great!
It is time to go to bed. See you my precious friends.
Hello, Cherry and my friends.
Today I saw Plum’s suggestion on MSN that our NWRG has several new members who unluckily had missed tutorial about feminism theory held in 2003 and that she would like to have a kind of lecture style meeting based on the book titled “Introduction of Feminism” by Aiko Ogoshi.
She also proposed that it might be a good idea that three members of us,including me who had attended the tutorial five years ago would give a presentation about feminism theory from that book.
Soon after I read her unexpected proposal on MSN, I began to search for the book she suggested and looked into it. To my astonishment, it seemed too complicated for me to understand.
I wonder if I could give a presentation about feminist theory at the meeting.
Next thing I did was to read the guideline of feminism theory in 2003 writen by Plum.
It consisted of eleven parts: they are introduction followed by liberal feminism,Marxist feminism, radical feminism 1 and radical feminism 2 and Engels, Frederick and Friedan, Betty, Firestone, Shulamith, Patriarchy, Domestic labor and Freud and his psychoanalysis of women.
Plum's plan will be a good chance for me to study feminism theory again. I don't have any confidence if I can grasp and discern several different kinds of feminisms, but I'll try to do so.
Thank you, Plum.
Good-night, and see you tomorrow.
Dear Sunflower,
Could you copy and paste the MSN message you are telling about and send it to us through Google group message?
Rose cannot access our MSG group.
And I can't tell which one includes what you said.
Thank you.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello. How are you?
Finally, I finished reading Dyhouse. But I can't finish writing about this book today. Tonight, I'm going to pick up some points from Chapter 4.
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Chapter 4
Women Academics (cont'd)
• Obstacles: working conditions
The working conditions of women academics were "inferior to that of male colleagues." (p.151) According to Egyptologist, Margaret Murray, the women staff were provided with a small common room. In the 1930s, Mary Stocks, the wife of new Vice-Chancellor in Liverpool, called for attention about an excellent club whose membership excluded women.
• The nature of discrimination
Ingrid Sommerkorn, who interviewed 100 women university teachers in 1960s found a lot of contradictions in the evidence when she attempted to explain how the mechanism of the discrimination against women academics. Sommerkorn found that women teachers themselves often do not perceive discrimination while men were likely to do so.
Dyhouse points out that discrimination or frustration experienced by women academic are rarely shown in their biographies. Although Margaret Murray, an Egyptologist, did not write much about her bitter experiences in the last years in University College London, on the last day she felt "glad to escape from what was now a prison-house, full of bitterness and frustration." (p.155) Dyhouse admits that one can only speculate how Murray suffered by observing some remaining records about her post and salary.
Another case was about Geraldine Hodgson, head of the women's secondary training department in Bristol. She was unhappy and engaged in a number of disputes with the Vice-Chancellor.
• Difficult careers: the case of Edith Morley
Morley was Professor of English Language in the new University College of Reading in 1908. If Mrs Mackenzie's title was head of the women's day training department, then Morley was the first woman professor.
Morley's academic education began in the Ladies' Department of King's College London in the 1890s. Although an excellent student, she was not "eligible for degrees." (p.158)
Her career began in the Ladies' Department in Kensington. In 1901, "she was summoned to Reading", where she start teaching Anglo Saxon and German in the college. When the school became Reading University College in 1903, she became a lecturer in English. After having some disputes and rejection, the college reluctantly granted her the title of professor of English Language. Some colleagues did not admit her title. She had to feel "her own position continually undermined." (p.160)
• Obstacles: careers versus marriage
From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, most women academics were tended to be lifetime spinsters. According to Beatrice Webb, women academics' spinsterhood was the "narrowness". (p.161) A small number of women academics managed to have children. In the inter-war years, the employment of married women was greatly opposed.
• Difficult careers: the case of Margaret Miller
Before 1932 in Liverpool, once a woman was married, she was supposed to resign. She did not know the old rule.
When Dr Margaret Miller announced that she was married to Dr Jean Wright, she was not intended to resign. As an active member of the British Federation of University Women (BFUW), she was supported by the BFUW.
• Networks of support
Another important support group for women university teachers was the Association of University Teachers (AUT). Although this society dealt with women teachers' issues, "feminism might be seen as quite incompatible with professionalism." (p. 169)
Already before the First World War, Phoebe Sheavyn was aware of women being excluded from informal conversation in professional clubs or some other informal places where men gathered.
When Beatrice Potter became the "first woman to be elected to the British Academy (in 1932)", she described the Fellowship as "a funny little body of elderly and aged men." (p. 170)
The University Club for Ladies was established in 1886. In 1921, it was renamed the University Women's Club. Not only women academics but also "women who played a leading role in the development of women's education" were eligible for membership. The club had about 1,000 members in the 1920s. It "provided its members with convenient facilities and opportunities for meeting, networking and friendship." (p. 172)
• The British Federation of University Women (BFUW)
The early concerns of the Federation were research opportunities and women's representation in academic life. "The BFUW committee was particularly concerned with the wording of advertising" when its members faced controversy over their posts and titles. Local branches of the BFUW developed networks and responded sympathetically when a controversy was raised at another region. Donations came both from England and from abroad.
The first International Federation of University Women (IFUW) conference was "held in Bedford College in London in July 1920." Its headquarters was in London. By 1929, it "embraced 33 separate national organizations." (p.176) According to Eileen Power, it functioned as "a special sort of travel agency" offering hospitality and welcoming fellow scholars. (p.176)
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Good night.
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