Stumpage Reports



Wednesday, April 07, 2004 :::
 
Quiz Time

I like making fun of pretentious article titles in academic journals. Are the following actual articles from the Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, OR, bullshit I sat here and made up.

Answers below.

1. Written on the Body? Degeneracy, Atavism and Congenital Syphilis: Re-reading Child Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century

2. Configuring the Labia: Post-Feminist Hierarchies in the Novels of Margaret Atwood

3. "A cow gave birth to something that screamed like a woman and died": Monstrous Births and the Apocalyptic Vision of Cotton Mather in Puritan New England

4. Cyborgasm: Machines and Male Hysteria in the Cinema of the Eighties

5. It'll All Come out in the Meta-analysis: Debates about Feminist Methodology and the Politics of Childbirth

6. Stone Butch Realness: Women and the Confederate Monument Movement in the American South, 1870 - 1913

7. Prowlers in the Darkened Cinema: Australian Church Women's Associations and the Arrival of the Motion Picture in Australia

8. The Lizard Queen: a Gendered Analysis of the Poetry of Jim Morrison

9. Virgins, Slaves, and Whores: Female Stereotypes in Post-Colonial Rwandan Drama

10. Tortillas, Trauma and Tears: Gendering El Salvadoran Women's Participation in the 1980 - 1992 Civil War

Answers:

1. Real article.

2. Bullshit.

3. Bullshit.

4. Real Article.

5. Real Article.

6. Bullshit.

7. Real Article.

8. Bullshit.

9. Bullshit.

10. Real Article.




::: posted by tom at 10:15 AM









I'd taken the cure and had just gotten through...

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