Flynn

Flynn

Before you Read

The feminist inquiry is a book by Mary E. Hawkesworth. From Political Conviction to Methodological Innovation.

Summary

Flynn's article is mostly about feminism.  She talks about the differences between men and women and their relationships with others.  She talks about how men and women's compositions are different.

Synthesis

Flynn's article is similar to a few authors.  It is similar to Berger's because he talks about women and advertising. Wysocki also talks about similar things.  This article can also be related to Malowitz because she talks about sexuality.

Response	Quotation
I picked this quote because it is saying that there is a meaning behind things.	“Powerfully present in the work of composition researchers and theorists is the ideal of a committed teacher concerned about the growth and maturity of her students who provides feedback on ungraded drafts, reads journals, and attempts to tease out meaning from the seeming incoherence of student language.” (156)
This quote just shows that womens opinions were not cared about in the past. They were put to the side.	"Women's perspectives have been suppressed, silenced, marginalized, written out of what counts as authoritative knowledge."(157)
Men have more power and women are judged because of them.	“Men become the standard against which woman are judged.” (157)
Women are very different from men in the way that they act and use language.	“We ought not assume the males and females use language in identical ways or represent the world in a similar fashion.” (162)

QD 3

3. Women's opinions and believes were silenced and not listened to for the longest time because they weren't thought of to be as important as men.

Thoughts

I liked this article.  I liked it because they were talking about women and how they are treated.  I liked it because it was close to Bergers article and I found his article to be very interesting.