“[...]a continuity of resistance[...]“
week 9: comparison: syncrisis (donadey and seitz)
diverse and multiplying studies are being created in the institutional mold. donadey presented various lenses by which feminism can be viewed in her discussion of the social influences that create each lens. the correlation between academia’s interpretation of feminism, race, colonialism, gender, and sexuality that donadey mentioned in her introduction foreshadowed her description of the different epochs and mediums that feminisms exists in. like other theoretical frameworks, the different approaches to feminism are determined by cultural relevance.
similarly, seitz presents a discussion of composition studies and how composition theories are rarely informed by practice, or to rephrase it, not certifiably credible. if theories aren’t informed by practice they seem to be even less valid, as the are just untested hypotheses. i said, “similarly,” because — as seitz found out from the results of an ethnographic study he conducted using three composition students from different cultural backgrounds — the impact of the discussions in the classroom on these students was determined by the cultural relevance of the information they were learning, and vice versa.
what exists is a pedgogical hierarchy based on any given theory’s relevance to the dominant culture.
