"Are We Postfeminist? Education, Work, and a Nation in Flux?"

Basically what Rowe-Finkbeiner is saying is that progress is being made, but slowly, and disproportionately. The question is, as a the third wave, are we satisfied with the rate at which changes are happening and with the advantage being towards white, educated women. The optimistic hope would be that as educated white women come to power that they will advocate for their "colored" peers, but I can see how that wouldn't be enough for those peers. I'm not sure if, being in the disadvantaged, I would trust that advocacy would eventually happen.

Then there's the Mom issue. I want to be a mother, but having grown up as poor as I did, maybe it would be better to leave that to women with money and to eventually adopt. It's amazing that women disclose anything in job interviews.

Questions, questions, questions, I just feel like that's all we get. There are no answers, there is probably an argument that it is our job that we answer these questions, but it seems so... pointless. Change is going at the pace that it will, so why keep questioning it? But then if we don't question will the change slow or overturn itself.

"The Politics of Black Women's Studies"
An Introduction to All Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave"

I feel strange writing about the politics of Black women's studies. I mean I'm not black, and I've known few Black people and those that I do know I've never spoken with about how they feel about how they are presented, or that they're not presented in education. Reading this makes me want to call my manager Rita and ask her about all of these things, but I don't know if it would be a sore subject, or what I would do with the knowledge once I had it. A part of me thinks that of course there needs to be a Black women's studies class, but then I wander at what point do we stop specializing I mean with mix races and sexual/gender identities being what they are will we have to one day have a Native-African-Hispanic-Asian women's studies course as well. I mean I realize that it seems a bit out of the realm of what will come to be, but then again... not so much. I think the emphasis should be on balancing what already exists rather than further segregating and specializing things. When a course only appeals to one group others get lost, and interest usually doesn't sustain to keep the course going. I understand that concept that a white professor shouldn't necessarily be teaching about African American anything, but there are always panels and guest speaking that can be done. The reading moved me and I loved that it was more answers and definitives than questions, but I'm just not sure of the practicality of the assertions.

Academic Future:

I'm an English-Writing student and I think an important part of being involved in an artistic community, such as writing, is to be open to diversity and to be willing to learn about everything, yes I picked women's studies because it is more personal, but that doesn't keep me from being interested in Native/Aboriginal studies as well. I'm not sure if I'm going to go ahead with the Women's Studies minor as I had intended because I find myself more and more frustrated with the class and it's lack of action and continuing questions. I'm not sure if the idea is to inspire us to answer questions, but it is hard to effect change without a place to start other than questions.