interviews and feminisms

I sent a speculative email to a bank, asking about their summer internships (just something to keep me busy over the summer whilst I work on my dissertation). I didn't realise it but they actually have an internship programme. however, their deadline or whatever had passed about a month ago.

they just called me to arrange an interview. Hmmmm. Promising?

i don't know what the internship would entail, actually, or whether it's actually paid (likely to be with a bank, thogh, don't you think?). but i figure, can't hurt to interview, right?

Anyway, i'm off work today due to having no work arranged. on the one hand, that's bad because that means i'm not earning money. on the other hand, that's god, because it means i'm revising. mmm, revision.


i am reasonably happy about -

Judith Butler - gender as performance and queer theory
Foucault vis-a-vis power and docile bodies
representation (baudrillard, bodies, faucault, gender and queer theory, butler, media representations, mulvey, etc etc)
postmodernism & feminism (language, discourse, identity, politics, white/western bias and contextualisation)
bodies and nation (genocidal rape, edcational pamphlets, haraway and cybersexualities)



i am less clear on -
multiculturalism and post-coloniality
new reproductive technologies and bioethics
psychoanalysis (esp. lacan's mirror phase, why the hell we're still reading freud, and anything not covered by butler in part 2 of 'gender trouble'. irigaray also makes my head hurt).



theorists i can waffle about -

butler
lyotard
spivak
said
foucault
derrida
*some* lacan
bell hooks
anzaldua
nicholson
narayan


theorists i can't waffle about -

most of lacan
kristeva
irigaray
baudrillard
probyn
cixous (other than "wrong wrong wrong wrong WRONG! What the hell is jouissance, eh? You don't know, do you? Fuck off!")
flax
mahanty


oh, bugger. Well, I figure that postmodernism will be my big thing in this exam: PoMo and Queer Theory; PoMo and non-PoMo feminisms; PoMo and accusations of white/Western bias. Then we can have some multiculturalism and post-coloniality (courtesy of PoMo, of course), quite a bit of representation (High Theory vs. media theory, hmmmm); intersectionality or 'What's wrong with feminism today'; human rights vis-a-vis universality v. relativism debate (and, incidentally, can anyone answer me this: the feminist human rights utopia would have intersectional law. But, working within a foucauldian 'web of power', if difference were to no longer generate/result in/the word that i can't remember power, then law itself would dissolve, as both juridical and self-regulatory imbalances would even out. am i right? am i wrong? i have confused myself. i may rephrase this so it sucks less later.).

oh, and new reproductive technologies. if i can wrap my head around haraway (currently, she squicks me. athena25 loves her. i can't explain it. i'm more of an anzaldua kind of a girl).

ah, public transport. my only link to the library.

*pootle*

Jack recs

Mmm, Jack!love has been strong these last few days. There have been two fabulous Jack slash fics in the pipeline for a while now - andrastewhite's Jack/Sloane and eliade's Jack/Vaughn. Both arrived on my flist this weekend. Go. Read. Marvel.

Get Me To The Church On Time by andrastewhite.
Pre-show Jack/Sloane, with experimental!Jack and almost!lovely!Sloane. Just how I like my villains *cough*OTP*cough*.

Then we have:

Untitled by eliade, which is shaping up to be one hell of a WIP. Jack/Vaughn, wherein they maintain cover a little too diligently. The link above is to part one only, the rest is on eliade's lj, just clicky through.

There. Now don't ever say I never gave you anything.