Over the next eight weeks this student plans to understand how the female body has physically changed over the last one hundred years compared to the fluxing views it holds in American society. She hopes to look at the views of women, men, literature, art, and how she herself sees the figure of the woman’s body. This student will be reading six books of anatomy, spirituality, the history of the woman’s body, views of the woman’s body through the lens of a zoologist, as well as a book of body poetry. Throughout this field study this student will keep a journal of her findings from the books and how she herself is forming views about herself and the women in her life. She will find and partake in any woman and body inspired workshops in Olympia or Seattle to immerse herself in different communities of women.
Field Study proposal excerpt
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ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes
- F ~ Week 9 Log June 2, 2013 May 27th, Monday 1.5 hours connecting with our peer group, reaching out, hugs, tears, and words of wisdom. 3 hours reading The Female Pelvis Anatomy & Exercise by Blandine Calais-Germain, performing the exercises, breathing, moving slowly ...
- F ~ Week 8 Log May 26, 2013 May 20th, Monday 2 hours reading Neuro by Nikolas Rose, conjuring a reverie. 4 hours reading Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf, reflecting upon my own body, note taking 1 hour reading ...
- F ~ Week 7 Log May 21, 2013 May 13th, Monday 4 hours reading Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf, reflecting upon my own body, note taking, and drawing. 30 minutes connecting with our peer group, touching base and ...
- F ~ Week 6 Log May 13, 2013 May 5th, Sunday 3 hours reading and note taking on The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Have Been Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf. 1 hour reading Neuro and configuring notes ...
Bachelardian Reverie
Poetry
- F ~ Poem
- F ~ Poem Internal pain a constant constriction positioned where I cannot see where I cannot know completely which leades to hyper-awareness, constant thought and question focused inward I feel week I feel confused I am sensitive and vulnerable. I want so badly to curl ...
- F ~ Poem Soil Sun and Sleep are my Holy Words A whispered rush of blows echo wind blown tissue paper petals dissolve is swelling eddies this is my keeping of time where the unraveling of lace measures ...
- F ~ Poem A body of liquid aged to amber, that never slept yet smelled of dusk a seeker of sanctuary now the lengths between where you are and where I stand is the whisper of wind letting ...
- F ~ How I Became a Moan How I became a moan a hinged open jaw that is neither a sigh nor a scream yet yields veins to loop bodies to conform to choke to rise lengthening the nape of my neck, lifting ...
Poetry Observed
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