New York Times :: Career Girls [Op-Ed : Rhonda Garelick]
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> But each year, frankly, I feel increasingly compelled to look
> beyond my syllabuses and to devote myself more to teaching
> "wakeful" political literacy: the skills needed to interrogate all
> cultural messages. Students need to be able to mine the
> implications, for example, of a "Family Time Flexibility Act" which,
> while claiming to help women balance home and family, might
> have actually decreased overtime pay. They need to look
> critically at a presidential address that divides the world into
> opposing halves labeled "with us" and "with the terrorists."

Of course, Dr. Garelick's own CV includes a 1995 publication, "Outrageous Dieting: The Camp Performance of Richard Simmons", so we might allow her lotus-eaters a couple more years to wake up. If, by that time, they have not, they should have the first real effects of the administration's economic policies to help rouse them.
posted by Tomohiro Idokoro @ 9:58 PM

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