Welcome to the CTCS 677 Blog!

You've found the blog for CTCS 677: Consuming Femininities. You will use this space to post your required course responses. To recap from the syllabus, you will be required to post at least 15 times to this blog during the semester. At least five of these posts should be in the form of weekly reading responses (approximately 300-400 words). These responses should engage critically with the course reading for that day and should demonstrate both a grasp of the material and your own considered response to the same. Simply saying you liked or didn't like something or providing a straight summary of the readings is not sufficient; you should demonstrate careful, analytical thinking, engaging the readings but also moving beyond them. Feel free to draw on class screenings or materials outside of the course as well, integrating them into your discussions and analyses, but these five posts need to engage the readings at some level. These 5 responses should be posted by 10 p.m. on the evening before class. Your other 10 posts can take the form of responses to other posts, shopping tips or diaries, links to interesting fashion sites, etc. Ideally, this blog will become a communal space for the class, one used to address and ponder course themes and to point your peers to interesting materials. You are, of course, expected to read it regularly and are encouraged to post more frequently if the spirit moves you.