Fwd: another possible idea

Alexa Champion amchampion at HOME.COM
Thu Apr 20 04:47:19 UTC 2000


I was responding to Laurence Horn's request for help. Thought that might be
a place to look for answers to this students question that seemed to be a
cultural studies and/or women's studies question.

Alexa Champion
master's candidate @ cct.georgetown.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Busbee" <erbusbee at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <FLING at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: another possible idea


> Well, Yale has a women's and gender studies undergraduate major, as well
as
> a graduate student group that meets for talks every two weeks.  This is
> organized by some classmates of mine in Anthropology and American Studies.
>
> What specifically were you interested in?
>
> Elizabeth Busbee
> Yale University
> Dept. Anthropology
>
> >From: Alexa Champion <amchampion at HOME.COM>
> >Reply-To: List for Feminists in Linguistics
> ><FLING at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
> >To: FLING at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> >Subject: Re: Fwd: another possible idea
> >Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 00:10:26 -0400
> >
> >Not to ask the obvious, but what kind of cultural studies or women's
> >studies
> >folks do you have up there at Yale?
> >
> >Alexa Champion
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> >To: <FLING at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
> >Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 10:48 AM
> >Subject: Fwd: another possible idea
> >
> >
> > > Dear flingsters,
> > >
> > > Since everyone was so helpful last time I asked for suggestions for
> > > research relating to student project topics, and since there did seem
to
> >be
> > > widespread interest on the list in those topics (gender differences in
> > > computer-mediated conversation and in speech to children), I thought
I'd
> > > try again with a new topic.  This is the project as currently
conceived
> >by
> > > one of my students; she'll be very grateful for any pointers on what
to
> > > read or look for.
> > >
> > > larry
> > >
> > > >I had another idea for something interesting to look at for my final
> >paper.
> > > >It would be an unscientific study of popular music from each of the
> >last...
> > > >five? decades, maybe the top ten songs of each year.  The things that
> >men
> > > >and women sing about are different, as are the ways they express the
> >things
> > > >they sing about (even when they are the same, such as about a lover
> >giving
> > > >the cold shoulder or something).  Personally, I perceive stuff sung
by
> >men
> > > >and women differently too (for instance, if a woman really misses a
> >man,
> >she's
> > > >weak and pathetic, if a man really misses a woman, he's a romantic),
> >and
> > > >imagine other people do too.  So it'd be cool to see what kinds of
> >songs
> > > >from men and women the masses have wanted, and how that's changed
over
> >the
> > > >years.  Has this been extensively studied already that you know of?
> > > >
> > >
>
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