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<DIV>I did an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at UNSW, but actually it was in
Women’s Studies. I was, of course, the only male in the programme. I
didn’t experience any overt hostility, but I was told by one of the academics
that there had been a certain amount of shouting in the corridor about my being
allowed to do the course.</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mcheney@gmail.com>Matthew
Cheney</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 22, 2017 5:35 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] Jean Kennard</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV id=bloop_customfont style="MARGIN: 0px">I was the only male in the course,
which perplexed and even angered some of the students, at least one of whom saw
me as an interloper, but it only got commented on openly toward the end of the
course, when for some reason we were discussing how and why certain writers get
seen as "for" certain readers -- why, Prof. Kennard asked, might it be that only
one man signed up for the course? We talked about other writers (I remember
Alice Walker's name coming up, and I said I also loved a lot of her work, which
just proved to the other students, I suppose, what a gender anomaly I was!) and
about how we as readers find our way into different types of texts. Why are we
attracted to certain writers and not others? How do our gender expectations
affect our reading? How are we situated within our experiences as people and
readers? The ideas from that conversation stuck with me and affected a lot of my
later academic work.</DIV>
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