ABSTRACT
Tuesday morning. My "Introduction to Women's Studies" class. A perpetually politicized space. Roughly 100 blank or hostile faces. Mostly white, mostly women, mostly middle-class. This week's topic: "Genderbased Violence". After reading the article "Keeping Women in Our Place: Violence at Canadian Universities" (Harris 1999), students must complete an anonymous assignment: "Honestly and thoroughly describe the ways in which gender-based harassment has affected your life". Each of them will put their typed report in an envelope, and take another's out. And read it. And "respond" to it, even if just to sign their name.
