After Women's History Month

What will you expect?

     After I speak at high schools [in the US], girls approach me to say that they have been raped, or they want to run away from home, or that they have a friend who is anorexic or alcoholic. At first all this trauma surprised me. Now I expect it.
     --1994: from Mary Pipher, Ph.D., "Saplings in the Storm," Reviving Ophelia

What will you do?

The TCU Police Department is offering a RAD (Rape Aggression Defense) class to all women in April. RAD is designed to help empower women by teaching simple, realistic self defense tactics and techniques. We also teach risk reduction and prevention through a system of personal safety and threat assessment skills.

Below are the dates, times and locations of the classes. YOU MUST ATTEND BOTH DAYS!Saturday, April 2 , 2011 1 – 7pm Rec Center, Room 44

Sunday, April 3 , 2011 1 – 7pm Rec Center, Multi-purpose Room 2

The 12 hour RAD class is offered at NO CHARGE.

Notebooks are provided.

Please wear athletic attire.

You may register online at http://www.police.tcu.edu/RADonlineregis.htm. or by calling Officer Christian at 817-257-7276.
     --Saturday, March 26, 2011: from Pam Christian, Crime Prevention Officer, TCU Police Department, 817-257-7276, 817-257-7715 fax

How might we change, if only to redefine some of our male-pre-dom-inant definitions?

Aristotle's treatise of rhetoric [is] gender blind.... [Likewise his treatise on politics is one by which w]omen, slaves, and children were relegated to the category of  "earthly possession" for which men bargained. To redefine women's position, feminist theories of rhetoric must critique this concept of language to determine if, and how, it can be made more inclusive. For how we assume language functions, more than anything else, determines how we read and write the cultural as well as the textual.
     --2006, 1996, from Krista Ratcliffe, Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness; Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions: Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, Adrienne Rich