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Tess Catalano "Take Back the Night" and other academic essays, 1982
Catalano #12 Page 2
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might use to name themselves. Such as : Lesbian. Dyke, Amazon, Sapphist, Woman-Identified-Woman, Woman-Loving-Woman, Marriage Resistor, Survivor, Crone, Revolt-ing Hag, Witch, Spinster, Friend, Lover, Butch, Femme, Sister. Essentially what happens is that people begin to categorize to put their perception of the world in order. Each "type" or category of person utilizes the words and categories that best suit their needs. Thus a word like "spinster" appears in all three categories above. Each time with a different intent. So what it all boils down to, is that classification is really whatever the person classifying wants it to be. [handwritten] You have here the core of a very interesting essay on connotation. Your three lists do work very well as an illustration of the relativity you're talking about. Could you have included some discussion of the multi-leveled way in which your example works? For example what about your initial categorization "lesbian" Does it form a dichotomy with another term (how would the choice of that terms- e.g, "straight", "heterosexual" etc- illustrate your argument?)? Perhaps you felt that your brief statement implied these other levels, but your argument would be, I think, fuller, more insightful, and more telling if you had seen its context more clearly.
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might use to name themselves. Such as : Lesbian. Dyke, Amazon, Sapphist, Woman-Identified-Woman, Woman-Loving-Woman, Marriage Resistor, Survivor, Crone, Revolt-ing Hag, Witch, Spinster, Friend, Lover, Butch, Femme, Sister. Essentially what happens is that people begin to categorize to put their perception of the world in order. Each "type" or category of person utilizes the words and categories that best suit their needs. Thus a word like "spinster" appears in all three categories above. Each time with a different intent. So what it all boils down to, is that classification is really whatever the person classifying wants it to be. [handwritten] You have here the core of a very interesting essay on connotation. Your three lists do work very well as an illustration of the relativity you're talking about. Could you have included some discussion of the multi-leveled way in which your example works? For example what about your initial categorization "lesbian" Does it form a dichotomy with another term (how would the choice of that terms- e.g, "straight", "heterosexual" etc- illustrate your argument?)? Perhaps you felt that your brief statement implied these other levels, but your argument would be, I think, fuller, more insightful, and more telling if you had seen its context more clearly.
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