week 7 -- thinking about female vs male representation -- kathy

thinking about justin's observation of being the one male in an art course and my similar experience teaching the last 8 years or so in the female population in undergraduate art courses significantly out weighing the male. i will venture to suggest this is a trend across the US and not isolated to Tech or Texas. his comment brought to mind things in my paper that i presented last weekend at the art as research conference.

anyhow just for fun I thought i would toss in an image her from the paper i gave last weekend about female self social positioning.

and just for fun here are a view other slides

meaning it wasn't a male bashing talk. in terms of things i am aware of, i am my biggest weak link; so i approached the question of female under representation from this frame work. of course i am not suggesting that female underrepresentation can be isolated in one variable and a self inflicted one at that, I merely consider it as one of a whole buttload of variables interacting to replicate the male/female hierarchy in the art world. 

some other slides...though you are seeing them disembowelled from the context of the body of the oral presentation.