All googled out

[robinturner]

I've spent today working on collecting texts for my "warriors" course (not to mention formatting - cleaning up a scanned chapter of On the Trail of the Women Warriors was not fun). I wanted to find a good text on the psychology and politics of women's involvment in martial arts and self-defence (the best-known work is Real Knockouts, but I don't want to inflict anything that uses words like "deconstruct" and "re-script" on my students). Googling for several hours was a frustrating and depressing experience: frustrating, because I couldn't find anything suitable; depressing because after I inserted the word "paper" into my search so as to focus on more academic material, almost half of the results were from plagiarism sites.

On the other hand, searching on "paper self-defence OR self-defense feminist OR feminism" also got quite a few hits for "paper folding". "I'm warning you, I have a black belt in origami!"

Comments

[sjcarpediem.livejournal.com]

That sounds like an awesome class... I wanna take it...