Comments on: GRC last Friday

By: paul

paul — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:45:23 +0000

I sent out a call for help to one of the email lists that I’m on, and got a lot of good readings and opinions about this, particularly why there are quite a lot of female bloggers yet relatively few are considered “A-list” – and some reflections on what constitutes A-list and why women are excluded. I expect these readings will help me out a bit on this.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:32:43 +0000

Hey Paul,

Regarding Women EC bloggers: I would assume that your work could incorporate the ‘place of women in the emerging church discourse & in the blogosphere’ easily enough. However, I think being asked to explore notions of embodiment and disembodiment (as described above) is a bit of a stretch and would involve feminist perspectives and analysis. Fair enough if this was your major for the last 10 yrs…!!!…

By: Kel

Kel — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:32:22 +0000

i don’t have kids and i couldn’t sew if my life depended on it!

not having done a thesis myself, only edited them for others, i wonder if that about turn by supervisors happens often – how frustrating

there could be some interesting stuff in their proposals, but i agree with mh, it could be a thesis topic all on its own

By: paul

paul — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:08:03 +0000

Thanks for the comment, mate.

Yeah, I’m starting to think that the lack of female EC bloggers has as much to say about the state of religion in Australia as it does about blogging.

I’d blog about parenting if only to show what NOT to do. I’d title it “The daily patterns of a bear with a sore head” !!

By: M-H

M-H — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:02:23 +0000

Most of the bloggers I read are women – they may be underepresented in EC blogging but they are heavily over-represented in craft blogging and parenting blogging, for example. I’m sure there is a feminist analysis that could be done on this – I think there’s a chapter in Uses of Blogs that might help – but it’s probably a PhD on its own.