Don't forget the anthro angle. This woman reminds me of more than a few of my anthro profs.
Much of actual, legitimate anthropology is not made-up crap. But you are right about some of the profs.
Reading WB’s clipping, I was reminded of my own feminist experience in 1970 when we were being asked to go on strike for a day. I agonized all the previous day as to whether I should participate. My husband and I and our very colicy 3 month old, and for a brief visit my mother, were staying at my parents country place while my husband took summer school courses he needed for his job. He had a paper due the next afternoon that I planned to type for him. That day I hand scrubbed his muddy sneakers, and walked 500 feet down to our sunny dock where I put them to dry. That night I got about 3 hour sleep because I had spent most of the night with our baby lying on my stomach and rocking my body back and forth every time he started crying from the colic. My husband slept soundly as I had moved to a different room.
The next morning I was in the kitchen, exhausted, eating my hot breakfast which I had also cooked for my husband and mother. He walked into the room and said, “Go down to the dock and get my sneakers.” Suddenly a wave of rage swept through me. I then said, “I have decided to join the woman’s strike and will only do things today that are necessary for the welfare of the family.” He started to scream about his paper. I responded that his job was necessary for the welfare of the family and I would type it in time for his class. He didn’t even hear me as he was still screaming and stomping around. Then he went to the car and drove away. My mother who had planned to leave that day said she would stay until this was resolved. That night he came home very drunk and went right to sleep. The next day he apologized for his behavior and said he did not understand why he had gotten so upset, as I certainly had a right to finish my breakfast while it was warm, and he was fully capable of walking to get his own sneakers.
I am very interested to see how the female issues work out in the current Mid East ferment. It is my main hope for the resolution of these uprisings without a move to even more repressive Islamic Sharia. In Yemen the president was complaining publicly that having a few female demonstrators was unIslamic. The next day large numbers of woman joined the demonstrations. Who knows what the female friendly Facebook and Twitter phenomena will ultimately result in. In this context I think that “women’s studies” could offer quite a lot.