The truly scary part is that I recognize that curriculum. I faced it in 1988, I believe.

My memory (tho' faint) recalls that somewhere in connection with that curriculum someone tried to introduce me to an eyelash curler, which is a device I have yet to understand. I nearly did grave injury to myself but quickly gave up.

Probably the wisest choice, given my current career track of reading for a living.
Jenny | 05.21.04 - 10:35 am | #

That strikes me through the heart, it does. I may take you up on the homework, though I fear I've ranted enough about gender already.
TChem | Homepage | 05.21.04 - 11:46 am | #

Hmm. I wonder what that would have done to the boys in my Home Ec class (actually called Family Studies at the time I took it, 1990 or so) -- we all had to take half a year of Family Studies and half a year of Shop (Industrial Arts) regardless of gender. Or is there a separate pamphlet for boys? That might be equally terrifying...
Aven | Homepage | 05.21.04 - 12:15 pm | #

This is reminding of a Girl Scout handbook I found in my Mom's cedar chest. It was hers. In 1954. Oh. My. God. It was basically a manual on being a "good wife" and pleasing your man! No wonder my mom ended up being June Cleaver for the first 14 years of my life. (She eventually wised up and started a career in her 40s.)

TMK
The Mysterious K | 05.21.04 - 7:37 pm | #

You asked for new projects: well, I have started knitting breasts to be stuffed, requested, I think by the knitting guild in the UK. Fabulous stuff. One of the breasts doesn't look anything like a breast, but the other is almost there. Pici of official pattern on my website. I'm sure I could share the pattern if asked nicely; after all they are not for resale, just educational purposes.
anne | Homepage | 05.23.04 - 4:44 pm | #

Oh, I can't wait to get back to school. This kind of stuff is great. (You know, in that offensive kind of way.) And I don't know why, but the very word "mannish" makes me laugh. Mannish! Oh, the horror of the mannish woman!

(Good luck with all the stuff you're working on!)
alison | Homepage | 05.23.04 - 11:38 pm | #

My mother wouldn't let me take cello lessons because she didn't like the way I'd have to sit with my legs open to play it. I should have told her that a cello was the least of her worries. . .
Carolyn | Homepage | 05.26.04 - 5:59 am | #