Who is the most feminist companion? from Doctor Who: Feminism in the Whoniverse Dr. Rosanne Welch (rosannewelch) speaks on “Feminism in the Whoniverse” of Doctor Who, the BBC television program now in its 50th year. She reviews each of the Doctor’s female companions and speaks on how they are represented in the program and how they represented the women of their respective periods. Transcript: First of all, the question of the day is going to be -- who is the most feminist companion ever on Doctor Who? Right? We have to think about that. Everyones going to have an idea. We are going to come and see if we all come to the same one. Be thinking. Who it might be. Well see if we all agree or not. Well have a little expert discussion here online about someone, an expert, who has an idea. Meanwhile, youre not going to find out until then. Yall have a personal opinion and with any media your personal opinion is probably correct, because you have given your own evidence for that opinion, but I am going to show you some ideas along the way. Now, first we have to define feminism. Which, if you saw Emma Watsons speech to the UN, it was a very lovely thing and if you havent you should watch it. It is nice short thing and its a very good explanation of the fact that feminism does mean that we hate dudes. We happen to like dudes, very much. We would just like to make the same amount of money they making doing the cool jobs they do. So, its not any kind of crazy man-hating thing and we dont see that evidence in The Doctor either. Feminism in the Whoniverse was presented at the Cal Poly Pomona University Library where Dr. Welch teaches in the IGE (Interdisciplinary General Education) program. This is a clip from a longer presentation, which can be seen in its entirety here welchwrite/rwelch/2014/10/09/video-doctor-who-feminism-in-the-whoniverse-with-dr-rosanne-welch/#sthash.GYqShb0U.dpuf This is the 4th talk on various aspects of Doctor Who that Dr. Welch has presented. You can find Dr. Welchs other Doctor Who talks using the links below. Doctor Who and Culture https://youtube/watch?v=i9RZbiV0SKE Doctor Who Regenerated https://youtube/watch?v=yhdWRZEKAIo How the Growing Popularity of the English Who-niverse Effected American TV with Dr. Rosanne Welch https://youtube/watch?v=VinGIYXef1c Dr. Rosanne Welch Web Site and Blog rosannewelch Follow Dr. Welch on Twitter twitter/rosannewelch
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:27:31 +0000
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