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ReVision |
What is ReVision?
ReVISION is a student group that gets together to take a new look (hence, Re-Vision) at gender-related issues and concerns.
What is ReVision's aim?
The group's aim is to open communication channels between genders.
Who can join ReVision?
Any student interested in the group may join.
Past programs have included panels or speakers on topics such as:
| "Gender Apartheid and Afghanistan: Women Under the Taliban" | 
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| "Fear of Feminism" | ||
| "Rape: Community Crisis or No Big Deal?" | ||
| Birth control and responsibility | ||
| Difficult dating issues, including inter-racial and inter-cultural dating | ||
| Women and gays in the military |  |
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| The "glass ceiling" | ||
| Sexual harassment | ||
| A Madonna Debate | ||
| Teaching Beyond Identity Politics | ||
| Gender around the World | ||
| Rocky Horror Picture Show 10-31-02 | ||
| Mysterious Panel on Women Mystery Writers | ||
| ReVision has also organized several community meetings in an ongoing effort to help establish a Rape Crisis Center in Statesboro. |
ReVISION was awarded Georgia Southern's 1998-1999 Community Service Program of the Year Award for
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"‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ Monologues"
Introduction
Written by students from ReVISION, the gender issues student group at Georgia Southern U, under the direction of Linda Rohrer Paige and Khong Hee Chee, the "’The Yellow Wallpaper’ Monologues" were inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s "The Yellow Wallpaper," a short story detailing a woman’s encroaching "madness" as she rebels from patriarchal prescriptions. Forced into country seclusion for a "rest cure," prescribed by her doctor husband, the unnamed narrator grows increasingly, and ambiguously, "mad" as her husband, John, denies her that which she loves most, friendships, reading, and writing. Indeed, the "rest cure," a prominent type of treatment for nineteenth-century "hysterical" women, proves damaging--and paradoxically, liberating--in its results, as the unnamed narrator thinks that she sees body parts, then whole women, crawling out from the yellow wallpaper that both has imprinted and imprisoned them.
Inspired by various types of myth, legend, and fairy tales, "‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ Monologues" envision and dramatically present various alter-egos of the original story’s narrator. These female figures also grapple with patriarchal restraint, confinement; however, these "voices," decidedly female in their perspectives, demonstrate that the rebel resides in all women. All of them share the desire to break out of "the yellow wallpaper."
For more information contact: Linda Rohrer Paige at lpaige @georgiasouthern.edu, or 912-681-0222
