“Why can’t a woman be more like a man?”, exasperated Professor Higgins (My Fair Lady) when he failed to understand the indomitable Eliza Doolittle.

“為什么女人不能更像男人呢?” 電影《窈窕淑女》中，希金斯教授面對語言培訓無效的艾麗莎(奧黛麗赫本飾)怒罵道。

閱讀計劃

Gender issues have perplexed, angered and baffled us for long. In lieu of claiming more opportunities or equality, we aim to avoid clichés and launch a reading project, in which, readers may better a knowledge and awareness of gender differences, not to examine testimony of their crystalized differences, but the causes underlying thereby, in the hope of changing the situation all the better. Given that female writers, who work with words and thoughts, have been physically, socially, economically and spiritually confined, who can guarantee male-dominant knowledge-rich books, can convey unbiased or equal ideas? Precisely, reams of books, despite females being an object of attention, failed to voice genuine females’ say, until women writers began to write themselves. Thus, literary perspective is selected as a primary means of entering the conversation of gender equality.

性別問題困擾，激怒和為難我們良久。關于性別平等或機會平等的呼喊此起彼伏，本閱讀項目不重復這樣的窠臼：讀者通過閱讀該書對性別差異加深認識，并能對性別差異有遷移性的意識;我們不是證明具體差異的存在，而是審慎地探尋差異背后的本質原因，從而能更好地改善性別問題。從歷史視閾看，即使是擅長于文字和思想表達的女性作家也深受社會經濟因素的影響而身心受限， 誰能**充斥男性話語權的書能傳達毫無偏見，不偏不倚的真相?準確來說，卷帙浩繁的文獻以女性作為關注對象，卻沒能表達女性真正所想，直到女性作家開始用寫作為自己發聲。故而，本閱讀計劃將文學視角作為進入性別平等對話的根本方式。

閱讀任務

In this reading project, we seek to resolve:

What is the distinction between sex and gender?

How are females conditioned to perform the socially constructed roles?

How do males take gender privileges for granted?

Who painstakingly uttered her voices and rewrote Literary Herstory?

What impedes gender equality?

A self-examination with individual thinking.

在該閱讀任務中，我們需要回答：

生物性別與社會性別的區別是什么?

女性是如何被規訓來履行社會角色?

男性是如何將性別優勢當作理所當然?

哪些女性努力喊出自己的聲音并且改寫“文學史”?

什么阻礙了性別平等的實現?

辯證思考與自我審查。

In this reading project, our highlight is to engage AP students to enter the academic conversation of gender by directing a scholarly discussion: not only thinking academically while listening, but also talking academically. The schedule is as follows:

在該閱讀任務中，我們的亮點是：AP 英語語言與寫作課上的學生以主持的身份參與學術討論，他們不僅要訓練“學術性思考”，還要訓練“學術性話語”。活動安排如下：

Book 書目: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (self-prepared, see preferred edition above)

Time 時間: 4:35-5:35 pm (Friday)

Place 地點: Room 423

Host 主持: Gloria and students with AP English Language and Composition

Participants 參與者: 5 (max) open to students and teachers

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