I think that Katherine Watson was said to be subversive because the college that she was teaching at had a certain teaching method that all of the professors followed which was just mastering everything in the text book. But she felt like they didn't have a view or perspective of art besides the information that they got from the syllabus or the text book. So she was subversive because she showed them pieces of art that they had never seen before and told them to study them. They were not used to that kind of teaching method and they were surprised by this. She didn't want to have the same teaching method as every other professor at the college so she did what she was most comfortable with and she believed that her teaching method would help the students to understand and comprehend the material better.
The roles for women in the 1950's in the movie Mona Lisa Smile was to find a husband, get married, and have children. Many of Katherine Watson's students were in a relationship or at least trying to be in one. She believed that education was way more important than trying to get married and have kids at a young age. Because without education, there was not many options and she didn't think that it was good to have to depend on a man for everything.
I agree, at the school she made the students think outside of the box instead of sticking to the curriculum. I also agree with the roles of the women in the 1950's all the were used for was for a family.
ReplyDeleteI agree, she didn't teach like all of the professors and so they labeled her as subversive. I also agree with the roles of women in the 1950's because their main purpose was to get married and have kids back then and now a days women are very independent and do what they want.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the roles of women back then were very limited to just being housewives. Katherine did have a very different form of teaching than what everyone was used to, therefor she became shunned by some of her students and her coworkers.
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