In class on
November 6, 2008, Professor Anne Dalke gave a sketch of an argument
based on work by Louis Althusser and Antonio Gramsci that goes
something like: people want to be 'hailed and recruited' so they
submit to others' domination. She gave as an example, the classroom.
Students at Bryn Mawr College pay upwards of $35,000 a year to attend
Bryn Mawr and in doing so allow professors and the administration
control over them (ie submit to domination). In return, students feel
recognized as subjects, in particular, as scholars (ie feel 'hailed
and recruited' by those in power). As a feminist math major who has