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(WCS) means the reading is in the text Women, Culture and Society. All other readings will be available from me as copies.
Readings should be done for the class indicated:
Feminisms: Laying out the Groundwork
Week 1:
Tu 9/2 Introduction: What is Feminism? What is Women's Studies?
Th 9/4 Steinem, hooks, Wolf and Vaid "Let's Get Real About Feminism"
(WCS)
Audre Lorde "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference"
(WCS)
Week 2:
Tu 9/9 Group Work Day—Discuss Class Project (30 minutes) and Feminist
Political Action Projects (40 minutes)
Th 9/11 no class
Week 3:
Tu 9/16 Anne Fusto-Sterling "The Five Sexes" (WCS)
bell hooks "Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression"
(Re)Visioning the Past
Th 9/18 Jonathan Katz "The Invention of Heterosexuality"
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg "The Female World of Love and Ritual"
Week 4:
Tu 9/23 Group Presentation: High-Profile Women
Th 9/25 Anneke Smelik "What Meets the Eye"
Feminist Film Theory
Week 5:
No Responses due this week.
Tu 9/30 See The Color Purple
Th 10/2 Group Presentation The Color Purple
Week 6:
(all responses due 10/7)
Tu 10/7 Zami: Group Presentation
Th 10/9 Zami: Class Discussion
Gendered Bodies
Week 7:
Tu 10/14 Bardo "Reading the Slender Body" (WCS)
Faludi "Beauty and the Backlash"
Th 10/16 Group Presentation: Gendered Advertising
Feminisms and Language
Week 8:
Tu 10/21 Sue Gal "Between Speech and Silence"
Joan Nestle "My Mother Liked to Fuck"
Th 10/23 Patricia Williams "Gilded Lilies and Liberal Guilt"
Last day to turn in Feminist Political Action Outline
Women Positioned in U.S. Society
Week 9:
Tu 10/28 Bastard Out of Carolina: Group Presentation
Th 10/30 Bastard Out of Carolina Discussion
Week 10:
Tu 11/4 Hammonds "Race, Sex, AIDS: The Construction of the Other"
(WCS)
Gwendolyn Mink "The Lady and the Tramp: Gender Race and the Origins
of the American Welfare State" (WCS)
Th 11/6 Riot Grrrrl / Fanzines
Week 11:
No Responses this week.
Tu 11/11 See I Like it Like That
Th 11/13 I Like it Like That: Group Presentation
Week 12:
Tu 11/18 Tricia Rose "Bad Sistas"
Popular music
Thanksgiving
Global Perspectives
Week 13:
Tu 11/25 Charlotte Bunch (WCS)
Chandra Talpade Mohanty: "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship
and Colonial Discourses"
Th 11/27 Selections from Cleo Odzer's Patpong Sisters
Interventions (Final response due by 2/4)
Week 14:
Tu 12/2 Feminist Political Action Presentations
Th 12/4 Feminist Political Action Presentations
Final Response due (5 pages)
Week 15:
Tu 12/9 Feminist Political Action Presentations
