Introduction to Women's Studies - WOST 201
Reading Calendar*  -  Spring 2010

 
*This calendar is tenative and subject to change.  I reserve the right to make modifications as deemed necessary.
January 14
  • Introduction to the course:
  • Video:  Tough Gise (gender and homophobia)
January19
  • Differences: Race - Gender - Homophobia
  • Balliet: Chapters 1 -4 (pp.3 -44)
  • Lord, Audre.(1984) "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference."
  • Audrey Lorde power point
  • Lorber, Judith.(1990) "The Social Construction of Gender."
  • Frankenberg, Ruth.(2001)"The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness."
  • Ruth Frankenberg 
  • Kimmel, Michael. (1994) Masculinity as "Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity."
  • Continue: Tough Gise
January 21
  • Application Paper Due
January 26
  • Balliet: Chapters 5 -7 (pp. 45 -73)
  • D'Emilio, John (1983)"Capitalism and Gay Identity"
  • John D'Emilio
  • Fausto-Sterling, Anne. (2000) "The Five Sexes, Revisited"
  • Anne Fausto-Sterling
  • Narayan, Uma. (2000) "Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism"
  • Uma Narayan
January 28
  • Application Paper Due
February 2
  • What is Feminism?
  • Balliet: Chapters 8 -10 (pp.77 -114)
  • Hogeland, Lisa Maria (1994) Fear of Feminism:  Why Young
    Women Get the Willies
  • hooks, bell (1984) Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression
  • Horowitz, Daniel ((1996) Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique: Labor Union Radicalism and Feminism in Cold War America
February 4
  • Application Paper Due
February 9
  • Balliet: Chapters 11 - 12 (pp. 115 -150)
  • Thompson, Becky (2002) "Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism
  • Rohrer, Judy (2005) "Toward a Full-Inclusion Feminism: A Feminist Deplyoment of Disability Analysis
February 11
  • Application Paper Due
February 16
  • Balliet: Chapters 13 -16 (pp151 - 163)
  • Collective assignments
  • Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1881) "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls"
  • Anthony, Susan B (1998) "Declaration of Seniments"
  • Redstockings (1969) "Redstockings Manifesto"
  • Combahee River Collective (1977) "The Combahee River Collective Statement"
February 18
  • Application Paper Due
February 23
  • Bodies: Looked At, Lived In
  • Chapters 17 - 19 (pp. 165 - 192)
February 25
  • Application Paper Due
March 2
  • Balliet: Chapters 20 - 22 (pp. 193 - 237)
  • Application Paper Due
March 4
  • Midterm Essay Due
  • continue discussion 20 - 22 (pp. 193 - 237)
March 8-12 Spring Break
March 16
  • Working Women:
  • Balliet: Chapters 23 - 25 (pp. 239 - 280)
March 18
  • Application Paper Due
March 23
March 25
  • Baillet: Chapters 26 - 28 (pp. 281 - 305)
  • Application Paper Due
March 30
  • Violence:
  • Balliet: Chapters 29 - 30 ( 307 - 326)
April 1
  •  Application Paper Due
April 6
  • Balliet: Chapters 31 - 32 (pp. 327-339)
April 8
  •  Application Paper Due
April 13
  • Organizing Across Differences:
  • Balliet: Chapters 33 - 34 (pp. 341 - 367)
April 15
  •  Application Paper Due
April 20
  • No Class Founder's Day
April 22
  • Group Activism Project Groups 1 & 2
  • You will have approximately 35 minutes for each presentation.
April 27
  • Group Activism Project Groups 3 & 4
  • You will have approximately 35 minutes for each presentation.
April 29
  •  Group Activism Project Group 5
  • Balliet: Chapters 35 - 36 (pp. 368 - 407)
  • Application Paper Due
May 4
  •  Final "Journey" Paper Due today! 
  • and  Application Paper Due
  • Balliet: Chapters 37 - 38 (pp. 394 - 408)
  • See the syllabus for instructions on the final journey paper.
May 10
  • 8:00 a.m.  Final Exam