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Thursday, January 17
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Tuesday, January 22 |
What is Women’s Studies?: Feminism in
the 21st century |
Weiss, “I’m Not a Feminist, But...:
Popular Myths About Feminism”
Hogeland’s “Fear
of Feminism: Why Young Women Get the
Willies”
hooks, “Men
in Feminist Studies: The Necessary
Movement”
Mansbridge,
“What is the Feminist Movement?”
Treichler and
Kramarae, “Feminism”
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Thursday, January 27 |
Gender Acculturation |
Devor,
“Becoming Members of Society: Learning
the Social Meanings of Gender”
Gould, “X:
A Fabulous Child’s Story”
Kincaid,
“Girl”
Piercy,
“Barbie
Doll”
Pollitt, “The Smurfette Principle”
Recommended: Guidotti-Hernández,
"Dora The
Explorer, Constructing 'Latinidades'
and the Politics of Global Citizenship"
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Tuesday, January 29
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Sadker, Sadker, Fox, and Salata,
"Gender Inequity
in the Classroom: The Unfinished Agenda"
Bell, Lee Anne. "Something's Wrong Here
and It's Not Me: Challenging Dilemmas
That Block Girls' Success"
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Thursday, January 31
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Adolescence |
Run Like A Girl (film) |
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Tuesday, February 5
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Sadker and Sadker, "The Self-Esteem
Slide" from Failing at Fairness: How
Our Schools Cheat Girls
College
Scholarships for Women
Thompson, "A Way Outta No Way: Eating
Problems Among African American, Latina,
and White Women"
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Thursday, February 7
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Professor Craig Vivian on the relational
impasse (Gilligan)
Gilligan, "Images of Relationships" from
In A Different Voice
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Tuesday, February 12 |
Body Image/ The Gaze
Introduction to assignment analyzing ads
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Berger, John. Chapter Three. Ways of
Seeing. NY: Penguin, 1999.
Accompanying
PowerPoint for Berger essay
Rhode,
“Media Images, Feminist Issues”
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Wednesday, February 13 |
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The F Word: Professor Rob Hale
7 pm in the Morgan Room
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Thursday, February 14 |
Advertising |
Kilbourne, “Buy This 24-Year-Old and Get
All His Friends Absolutely Free.”
Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising
Changes the Way We Think and Feel.
NY: Touchstone, 1999. 33-56.
Still Killing Us Softly (video)
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Tuesday, February 19 |
Advertising |
Goffman, from Gender Advertisements
Barthel, Diane. “A Gentleman and a
Consumer.” Signs of Life in the
U.S.A.: Readings on Popular Culture for
Writers. Eds. Sonia Maasik and Jack
Solomon. Boston: Bedford, 1994. 128-138.
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Thursday, February 21 |
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Mulvey, “Visual
Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and
Narrative Cinema.” Issues in Feminist
Film Criticism. Ed. Patricia Evans.
Bloomington: Indiana U P, 1990. 21 Feb
2008 <https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/
display/MarkTribe/Visual+Pleasure+and+
Narrative+Cinema>.
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Tuesday, February 26 |
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Atwood, Margaret.
The Handmaid’s Tale. New
York: Anchor, 1986.
Chapters 1 - 15
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Thursday, February 28 |
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The Handmaid’s Tale, Chapters 16
- 24
Advertising project due
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Tuesday, March 4 |
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The Handmaid’s Tale, Chapters 25
- 38
Taming of The Shrew (7 pm Dahl)
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Thursday, March 6
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The Handmaid's Tale, Chapters 38
- end
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Friday, March 7 |
Women's
Opportunity Network: Lifestyles Fair |
2 pm - 6 pm
Huff Athletic Center
(recommended--not required)
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March 10 – March 14
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SPRING BREAK |
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Tuesday, March 18
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TBA |
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Thursday, March 20
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Midterm |
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Tuesday, March 25 |
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Jane Campion’s The Piano:
8 pm at
the Boone House
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Thursday, March 27 |
Essays on The Piano
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Bentley, “Mothers,
Daughters, and (Absent) Fathers in Jane
Campion’s The Piano.”
bell hooks,
"Misogyny, Gangsta Rap, and
The Piano”
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Tuesday, April 1 |
The Piano |
Gillett, “Lips and Fingers: Jane
Campion’s The Piano”
Bauer, "Jane Campion's The Piano:
A Feminist Tale of Resistance (1993)"
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Thursday, April 3 |
Women and Music
Introduction to Interview Assignment
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Madonna,
“What It Feel Like For A Girl” |
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Tuesday, April 8 |
Family life |
Barbara Kerr, “When
Dreams Differ: Male-Female Relations on
Campuses”
Mainardi,
“The Politics of Housework”
Hochschild, “Men Who Do and Men Who
Don’t”
Syfers, “Why
I Want a Wife”
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Wednesday, April 9 |
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The F Word: Professor Susan Holm
7 pm in the Morgan Room
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Thursday, April 10 |
Working Women |
U.S.
Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau
“Women at Work”
“Women in the Labor Force:
A Databook”
“Women Still Underrepresented Among
Highest Earners”
“Good for Business: Making Full Use of
the Nation’s Human Capital”
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Tuesday, April 15 |
Sexuality and Sexual Abuse
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“A Round Up of Rapists”
Warshaw, “The Reality of Acquaintance
Rape” from I Never Called It Rape
Beneke, "Men on Rape." Men's
Lives. 5th ed. Eds. Michael
Kimmel and Michael Messner.
TV/ Film essay due
Recommended:
Rape, Abuse,
& Incest National Network
(statistics on rape and rapist)
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Thursday, April 17 |
Reproductive Rights
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Anna Quindlen,
"Hers"
Stoltenberg, "The Fetus as Penis: Men's
Self-Interest and Abortion Rights"
Recommended: Willis, "Abortion: Is a
Woman a Person?" Women: Images &
Realities. Ed. Amy Kesselman, Lily
D. McNair, and Nancy Schniedewind. New
York: McGraw, 2003. 333-5.
Recommended:
CDC's "Abortion
Surveillance"
The Harris Poll:
Support for Roe v. Wade Increases
Significantly, Reaches Highest Level in
Nine Years
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Tuesday, April 22
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No Class: Founders Day |
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Thursday, April 24 |
Aging |
Sontag,
“The Double Standard of Aging”
Older Women’s League. “Older Women: The
Realities.”
Sexuality and Aging (film)
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Tuesday, April 29 |
Aging |
Rich, Cynthia. “The Women in the Tower.”
Quevedo, Anna Maria. “The Day Nani Fell
and I Wasn’t There to Catch Her.”
TBA
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Thursday, May 1 |
Final exam study session
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Draft due (interview assignment)
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Tuesday, May 6 |
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Benokraitis and Feagin, “Sex
Discrimination in the 1990s: Progress
and Illusions of Power”
Faludi, “Introduction: Blame it on
Feminism”
The Third Wave
“The Need for Feminism in the 21st
Century” (video)
Interview project due
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Thursday, May 8
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Reading Day |
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Friday, May 9 |
1 pm |
Final Exam |
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