Topics What is Women's Studies?

Class Date Aug 14 Aug 16

Assignments

Films

Oppression, Marilyn Frye (ELC); NTB Ch.1 NTB Ch.2, WIR Ch.1: Section Intro (SI), 13,152, including Box on pg. 564 Patriarchy, Allan Johnson Pt-1 (ELC) Patriarchy, Allan Johnson Pt-2 (ELC), WIR Ch.2: SI, 10-16, 20, 21, 23, 26 When Girls Want to be Boys and Boys Want to be Girls, (ELC) Gloria: In Her Own Words

History and Feminisms

Aug 21

Aug 23

Finish Gloria

Learning Gender

Aug 28

Michael Kimmel On Gender

Aug 30

Finish Film

Recommended: XXY (available on NetFlix Watch Instantly) Gender, the Body, and "Beauty" Sept 4 NTB Ch.3 Killing Us Softly 4

Sept 6

WIR Ch.3: SI, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 41, 42 NTB Ch.4; WIR 101103, 106-107; AAA Statement (ELC) Ms. Magazine The Metalanguage of Race, Higginbotham (ELC); WIR 108, 111, 120-121, 127, 130 Myth of the Black Rapist, Angela Davis (ELC) NTB Ch.5, Ms. Magazine WIR 122-126, 157, 160, 161

Finish KUS4

Invisibility of Privilege

Sept 11

Film: White Privilege

Sept 13 Intersectionality Sept 18

Finish WP Ethnic Notions (maybe)

Sept 20

Finish EN

Transnational Feminisms

Sept 25 Sept 27

The Shape of Water Finish SoW

Sexuality and Tradition

Oct 2

Oct 4 Sexuality and Tradition, con't Oct 9

NTB Ch.11 (through pg. 266); WIR 43-45, Box, 49, 80-83 Ms. Magazine NTB Ch.11 (finish); Wedding of Two Souls: Same Sex Marriage and Hindu Traditions, Ruth Vanita (ELC) WIR 70, 77, 113-116 NTB Ch.12 (through pg. 298); Ms. Magazine WIR Ch. 7 SI, 133-137 (including Box) WIR 139-149 NTB Ch.12 (finish) NTB Ch.9, Ms. Magazine WIR Ch.5 SI, 85, 87-89 and Box pg. 328 & 347 NTB Ch.10; Ms. Magazine WIR 91-95, Box pg. 363, 98-100 NTB Ch. 6; WIR Ch.4 SI, 50, 52, 53, 64, Box pg.184 Midterm Online: No Class The Business of Being Born Finish Film It's Elementary OR Out of the Past OR A Jihad for Love

Oct 11 Violence Against Women Oct 16 Oct 18

Finish Film Dreamworlds 3 Finish Dreamworlds Research Paper Due

Sexual Violence

Oct 23 Oct 25 Oct 30 Nov 1

Women's Health

Reproduction

Nov 6 Nov 8

Work, "Supermom", and the Double Day

Nov 13

Nov 15 Thanksgiving Week Activism and Creative Resistance Last Day of Class

Nov 27

NTB Ch. 7-8, Ms. Magazine WIR Ch.8 SI, 151, 153, 159 NTB Ch.14 NO CLASS

Pray The Devil Back to Hell

Nov 29

Finish Pray The Devil Back to Hell

**Friday Schedule FINAL

Dec 4

Tues, Dec. 11 3:30

FINAL PAPER DUE (in our regular

Details will be given in class.

classroom)