HUM 140-Spring 2012

Tentative Course Schedule

The following is a tentative schedule. Some readings will be announced later in the semester, or modified depending on the pace of the class.

Week 1

T (1/17) Introduction to the Course and One Another

Syllabus Review, Required Texts, Conversation and Questions

TH (1/19) Critical and Reflective Thinking

Defining critical thinking in Women’s & Gender Studies

Writing critical reflection papers in Hum 140

Week 2

T (1/24) Media & Misogyny

GENERATION M: Misogyny in Media & Culture (60 min)

Analyzing institutions that reinforce and oppress women

A closer look at media, advertising, and popular culture

HW: Discussion questions

Reading Group Sign up

HW: Read Manifesta (M) Still Manifesting, Introductions by Amy and Jennifer, Prologue: A Day

Without Feminism

TH (1/26) What is Feminism? Am I a Feminist?

Discuss film

Activity – Feminism/Feminist

Begin Manifesta

Examine preconceived notions, ideas, and stereotypes on feminism and what it means to be a feminist.

Reading Groups Assigned

HW: Chapter 2 (What is Feminism?)

Week 3

T (1/31) DUE-Reflection #1 (Generation M)

Small Group work on What is Feminism?

Reading Groups Meet

HW: Read M-Chapter 1, The Dinner Party

TH (2/2) “What Are We Doing Here?” Why Women’s Studies?

The Foundations of Women’s Studies & Feminist Movement

MS Mag 2009 Guide to Women’s Studies

“Wave Talk”

Consciousness Raising –The Dinner Party

Defining Key Terms and Concepts within Feminism and Women’s Studies

Week 4

T (2/7) Film- Iron Jawed Angels (123 min)

TH (2/9) Film- Iron Jawed Angels

Finish IJA and discuss film

HW: Read 6-bell hooks: Theory as Liberatory Practice (handout), Lexicon-Power, Epistemologies, Language, Bodies, Intersections of Race, Class, & Gender, Sexual Division of Labor, Sexualities, Essentialism/Social Construction

(handout)

Week 5

T (2/14) Begin Feminist Theory

A Closer Look at Power & Privilege

Lexicon of Debates

HW: Read EFR- 1.de Pizan 5.Wollstonecraft 9.Stanton 10.Truth

TH (2/16) Early Feminist Writers & Key Texts

Christine de Pizan- The Book of the City of Ladies

Mary Wollstonecraft –A Vindication of The Rights of Woman

Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

Sojourner Truth- Aint I am Woman?

Prep for Reading Group

HW: Read EFR 7. Grimke 11. Harriet Taylor, 12. John Stuart Mill

Week 6

DUE- Reflection #2 (Readings/Film weeks 4/5)

T (2/21) Second Class Citizens, Suffrage, and the First Wave

Harriet Taylor Mill- The Enfranchisement of Women

Sarah Grimke- Letters on the Equality of the Sexes

John Stuart Mill- The Subjection of Women

Reading Groups Meet

TH (2/23) Conclude “1^st Wave” & Beginnings of Feminist Thought

Review timeline & key players of the First Wave.

Exam Review

HW: Study for Exam

Week 7

T (2/28) Exam #1

Prep for Reading Group

HW: Read EFR: 40.Friedan 14. Ibsen (in class)

TH (3/1) Liberal Feminism- Property, Marriage, and Reproduction

Betty Friedan- The Feminine Mystique

IHenrik Ibsen- The Doll’s House

Reading Groups Meet

HW: Read EFR- 49. Audre Lorde-The Master’s Tools…

bell hooks-Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (handout)

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack-Peggy McIntosh

http://www.antiracistalliance.com/Unpacking.html

Week 8

T (3/6) Intersectionality- Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality

Understanding interlocking forms of oppression-bell hooks

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack-Peggy McIntosh

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House- Audre Lorde

HW: Shulamith Firestrone-excerpt from The Dialectic of Sex

http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/firestone-shulamith/dialectic-sex.htm,

Radicalesbians- The Woman Identified Woman

http://www.cwluherstory.org/the-woman-identified-woman.html

Redstockings Manifesto

http://www.redstockings.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76&Itemid=59

TH (3/8) Radical Feminist Thought

“Sexism as the crux of women’s oppression”

Firestone –Dialectic of Sex

Liberal vs. Radical Feminism

bell hooks, Shulamith Firestone, Radicalesbians

Redstockings (The Redstockings Manifesto)

Prep for Reading Groups

HW: EFR-16.Engels

Barbara Ehrenreich, What is Socialist Feminism?

http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/CWLUArchive/socialfem.html

3/11 LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW FROM CLASSES WITH A “W”

Week 9

March 12 – 18
SPRING BREAK NO CLASS

Week 10

T (3/20)DUE-Reflection #3 (readings week 7-8)

Marxist and Socialist Feminism Overview

Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the

State, Barbara Ehrenreich

Introduce Simone De Beauvoir & Existentialist Feminism

Reading Groups Meet

HW: EFR: 36. Huda Shaarawi 56. Anzaldúa, Chandra Mohanty (TBA)

TH (3/22) Multicultural/Global Feminism: Creating Community among Difference

Discussion topics: Women’s solidarity, difference, and divide,

multicultural feminist thought, transnational/global feminism

HW: M: Chapter 6, EFR: 42.Pat Mainardi, The Politics of Housework

Week 11

T (3/27) Women’s Work, Home, and the Race/Class/Gender Divide

Manifesta-Thou Shalt Not Become Thy Mother

The Politics of Housework-Mainardi

Discussion on debates on women’s work, domesticity, and race/class

debates (hooks vs. Freidan).

Prep for Reading Groups

TH (3/29) DUE: WHM Paper

Women’s Work, Home, and the Race/Class/Gender Divide

Discussion continued

Reading Groups Meet

HW: EFR- 31.Sanger, 43.Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, “Our Bodies, Ourselves”(on-line), 46.Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape

Week 12

T (4/3) Second Wave and Body Politics of the Sexual Revolution

Discussion topics: Women’s health, CR groups, introduction of “The Pill”, abortion, access and sexual freedom, body politics, and violence against women.

http://www.cwluherstory.org/Jane-Abortion-Service/

TH (4/5) Body Politics of the Sexual Revolution (contin.)

Sexual Space for Women

Guest Speaker: EARLY TO BED

Week 13

T (4/10) Body Politics and Women’s Health Movement

Film-JANE-An Abortion Service (58 min)

Discuss film

HW: Study for Exam

TH (4/12) EXAM #2

HW: Read Baby X, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Julia Serano, Halberstam (handouts)

DUE-Reflection #5 (readings/film week 10-12)

Week 14

T (4/17) Sex & Gender

Is Biology Destiny? Looking at the Biology and Psychology of Gender

Is gender socially constructed?

Lecture and discussion on texts, theories and debates on gender, m/f,

and social interaction

HW: Read -Post Binary Gender Chores (Handout)

TH(4/19) DUE-HERSTORY PAPER

Sex & Gender discussion (contin.)

Sexual Identity & Compulsory Heterosexuality

Last IN CLASS Reading Group Meeting

Week 15

T (4/24) Transgender, Intersex, and Cultural Bodies

Everyday access as a gendered body, gender as performativity, and

trans/intersex activism, lesbian/trans debates, and begin discussion on

access as a gendered body

Film: Boy I Am, (72 min)

TH (4/26) Transgender, Intersex, and Cultural Bodies

Discussion/film (contin.)

HW: Read M: Chapter 8

Week 16

T (5/1) Book Group Projects Presentations

HW: Read M: Chapter 8

TH (5/3) What is Activism?

How to make the everyday a political act

Everyday Activism: Putting theory into practice

A Time to Hole Up and A Time to Kick Ass:

Reimagining Activism as a Million Different Ways to Fight- Lakshmi

HW: Readings TBA

Rebecca Walker-Becoming 3^rd Wave, Jessica Valenti

M: Appendix 3-How to put the Participatory Back into Participatory Democracy

Week 17

T (5/8) Third Wave: “Are we there yet?”

You’re a Feminist. Deal. –Jessica Valenti

Rebecca Walker-Becoming 3^rd Wave

HW: Bring to class a current public figure, celebrity, etc., that identifies as a

feminist. Interview 3 friends/colleagues if they consider themselves a

feminist. Why or Why not?

TH (5/10) Future of Feminism

KEY DATES FOR REQUIRED EVENTS:

3/8 Rosa Luxemburg or 3/1-3/11 Kita y Fernanda

3/22 Keynote Address: Amy Richards/Gloria Steinem

4/21-Art & Activism Event: Keynote: Strike Anywhere