Monday: no class
Wednesday: Definitions, grounding (Read “Lexicon of the Debates,” pp. 42–60 of Feminist Theory).

First-wave feminism
Monday: From Part II of Feminist Theory: pp. 62–85 (Wollstonecraft, Grimke, Stanton, Taylor, Truth, Mill), plus Engels (p. 100)
Wednesday: From Parts II & III: Gilman (110), Goldman (120), Sanger (138), Browne (142), Riviere (146), Woolf (149). Kennedy (169)

Second-wave feminism
Monday: From Parts III & IV: de Beauvoir (175), Friedan (198), NOW (211), BITCH (213), Millet (218), Redstockings (220)
Wednesday: Douglas (203), Firestone (224), Rubin (273)

What’s a Woman, anyway?
Monday: Kate Norlock on philosophical definitions of masculinity and femininity
Read: Aristotle on the generation of animals, Rousseau on education

Wednesday: Anne Marie Brady on intersexuality
Read: Anne Fausto-Sterling, “Of Gender and Genitals,” from Sexing the Body
Elizabeth Weil, “What if It’s (Sort of) a Boy and (Sort of) a Girl?”

The Vagina Monologues (more info forthcoming)
Scheduled for Campus Center Great Room Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights at 8:30

What’s a Woman II
Monday: Merideth Taylor on gender and movement
Read the article, poem, and quotations; do the exercise
Wednesday: Jennifer Cognard-Black on gendered bodies
Read: Winterson, “The Cells, Tissues, Systems and Cavities of the Body,” from Written on the Body (e-reserves)

Note: special writing assignment for Monday!

What’s a Woman?
Monday: Leon Wiebers: How clothes make the (wo)man
Read: Deborah Tannen,“There Is No Unmarked Woman”
Hirschberg, “Gender (Mis)representation”
Alison Lurie, “The Language of Clothes”
Alison Lurie, “Male and Female” and “Fashion and Sex” from The Language of Clothes

Wednesday: Snow day

Synthesis
Monday: Snow Day

Wednesday: Synthesis discussion

Margaret Brent Lecture: Ellie Smeal
Saturday, 7 March @ 8:00 p.m., St. Mary’s Hall
reception to follow in Blackistone Room

Material Realities
Monday: Celia Rabinowitz on marriage—gay, straight, or none
Read Jonathon Rauch, “Who Needs Marriage?”
Jyl Josephson, “Citizenship, Same-Sex Marriage, and Feminist Critiques of Marriage”

Wednesday: Devorah Schoenfeld on marriage and sexuality in Judaism

Paper 1 due Sunday by 11:59 p.m.

Colloquium

Monday: Angela Johnson on women of colour in science

Tuesday: Mama PhD reading, 8:00 p.m. (Cole Cinema)

Wednesday: No class meeting
Elizabeth Wayland Barber lecture @ 4:45 (Cole Cinema)
“Women’s work: the First 20,000 Years”
Marga Gomez performance @ 8:00 p.m. (St. Mary’s Hall)
“Stand-Up Sister!”

Thursday:
Andrea Veltman lecture @ 4:15 (Cole Cinema)
“On Meaningful Work”
Roundtable discussion @ 8:00 p.m. (Cole Cinema)

Representations of sex and gender
Monday: Colloquium after-discussion with Becca Tuttle
Wednesday: Katie Gantz: Picturing Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France
Read: Janet Beizer, “The Doctor’s Tale,” from Ventriloquzed Bodies (on e-reserves)

Women Writers Reading
Friday, 3 April @ 8:00 p.m. in DPC

Representations II
Monday: Joanne Klein: Mediated Women, Gender, and Sexuality: Dismantling the Master’s Narrative on Screen
Read: bell hooks, “Good Girls Look the Other Way”

Wednesday: Carrie Patterson on drawing/knowing/seeing
Read: bell hooks, “Being the Subject of Art”

Representations III
Monday: Andrew Cognard-Black: Much Ado about Gender: Shakespeare, Sex, and Silence
please acquire your own copy of Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing or read the e-text. In either event, you must bring the text with you to class.

Wednesday: Mernissi (268), Mohanty (372), Anzaldua (420), Alarcon (488)

On Beyond Europe (and the U.S.)
Monday: Holly Blumner on performing gender in Japan

Wednesday: Joanna Bartow: When Latin American Women Read U.S./European Readings of Latin American Women
Reading I & Reading II

On Beyond Europe II
Monday: Adriana Brodsky on prostitution in Latin America
Wednesday: Anna Bedford on third-world feminisms