WMST 100:01/Summer 2006
Introduction to Gender Studies in the Humanities
Class Schedule
IN-CLASS TOPICS
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ASSIGNMENTS/DUE DATES All classes begin with 4 minutes
of rants |
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Intro’s |
6/5-6 |
Review Syllabus, review the terms Lecture: Representation/Perspective View: The Matrix (reserve) Handout: Excerpts from The Alphabet
versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image. Leonard Shlain. 1999. |
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Lecture:
What is a text?
& Representation & Perspective Discussion:
Stereotypes,
Categories Assignment:
See XMen III for Thursday’s class Handout: “The Woman Who Fell from the Sky”
from The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian
Traditions. Paula Gunn Allen. 1992. |
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Being Human |
6/7-8 |
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Stories |
6/12 |
Lecture: How do stories tell us who we
are? Handout:
Excerpts from From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales
and Their Tellers Marina Warner. Snow
White: http://www.bartleby.com/17/2/25.html Handout:
“Language and
Literature from a |
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Becoming a Self: Sex/ Gender |
6/13, 14 |
Lecture: Gender Roles Playing with
the story and undoing the gender script View: Priscilla, Queen of the
Desert , David, Venus or View: Twelfth Night,
Shakespeare. |
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Knowledge, Education, and Knowing |
6/15 |
Lecture: On Science, Objectivity, and the Production of
Knowledge Read: Origin of Species: http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/. Charles Darwin. Tao Te Ching exerpts: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/lao_tzu.html |
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The Self and the Community |
6/19-20 |
Lecture: Is it me or is it we? Read: Gayanashagowa: the
Iroquois Constitution, http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/iroquois.html Rousseau, excerpts: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rousseau-contract2.html Lecture: Global relations, cultural exchange View: The Gods Must Be Crazy |
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Power |
6/21 |
Lecture: What is power? Read: Lysistrata. Aristophanes. http://drama.eserver.org/plays/classical/aristophanes/lysistrata.txt |
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Violence, Gender, & the State |
6/22 |
Lecture: Violence & the State View: Full Metal Jacket Read: Declaration
of Independence: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/declare.htm Selected documents of
the French Revolution or http://history.hanover.edu/texts/fr1848.htm DUE: Web Essay,
by midnight tonight |
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& the Self |
6/26 |
Lecture: Violence and the Individual Read: Ceremony. Leslie Marmon Silko.
1988. |
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Sex & Love |
6/27 |
Lecture: The changing face of sex View: Love in the Ancient World Read: Freud, Three Essays on Sexuality: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/fonda/freud07.html Dante: http://www.wisdomportal.com/Romance/Dante-Beatrice.html Holy Bible (Matthew 5-7, Any of the Psalms: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/kjv.browse.html |
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Choice |
6/28 |
Lecture: World religions and the power of choice View: Burning Times (reserve) |
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Family Values |
6/29 |
Lecture: The economy of familial relations: money & love Handout: Friedrich Engels “The Origin of the Family,
Private Property, and the State” Folbre The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family
Values. 2001. DUE: Debate |
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Surveillance &
Control |
7/3 |
Visual
Object Search, no class meeting |
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7/5 |
Lecture: It’s all in the framing View: The Devil Wears Prada Foucault
and the Panopticon: http://users.rcn.com/mackey/thesis/panopticon.html DUE: Visual Object |
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Last Class |
7/6 |
Review, Assessment, Last
Rants |
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