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Schedule of Readings and Assignments  

 

August

27

Introduction

 

39

Simone DeBeauvior, “Woman is Not Our Brother”

 

 

 

September

3

Sandra Bartky, “Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power”* 

 

5

Sandra Bartky, “Shame and Gender”*

 

10

bell hooks, “Talking Back”

 

12

Peggy MacIntosh, “White Privilege and Male Privilege”

 

17

Michael Kaufman, “Men, Feminism, and Men’s Contradictory Experiences of Power”

 

19

Robert Nozick, “Love’s Bond”

 

24

bell hooks, “Violence in Intimate Relationships: A Feminist Perspective”

 

26

Simone DeBeauvior, “The Married Woman”

 

 

 

October

1

Arlie Hochschild and Anne Machung, “The Second Shift”

 

3

Diana Meyers, “The Rush to Motherhood: Pronatalist Discourse and Women’s Autonomy”*

 

8

Diana Meyers continued

First Paper Due

 

10

Sharon Hays, “Love, Self Interest, Power, and Opposition: Untangling the Roots of Intensive Mothering”

 

15

Grace Chang, “Undocumented Latinas: The New ‘Employable Mothers’”

 

17

Rita Henley Jensen, “Welfare: Exploding the Stereotypes”

 

22

Review

 

24

Midterm Exam

 

29

Natalie J. Solokoff, “The Half-Empty Glass: Can it Ever be Filled?”

 

31

Hilary M. Lips, “Women and Power in the Workplace”

 

 

 

November

5

Burton M. Leiser, “Is Homosexuality Unnatural”?*

 

7

Kath Weston, “Is ‘Straight’ to ‘Gay’ as ‘Family’ is to ‘No Family’?”

 

12

Andrew Sullivan, “Virtually Normal”

 

14

Gloria Steinhem, "Why Young Women Are More Conservative"

 

19

Ann E. Gerike, "On Gray Hair and Oppressed Brains"

 

21

TBA

Second Paper Due

 

26

Presentations

 

28

Thanksgiving Holiday  No Classes

 

 

 

December

3

Presentations

 

5

Presentations