Feminism and the Body UGA
Content
WMST 3250: Special Topics in WMST Feminism and the Body
University of Georgia Institute for Women’s Studies Fall 2006
“One thing I have found interesting working on Barbie is how many opinions people have about her. She can be a love or hate thing for people. You hear how she’s caused people to have eating disorders. I think those people are whiners and they should shut the fuck up. Stop blaming a doll for your problems.” – Robert Best (Barbie Designer and Project Runway Contestant) “My body is fucking beautiful and every time I look in the mirror and acknowledge that, I am contributing to the revolution.” – Nomy Lamm (Fat Girl, Activist, and Feminist) “You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” – C. S. Lewis (Christian Writer and Scholar)
Note: This course syllabus is a general plan for the course. Deviations may be necessary. Deviations will be announced in class and posted on WebCT at least one week in advance. It is your responsibility to be in class and/or to check WebCT regularly.
Instructor and Contact Information:
Dr. Blaise Astra Parker Office: 101 Benson Building Office Hours: MWF 3:30-4:30 Phone: 542-2846 Email: [email protected] (This is the best way to reach me and I try to answer all email within 24 hours, except on weekends.) Mr. Michael Ramirez (Writing Intensive TA) Office: 109 Benson Building Office Hours: TBA Phone: 542-2846 (Leave message if necessary.) Email: [email protected]
Class Meetings: Required Text:
2:30-3:20PM, MWF, Benson 103 Lorber, J., & Moore, L. J. (2007). Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury. Supplemental course readings available online. All work that you do for this class must come from you and you alone with the exception of specific group work as determined by the instructor. All cases of academic dishonesty will be dealt with as outlined by the University. For more information about this you may consult: http://www.uga.edu/ovpi/academic_honesty/academic_honesty.htm
Academic Honesty
Course Description: The goal of this course is to examine the history of “the body” in Western culture and to explore feminist contributions to our understanding of the body as gendered, raced, and otherwise politically and socially constructed. Course Objectives: In this course you will: •Learn about the variety of concerns that feminist theorists have addressed in discussing and understanding the body. •Become familiar with the vocabulary that theorists have developed regarding the body and its
relationship to the individual and society. •Develop your own beliefs regarding the body and the ethics and politics surrounding it. •Learn to write a formal argumentative research paper. Student As you enrolled in this class, it is my assumption that you are interested in the material and want to be here. Therefore, I expect you to assume responsibility for your education. This means you are to attend class regularly and on time, keep up with the readings, participate in the discussions, and come to me with concerns BEFORE they become big problems. It also means that you are responsible for the following things: checking your syllabus for information about readings, assignments, and exams; logging in to WebCT regularly to make sure you have not missed important announcements; letting me know as soon as possible if you have an emergency situation; making sure you attend class each day and have that attendance recorded; obtaining notes from another student when and if you miss class; saving all of your assignments in the event of a grade discrepancy. You are also responsible for knowing that this class is a reading and writing intensive class, and that it is taught at the 3000 level. Therefore, it is intended to be a challenging class and a great deal of work. If you are not prepared to take on such a course, you would be advised to drop this class. Finally, you are responsible for knowing that this class will discuss controversial subjects and that the instructor may challenge your opinions and beliefs. However, you will not be required to share the instructor’s beliefs in order to do well in the course. You must only demonstrate that you have read and understood the course material, not that you agree with it. Because this class covers the issue of bodies, you should be aware that there will be potentially objectionable language and material used in the classroom. This material may include “bad words” and im ages of nudity. This material is not included in order to titillate, but because it is part of the body of work that informs the serious, scholarly study of the gendered construction of human bodies. If you feel that you will not be able to handle this material in a mature way, please see the instructor or consider dropping the course. To request and receive accommodations at the University of Georgia, you must be registered with the Disability Resource Center. Students eligible for accommodations must provide me with the corresponding documentation forms by week 3 of class. If you have specific questions, visit the DRC website at http://www.dissvcs.uga.edu/ or call them at 542-8719. Class attendance and participation in class activities and discussion are important aspects of this course. Students are expected to attend class on time. Arriving late to class or leaving early is disruptive to the class. If you must do so, please alert me of the fact and sit where you can leave the room unobtrusively. Attendance at all scheduled class meetings is expected. When you do not attend class, you miss an integral part of the learning experience provided in this course. Regardless of the reason for your absence, that learning experience can not be replaced. There will be no excused absences in this class and no make-ups for missed assignments. I may revisit this policy in the case of a fully documented emergency at my own discretion. I reserve the right to dock one full letter grade in the case of extreme absenteeism. I will send students a warning via email if attendance is becoming a problem.
Disability Services:
Attendance Policy:
Extra Credit and I don’t offer extra credit. Do not ask for it. I also do not take kindly to whining and complaining. No Whining Policy: I do respond well to open, honest, and objective feedback. I am a fair, reasonable, and challenging instructor. If you read your assignments, attend class, and do your work, you will get a good grade in this class. If you do not, you won’t. I strive to be objective in my grading, and I will always attempt to explain to you what I am looking for in any given assignment, as well as why you have received the grade you have. Do not come to me with complaints of losing your HOPE scholarship. I know that it takes a series of events to put your scholarship at risk, and I will not assume all blame for your previous mistakes. I will treat each of you with respect
and fairness, and I expect the same of you. All of this is applicable to your relationship with the writing intensive TA as well. Assignments: In-class writings and quizzes = 50 pts. Writing assignments or quizzes will occur daily (from Aug. 23 to Dec. 6) and will be worth 1-2 points each for a total of 60 points possible. These 10 extra points will be your only opportunity to earn extra credit! Take-home Midterm exam = 50 pts. Research paper = 100 pts. See handout for more information.
Course Philosophy: Feminism and the Body
Although there are many varieties of feminist theories, it is possible to highlight some general suppositions that feminists have made regarding gender and the body. It is important to be aware that feminists have had an uneasy history with the body. This is primarily the case because the biological features of women’s bodies (e.g., pregnancy, menstruation) have been used for centuries as justification for discrimination against women. Women’s bodies have been blamed both for women’s behaviors (e.g., PMS) and for men’s behaviors (e.g., causing “temptation”). Women’s bodies—especially those belonging to women of color, the poor, and lesbians—have been coerced and controlled under the law and in the field of medicine. As a result, some feminist theorists have distanced themselves from the body, for example, by denying the validity of biological essentialism or by attempting to transcend the body’s fleshly limitations. In this regard, feminist theorists are not unique. Because of the privileging of mind and reason over the body, the body has been disavowed in much of Western philosophy. A key feminist belief regarding bodies argues that due to the history of Cartesian dualism in Western philosophy, categories of people on the less powerful side of various binaries have been associated more strongly with the body, whereas White men have been associated with reason, rationality, and culture. Thus, White women and men and women of color have been linked to and represented by the body, nature, and animals. Biological processes such as menstruation and pregnancy are the domain of women as well. The body—with its attendant needs and desires, hungers and pains, secretions and excretions—is not neutral. It is vulnerable, odorous, and messy. Indeed, it is often an object of revulsion. The philosophy of embodiment is one attempt to re-join the body and mind by considering the body not as a vessel for the soul, but as the site and source of lived experience. The notions of embodiment and embodied learning have gained popularity in various forms of cognitive science. Theories of feminist embodiment differ in that they also conceptualize the body as sexed (and racialized), and bring to the analysis a consideration of the particular ways that women’s bodies have been devalued and controlled under patriarchy. One goal of feminist theories of embodiment may be to embrace and celebrate the body and to liberate it from notions of disgust. Another goal may be to encourage resistance to social control of women’s bodies. Still another may be to change or eliminate those societal beliefs about the body that cause physical and psychological harm—not just to women, but to everyone. Control and power are key concepts in feminist understandings of the body. The body, in a sense, acts as the boundary between the self and others; as such, it is both the source of individual experience and the site of social inscription and control. Although we will discuss the former, our primary focus will be on the latter. Some of the questions we will attempt to address this semester include: • • • Is the body “natural”? What is an “ideal” body? What is a “normal” body?
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
How do we react when bodies transgress the ideal and the normal? Does this reaction vary based on our own and others’ gender, race, class, and sexuality? How do we know what things are “good” and “bad” or “healthy” and “unhealthy” for our bodies? What sorts of things do we do to bodies--our own and others--and why? Do these practices vary significantly by gender, race, culture, class, or ability? Do these practices benefit or harm bodies? What is the relationship between one’s body and one’s behavior? Does our understanding of this relationship change based on factors such as gender, race, class, and sexuality? How do our beliefs about the relationship between body and behavior influence our thinking about issues such as right and wrong, blame and guilt, justice and injustice? What cultural messages inform our beliefs regarding the body? Do these messages differ for women and men? For different ethnic groups? How do these messages influence our own behaviors with respect to bodies? How does our culture control bodies in ways that limit individual life options and social power? Does this control of bodies vary based on gender, race, class, and sexuality? What rights do and ought we have with respect to bodies? Should we attempt to change or resist cultural control of bodies? If so, how? How does resistance become commodified and marketed?
Schedule of Classes and Assignments Readings Assignments Due Notes/Coming Up Film: Dreamworlds Drop/add ends today. Field Trip: Bodies, The Exhibition Film: Ethnic Notions
Date 16-Aug 18-Aug 21-Aug Preface to Unbearable Weight - Susan Bordo A History of Women’s Bodies - Rose Weitz In-class writing. In-class writing.
Topic Icebreaker/Syllabus
Introduction: Philosophy of Mind
23-Aug 25-Aug 26-Aug
Introduction: Feminist Theory Introduction: A History of Bodies
28-Aug 30-Aug 1-Sep GB: Introduction and Chapter 1 GB: Chapter 3
Constructing Women and Men
In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing.
4-Sep In-class writing. In-class writing.
6-Sep 8-Sep The Anthropometry of Barbie - Jacqueline Urla and Alan Swelund Ruminations of a Feminist Fitness Instructor Alisa Valdes; Fishnets, Feather Boas and Fat Nomy Lamm GB: Chapter 4 Women and Medicalization Catherine Kohler Riessman Women and the Knife - Kathryn Pauly Morgan Reading the Slender Body - Susan Bordo Memoirs of an Ex-shaver - Carolyn Mackler; My Jewish Nose - Lisa Jervis
Discuss thesis statement and outline. No class - Labor Day. Film: Barbie Nation
11-Sep
13-Sep 15-Sep
Women and the Body
In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing.
18-Sep
Film: Run Like A Girl Discuss evidence/ body of paper.
20-Sep
22-Sep 25-Sep
In-class writing. Thesis statement and outline due. In-class writing. Midterm exam handed out. In-class writing. In-class writing. Return thesis statement and outline.
27-Sep
29-Sep
Marked for Life - Silja Talvi; The Butt Erin Aubry The Politics of Cyberfeminism - Renate Klein
In-class writing. Midterm exam due. In-class writing. Guest Lecture: Abbi Richardson
2-Oct GB: Chapter 5 Beauty Rediscovers the Male Body - Susan Bordo In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing.
My Hair Trauma - Mimi Nguyen
In-class writing.
4-Oct Men and the Body
6-Oct 9-Oct
11-Oct
Film: Nappy; Yom Kippur. Midterm; Midterm exam returned. Film: Tough Guise Midpoint w/drawal deadline.
13-Oct The Sexual and Procreative Body 16-Oct Dancing Toward Redemption - Meredith Mcghan Selections from Contested Lives - Faye Ginsubrg Are Mothers Persons? - Susan Bordo The Future of Reproductive Choice for Poor Women and Women of Color - Dorothy Roberts GB: Chapter 6 Fearful Others - Jason Cromwell Transfeminist Manifesto - Emi Koyama; Strip Diana Courvant GB: Chapter 7 Welcoming the Unbidden - Rosemary Garland Thomson One Resilient Baby - Cheryl Green; Woman Who Clears the Way - Lisa Tiger GB: Chapter 8 Domesticity in the Federal Indian Schools - K. Tsianina Lomawaima In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing.
Coming to Terms - Thomas Gerschick and Adam Miller; From Jarhead - Anthony Swofford GB: Chapter 2 Daring to Desire - Deborah Tolman In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing. Evidence and body of paper due. In-class writing. In-class writing.
18-Oct 20-Oct
23-Oct
25-Oct
Discuss conclusion/ introduction. Evidence/body of paper returned. No class - Fall break. Guest Lecture: Katz? Film: Southern Comfort
27-Oct 30-Oct Ambiguous Bodies 1-Nov 3-Nov
6-Nov
8-Nov Disability and the Body 10-Nov
13-Nov
In-class writing. In-class writing. Conclusion/introduction due. In-class writing. In-class writing.
15-Nov Violence and the Body
17-Nov
Field Trip: SelfDefense Seminar at 8:30PM, AKFAthens Film: Fast Food Women In-class writing. In-class writing. Film: SenĚorita Extraviada No class - Thanksgiving.
20-Nov
22-Nov
24-Nov 27-Nov Don’t Call Me a Survivor - Emilie Morgan; Why I Fight Back - Whitney Walker In-class writing. Changing Our Minds About Our Bodies Martha McCaughey Selections from Cunt - Inga Muscio In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing. Peer review due. In-class writing. Conclusion/introduction returned. Discuss peer review. Film: Defending Our Lives Classes end. Paper due at 6:30PM.
No class - Thanksgiving.
29-Nov
1-Dec 4-Dec Conclusion: Resist! Resist! Resist!
6-Dec 11-Dec Letter Grade A AB+ B BC+ C CD F Points 200-187 186-179 178-171 170-165 164-159 158-151 150-145 144-139 138-119 118-0
Grading Scale:
Percentage 100-94 93-90 89-86 85-83 82-80 79-76 75-73 72-70 69-60 < 60
University of Georgia Institute for Women’s Studies Fall 2006
“One thing I have found interesting working on Barbie is how many opinions people have about her. She can be a love or hate thing for people. You hear how she’s caused people to have eating disorders. I think those people are whiners and they should shut the fuck up. Stop blaming a doll for your problems.” – Robert Best (Barbie Designer and Project Runway Contestant) “My body is fucking beautiful and every time I look in the mirror and acknowledge that, I am contributing to the revolution.” – Nomy Lamm (Fat Girl, Activist, and Feminist) “You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” – C. S. Lewis (Christian Writer and Scholar)
Note: This course syllabus is a general plan for the course. Deviations may be necessary. Deviations will be announced in class and posted on WebCT at least one week in advance. It is your responsibility to be in class and/or to check WebCT regularly.
Instructor and Contact Information:
Dr. Blaise Astra Parker Office: 101 Benson Building Office Hours: MWF 3:30-4:30 Phone: 542-2846 Email: [email protected] (This is the best way to reach me and I try to answer all email within 24 hours, except on weekends.) Mr. Michael Ramirez (Writing Intensive TA) Office: 109 Benson Building Office Hours: TBA Phone: 542-2846 (Leave message if necessary.) Email: [email protected]
Class Meetings: Required Text:
2:30-3:20PM, MWF, Benson 103 Lorber, J., & Moore, L. J. (2007). Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury. Supplemental course readings available online. All work that you do for this class must come from you and you alone with the exception of specific group work as determined by the instructor. All cases of academic dishonesty will be dealt with as outlined by the University. For more information about this you may consult: http://www.uga.edu/ovpi/academic_honesty/academic_honesty.htm
Academic Honesty
Course Description: The goal of this course is to examine the history of “the body” in Western culture and to explore feminist contributions to our understanding of the body as gendered, raced, and otherwise politically and socially constructed. Course Objectives: In this course you will: •Learn about the variety of concerns that feminist theorists have addressed in discussing and understanding the body. •Become familiar with the vocabulary that theorists have developed regarding the body and its
relationship to the individual and society. •Develop your own beliefs regarding the body and the ethics and politics surrounding it. •Learn to write a formal argumentative research paper. Student As you enrolled in this class, it is my assumption that you are interested in the material and want to be here. Therefore, I expect you to assume responsibility for your education. This means you are to attend class regularly and on time, keep up with the readings, participate in the discussions, and come to me with concerns BEFORE they become big problems. It also means that you are responsible for the following things: checking your syllabus for information about readings, assignments, and exams; logging in to WebCT regularly to make sure you have not missed important announcements; letting me know as soon as possible if you have an emergency situation; making sure you attend class each day and have that attendance recorded; obtaining notes from another student when and if you miss class; saving all of your assignments in the event of a grade discrepancy. You are also responsible for knowing that this class is a reading and writing intensive class, and that it is taught at the 3000 level. Therefore, it is intended to be a challenging class and a great deal of work. If you are not prepared to take on such a course, you would be advised to drop this class. Finally, you are responsible for knowing that this class will discuss controversial subjects and that the instructor may challenge your opinions and beliefs. However, you will not be required to share the instructor’s beliefs in order to do well in the course. You must only demonstrate that you have read and understood the course material, not that you agree with it. Because this class covers the issue of bodies, you should be aware that there will be potentially objectionable language and material used in the classroom. This material may include “bad words” and im ages of nudity. This material is not included in order to titillate, but because it is part of the body of work that informs the serious, scholarly study of the gendered construction of human bodies. If you feel that you will not be able to handle this material in a mature way, please see the instructor or consider dropping the course. To request and receive accommodations at the University of Georgia, you must be registered with the Disability Resource Center. Students eligible for accommodations must provide me with the corresponding documentation forms by week 3 of class. If you have specific questions, visit the DRC website at http://www.dissvcs.uga.edu/ or call them at 542-8719. Class attendance and participation in class activities and discussion are important aspects of this course. Students are expected to attend class on time. Arriving late to class or leaving early is disruptive to the class. If you must do so, please alert me of the fact and sit where you can leave the room unobtrusively. Attendance at all scheduled class meetings is expected. When you do not attend class, you miss an integral part of the learning experience provided in this course. Regardless of the reason for your absence, that learning experience can not be replaced. There will be no excused absences in this class and no make-ups for missed assignments. I may revisit this policy in the case of a fully documented emergency at my own discretion. I reserve the right to dock one full letter grade in the case of extreme absenteeism. I will send students a warning via email if attendance is becoming a problem.
Disability Services:
Attendance Policy:
Extra Credit and I don’t offer extra credit. Do not ask for it. I also do not take kindly to whining and complaining. No Whining Policy: I do respond well to open, honest, and objective feedback. I am a fair, reasonable, and challenging instructor. If you read your assignments, attend class, and do your work, you will get a good grade in this class. If you do not, you won’t. I strive to be objective in my grading, and I will always attempt to explain to you what I am looking for in any given assignment, as well as why you have received the grade you have. Do not come to me with complaints of losing your HOPE scholarship. I know that it takes a series of events to put your scholarship at risk, and I will not assume all blame for your previous mistakes. I will treat each of you with respect
and fairness, and I expect the same of you. All of this is applicable to your relationship with the writing intensive TA as well. Assignments: In-class writings and quizzes = 50 pts. Writing assignments or quizzes will occur daily (from Aug. 23 to Dec. 6) and will be worth 1-2 points each for a total of 60 points possible. These 10 extra points will be your only opportunity to earn extra credit! Take-home Midterm exam = 50 pts. Research paper = 100 pts. See handout for more information.
Course Philosophy: Feminism and the Body
Although there are many varieties of feminist theories, it is possible to highlight some general suppositions that feminists have made regarding gender and the body. It is important to be aware that feminists have had an uneasy history with the body. This is primarily the case because the biological features of women’s bodies (e.g., pregnancy, menstruation) have been used for centuries as justification for discrimination against women. Women’s bodies have been blamed both for women’s behaviors (e.g., PMS) and for men’s behaviors (e.g., causing “temptation”). Women’s bodies—especially those belonging to women of color, the poor, and lesbians—have been coerced and controlled under the law and in the field of medicine. As a result, some feminist theorists have distanced themselves from the body, for example, by denying the validity of biological essentialism or by attempting to transcend the body’s fleshly limitations. In this regard, feminist theorists are not unique. Because of the privileging of mind and reason over the body, the body has been disavowed in much of Western philosophy. A key feminist belief regarding bodies argues that due to the history of Cartesian dualism in Western philosophy, categories of people on the less powerful side of various binaries have been associated more strongly with the body, whereas White men have been associated with reason, rationality, and culture. Thus, White women and men and women of color have been linked to and represented by the body, nature, and animals. Biological processes such as menstruation and pregnancy are the domain of women as well. The body—with its attendant needs and desires, hungers and pains, secretions and excretions—is not neutral. It is vulnerable, odorous, and messy. Indeed, it is often an object of revulsion. The philosophy of embodiment is one attempt to re-join the body and mind by considering the body not as a vessel for the soul, but as the site and source of lived experience. The notions of embodiment and embodied learning have gained popularity in various forms of cognitive science. Theories of feminist embodiment differ in that they also conceptualize the body as sexed (and racialized), and bring to the analysis a consideration of the particular ways that women’s bodies have been devalued and controlled under patriarchy. One goal of feminist theories of embodiment may be to embrace and celebrate the body and to liberate it from notions of disgust. Another goal may be to encourage resistance to social control of women’s bodies. Still another may be to change or eliminate those societal beliefs about the body that cause physical and psychological harm—not just to women, but to everyone. Control and power are key concepts in feminist understandings of the body. The body, in a sense, acts as the boundary between the self and others; as such, it is both the source of individual experience and the site of social inscription and control. Although we will discuss the former, our primary focus will be on the latter. Some of the questions we will attempt to address this semester include: • • • Is the body “natural”? What is an “ideal” body? What is a “normal” body?
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
How do we react when bodies transgress the ideal and the normal? Does this reaction vary based on our own and others’ gender, race, class, and sexuality? How do we know what things are “good” and “bad” or “healthy” and “unhealthy” for our bodies? What sorts of things do we do to bodies--our own and others--and why? Do these practices vary significantly by gender, race, culture, class, or ability? Do these practices benefit or harm bodies? What is the relationship between one’s body and one’s behavior? Does our understanding of this relationship change based on factors such as gender, race, class, and sexuality? How do our beliefs about the relationship between body and behavior influence our thinking about issues such as right and wrong, blame and guilt, justice and injustice? What cultural messages inform our beliefs regarding the body? Do these messages differ for women and men? For different ethnic groups? How do these messages influence our own behaviors with respect to bodies? How does our culture control bodies in ways that limit individual life options and social power? Does this control of bodies vary based on gender, race, class, and sexuality? What rights do and ought we have with respect to bodies? Should we attempt to change or resist cultural control of bodies? If so, how? How does resistance become commodified and marketed?
Schedule of Classes and Assignments Readings Assignments Due Notes/Coming Up Film: Dreamworlds Drop/add ends today. Field Trip: Bodies, The Exhibition Film: Ethnic Notions
Date 16-Aug 18-Aug 21-Aug Preface to Unbearable Weight - Susan Bordo A History of Women’s Bodies - Rose Weitz In-class writing. In-class writing.
Topic Icebreaker/Syllabus
Introduction: Philosophy of Mind
23-Aug 25-Aug 26-Aug
Introduction: Feminist Theory Introduction: A History of Bodies
28-Aug 30-Aug 1-Sep GB: Introduction and Chapter 1 GB: Chapter 3
Constructing Women and Men
In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing.
4-Sep In-class writing. In-class writing.
6-Sep 8-Sep The Anthropometry of Barbie - Jacqueline Urla and Alan Swelund Ruminations of a Feminist Fitness Instructor Alisa Valdes; Fishnets, Feather Boas and Fat Nomy Lamm GB: Chapter 4 Women and Medicalization Catherine Kohler Riessman Women and the Knife - Kathryn Pauly Morgan Reading the Slender Body - Susan Bordo Memoirs of an Ex-shaver - Carolyn Mackler; My Jewish Nose - Lisa Jervis
Discuss thesis statement and outline. No class - Labor Day. Film: Barbie Nation
11-Sep
13-Sep 15-Sep
Women and the Body
In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing.
18-Sep
Film: Run Like A Girl Discuss evidence/ body of paper.
20-Sep
22-Sep 25-Sep
In-class writing. Thesis statement and outline due. In-class writing. Midterm exam handed out. In-class writing. In-class writing. Return thesis statement and outline.
27-Sep
29-Sep
Marked for Life - Silja Talvi; The Butt Erin Aubry The Politics of Cyberfeminism - Renate Klein
In-class writing. Midterm exam due. In-class writing. Guest Lecture: Abbi Richardson
2-Oct GB: Chapter 5 Beauty Rediscovers the Male Body - Susan Bordo In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing.
My Hair Trauma - Mimi Nguyen
In-class writing.
4-Oct Men and the Body
6-Oct 9-Oct
11-Oct
Film: Nappy; Yom Kippur. Midterm; Midterm exam returned. Film: Tough Guise Midpoint w/drawal deadline.
13-Oct The Sexual and Procreative Body 16-Oct Dancing Toward Redemption - Meredith Mcghan Selections from Contested Lives - Faye Ginsubrg Are Mothers Persons? - Susan Bordo The Future of Reproductive Choice for Poor Women and Women of Color - Dorothy Roberts GB: Chapter 6 Fearful Others - Jason Cromwell Transfeminist Manifesto - Emi Koyama; Strip Diana Courvant GB: Chapter 7 Welcoming the Unbidden - Rosemary Garland Thomson One Resilient Baby - Cheryl Green; Woman Who Clears the Way - Lisa Tiger GB: Chapter 8 Domesticity in the Federal Indian Schools - K. Tsianina Lomawaima In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing.
Coming to Terms - Thomas Gerschick and Adam Miller; From Jarhead - Anthony Swofford GB: Chapter 2 Daring to Desire - Deborah Tolman In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing. Evidence and body of paper due. In-class writing. In-class writing.
18-Oct 20-Oct
23-Oct
25-Oct
Discuss conclusion/ introduction. Evidence/body of paper returned. No class - Fall break. Guest Lecture: Katz? Film: Southern Comfort
27-Oct 30-Oct Ambiguous Bodies 1-Nov 3-Nov
6-Nov
8-Nov Disability and the Body 10-Nov
13-Nov
In-class writing. In-class writing. Conclusion/introduction due. In-class writing. In-class writing.
15-Nov Violence and the Body
17-Nov
Field Trip: SelfDefense Seminar at 8:30PM, AKFAthens Film: Fast Food Women In-class writing. In-class writing. Film: SenĚorita Extraviada No class - Thanksgiving.
20-Nov
22-Nov
24-Nov 27-Nov Don’t Call Me a Survivor - Emilie Morgan; Why I Fight Back - Whitney Walker In-class writing. Changing Our Minds About Our Bodies Martha McCaughey Selections from Cunt - Inga Muscio In-class writing. In-class writing. In-class writing. Peer review due. In-class writing. Conclusion/introduction returned. Discuss peer review. Film: Defending Our Lives Classes end. Paper due at 6:30PM.
No class - Thanksgiving.
29-Nov
1-Dec 4-Dec Conclusion: Resist! Resist! Resist!
6-Dec 11-Dec Letter Grade A AB+ B BC+ C CD F Points 200-187 186-179 178-171 170-165 164-159 158-151 150-145 144-139 138-119 118-0
Grading Scale:
Percentage 100-94 93-90 89-86 85-83 82-80 79-76 75-73 72-70 69-60 < 60
