PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN IN THE WORLD

Class calendar, Fall 2002
 
8-29  Introduction

9-3  Judith Lorber, “The Social Construction of Gender” and Charlotte Bunch, “Not by Degrees:  Feminist Theory and Education”
TBA  Screening of A Woman’s Place
9-5  Discussion of A Woman’s Place and Women Across Cultures, ch. 1

Feminist Theory and the Global World
9-10  Charlotte Bunch, “Bringing the Global Home” and Kathy Rudy, “Difference and Indifference:  A US Feminist Response to Global Politics”
9-12  Cynthia Enloe, “Gender Makes the World Go Round” and Carla Freeman, “Is Local: Global as Feminine: Masculine?”

9-17  Uma Narayan, “Undoing the ‘Package Picture’ of Cultures,” Betty Rogers, “Bitter Harvest,” and “Thailand:  Buaphet Khuenkaew” in WMW
9-19  Ehrenreich and Fuentes, “Life on the Global Assembly Line” and Cynthia Enloe, “The Globetrotting Sneaker”

9-24  Peer review of paper #1; must have a solid draft completed

Human Rights
9-26  Charlotte Bunch and Samantha Frost, “Women’s Human Rights:  An Introduction” and Charlotte Bunch, “Women’s Rights as Human Rights”

9-30  (Monday) Paper #1 due in my office by 3:00
10-1  Isabel Marcus, “Reframing ‘Domestic Violence’:  Terrorism in the Home”
10-3  Nahid Toubia, “Female Genital Mutilation,” “Ethiopia:  Zenebu Tulu” in WMW, and Kathryn Pauly Morgan, “Women and the Knife:  Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women’s Bodies”

10-8  Guest lecture on human rights by Professor Brooke Ackerly
10-10  Korea presentation

10-15  Comfort Woman
10-17  Comfort Woman

Fall Break

10-24  Sweden presentation

10-29  Melinda Brown from the Central Library on research; Suzanne Pharr, “Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism” and Women Across Cultures, ch. 4
10-31  Screening and discussion of Crimes of Honour

11-5  Afghanistan presentation; proposal for paper #2 due
11-7  India presentation and “India:  Mishri Yadav” in WMW

11-12  Jasmine
11-14  Jasmine

11-19  Women Across Cultures, ch. 8 and ch. 9
11-21  Melinda Brown on research; class meets in the Central Library’s Electronic Classroom

Thanksgiving Break

12-3  Day off for research
12-5  Paper #2 due—paper presentations in class

12-10  TBA—perhaps film of class’s choice
12-12  Review for the final

Final:  Monday, Dec. 16 at 3:00 pm
 

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