| 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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