Five-Six

9/24: Donovan :1

9/26:Vndication

9/28: Declaration and Enfranchisement

10/1:Subjection, Aint't I	legal texts	10/5: no class
10/8: News Analysis

• Attempts to reform or use existing political structures to advance women's interests along a civil rights model.
• Argues that women deserve the same privileges, protections, pay, and opportunities that men do.

•  Donovan: 1
•  Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792. Read: chapter 1
• Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
•  excerpt from Enfranchisement of Women (1851)
• Chapter 1 from Subjection of Women (1869)
• Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?" (1851)
• A Time Line for American Woman Suffrage
• Bradwell v. Illinois (1873)
• 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
• Equal Rights Amendment
• New York Times

October 5: no class

• Discussion

• 1st oral presentation: News analysis

Seven

10/8: News Analysis

10/10: Donovan: 2

10/12: fuller, Perkins, Gilman

• Assumes that there are fundamental  differences between men and women, and that women's differences are special and should be celebrated.
• supports the notion that there are biological differences between men and women, for example, "women are kinder and more gentle than men."
•  wants to overcome sexism by celebrating women's special qualities, women's ways, and women's experiences, often believing that the "woman's way" is the better way.

• Donovan: 2
• Jane Addams, "Why Women Should Vote," 1915

• Discussion

• 2nd Oral presentation: Film Analysis

Eight

10/15

10/17 Film Analysis oral presentations Donavan 3 and Engels

• According to Marxist theory,  people's capacities, needs and interests are seen to be determined by the mode of production that characterizes the society they inhabit.
• Marxist feminists see gender inequality as determined ultimately by the capitalist mode of production.
• Gender oppression is class oppression and women's subordination is seen as a form of class oppression.

• Donovan: 3
• "The Origins of the family, Private Property and the State" (read Introduction, the 2 prefaces, stages, the family)
• "Poverty Among Women"
• Women’s Poverty in the United States, 2003

No class: October 19 (Fall Break)

Discussion

3rd Response paper: Use the data from "women and Poverty" and "Women's Poverty" to support Hartman's argument that class is another form of oppression for women. How do Hartman's strategies for promoting an equitable society echo those of hooks? Due: October 26

Nine-Ten

10/22: Donovan: 4	10/24: Freud	10/26: 3rd response paper due; Koedt and Wittig
10/29: "Killing us Softly"	10/31:	11/2: no class

• gender is not biological but is based on the psycho-sexual development of the individual.
• gender inequality comes from early childhood experiences, which lead men to believe themselves to be masculine, and women to believe themselves feminine.
• a social system that is dominated by males, influences the individual psycho-sexual development.

• Donovan: 4
•  PBS web site on Freud
• Freud, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (read Introduction, Preface, and 1 of the essays)
• Reader: Koedt, Wittig

No class: November 2

Discussion

3rd oral presentations - analysis of advertisements: November 5

Eleven

11/5: oral presentations--ad analysis;  Donovan: 5

11/7: no class

10/9: de Beauvoir

• Women have become the “other” or object of men’s subjectivity. 
• Primarily due to one’s biology, women’s oppression consists of being denied transcendence and subjectivity.

• Donovan: 5
• de Beauvoir Archive read the introduction and conclusion of Second Sex and the 1976 interview.

Discussion

4th Response paper: Simone de Beauvoir says, "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." Carefully explain what de Beauvoir means by this. How does this claim offer a starting point for making a distinction between sex and gender? In your experience, is de Beauvoir correct in making this claim? Explain. Due: November 12

Twelve-Thirteen

• Proceeds from the assumption that the first type of exploitation in human history was sexual exploitation of women
• Women should be in the control of means of reproduction
• Radical feminists tend to be skeptical of political action within the current system, and instead support cultural change that undermines patriarchy and associated hierarchical structures

• Donovan: 6
• Redstockings Manifesto
• Kreps "Radical Feminism 1"
• Bunch, "Lesbians in Revolt"
• Analyze1 of the 27 poems by Adrienne Rich

No class: November 21

Discussion

4th Oral presentation:  re-write a fairy tale. November 19