WS 3050    Spring 2005    MacKay and Powell

Calendar

 Week/s  Topic/s  Readings  Projects

 1-2

  What is feminism? What is theory?  Hooks  Introductions

Response paper #1: January 25

 3-4

  Liberal Feminism

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.

  Tong
Woolstonecraft
Taylor Mill & Mill
Declaration of Sentiments
Truth

Bethune
Friedan
Boucher
Hoff-Wilson

 Discussions

Response paper #2: February 3

 5

  Radical Feminism

"Reforms and legal changes, while ameliorating the condition of women and an essential part of the process of emancipating them, will not basically change patriarchy.  Such reforms need to be integrated within a vast cultural revolution in order to transform patriarchy and thus abolish it."
Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy, p. 217

 There are many different types of radicals, ranging from the reformists to the separatists.  All assume that he oppression of women as the most fundamental form of oppression, one that cuts across boundaries of race, culture, and economic class.

  Tong
Redstockings
SCUM Manifesto
Article about Millett
Article about Firestone
Interview with Daly
Dworkin
Rich
 		 Discussions

 6

  Marxist/Socialist Feminism

 

 Tong
essay by Gimez
extracts from Engels
Kollanti
essay by MacKinnon		 Discussions

Definitions

 Response paper #3: February 17

7-8

  Psychoanalytic Feminism Tong  Discussions

Discussion of Gilligan interview: March 1

analysis of a fairy tale, oral presentations: February 24, March 1

 

Grades: will be a percentage of points possible-not "on the curve."

8-9

  Existentialist Feminism  Tong

de Beauvoir chapters and interview

  Discussions

Discussion of Second Sex: March 3

Response paper #4: March 8 and 10

 

9

   International Women's Day: March 8; News Analysis: March 8 and 10

 Woman Watch  is posted by the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE), a network of Gender Focal Points in United Nations offices, specialized agencies, funds and programs.

Spring Break March 14-18

10

  Postmodern Feminism  Tong

excerpts from Cixous and Irigary

  Discussions

11-12

  Multicultural and Global Feminisms Collins, Anzaldua, Butler

"Transnational Feminism," short essays on Global feminism

Non-Euro/American feminist web sites

 Discussion of Collins texts: March 29

Discussion of Anzaldua texts: March 31

Discussion of Butler texts: April 5

Discussion of web site/Global feminisms: April 7

Response paper #5

13

 Ecofeminism  Tong  Discussions

Response paper #6

14

  Literary analysis or Film analysis  Due: April 21, 26

Powell and MacKay will present analysis of Kate Chopin's "The Story of An Hour" (1894) which was made into a film The Joy That Kills (1976)

 Story and Film Choices

15

  Ah ha projects: April 28
   
   Final exam