WOMS 101 discussion assignments

SJSU Fall 2006

Jump to Section 3 (MW noon)

 

SECTION TWO: Wed evenings 6pm

Week 3   -  9/13   Work, Family & Domesticity

Jimmy Crutison, Daniel Powell

READ:  Amott & Matthaei, "Transformation..."
    Hartmann & Yi, "Rhetoric..."
    Mink, "Violating Women"
    Enloe, "Globetrotting Sneaker"

Week 4   -  9/20 Masculinity

Christopher Filice, Brenda Gabel

READ:  Gerson, "Dilemmas of Fatherhood" (Discussants, choose two of first three articles)
    Kimmel, "Masculinity as Homophobia "
    Messner, "Boyhood, Sports & Masculinity"
    Mainardi, "Politics of Housework"

Week 5   -  9/27   Sexuality & Reproductive Rights

Leslie Klein, Jose Macias, Tiffany Strouse

READ:  Gavey, McP & D, "If it's not on" (discussants, choose two of first three articles)
    Davis, "Racism, Birth Control & Repro Rights"
    Sherwin, "Feminist Ethic"
    IUGL, "When you meet…"

Week 6   -  10/4    Violence

Jessica Chandra Lal, Kenya Kennedy

READ:   Koestner, "Perfect Rape Victim"
   Buel, "Domestic Violence"
   Kantrowitz, "Women, Violence & Resistance"

Week 7   -  10/11    Gender, Culture & Race

Namie Ideura, Son Phan

READ:  I, Rigoberta Menchu, 1-121

Week 8   -  10/18    Gender, Culture & Race

Husnia Sakhizada, Monica Torres

READ:  I, Rigoberta Menchu, 122-242

Week 9   -  10/25    Gender & Race in fiction:

Mengistu Mekuria, Diana Alper

READ:  So Far From God, Ch. 1-7

Week 10 -  11/1     Gender & Race in fiction

Erin Wozny, Carol Morris

READ:  So Far From God, Ch. 8-16

 

Section 3: MW Noon

Wk 3 - 9/12 Practicing Social Science

1. Candyce DeWalt 2. Sarah Hovland

Discussants, choose: Rosaldo, “Erosion & After Objectivism” & Anzaldua, "Haciendo Caras [Theory]" OR: Racial Formation, ch. 4-5