WOMS 101 discussion assignments
SJSU Fall 2006
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