Tuesday, April 4 The Sexual Revolution
Audio: The Pointer Sisters
Reading:
Helen Gurley Brown, from Sex and the Single Girl (1962),
MAW, pp. 298-303.
Anne Koedt, "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" (1968), in Course Reader, pp. 44-48.
Anselma Dell'Olio, "The Sexual Revolution Wasn't Our War" (Handout)
George Gilder, from Men and Marriage (1989) (Handout)
Virginia Breath, "Making the Sexual Revolution Work for Women" (Handout)
Wednesday, April 5, 7:00 PM: CLASS PARTY
Thursday, April 6 The Second Wave of Feminism
Reading:
W&AE, pp. 372-385.
"Founding of the National Organization for Women" (1966);
Robin Morgan, "No More Miss America" (1968);
Pat Mainardi, "The Politics of Housework" (1969)
all in MAW, pp. 225-246.
Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck," WW, pp. 1005-1007.
Alice Walker, "Everyday Use . . ." (1973), WW, pp. 1130-1036.
Tuesday, April 10 The Second Wave Continues
Reading:
W&AE, pp. 386-424.
Roe v. Wade (1973) (handout).
Margaret Cruikshank, "Is This the Reward of a Catholic Girlhood?"
(1980),MAW, pp. 303-307.
"Houston, 1977," MAW , pp. 262-264.
Louise Glück, "The School Children" (1975), WW, 1124-25.
Maxine Hong Kingston, "No Name Woman" (1976)
Wednesday, April 12, 7:00 PM, SH-221: FILM: Working Girl(1988)
Thursday, April 13 The Second Shift : The Seventies & Eighties
Reading: Rita Dove, all selections, WW, pp. 1146-1149.
Joyce Carol Oates, "Nairobi" (1986), WW, 1090-95.
Ann Beattie, "Skeletons" (1986), WW, 1136-39.
Bobbie Ann Mason, "Hunktown" (1989), WW, 1103-14.
Crystal Lee Sutton, "The Real 'Norma Rae' Tells Her Story,"
MAW, pp. 268-270, 273-277.
Jessie Lopez De La Cruz, "Organizing Farm Workers," MAW, pp. 282-285.
Johnnie Tillmon, "Women on Welfare," MAW, pp. 286-289.
Photo Essay, MAW, pp. 290-297.
Tuesday, April 18 Backlash? -- The Eighties
Reading:
Phyllis Schlafly, from The Power of the Positive Woman
(1977), MAW, pp. 264-267.
Susan Faludi, from Backlash (1991),
MAW, pp. 327-333.
Toni Morrison, from Beloved (1987), WW, pp. 1068-1078.
Wednesday, April 19, 7:00 PM, SH-221: FILM: Fatal Attraction
(1987)
Thursday, April 20 The Nineties; Reading:
Amy Tan, "Rules of the Game," from The Joy Luck Club
(1989), WW, pp. 1150-1156.
Abra Fortune Chernik, "The Body Politic" (1995), MAW,
pp.320-324.
Mary Pipher, from Reviving Ophelia (1994) (handout)
Glück, "Dedication to Hunger" (1980), WW, 1125-27.
Anita Hill, "Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee" (1991),
MAW, pp. 334-338.
Tuesday, April 25 The Late Nineties and a New Millennium
Reading:
Eve Ensler, "The Vagina Monologues" (1998), MAW, pp. 324-326.
Katie Roiphe, "Date Rape: Hysteria or Epidemic?" MAW, pp. 338-340.
Christina Hoff Sommers, "Who Stole Feminism?" MAW, pp. 340-344.
United States v. Virginia (1996), MAW, pp. 344-348.
Jennifer Baumgardener & Amy Richards, "A Third Wave Feminist Manifesta" (2000),
MAW, pp. 348-350.
Charlotte Bunch, "Global Feminism" (1995), MAW, pp. 350-353.
Wednesday, April 26, 7:00 PM, SH-221: FILM: Monster's Ball
(2001)
Audio: John Lennon
Audio: Helen Reddy (1972)
Link to Reviews
Audio: Paula Cole (1996)
Audio: Cyndi Lauper (1983)
Misogyny in Popular Culture
Audio: 2 Live Grew (1989)
Audio: Guns N' Roses (1989)
Audio: Snoop Dogg (1994)
Audio: No Doubt (1995)
Audio: Meredith Brooks (1997)
Audio: Eminem (2000)
Audio: Madonna (2000)
Link to Reviews
Thursday, April 27 Women (and Men) Today
Audio: Tori Amos (2001)
Audio: Pink (2006)
Collage of Scenes from Class Skits
MUSIC: Garbage, "Androgyny" (2002)