Daily Syllabus
revised 8 December
Most readings are from Gender Through
the Prism of Difference. Other readings can be accessed through simple
hypertext link (just click and go), while others are available through
electronic reserve (RES).
You need a password and 
to
read electronic reserve files.
Unit 1: Introduction to Class Materials and Themes
Mon 26 Aug
In class: Introduction to
class materials and policies. Thinking
About Gender.
Class
Notes Notes for each class will become available online about a
week after the class meeting in question. So this link to Class Notes will
become functional by Mon 2 Sep.
Wed 28 Aug
For class: Buy course
textbook. Read "Introduction" (1-12). Set up an email account
if you don't already have one. If you don't know how, get help from the
TA (kat sabine), a preceptor (Carolyn Gage or Maddy Wiseman), or a librarian
(in either the Main or Science Library). Go online for more information
on Computing on Campus.
In class: Assignment to learning
groups. Assignment of group research topics. Exchange email addresses.
Finding gender in the newspaper.
Class
Notes
Fri 30 Aug
For class: Read
Lorber, "Believing is Seeing" (13-22). Sign on to class list: Send
the message subscribe gender yourfirstname yourlastnameto listserv@listserv.arizona.edu.
(Subscribe
using the email account that is most convenient for you to access; remember
that it is your account that subscribes to the list, not you; you will
be able to send and receive messages to/from this list only from the email
address from which you subscribe.)
Create an email distribution
list for your learning group. Don't hesitate to ask for help if you're
uncertain how to accomplish these tasks.
In class: Class
Notes assignment. Sign up to post Class Notes. Critical Thinking Skill:
Summary.
Class
Notes
Mon 2 Sep--no class: Labor Day
Wed 4 Sep
For class: Read McIntosh,
"White Privilege" (247-50).
In class: Quiz 1
on Thinking
About Gender, Lorber, McIntosh. Critical Thinking Skill: Analysis.
Class
Notes
Unit 2: Gender and Language
Fri 6 Sep
For class: Read Spender,
"Language
Studies" (RES). Note the this article is available through electronic
reserve. Get help from the TA, a preceptor, or a librarian if you need
help accessing this and other electronic reserve articles.
In class: Critical Thinking
Skill: Evaluation.
Assignment of Resource
Report 1.
Class
Notes
Mon 9 Sep
For class: Read
Stack, "Different Voices, Different Visions" (42-48).
In class: Discussion. Critical
Thinking Skill: Synthesis.
Class
Notes
Wed 11 Sep
For class: Read
Cohn, "Sex
and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals" (RES).
Begin
working on Resource Report 1.
In class: Quiz 2
on Spender, Stack, and Cohn. Review of critical thinking skills.
Class
Notes
Unit 3: Gender and Education
Fri 13 Sep
For class: Read Thorne,
"Children and Gender" (30-41). Continue working on Resource Report
1.
In class: Discussion.
Questions about report?
Class
Notes
Mon 16 Sep
For class: Complete
Resource Report 1.
In class: Turn in
Resource Report 1. Assignment of Resource
Report 2.
Class
Notes
Wed 18 Sep
For class: Read
AAUW, "How Schools Shortchange
Girls."
In class: Scavanger
Hunt: Introduction to Library Resources.
Class
Notes
Fri 20 Sep
For class: Read Kleinfeld,
"The
Myth That Schools Shortchange Girls." Begin working on Resource
Report 2.
In class: Quiz 3
on AAUW and Kleinfeld. Discussion.
Class
Notes
Mon 23 Sep
For class: Complete Journal
Exercise. (This is for all students, not only those who are finding
a journal article for Research Report 2.) Click on the link, and follow
the instructions you find there. If you have any questions, email Ruth
Dickstein. Read Stombler and Padavic, "Sister Acts" (490-502).
In class: Discussion. Escuela
(video).
Class
Notes
Unit 4: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
Wed 25 Sep
For class: Read
Messner, "When Bodies Are Weapons" (148-52), Messner, "Becoming 100% Straight"
(205-10), and Bordo, "Pills and Power Tools" (168-70). Continue
working on Resource Report 2.
In class: Discussion.
Class
Notes
Fri 27 Sep
For class: Continue
working on Resource Report 2. Read Tolman, "Doing Desire" (155-67),
and Gutmann, "Male Discretion and Sexual Indiscretion in Working Class
Mexico City" (171-87).
In class: Quiz 4
on Messner, Bordo, Tolman, and Gutmann. Watching Dream Worlds II.
Class
Notes
Mon 30 Sep
For class: Continue
working on Resource Report 2. Read Zones, "Beauty Myths and Realities"
(87-103).
In class: Dream Worlds II
(video).
Class
Notes
Wed 2 Oct
For class: Continue
working on Resource Report 2. Read Sheffield, "Sexual
Terrorism" (RES).
In class: Dream
Worlds II (cont.)
Class
Notes
Fri 4 Oct
For class: Continue
working on Resource Report 2. Read Gerschick and Miller, "Coming
to Terms" (109-22).
In class: Quiz 5
on Dream Worlds II, Zones, and Gerschick and Miller.
Class
Notes
Unit 5: Gender and Families
Mon 7 Oct
For class: Complete Resource
Report 2. Read LaRossa, "Fatherhood and Social Change" (298-309).
In class: Turn in
Resource Report 2. Assignment of Term
Paper. The Full Monty (video).
Class
Notes
Wed 9 Oct
For class: Read
Louis B. Hobson, "Yanks
Just Not Ready for the Full Monty." Begin working on Term Paper.
In class: The Full Monty,
cont. Discussion.
Class
Notes
Fri 11 Oct
For class: Read Scheper-Hughes,
"(M)Other Love" (261-67), and Collins, "The Meaning of Motherhood in Black
Culture" (268-78). Continue working on Term Paper.
In class: Quiz 6 on
LaRossa, Scheper-Hughes, Collins, The Full Monty, . Discussion.
Class
Notes
Mon 14 Oct
For class: Read Witherow,
"Native American Mother" (295-97), and Gilmore, "Men and Women in Southern
Spain" (310-21). Continue working on Term Paper.
In class: Your Mom's a
Lesbian (video). Discussion.
Class
Notes
Unit 6: Gender, Science, and Technology
Wed 16 Oct
For class: Read Douglas
Wallen, "Sex
Difference in Science: Fact or Fabrication?," and Hubbard, "Have
Only Men Evolved" (RES).
In class: Discussion.
Class
Notes
Fri 18 Oct
For class: Read Martin,
"The
Egg and the Sperm" (RES).
In class: Rewriting the myth
of conception.
Class
Notes
Unit 7: Gender and Work
Mon 21 Oct
For class: Read Karen Coyle,
"How Hard Can It Be?"
In class: Quiz 7 on
Wallen, Hubbard, Martin, and Coyle.
Class
Notes
Wed 23 Oct
For class: Read Pringle,
"Male Secretaries" (357-71).
In class: Who's Counting?
(video).
Class
Notes
Fri 25 Oct
For class: Complete
first version of Term Paper. Print out two copies to bring to class.
In class: Turn in Term
Paper. Writing Workshop.
Class
Notes
Mon 28 Oct
For class: Read Giuffre
and Williams, "Boundary Lines" (372-87), and Hossfeld, "'Their Logic Against
Them'" (388-400).
In class: Quiz cancelled.
Class
Notes
Wed 30 Oct
For class: Read about Rosie
the Riveter.
In class: Rosie the Riveter
(video).
Class
Notes
Fri 1 Nov
For class: Read Enloe,
"It Takes More Than Two" (188-99).
In class: Rosie the Riveter
(cont.).
Class
Notes
Unit 8: Gender and Globalization
Mon 4 Nov
For class: Read Connell,
"Masculinities and Globalization" (49-62).
In class: Quiz 8
on Enloe, Rosie the Riveter (video and web site).
Class
Notes
Wed 6 Nov
For class: Read Hondagneu-Sotelo
and Avila, "'I'm Here, but I'm There'" (279-94).
In class: The Global Assembly
Line (video).
Class
Notes
Fri 8 Nov
For class: Read Hondagneu-Sotelo
and Messner, "Gender Displays and Men's Power" (63-74).
In class: Antonia's Line
(video). Term Paper first version returned.
Class
Notes
Mon 11 Nov--no class: Veteran's Day
Wed 13 Nov
For class: Read
Kibria, "Culture, Social Class, and Income Control" (331-45). Begin
revising Term Paper.
In class: Antonia's Line
(video).
Class
Notes
Fri 15 Nov
For class: Read
Espiritu, "'Americans Have a Different Attitude" (222-31). Continue
revising Term Paper.
In class: Still Killing Us Softly
(video). Assignment of Outrageous
Act.
Class
Notes
Unit 10: Outrageous Acts: Gendered Norms
Mon 18 Nov
For class: Continue revising Term
Paper.
In class: Antonia's Line (video).
Quiz
9 on Kibria, Espiritu, and Antonia's Line.
Class
Notes
Wed 20 Nov
For class: Bring and
ad to class that illustrated assumptions about gender, race, and/or class.
Continue
revising Term Paper.
In class: Discussion.
Class
Notes
Fri 22 Nov
For class: Read
Yamada, "Invisibility
is an Unnatural Disaster" (RES). Continue revising Term Paper.
In class: Quiz 10 on
Still
Killing Us Softly, Yamada.
Class
Notes
Mon 25 Nov--no class: fieldwork on gendered
norms
Complete Term Paper. Turn in
Term Paper to Prof. McBride in Comm 108 by 4:00 pm.
Wed 27 Nov--no class: fieldwork on gendered norms
Fri 29 Nov--no class: Thanksgiving Holiday
Unit 10: Gender and Social Policy
Mon 2 Dec
For class: Complete
Outrageous Act report on gendered norms. The
Moynihan Report.
In class: Turn in Outrageous
Act report. Discussion.
Class
Notes
Wed 4 Dec
For class: Safa, "Women's
Social Movements in Latin America" (467-77).
In class:
Class
Notes
Fri 6 Dec
For class: Read
Pardo, "Mexican American Women, Grassroots Community Activists" (461-66).
In class: Quiz 11 on
Moynihan, Safa, and Pardo. Evaluation.
Class
Notes
Mon 8 Dec
For class: Read
Richie and Kanuha, "Battered Women of Color" (129-37).
In class: Create final exam.
Class
Notes
Unit 10: Final Exam
Wed 11 Dec
For class: Read Final
Exam Study Guide.
In class: Bonus quiz
on study guide. Evaluation.
Mon 16 Dec, 11 am - 1 pm, ILC 125 (our
regular classroom)
Final exam.