Unit One: Introduction to course materials, methodology,  requirements

Thu 11 Jan
In class: Introduction to WS 240. Online syllabus. Electronic reserve. Internet skills. Learning groups. Lecture: Protofeminisms: arguing from proof texts about human nature. Recovering women's history and thought. The bifocal approach to the history of women's thought and activism. A Midwife's Tale (video).
Class Notes (a summary of the material covered in each class will be posted within one week of its meeting.)

Tue 16 Jan
For class: Activate your email account and sign on to the class list. You can get instructions online; you can go to the library Reference Desk for help; or you can make an appointment with the TA, Jill Pioter, for individual assistance. To sign on to the list, send the message subscribe riot Yourfirstname Yourlastname to listserv@listserv.arizona.edu.
In class: A Midwife's Tale (cont.).
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Thu 18 Jan
For class: Read Valerie Lee, "Sistah Conjurer" (RES). Note: you must have a user name and password to access this and other electronic reserve readings. Unless you have very fast internet connection, you will want to access and print these readings at a library or other campus computer lab.
In class: Quiz 1 on Midwife's Tale and Lee. Sign up for Class Notes.
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Tue 23 Jan
For class: Read Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, "The Female World of Love and Ritual" (RES).
In class: The U.S. in the nineteenth-century. Discussion.
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Thu 25 Jan
For class: Read Barbara Welter, "The Cult of True Womanhood" (RES).
In class: Quiz 2 on Smith-Rosenberg and Welter.
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Tue 30 Jan
For class: Read Hazel Carby, "Slave and Mistress." (RES). Read about Ida B. Wells Barnett.
In class: Liberal feminism: arguing from a liberal, humanist political perspective. Using JSTOR. Analyzing media images. Using historic library resources. Assignment of Essay One: Representations of Women in Nineteenth-Century Media.
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Thu 1 Feb
For class: Read Gerda Lerner, "The Grimke Sisters," through JSTOR. Read about Harriet Tubman. Begin work on Essay One.
In class: One Woman, One Vote (video).
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Unit Two: First Wave Feminism

Tue 6 Feb
For class: Read about the first Women's Right Convention at Seneca Falls; read the "Declaration of Sentiments" that convention produced; read about Sojourner Truth and her contribution to the women's movement and emancipation. Continue work on Essay One.
In class: Guest speaker.
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Thu 8 Feb
For class: Read Eleanor Flexner, "From Seneca Falls to the Civil War" (RES). Continue work on Essay One.
In class: One Woman, One Vote (cont.). Continue work on Essay One.
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Tue 13 Feb
For class: Continue work on Essay One. Read about Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill; read Chapter 1 of The Subjection of Women. (Or, if you've already read this chapter for another class of mine, review Chapter 1 and read Chapter 2.)
In class: Quiz 3 on Flexner, Taylor/Mill, and One Woman, One Vote.
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Thu 15 Feb
For class: Complete Essay One. Read Bettina Aptheker, "The Dailiness of Women's Lives" (RES).
In class: Hearts and Hands (video). Turn in Essay One.
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Tue 20 Feb
For class: Read about Margaret Sanger.; read about some of the recent attacks on her theory and activism.
In class: Quiz 4 on Aptheker, Hearts and Hands, and Sanger readings.
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Thu 22 Feb
For class: Read Hazel Carby, "It Jus Be's Dat Way Sometimes" (RES).
In class: Quiz 5 on Carby. The Blues.
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Tue 27 Feb
For class: Read a short biography of Charlotte Perkins Gillman, an early feminist economist; read her story "The Yellow Wallpaper" and her explanation of why she wrote it. If you'd like to know more about feminist economics, here's a list of resources compiled by Prof. Deborah Anderson.
In class: Guest speaker:
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Thu 1 Mar
For class: Read about Virginia Woolf; read A Room of One's Own, chapters 1-3.
In class: Discussion. Assignment of Essay Two.
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Tue 6 Mar
For class: Read Woolf, A Room of One's Own, chapters 4-6 (to end). Begin work on Essay Two.
In class: Quiz 6 on Woolf. Second wave feminism: liberal feminism, social feminism, radical feminism, womanism.
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Unit Three: The Second Wave

Thu 8 Mar
For class: Read Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex  (RES). Continue working on Essay Two.
In class: Rosie the Riveter (video).
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Tue 13 Mar
Thu 15 Mar
No class--Spring Break

Tue 20 Mar
For class: Read Sara Evans, "Cracks in the Mold" (RES). Read an excerpt from a 1960s textbook on"How to Be a Good Wife." Continue working on Essay Two.
In class: I Love Lucy (video). Discussion.
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Thu 22 Mar
For class: Read about Jim Crow and The Moynihan Report. Read Sara Evans, "Black Power: Catalyst for Feminism" (RES). Continue working on Essay Two.
In class: Quiz 7 on Evans (both articles), Jim Crow, and the Moynihan Report.
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Tue 27 Mar
For class: Complete Essay Two.
In class: Still Killing Us Softly (video). Turn in Essay Two.
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Thu 29 Mar
For class:Read Taylor and Whittier, "The New Feminist Movement" (RES); Lorde, "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" (RES).
In class: Quiz 8 on Whittier and Lorde. Assignment of Essay Three.
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Tue 3 Apr
For class: Read Koedt, "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" (RES); read Steinem, "If Men Could Menstruate" (RES); read Combahee River Collective, "Black Feminist Statement" (RES). Begin work on Essay Three.
In class: Quiz 9 on Koedt, Steinem, Combahee. More discussion of Essay Three.
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Thu 5 Apr
For class: Read Rich, "Toward a Woman-Centered University" (RES); read Spender, "Literary Criticism" (RES). Continue working on Essay Three.
In class: Discussion.
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Tue 10 Apr
For class: Read Reskin, "Occupational Resegregation" (RES). Continue working on Essay Three.
In class: Quiz 10 on Rich, Spender, and Reskin.
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Thu 12 Apr
For class: For class: Read Sheffield, "Sexual Terrorism" (RES). Continue working on Essay Three.
In class: Dreamworlds II (video).
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Unit Three: Third Wave and Post-Feminisms

Tue 17 Apr
For class: Read Yamada, "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster" (includes Rushin, "The Bridge Poem") (RES). Complete first version of Essay Three.
In class: Peer review of Essay Three.
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Thu 19 Apr
For class: Read hooks, "Keeping Close to Home" (RES). Begin revising Essay Three.
In class: Quiz 11 on Sheffield, Dreamworlds, Yamada, Rushin, and hooks.
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Tue 24 Apr
For class: Read Budgeon and Currie, "From Feminism to Postfeminism" (RES). Continue revising Essay Three.
In class: Discussion. Create final exam.
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Thu 26 Apr
For class: Read Whittier, "Feminists in the 'Postfeminist' Age" (RES). Continue revising Essay Three.
In class: Quiz 12 on Budgeon and Currie, Whittier. Evaluation.
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Tue 1 May
For class: Read Gottlieb and Wald, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (RES). Complete Essay Three.
In class: Bonus Quiz on final exam study guide. Evaluation. Party? Turn in Essay Three.

Thu 10 May, 11 am-1pm
Final Exam (in our regular classroom)