Lecture notes (some)

and handouts


Sept. 14/15 Lecture: Patriarchal knowledge and feminist challenges          

lecture notes


Sept. 21/22 Lecture: Defining Oppression


Sept. 28/29 Lecture: What is feminist theory ?

  pocket guide to feminist theories


Oct 5/6 Lecture:  Feminism and anti-racism

Follow up on October 5 & 6, 1999 lectures:

An informal exercise based on comparison: ON THE PRACTICE OF FEMALE CIRCUMCISION AND THE PRACTICE OF NON-MEDICAL COSMETIC PLASTIC SURGERY (BREAST ENLARGEMENTS, LIPOSUCTION, LABIA RESTRUCTURING, ETC.)


Oct 12/13 History of the Women's Movement I: the subjection of women


FOLLOW UP ON OCTOBER 12 &13, 1999 LECTURES: PASSAGES TO PAY ATTENTION TO, REFLECT UPON (IN YOUR JOURNAL?) AND/OR DISCUSS WITH YOUR CLASSMATES (Mill and Frankenberg)


Oct 19/20 History of the Women's Movement II : the second wave

Consciousness raising guidelines for a Radical feminist Collective (1970)


Oct. 26/27 Film: Kanesetahke


 Nov. 2/3 Lecture: Kanesetahke:  resistance 


Nov 9/10 Lecture: Women in Legends, Myths and Symbols

lecture outline and questions


Nov 16/17 Historical perspectives on Female Sexuality

lecure outline and questions

The influence of Foucault's History of Sexuality on modern studies of sex and gender.


Nov 23/24: Contemporary perspectives on Female Sexuality

questions to think about before you view this week's film


Nov 30/31 Contemporary perspectives on Female Sexuality II


Jan 4/5  Sex, Lies and the Global Economy


Jan 11/12   Globalizing Feminism 

virtual sisterhood

E. Dantikat: We Are Ugly but We Are Here


Jan 18/19  The Social Construction of Gender I : your life as a girl


Jan 25/26 The Social Construction of Gender II: the Social Production and Reproduction of Femininity


Feb 1/2 Image and Representation

Adbuster's 'Obsession' campaign (take a look!)


Feb 8 /9 Technology and Space


Feb 22/23 FILM: Beloved


Feb 29 (leap!)/March1  Lecture: Toni Morrison and Beloved

Web resource:  Toni Morrison -- short biography


March 7/8 T owards a history of Women in the  Arts

lecture notes and questions


 

March14/15  Film and Feminists


March 21/22: Where do we go from here? Review


March 28/29: in class exam