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Required Book

Taylor, Verta, Nancy Whittier, and Leila Rupp, eds. Feminist Frontiers. 7th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw Hill, 2007. ISBN: 9780073196084.

Readings by Session

Below are the required course readings divided into class sessions. For study questions relating to these readings, please see study materials.

Course readings.
SES #	TOPICS	FILMS	READINGS
1	Introduction to course and field of Women's and Gender Studies	(no films)	The MIT "Mens et Manus" Seal Controversy: A Contemporary Gender Debate with Roots in the Past.
2	The roots of contemporary gender debates: the 19^th Century American Women's Rights Movement	Excerpts from Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony. Directed by Ken Burns. PBS, 1999.	Boydston, Jeanne. "The Cult of True Womanhood." Grimke, Angelina. "Human Rights Not Founded on Sex." (1837).
3-4	Interpreting classic Women's Rights documents: the Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments	Excerpts from Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony. Directed by Ken Burns. PBS, 1999.	Davis, Angela. "The Anti-Slavery Movement and the Birth of Women's Rights." In Women, Race and Class. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1983, pp. 30-45. ISBN: 9780394713519. Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "Declaration of Sentiments." Women's Rights Covnention, Seneca Falls, New York, 1848. ———. "Our Costume." The Lily 4 (April 1851): 31. Douglass, Frederick. "Why I Became a Women's Rights Man." In Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. Edited by Rayford W. Logan. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1962 (reprinted from the revised edition of 1892), pp. 469, 472-74. ISBN: 9780020023500. (The e-text of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is also available from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.) Lucy Stone-Henry Blackwell Marriage Agreement (1855)
5	Gender, race and suffrage	Excerpts from Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony. Directed by Ken Burns (PBS, 1999).	Douglass, Frederick. "Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage." (January 1867). Truth, Sojourner. "Ain't I a Woman?" In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 33.
6	Gender, race and suffrage (cont.)	Ida B. Wells: Passion for Justice. Directed by William Greaves (1989).	(no readings)
7-8	Resistance or illness?: Discourses of women and madness	The Yellow Wallpaper. Directed by John Clive (1989).	Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The Yellow Wallpaper." The following four readings are from the text: Erskine, Thomas L., and Connie L. Richards, eds. The Yellow Wallpaper. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780813519944. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The 'Nervous Breakdown' of Women." pp. 67-76. Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. "The Hysterical Woman: Sex Roles and Role Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America." pp. 77-104. Mitchell, S. Weir. Selections fromFat and Blood, Wear and Tear and Doctor and Patient." pp. 105-111. Gilbert, Sandra, and Gubar, Susan. Excerpt from The Madwoman in the Attic. pp. 115-123. Hedges, Elaine R. "'Out at Last'? 'The Yellow Wallpaper' after Two Decades of Feminist Criticism." Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Edited by Joanne Karpinski. New York, NY: Hall & Co., 1992. pp. 222-233. ISBN: 9780816173150.
9	Patriarchy and the construction of female pathology	(no films)	Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "Hormonal Hurricanes: Menstruation, Menopause, and Female Behavior." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 351-363.
10-11	The second wave of Women's Rights Activism - The New Feminism (1963-present)	(no films)	Friedan, Betty. "The Problem That Has No Name." Chapter 1 in The Feminine Mystique. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2001. ISBN: 9780393322576. The National Organization for Women 1966 Statement of Purpose Frye, Marilyn. "Oppression." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 7-9. McIntosh, Peggy. "White Privilege and Male Privilege." Feminist Frontiers. pp. 9-15. Lorde, Audre. "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 35-37.
12	Socialization and gender roles	(no films)	Lorber, Judith. "'Night to His Day': The Social Construction of Gender." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 41-56. Richardson, Laurel. "Gender Stereotyping in the English Language." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 99-103. Thorne, Barrie. "Girls and Boys Together... But Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary Schools." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 141-151. "Hostile Hallways." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 152-156. Also available from the Safe Schools Coalition (PDF)^#. Kimmel, Michael. "What Are Little Boys Made Of?" In Feminist Frontier. pp. 157-159.
13	Socialization, race, ethnicity and gender roles	(no films)	Twine, France Winddance. "Brown-Skinned White Girls: Class, Culture, and the Construction of White Identity in Suburban Communities." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 174-189. Lopez, Laura, and Frances Hasso. "Frontlines and Borders" Identity Thresholds for Latinas and Arab American Women." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 17-30. Gunn Allen, Paula. "Where I Come From is Like This." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 31-35. Baca Zinn, Maxine, and Bonnie Thornton Dill. "Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 70-75. Walker, Alice. "Womanist." In Feminist Frontiers. p. 93.
14	Theoretical debates: social construction vs. biological essentialism	(no films)	Kessler, Suzanne. "The Medical Construction of Gender." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 56-70. Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough." The Sciences (March/April 1993): 20-25. ———. "The Five Sexes Revisited." The Sciences (July/August 2000).
15	Crossing gender boundaries	Ma Vie En Rose. Directed by Alain Berliner (1997).	(no readings)
16	Transgenderism	(no films)	Wilchins, Riki Anne. "17 Things You Don't Say to a Transsexual" and "What Does It Cost to Tell The Truth?" In Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1997, pp. 27-40. ISBN: 9781563410901. Feinberg, Leslie. "Allow Me to Introduce Myself." In TransLiberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1998, pp. 15-35. ISBN: 9780807079515.
17	Embodiment, body image and representation of women	Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women. Created by Jean Kilbourne, directed by Sut Jhally (2000).	Galler, Roberta. "The Myth of the Perfect Body." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 119-120. Gimlin, Debra. "Cosmetic Surgery: Paying for Your Beauty." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 105-118. Onishi, Norimitsu. "Globalization of Beauty Makes Slimness Trend." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 494-495.
18	Embodiment, body image and representation of women (cont.)	(no films)	Banks, Ingrid. "Hair Still Matters." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 110-118. Keyes, Cheryl. "Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 129-138. Hill Collins, Patricia. "Black Sexual Politics." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 318-322.
19	Sexuality and reproductive politics	(no films)	Tolman, Deborah. "Doing Desire: Adolescent Girls' Struggles for/with Sexuality." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 302-312. Wagle, Mary-Jane. "Abstinence-Only: Breeding Ignorance." In Feminist Frontiers. p. 257. Risman, Barbara, and Pepper Schwartz. "After the Sexual Revolution: Gender Politics and Teen Dating." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 313-318. Espiritu, Yen Le. "'We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do': Family, Culture and Gender in Filipina American Lives." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 160-173. Smith, Andrea. "'Beyond Pro-Choice versus Pro-Life': Women of Color and Reproductive Justice." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 389-402.
20	Sexualities and gender	(no films)	Rupp, Leila J. "Toward a Global History of Same-Sex Sexuality." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 332-341. Messner, Michael A. "Becoming 100% Straight." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 341-345. Naples, Nancy. "Queer Parenting in the New Milennium." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 196-299. Goodridge v. Dept of Public Health, Massachusetts 2003 Walters, Suzanna. "Wedding Bells and Baby Carriages: Heterosexuals Imagine Gay Families, Gay Families Imagine Themselves."
21-22	Gender and work	(no films)	Kessler-Harris, Alice. "The Wage Conceived: Value and Need as Measures of a Woman's Worth." In Feminist Frontiers. 6th ed. Edited by Laurel Richardson, Verta Taylor, and Nancy Whittier. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003, pp. 185-199. ISBN: 9780072824230. Bose, Christine, & Bridges Whaley, Rachel. "Sex Segregation in the U.S. Work Force." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 195-204. Reskin, Barbara. "The Realities of Affirmative Action in Employment." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 229-230. Padavic, Irene, and Barbara Reskin. "Moving Up and Taking Charge." In Feminist Frontiers. 6th ed. Edited by Laurel Richardson, Verta Taylor, and Nancy Whittier. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2004, pp. 209-225. ISBN: 9780072824230.
23	Gender and work (cont.)	(no films)	Gerson, Kathleen. "Moral Dilemmas, Moral Strategies, and the Transformation of Gender: Lessons from Two Generations of Work and Family Change." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 258-271. Kang, Miliann. "The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 217-228. Hochschild, Arlie Russell. "Love and Gold." In Global Women: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. Edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 2003. ISBN: 9780805069952.
24	Violence against women	(no films)	Martin, Patricia Yancey, and Robert Hummer. "Fraternities and Rape on Campus." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 417-426. Allen, Robert, and Kivel Paul. "Men Changing Men." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 426-428. Steinem, Gloria. "Supremacy Crimes." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 428-430. Nagel, Joane. "Sex and War: Fighting Men, Comfort Women, and the Military-Sexual Complex." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 441-452.
25	Global politics	(no films)	Sen, Amartya. "More than 100 Million Women Are Missing." The New York Review of Books 27, no. 20 (December 20, 1990). Enloe, Cynthia. "The Globetrotting Sneaker." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 453-457. Chang, Grace. "From the Third World to the 'Third World Within': Asian Women Workers Fighting Globalization." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 462-473. Abu-Lughod, Lila. "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 484-493. Darraj, Susan Muaddi. "It's Not an Oxymoron: The Search for an Arab Feminism." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 550-559. Pinsky, Robert. "The Shirt." In The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Grioux, 1997. ISBN: 9780374525064.
26	Contemporary feminism course reveiw	(no films)	Taylor, Verta, Whittier, Nancy, and Fabrizio Pelak, Cynthia. "The Women's Movement: Persistence Through Transformation." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 503-518. Aronson, Pamela. "Feminists or 'Postfeminists'? Young Women's Attitudes toward Feminism and Gender Relations." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 519-531. Jervis, Lisa. "The End of Feminism's Third Wave." In Feminist Frontiers. pp. 532-533.