SCHEDULE
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Introduction (cont.)
(T) Jan. 11: Judy Wajcman,
"Feminist Critiques of Science and Technology";
Zuckerman, "Crusader for Women in Science"
Technologies of the Workplace
(R) Jan. 13: Excerpts from The
Lowell Offering; Baxandall and Gordon,
"Speed-Ups"; Wertheimer, "Slave Women in
Industry"
Week 3: Technologies of the Workplace (cont.)
(T) Jan. 18: Baxandall and Gordon,
"Industrial Health; "A Puerto Rican Fights for
a Garment Job"; Adilman, "Piece Work"
(R) Jan. 20: Cowan, "The Postwar
Years"; Excerpt from Mothers of Invention
Film: Silkwood
Week 4: Technologies of the Workplace (cont.)
(T) Jan. 25: Excerpts from If I
had a Hammer (Potter, Newman, Brodine); Baxandall
and Gordon, "Plant Closings"; Lowe, "Work,
Immigration, Gender: Asian 'American' Women"; Web
site: http://spot.colorado.edu/~shortk/whyshop.html
Technologies of Appearance
(R) Jan. 27: Urla and Swenlund,
"The Anthropometry of Barbie"; Atwood,
"The Female Body"
Sign-up for Group Project
Week 5: Technologies of Appearance (cont.)
(T) Feb. 1: Bordo, "Material
Girl"; Gerhart, "Nipped in the bud"
(R) Feb. 3: Weldon, Life and Loves
of a She-Devil (through chapter 19)
Web site: http://mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ98/lauerman.html
Week 6: Technologies of Appearance (cont.)
(T) Feb. 8: Life and Loves of a
She-Devil (to end); Colen, "Change Your Looks,
Change Your Life"; Hull, "After Abuse"
(R) Feb. 10: Excerpt from Peiss, Hope
in a Jar; Advertisements for skin-lighteners and
hair straighteners; Excerpt from Mothers of Invention,
"Sarah Breedlove Walker"
Presentation 1
Week 7: Technologies of Appearance (cont.)
(T) Feb. 15: Schuyler, Black No
More (first half)
(R) Feb. 17: Black No More (to
end)
Week 8: Technologies of Health and Medicine
(T) Feb. 22: Lerner, "Chemical
Reaction"
Guest speaker: Jonathan Metzl
(R) Feb. 24: Excerpt from Fadiman,
"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down";
Gollub, "Human Rights is a U.S. Problem, Too";
Web site: http://members.aol.com/natamcan/index.htm
Presentation 2
Week 9: SPRING BREAK
Week 10: Technologies of Health and Medicine
(cont.)
(T) March 7: Cartwright,
"Women, X-rays and Public Culture"
(R) March 9: "Cathy," from
Beauty Secrets; Web site: http://www.komen.org
(see "populations"); Butler, "The Evening
The Morning and the Night"
Presentation 3
Week 11: Technologies of Reproduction
(T) March 14: Sims, Excerpt from The
Story of My Life; Kapsalis, Terri, "Mastering
the Female Pelvis: Race and the Tools of
Reproduction"
(R)March 16: Davis, Angela,
"Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive
Rights"; Baxandall and Gordon, "Birth
Control"; Appendix: "Abortion"
Presentation 4
Film: Aliens
Week 12: Technologies of Reproduction (cont.)
(T) March 21: Hartouni,
"Breached Birth: Anna Johnson and the Reproduction
of Raced Bodies"; Wahlberg, "Ad seeks human egg
donor"; Moore, "Woman, 57, gives birth to
desired son"; Butler, "Bloodchild"
(R) March 23: Roberts, "From
Norplant to the Contraceptive Vaccine"; Talbot,
"The Little White Bombshell"
Presentation 5
Final Paper Topic Due
Week 13: Technologies of Reproduction (cont.)
(T) March 28: Saxton,
"Disability Rights and Selective Abortion";
Fine, "A History of Governmentally Coerced
Sterilization: The Plight of the Native American
Woman" (http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/9118/mike.html)
Film: La Operacion
The Internet Body
(R) March 30: Haraway, "A
Manifesto for Cyborgs"
Presentation 6
Group Papers Due
Week 14: The Internet Body (cont.)
(T) April 4: Excerpt from Stone,
"Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?: Boundary
Stories About Virtual Cultures"; Nesbitt, "New
Faces of Racism"
(R) April 6: Brail, "The Price of
Admission"; Kendall, "MUDder? I Hardly Know
'Er! Adventures of a Feminist MUDder"
Week 15: Closure
Film: Blade Runner
Thursday, April 20 : Final paper due
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