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