2002 Fall Reading and Assignment Schedule for WSP 101


October November December
AUGUST
Sun Mon Tues Wed
25 26-Introductions & Website Exploration
Laurie Fuller
27 28-Feminism is for EVERYBODY
Read: hooks, introduction and chapter 1

 
SEPTEMBER
Sun Mon Tue Wed
1 2---School is Closed  3 4-Legacies of 9/11/01
Online readings: Robin Mogan and
Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy 
8 9-Peaceful responses to war
Read: Excerpts from Starhawk's Fifth Sacred Thing beginning to p. 353 (which means pages 16-19, 102-104, 160-164, 231-246, 270-279, 282-290, 308-316, 330-341, & 342-353)
10 11-Peaceful responses to war Continued
Excerpts from Starhawk's Fifth Sacred Thing finish the reading (which means pages 374-381, and 410-484)
15 16-Intro to Women's Studies
READ: Women, Intro-chapter3 (pages 1-20) 
Poems
17 18-Intro to Women's Studies
Read: Women, Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8 & 11
Poems
22 23--Becoming a Woman
Read: Women, Pp. 39-44 and chapters 15-17, 19 & 20;
Poems
24 25-Learning Sexism and the Consequences of Sexism Continued
Read: Women  Pp. 65, and chapters 22, 23, 24, & 26 
Poems
Exercise 1 Due by Midnight on the BlackBoard Discussion Group
29 30--Biological Sex and Sexism
Read:  Women  chapter 30 and the Five Sexes Online Reading
Poems
Information about Sodomy Laws and Intersex Society
THE FIVE SEXES, REVISITED online update of 1993 article

 
 
OCTOBER
Sun Mon Tue Wed
1 2-Women's Racial Diversities
Read: Women  Pp. 300-303 and Chapters 79, 80, 84
Poems
6 7-Women's Class Diversities
Read:  Women Pp. 317-337 
Poems
8 9-The Perils of Heterosexism
Read: Women Pp. 338, chapters 92-96 
Poems
13 14-Valuing Women's  Differences
Read: Women, p. 355, chapters 97-99 
Poems
Exercise 2 POST Due by Midnight on the BlackBoard Discussion Group
15 16- Women's  Beauty 
Read: Women, pp. 107-11,  chapters 31, 38-39, & 41
Poems
Exercise 2 REPLIES Due by Midnight on the BlackBoard Discussion Group
20 21-Women's Sexualities
Read: Women, p. 135,  chapters 42-49
Poems
22 23-Women's Health
Read: Women:  p. 266, chapters 71, 74 & The Real Number One Killer Online Reading
Poems
27 28-Women's Reproductive Health
Read: Women:  p. 387, chapters 105-107, 109-110 
Poems
29 30-Women and Work
Read: Women:  p. 188, chapters 53-58 
Poems

 
NOVEMBER
Monday Wednesday
3 4-Sexual Harassment 
Read: Women, p. 410, #112, 114-115
Poems
Exercise 3 POST Due by Midnight on the BlackBoard Discussion Group
5 6-Women and Violence
Read: Women, p. 423, #117, 119-120; p. 436, #121-123
Poems
Exercise 3 REPLIES Due by Midnight on the BlackBoard Discussion Group
10  11-Women and Violence Cont. 
Read: Women, #125, p. 456, #126-128 
Poems
12 13-Readings on Native American Mascots and Colonialism
Poems
14 15-American 
Indian Center
49th Annual 
Pow Wow
16- Pow Wow
17- Pow Wow 18-Changing our World
Read: Women  p. 473-490 and chapter 130 & 133 & hooks chapters 2 & 3
Poems
19 20-Women's Movements and Activism
Read: Women p. 531, chapters 135-138, 142-147 
Poems
24 25--Feminism is for EVERYBODY
Read: hooks, chapters 4-7
Poems
Exercise 4 Due in class
26 27-Feminism is for EVERYBODY
Read: hooks, chapters 8-11
Poems
DECEMBER
Monday Wednesday
1 2-Feminism is for EVERYBODY
Read: hooks, chapters 12-15
Poems
All three PARTICIPATION RESPONSES due by today
3 4-Feminism is for EVERYBODY
Read: hooks, chapters 16-19
Poems
8 9-Feminisms, Women's Movements, Activism
and Final Thoughts
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