WEEK 1
Monday, June 11: Introduction to the Course – Why Study Gender?
No readings due
Tuesday, June 12: The Science of Sex and Gender
readings due:
Roy Richard Grinker. 1997. “Houses in the Rainforest: Gender and Ethnicity among the Lese and Efe in Zaire.” In Perspectives on Africa. R. Grinker and C. Steiner, eds. Cambridge: Blackwell. Pages: 228-245.
Emily Martin. 1991. "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles." Signs 16(3): 485-501.
Wednesday, June 13: Dualities
readings due:
Anne Fausto-Sterling. 2000. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books.
Chapter 1 “Dueling Dualisms”
Chapter 3 “Of Gender and Genitals”
Chapter 4 “Should There Be Only Two Sexes?”
Thursday, June 14: Nature
readings due:
Roger Lancaster. 2003. The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture.
Introduction: Culture Wars, Nature Wars
Chapter 6 “Sexual Selection”
Chapter 15 “The Social Body”
Chapter 21 “‘Nature’ in Quotation Marks”
viewing due:
Pheobe Hart. 2011. Orchids: My Intersex Adventure. 60 minutes.
All films are available on Collab / Kaltura Media / Site Library
Friday, June 15: Race and Difference
reading due:
bell hooks. 1981. Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Boston: South End Press.
Introduction
Chapter 1 “Sexism and the Black Female Slave Experience”
Chapter 5 “Black Women and Feminism”
WEEK 2
Monday, June 18: Race and Difference
reading due:
bell hooks. 1981. Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Boston: South End Press.
Introduction
Chapter 1 “Sexism and the Black Female Slave Experience”
Chapter 5 “Black Women and Feminism”
Tuesday, June 19: Intersections
reading due:
Tricia Rose. 2008. The Hip Hop Wars: What we talk about when we talk about hip hop – and why it matters. New York: Basic Books.
Introduction
Chapter 5 “Hip Hop Demeans Women”
Chapter 7 “Hip Hop is not Responsible for Sexism”
Viewing due:
Byron Hurt. 2006. Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. 56 minutes. (On Collab / Kaltura Media / Site Library)
Wednesday, June 20: Masculinities
reading due:
Hugh Campbell. 2000. "The Glass Phallus: Pub(lic) masculinity and drinking in rural New Zealand." Rural Sociology 65(4): 562-581.
viewing due:
The Full Monty. 1997. Paul Cattaneo, dir. 91 minutes.
Thursday, June 21: Phallic Performances
readings due:
Don Kulick. 1998. Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pages: 1-133.
Friday, June 22: What Makes a Man
readings due:
Don Kulick. 1998. Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pages: 134-233.
WEEK 3
Monday, June 25: Patriarchy
readings due:
Janice Boddy. 1982. "Womb as Oasis: The Symbolic Context of Pharaonic Circumcision in rural Northern Sudan." American Ethnologist 9(4): 682-698.
Tuesday, June 26: Capitalism
Anne Allison. 1994. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pages: 1-142.
Wednesday, June 27: Gendered Play
Anne Allison. 1994. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pages: 143-204.
Thursday, June 28: Commodified Intimacy
Viewings due:
The Great Happiness Space. 2006. Jake Clennell, dir. 76 minutes.
Live Nude Girls Unite! 2000. Julia Query and Vicky Funari, dirs. 70 minutes.
Friday, June 29: Power
Lila Abu-Lughod. 1986 / 2000. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley: UC Press. Pages: xi - 117.
Writing due:
Rough draft of your final paper.
WEEK 4
Monday, July 2: Agency
Lila Abu-Lughod. 1986 / 2000. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley: UC Press. Pages: 118-260.
Tuesday, July 3: What is Gender used to do?
Abu-Lughod, Lila. 2002. "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological reflections on cultural relativism and its others." American Anthropologist 104(3): 783-790.
Wednesday, July 4
No class meeting - enjoy July 4th.
Thursday, July 5
No class meeting - use this time to work on your final paper.
Final paper due on Saturday, July 7 at 5pm to Dropbox.