Apr 20

Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter (ch 1)

Apr 22

Mel Chen, Animacies (selections)

Apr 6

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble

Apr 7 (TUESDAY!)

Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself

Mar 30

Riot grrl and grassroots activism

Third Wave Agenda (selections)

Apr 1

Gayatri Spivak, TBA

Lila Abu-Lughod, Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?

Background reading on Third Wave:

Mar 23

Muñoz, Disidentifications (see week 8 for reading link)

Mar 25

Susan Faludi, Backlash

Mar 16

This Bridge Called My Back report-back and jigsaw activity

Mar 18

Jose Muñoz, Disidentifications

Mar 9: TBA

Mar 11: TBA

Mar 2

Michele Wallace, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (selections)

The New York Times, “What I see: Steinem and Intersectionality”

Mar 4

Feb 24

Simone de Beauvoir (see week 4 for link to reading)

Feb 26

Jeanne Theoharris, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (beginning section(s))

New York Magazine, On the founding of Ms. Magazine

Feb 17: NO CLASS

Feb 19

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (First chapter and as much as you can/will after that)