Mar 2
Michele Wallace, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (selections)
The New York Times, “What I see: Steinem and Intersectionality”
Prof. Gwendolyn Shaw
Michele Wallace, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (selections)
The New York Times, “What I see: Steinem and Intersectionality”
Simone de Beauvoir (see week 4 for link to reading)
Jeanne Theoharris, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (beginning section(s))
New York Magazine, On the founding of Ms. Magazine
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (First chapter and as much as you can/will after that)
Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Solitude of Self
Belle Kearney on Women’s Suffrage, “Durable White Supremacy”
Roxanne Gay, Bad Feminist (selections)
Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me (selections)
If you have time: Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, Book V: Sophy
Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises (selections)
Watch: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists, 2013 (approx 30 mins) & The Danger of a Single Story
Read: bell hooks, feminism is for everybody (Routledge, 2000). Intro-Ch 4, and then as much as you can or what interests you.
Don’t forget to make an account on the CUNY Academic Commons!