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)

Feb 10

Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Solitude of Self

Belle Kearney on Women’s Suffrage, “Durable White Supremacy”

Feb 12: NO CLASS

Feb 3

Roxanne Gay, Bad Feminist (selections)

Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me (selections)

If you have time: Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges

Feb 5

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, Book V: Sophy

Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises (selections)

For Jan 29:

While you are reading or watching, please take note of at least one passage that you found powerful or thought provoking. We will share these in class Wednesday.

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!