Reading Schedule
READING SCHEDULED REVISED AS OF NOVEMBER 3. PLEASE REVIEW CHANGES.
COURSE READINGS 
Blogs/Twitter
Books
- Smith, Joanne, Meghan Huppuch and Mandy Van Deven. Hey Shorty! A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets
- Yee, Jessica, ed. Feminism for Real: Deconstructing the Feminist Academic Industrial Complex
- hooks, bell. Feminism is for Everybody (if available)
Blogs/Twitter Most of our course readings are from blogs and/or websites. Links will be provided on the blog and in the hard copy of the syllabus.
Additional Articles
Readings without links are available as downloadable pdfs on our moodle site.
Access moddle through MyU. Click on MyCourses and then GWSS 3004. Log in and then click on our class again. The readings will be organized under the week we will be reading and discussing them.
DIABLOG #4 on Drop the I word
Access moddle through MyU. Click on MyCourses and then GWSS 3004. Log in and then click on our class again. The readings will be organized under the week we will be reading and discussing them.
READING SCHEDULE: (subject to change)
sept 6 Introduction to Class
sept 8 Introduction to Blog and Twitter Basics
Training Workshop on how to blog and tweet in the Rachel Raimist Feminist Media Center (Ford 468). Class will be divided into 3 groups:
- Group A 11:15-11:40
- Group B 11:40-12:05
- Group C 12:-05-12:30
- Review my blog entry on How to blog, a primer
- Browse through our course blog and the course blog for last year's class
- How to blog and tweet handouts
Readings:
- Puotinen, Sara. "Why Blog?"
- Puotinen, Sara. Why I Blog
- ProfHack. "How to Start Tweeting"
- Twitter in Plain English
Discuss feminist reflection paper and blog/twitter assignments.
sept 15 What is feminism?
Readings:
- hooks, bell. chapters from Feminism is for Everybody (moodle)
- Castro, Joy. "On Becoming Educated"
- Hoffman, Jessica. "Unmooring to Connect: Holistic Feminisms"
Readings:
- Herold, Stephanie. "Young Feminists to Older Feminists: If you can't find us, it's because we're online"
- Collins, Gail. "Letter to Young American women"
- Browsing Feminist Blog Assignment (note: groups will be assigned in class on sept 15; they are the same as your small groups for your discussion on feminism. If you don't attend class on the 15th, pick any one of the blogs to browse.)
sept 22 Feminist Curiosity and Debate
Readings:
- Enloe, Cynthia. "Being Curious about our Lack of Feminist Curiosity" (moodle)
- Jagger, Alison. "Living with Contradictions" (moodle)
- Puotinen, Sara. "Why did we stop asking questions?"
- Overview of category: this is a feminist issue because...from spring 2010 and spring 2011 + example/explanation
DUE: Feminist reflection paper
ISSUE 1: Street Harassment
sept 27 Slutwalk, part one: some background
Readings:
- SlutWalk Minneapolis
- SlutWalk Toronto
- Feminism, 101. "What is slut-shaming?"
- Video: We are Slutwalk NYC
sept 29 Slutwalk, part two: some debate
Readings:
- Feministing. "Slutwalk redux with Rebecca Traister and Feministing Writers"
- HollabackDC. "Why I Don't Care to Slutwalk" read post and all comments
- Blogando, Aura. "Slutwalk: A Stroll Through White Supremacy"
SLUTWALK MINNEAPOLIS ON OCTOBER 1ST
oct 4/6 Hey Shorty!
Readings:
- Joanne Smith, Meghan Huppuch and Mandy Van Deven. Hey Shorty!
DIABLOG #1 on Hey Shorty! on oct 6
oct 11 Social Media Focus: the Hollaback! App
Readings:
- http://www.ihollaback.org
- iPhone app
- watch clip of panel from Barnard Center for Research on Women (first 15 minutes)
Hollaback!: Feminist Responses to Street Harassment from BCRW Videos on Vimeo.
oct 13/18 INTERLUDE: A Feminist Horror Movie?
Readings:
- Silver, Anna Krugovoy. "The Cyborg Mystique: The Stepford Wives and Second Wave Feminism" (moodle)
film screening: Stepford Wives (1975)
oct 20 NO CLASS: catch-up on blog
ISSUE 2: Reproductive Rights/Justice
oct 25/27 Reproductive Rights: What is choice? Who gets to choose? What choices?
Readings:
- Ross, Loretta J. "The Color of Choice" (moodle)
- Roberts, Dorothy. Excerpts from "The Dark Side of Birth Control" (moodle)
- Crews, Allison. "And So I Chose" (moodle)
- Sayce, Liz and Rachel Perkins. "They should not breed: Feminism, disability and reproductive rights"
- "Language: On choice" (moodle)
- SubRosas. "Culture of Eugenics"
nov 1 Reproductive Justice a "woman's" issue?
Readings:
nov 3 Reproductive Justice, 2011
Readings:
- Sister Song
- ACRJ (Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice)
- The Native Youth Sexual Health Network
- abortion gang
- Class Summary from Feminist Debates Blog, Spring 2011
nov 8 Revisiting SlutWalk and Racism
Readings:
- SlutWalk Toronto. "Racism and Anti-Racism: Why they Matter to SlutWalk"
- Colorlines. "SlutWalk Toronto Releases an Anti-Racist Statement and its Good"
nov 10 Continuing with Feminism and Social Media
Readings:
- Nussbaum, Emily. "The Rebirth of the Feminist Manifesto"
- Martin, Courtney E. "You are the NOW of the Now: The Future of (Online) Feminism"
Readings:
- Drop the I word
- Sen, Rinku. "Stop saying Illegal" video
- Sen, Rinku. Video clip from New Feminist Activism. Start watching at 35 minutes in:
New Feminist Activism from BCRW Videos on Vimeo.
DIABLOG #4 on Drop the I word
nov 17 FEMINIST SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS, pt 1
nov 22/24 THANKSGIVING BREAK, NO CLASSES
nov 29 FEMINIST SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS, pt 2
ISSUE 4: Feminist Education revisited
dec 1/6 The (feminist) Academic Industrial Complex
Readings:
- Yee, Jessica. Feminism for Real
DIABLOG #5 on the Feminist AIC on dec 6
dec 8 Focus on Social Media: Whose University?
dec 13 Course Wrap-up