Reading Schedule
NOTE: All course readings are either available online (at link listed in schedule) OR through WebVista (if no link is listed).
Course Schedule*
*This schedule is subject to change. All changes will be announced via our course blog and twitter feed.
INTRODUCTIONS
jan 19 Review class/syllabus
jan 24 Using blogs in the classroom
Discuss concept notebook assignment.
jan 26 Using twitter in the classroom
Discuss "What's Sex Got to do with...?" assignments
jan 31 What is the POLITICS of SEX?
film: Begin Straightlaced
feb 2 What is the POLITICS of SEX?
Reading:
- Cranny-Francis, Anne, Wendy Waring, Pam Stavropoulos, and Joan Kirkby, ed. "Ways of Talking," 1-41.
Due: Statement on the meaning/purpose of critically engaging with the "politics of sex."
SYSTEMS
feb 7 Sex/Gender/Desire
Reading:
- Butler, Judith. Excerpt from Gender Trouble
- Pascoe, C.J. "Becoming Mr. Cougar: Institutionalizing Heterosexuality and Masculinity at River High"
- Lorber, Judith. "Beyond the Boundaries: Depolarizing the Categories of Sex, Sexuality and Gender"
feb 9 Normal, Normalization, Normativity
Reading:
- Scholar and Feminist Online. "Normativity"
- Tauches, Kimberly. "Transgendering: Challenging the Normal"
- U of MN Map of Gender Neutral Restrooms
- Browse: U of MN Transgender Commission Website
feb 14 Heteronormativity
Reading:
- Sociological Images. "Valentine's Day and Heternormativity"
- Ingraham, Chyrs. "Thinking Straight"
- Ingraham, Chyrs. "Heteronormativity: It's just not natural!"
Optional: Warner, Michael and Lauren Berlant. Excerpt from "Sex in Public," 547-557.
Reading:
- Bornstein, Kate. Excerpt from My Gender Workbook
- McIntosh, Peggy. "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"
- Taking Up Too Much Space. "The cisgender privilege checklist"
- Sue, Derald Wing and David Rivera. "Microaggressions in Everyday Practices"
- Browse the Microagressions blog
CONSTRUCTIONS
feb 21 Sexed bodies
Reading:
- FOCUS: Somerville, Sibohan. "Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body"
- Wilchins, Riki. "Can Sex Have Opposites?"
- Martin, Emily. "The Egg and the Sperm"
feb 23 Sexed bodies
Reading:
- hooks, bell. "Selling Hot Pussy"
film: clips from Cultural Criticism and Transformation
Special Event: Presentation by Dr. Somerville on friday, feb 25th @ 4PM in Walter Library 101. Earn extra credit by attending and posting a brief (200-300 word) reflection on our blog.
feb 28 The Invention of Sexuality
Reading:
- Katz, Jonathan. "The Invention of Heterosexuality"
- Weeks, Jeffrey. "The Invention of Sexuality"
- Marinucci, Mimi. "The Social Construction of Sexuality"
Reading:
- Rubin, Gayle. Excerpt from "Thinking Sex"
- Wilkerson, Abby. "Disability, sex radicalism, and political agency"
- Bednarska, Dominika. "Passing Last Summer"
- Seibers, Tobin. "Sex, Shame and Disability Identity"
march 7 Gender
Reading:
- Bornstein, Kate. Excerpts from My Gender Workbook and Gender Outlaw
- West, Candace and Don H. Zimmerman. "Doing Gender"
FILM: The Codes of Gender
We will be meeting in Blegen 415 and 425 for diablog discussions. No class on Friday, March 11.
march 14/16 SPRING BREAK
INDIVIDUALS
INSTITUTIONS
IDEOLOGIES
march 21 Caster Semenya: sex/gender/sexuality/race/nation
Reading:
- Sociological Images. "The Question of Caster Semenya's Sex"
- Sociological Images. "Semenya Makeover as Gender Performance"
- Scully, Pamela. "The Curious Case of Caster Semenya"
- Scully, Pamela. "The Trials of Caster Semenya"
- Levy, Ariel. "Either/Or: Sports, Sex and the Case of Caster Semenya" (also available as pdf on WebVista)
- Dreger, Alice. "Where's the Rulebook?" (also available as pdf on WebVista)
- IAAF. "Policy on Gender Verification" (also available as pdf of WebVista)
- Wackwitz, Laura A. "Verifying the myth: Olympic Sex Testing and the category 'woman'" (WebVista)
Diablog: Levy, Dreger and the 2 Scully essays
march 23 No Class Today
march 28 Athletes and Sex
Reading:
- Carty. "Textual Portrayals of Female Athletes"
- McKay/Johnson. "Pornographic eroticism and sexual grotesquerie in representations of African American sportswomen"
- Some "What's Sex..." entries:
- what's sex got to do with...athletics??
- what's sex got to do with...the Olympics?
- what's sex got to do with...sports?
- what's sex got to do with...workout shoes?
Diablog: Carty
march 30 Final Group Projects
april 4 Bodies and Pleasures and the Medicalization of Desire
film: Begin Orgasm, inc.
april 6 Bodies and Pleasure and the Medicalization of Desire
Reading:
- Sociological Images. "The Medicalization of Sexuality"
- Koedt, Anne. "Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm"
- Tiefer, Leonere. "Women's Sexual Problems"
- Lorde, Audre. "The Uses of the Erotic: Erotic as Power"
film: Complete Orgasm, inc.
april 11 Sex and Children
Reading:
- Levine, Judith. Preface/Introduction from Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex
- Fahs, Breanne. "Daddy's Little Girls"
Reading:
- Orenstein, Peggy. Excerpt from Cinderella Ate My Daughter
Diablog: Levine and Fahs
april 18 Sex Education
april 20 Sex Education
Reading:
- Fields, Jessica. "'Children Having Children': Race, Innocence, and Sexuality Education"
- Knox. Shelby. "Young Feminist Bashing: Rethinking Virginity Edition"
finish film: The Education of Shelby Knox
Diablog: Fields
april 25 Presentations
april 27 Presentations
may 2 Presentations
may 4 Wrap-Up
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