Texts are available at the campus bookstore.
Additional photocopied materials will be distributed from time to time. Throughout the course, students will be expected to look at various situations and behaviors through a feminist lens. Our shared goal is to apply feminist concepts to the real lives of individual people, to help make sense of the socially sanctioned guidelines within which we are encouraged to operate, and to consider the possible reasons for those guidelines. We will also look at what happens when individuals cross socially constructed borders including what Barrie Thorne refers to as the gender divide, and how such border crossing threatens the status quo. Through a series of readings, in-class written responses, and discussions, students will work toward developing their own interpretations of situations and ideologies affecting women s lives.