Week Three September 15, 2014 Perspectives on Sex, Gender, and Difference “Night to His Day”: The Social Construction of Gender” Judith Lorber (33-48) “The Medical Construction of Gender” Suzanne Kessler (49-62) “Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question” Susan Stryker (63-69) “Masculinities and Globalization” R.W. Connell (87-100) September 17, 2014 “A Way outa No Way”: Eating problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women” Becky Wangsgaard Thompson (340-348) “Italians Contemplate Beauty in a Caribbean Brow” Christine Bohlen “Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images” Yen Le Espiritu (LATTE) “Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and reproductive Justice” Andrea Smith (372-382) Week Four September 22, 2014 Gender and Media “Sex, Lies and Advertising” Gloria Steinem (LATTE) “Advertising and the Construction of Violent White Masculinity” Jackson Katz (LATTE) “Form and female authorship in Music Video” Lisa A. Lewis (LATTE) “Its my Thang and I’ll swing it the Way that I feel: Sexuality and Black Women Rappers” Imani Perry (LATTE) September 24, 2014 Maid in America (Anayansi Prado 2004, 57 min.) View in Class Week Five: September 29 Discussion Section October 1, 2014 First Short Paper Due “Maid in L.A.” Pierette Hondagneu-Sotelo (219-236) “Sex Segregation in the U.S. Labor Force” Christine Bose and Rachel Whaley (197-205) “Working At Motherhood: Chicana and Mexicana Immigrant Mothers and Employment” Denise A. Segura (LATTE) “The Means to Put my children through: Child-Rearing Goals and Strategies among Black Female Domestic Servants” Bonnie Thornton Dill (LATTE) Week Six October 6, 2014 The Body and Reproductive Rights
“Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: “Gender Normals,” Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality” Kirsten Schilt and Laurel Westbrook (309-322) November 19, 2014 Motherhood/Fatherhood/Families “Queer Parenting in the New Millennium” Nancy Naples (LATTE) “Wedding Bells and Baby Carriages: Heterosexuals Imagine Gay families, Gay Families Imagine Themselves” Suzanna Danuta Walters (LATTE) “What is marriage is bad for us?” Laurie Essig and Lynn Owens (258-260) “For Better or for Worse: Gender Allures in the Vietnamese Global Marriage Market” Hung Cam Thai (271-281) Week Thirteen November 24, 2014 Second Mid-Term November 26, 2014(Wednesday before Thanksgiving) No Class Week Fourteen December 1, 2014 Discussion Section on The Shape of Water December 3, 2014 Don’t Know Much Biology “The Bare Bones of Sex: Part I—Sex and Gender” Anne Fausto Sterling “The Egg and the Sperm” Emily Martin (LATTE) “The Ethics of Genetic Research on Sexual orientation” Schuklenk, Stein, kerin and Byne (LATTE) Week Fifteen December 8, 2014 Violence and Gender Fraternities and Rape on Campus” Patrician Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer (405-413) “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity, Politics, and Violence Against of Color” Kimberle Crenshaw (414-426) “Accountability or Justice? Rape as a war Crime” Mary Ann Tetreault (LATTE) “Sex and War: Fighting Men, Comfort Women, and the Military-Sexual Complex” Joane Nagel (LATTE) Final Paper due with Teaching Fellows Today