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Course Outline—Readings and Assignments are in BOLD and are due on the day noted.

Week 1

Mon, April 1^st: Introduction to the Course. What is Women’s Studies?

Wed, April 3^rd:What is feminism? Discuss Response Papers

Read Coursepack: Historical Timeline (on Reserve and online:                  http://www.cocc.edu/sdonohue/classes/ws102/timeline.htm

Week 2

Mon, April 8^th: Guest Lecturer: Rise Quay---The Generation Gap Within the Women’s Movement

Read “Reading Between the Waves: Feminist Historiography in a ‘Postfeminist’ Moment” by Deborah Siegel (on Reserve and E-Reserve).

Wed, April 10^th:  Women and History                  

            Read Women’s Lives pp 51-60 (The Malleus Maleficarum) and pp. 83-90 (The Trial Of Anne Hutchinson)

Week 3

Mon, April 15^th: Guest Lecturer: Patricia O’Neill---Women Iconoclasts

Final Exam Project topics due

Read “Irene and Wu Zhao: Two Iconoclasts” (on Reserve and E-Reserve)

Wed, April 17^th: Guest Lecturer: Eleanor Latham---Lives of Medieval Women Saints

            Response Paper #1 due— Post/Respond to Discussion Forum #1 by       Sunday           

Week 4

Mon, April 22^nd:  Women and Language

Read Women’s Lives pp.1-26 (“Can ‘He’ Mean ‘She’?” and “Sexism in English: A 1990s Update”)

  Wed, April 24^th: Guest Lecturer: Marj Hoye—Women and Language

            Reserve reading to be announced            

Week 5

Mon, April 29^th: Women and Religion

Read Women’s Lives pp.27-50(“Why Women Need the Goddess” and “Women’s Place in Religion: 19^th Century Views”, 61-82 (“The Coming of Lilith” and “The Women’s Bible), 91-102 (“Eve and Adam: Genesis 2-3 Reread”) and Reserve Reading “Women and the Advent of Islam”

Wed, May 1^st: Guest Lecturer: Karen Huck---Women and the History of Love

            Response Paper #2 due—Post/Respond to Discussion Forum #2 by Sunday

Week 6

Mon, May 6^th: Guest Lecturer---Celeste Brody---Girls and Education

            Reserve Reading to be announced

Wed, May 8^th: Women, Representation and Culture (Video: Killing Me Softly III)

Read Women’s Lives pp123-138 (“Why the Shirelles Mattered” and pp.  153-180 (“Talk TV”, “The Deportation of Barbie from Iran”, and “Xena: She’s Big, Tall, Strong and Popular”)                  

           View Thelma and Louise by May 13th       

Week 7

Mon, May 13^th: Discuss: Thelma and Louise

Read Women’s Lives pp. 213-218 (“The Smurfette Principle” and pp. 231-245 (“The Beauty Myth”)

Final Project topic description, essay outline and bibliography (in MLA        format) –

Wed, May 15^th:  Guest Lecturer: Greg Lyons---The Good Woman in Film Noir

Response Paper #3 due—Post/Respond to Discussion Forum #3 by Sunday

Week 8

Mon, May 20^th: Guest Lecturer: Michael Wonser--Women Artists

Read Women’s Lives pp.103-122 (“The Athletic Esthetic” and “Women Who Run with Brushes and Glue”) and pp.181-212 (“Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”)

Wed, May 22^nd: Women and Literature

Read Women’s Lives pp.219-230 (“In Search of Our Mothers Gardens”) and pp. 245-end (“The Story of Shakespeare’s Sister”)

            Read Women’s Writing (selections by Gilman, Chopin, Wharton, Ozick)

Week 9

Mon, May 27^th: MEMORIAL DAY: COLLEGE IS CLOSED

Wed, May 29^th: Guest Lecturer: Cora Agatucci---To Be A Woman and A Writer

           Read Women’s Writing (selections by Cather, Welty, Bradstreet, Dickinson,             Plath)

Response Paper #4 due—Post/Respond to Discussion Forum #4             by       Sunday

Week 10

Mon, June 3^rd: Guest Lecturer: Kathy Walsh—“The Eyes in the Mirror”: Women Writers in the Middle East as Revealed by Their Writing

  Wed, June 5^th:. Wrap up day

Final Exam Week: Monday, June 10^th, 4-6pm—Final Paper due (hardcopy to Deschutes 16 or via email.)  We will not have a televised class meeting during this time.