| Day/Date | Topic | Reading Due | Speaker(s) | Assignment Due | |
| Tuesday 8/27 | Introductions and The Promise of Feminism | N/A | Dr. Jessica Pabón/All | ||
| Feminist Foundations: In this section of the course, we devote class sessions to key conceptual tools and frameworks that we will draw on throughout the remainder of the semester. | |||||
| Friday 8/30 | Feminist Foundations: Gender | TC: “The Social Construction of Gender” pages 29-51 | Dr. Bryant | ||
| Tuesday 9/3 | Feminist Foundations: Sex | TC: “The Social Construction of Gender” pages 52-78
Read Online: Burns, Kaitlyn. 2019. “Caster Semenya And The Twisted Politics Of Testosterone.” Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/caster-semenya-and-the-twisted-politics-of-testosterone/ In section: critical reading practices |
Janet Werther | ||
| Friday 9/7 | Feminist Foundations: Sexuality | PDF: Roche, Juno. “Pleasureless Principle: Who Gets to Decide What Your Anatomy is Capable of?”
PDF: Ingraham, Chrys. “Heterosexuality: It’s Just Not Natural!” |
Dr. Leigh Dodson | ||
| Tuesday 9/10 | Feminist Foundations: White Privilege/White Supremacy | PDF: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo | Dr. Devlin O’Sullivan | ||
| Friday 9/13 | Feminist Foundations: Privilege and Oppression | TC: Privilege and Oppression pages 89-131 **Longish reading, give yourself time!**
In section we will review the Foundations Quote Collection assignment. |
Dr. Jessica Pabón | ||
| Tuesday 9/17 | Feminist Foundations: De/Colonization | PDF: Ramirez, Renya. 2007. “Race, Tribal Nation, and Gender: A Native Feminist Approach to Belonging,” Meridians, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2007), pp. 22-40 | Dr. Devlin O’Sullivan | ||
| Friday 9/20 | Feminist Foundations: Intersectionality | TC: Intersectionality pages 141-179
In section, we will review excerpts from Adrienne Rich’s “Notes Towards a Politics of Location” together to prepare for the Who AM I assignment. |
Dr. Jessica Pabón | Foundations Quote Collection | |
| Feminist Platforms: In this section of the course, we address specific topical areas and issues that have been the subject of feminist thought and action. | |||||
| Tuesday 9/24 | Feminist Platforms: Art | PDF: Linda Nochlin, “Why Are There No Great Women Artists?,” ArtNews
PDF: Dolan, Jill. 2012. “Introduction to the Second Edition” from The Feminst Spectator As Critic, xiii-xliv. |
Janet Werther | ||
| Friday 9/27 | Feminist Platforms: Respectability and Rage | Read Online: Choose 3 of the 7 mini-essays from “The Future is Furious” series: https://www.bitchmedia.org/topic/future-furious
PDF: Klein, Rachel. “Bad Mouths” |
Dr. Jessica Pabón | Bring in a song, poem, or a work of art that illustrates the keywords for today: respectability and rage | |
| Tuesday 10/1 | Feminist Platforms: Spirituality | PDF: Crowley, Karlyn “Secularity” in Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies. | Dr. Devlin O’Sullivan | Who Am I? | |
| Friday 10/4 | Feminist Platforms: Environment | PDF: Levins Morales, Aurora. “Ecology is Everything”
PDF: Gaard “Ecofeminism Revisited” |
Dr. Leigh Dodson | Who Am I? | |
| Tuesday 10/8 | Feminist Platforms: Family | PDF: Dewi Oka,Cynthia. “Mothering as Revolutionary Praxis” in Revolutionary Mothering pages 51-57
PDF: Kafer, Alison. 2013. “Debating Feminist Futures: Slippery Slopes, Cultural Anxiety, and the Case of the Deaf Lesbians” Recommended Reading PDF: Vogel, Paula. 1984. And Baby Makes Seven |
Janet Werther | ||
| Friday 10/11 *No Class Tuesday 10/15 Fall Break |
Feminist Platforms: Beauty Industry | PDF: Selections from WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly special issue on Beauty (2018):
· Pérez-Rosario, Vanessa. “On Beauty and Protest” pp. 279-285 · Gentles-Peart, Kamille. “Controlling Beauty Ideals: Caribbean Women, Thick Bodies, and White Supremacist Discourse” pp. 199-214. |
Watch Film: Killing Us Softly | ||
| Friday 10/18 | Feminist Platforms: Economy | Read Online: Levins Morales, Aurora. “Nadie la Tiene: Land, Ecology, and Nationalism” http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/nadie-la-tiene-land-ecology-and-nationalism.html
PDF: Federici, Silvia. “Wages Against Housework” PDF: Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement” (United States, 1977), pgs. 325-330 |
Dr. Edith Kuiper | ||
| Tuesday 10/22 | Feminist Platforms: Sex Work | PDF: Lee, Isabelle T. “Bound Together”
Read Online: Melissa Gira Grant, “Let’s Call Sex Work What It is: Work” https://www.thenation.com/article/lets-call-sex-work-what-it-work/ |
Dr. Leigh Dodson | ||
| Friday 10/25 | Feminist Platforms: Health | PDF: Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. 2010. “Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers” pp. 1-24
**NO SECTION TODAY** |
Sascha Conterelli and Maria Mendoza of the New York State Association of Licensed Midwives | ||
| Tuesday 10/29 | Feminist Platforms: Science | Please read the following two pieces, which are very different approaches to the topic of underrepresentation and issues around gender in science. The Introduction from Angela Saini’s book gives a great overview of how the approach of science is fallible, and the science we have known did not ask the right questions. The article by Angela Johnson et. al. discusses issues faced by women of color in physics, in particular, and highlights common concerns and approaches faculty can take to minimize the challenges.
If the Saini introduction piques your interest, read the first chapter! This chapter is optional.
Angela Saini, Inferior – “Woman’s Inferiority to Man” (optional)
[Writing Workshop in Section] |
Dr. Catherine Herne | ||
| Friday 11/1 | Feminist Platforms: Sexual Assault | PDF: Levins Morales, Aurora. “Torturers” and “Histerimonia: Declarations of a Trafficked Girl, or Why I Couldn’t Write This Essay”
[Writing Workshop in Section] |
Emma Morcone, Deputy Title IX Coordinator/LGBTQ+ Coordinator, SUNY New Paltz | ||
| Tuesday 11/5 | Feminist Platforms: Intimate Partner Violence | PDF: brown, adrienne marie. “Resilience: How We Recover and Transform”
[Writing Workshop in Section] |
Joel Oppenheimer, Senior Counselor, Psychological Counseling Center, SUNY New Paltz |
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| Feminist Actions: In this section of the course, we examine a number of specific sites and movements where feminists have worked to create individual and collective change. | |||||
| Friday 11/8 | Feminist Actions: Doing Feminism | TC: “Feminist Praxis” pages 191-225
Listen to Dr. Olson’s Podcast Interview
[Writing Workshop in Section] |
Alix Olson, Spoken Word Artist; Moderator: Dr. Pabón | Platform Photo Essay | |
| Tuesday 11/12 | Feminist Actions: Majoring in WGSS & Student Activism | PDF: Michele Tracy Berger and Cheryl Radeloff, “Women’s and Gender Studies Graduates as Change Agents: Six Profiles”
[Writing Workshop in Section: Assign Peer Reviewers] **Remember to send your peer reviewer a 2 page draft by 11am Friday 11/15 so they can work on it in lieu of section. CC Dr P at introwgs@gmail.com on these emails!** |
Student Panel; Moderator Dr. Devlin O’Sullivan
Global Engagement Program Visitor at Beginning of Class |
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| Friday 11/15 | Feminist Actions: Immigration Reform | Read Online: https://truthout.org/articles/they-are-concentration-camps-and-they-are-also-prisons/
Explore: https://nobodyleavesmidhudson.org/ **NO SECTION TODAY** Assignment in lieu of section: By the end of section time, you will email your peer review partner their comments on their 2 page draft. introwgs@gmail.com |
Dr. Leigh Dodson/Nobody Leaves MidHudson | Peer Review of Draft Exchange | |
| Tuesday 11/19 | Feminist Actions: The Movement for Black Lives | PDF: M4BL Platform | Dr. Jessica Pabón | ||
| Friday 11/22
SEI: Monday, 11/25/19 8:00am and Monday, 12/9/19 at midnight. |
Feminist Actions: Women’s March | PDF: The #WomensWave Agenda
Read Online: North, Anna. “The Women’s March changed the American left” https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/12/21/18145176/feminism-womens-march-2018-2019-farrakhan-intersectionality |
Janet Werther | Platform Written Essay | |
| Tuesday 11/26
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Feminist Actions: Reproductive Justice | PDF: Chinyere Oparah Bonaparte. 2015. “Introduction,” in Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth, pages 1-15
PDF: Ross, Loretta, et al, “Introduction” Radical Reproductive Justice |
Dr. Devlin O’Sullivan | ||
| Tuesday 12/3 | Feminist Action: Prison Abolition | PDF: Kushner “Is Prison Necessary?” | Dr. Jessica Pabón | ||
| Friday 12/6
SEI: Monday, 11/25/19 8:00am and Monday, 12/9/19 at midnight. |
Feminist Action: Radical Love | Read Online: Ross, Loretta. “I’m a Black Feminist. I Think Call-Out Culture Is Toxic.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/opinion/sunday/cancel-culture-call-out.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share | Dr. Devlin O’Sullivan | Final Quote Collection | |
| Friday 12/13 | Final Exam Day! | 12:30-2:30PM | Section Room | Liberating Action | |
