wk 1 
8.19

8.21

• Methods for work, reading syllabus, grades
• National Women's Studies Association & Mission
• Internationalization Task Force Statement
• Assign: "The Myth of the Perfect Body" pp. 119 - 120

Moving to Newton 1103 -- yeah!!!!!!

• Exchange names and phone numbers, organize groups
• New people: get w/ classmate to get explanations from First day -- questions to me AFTER that
• Review method for writing and submitting group discussion points/questions
• Groups begin facilitating discussions 9.16 -- review syllabus and decide which sessions you want to lead.
  • Facilitating group at board, writes each group's major points on board, and discussion follows from that
• Discussion -- "Myth of the Perfect Body" -- I'll facilitate and model method for you -- From this point on, you will check syllabus for reading assignments, which we will discuss on date listed -- have these read and discussion questions posted for me to review before class.

Take your work seriously: Review University of Albany's Undergraduate E-Journal,Transcending Silence http://www.albany.edu/ws/journal & Women's & Gender Studies Research and Project Competition Award & Linda Rohrer Paige Award for Service in Women's and Gender Studies

Bring to class the list of dates/readings that you are interested in facilitating -- I'll put you in groups around your common interests. Groups begin Facilitating 9.16 -- if you want to facilitate readings for an earlier date, that's fine -- I'm ready to turn things over earlier if you're ready to take control :-)

Bodies Under Construction

• "The Medical Construction of Gender" pp. 56 - 70 / FF
• "Cosmetic Surgery" pp. 105 - 118 / FF

8.28

Discussion points are due beginning today. You may submit these inidvidually or as a group. You may turn these in:

1. hand-written, in class on the day of the readings
2. by email to lamy@georgiasouthern.edu
3. via Vista, under the discussion board postings

Reading notes are due ON THE DAY OF CLASS -- no exceptions.

• "The Missing Vagina Monologue" http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/companion.asp?id=13&compID=98
• "Loose Lips Sink Ships" pp. 373 - 389 / FF

Make sure I have your reading choices for facilitating discussion -- Groups begin facilitating 9.16 -- assign groups

Race Matters -- Discussion Guide Model for Facilitating Groups -- facilitating groups need to prepare something similar/related

• "White Privilege" pp. 9 - 15 / FF
• "Haole Girl" p. 16 / FF
• "Womanist" p. 93 / FF
• "The Reality of Affirmative Action" pp. 229 - 231 / FF

9.4

• "Hair Still Matters" pp. 121 - 128 / FF
• "A Way Outa No Way" pp. 364 - 373 / FF
• "Maid in LA" pp. 232 - 249 / FF
• "The Managed Hand" pp. 217 - 228 / FF

Some theories -- Discussion Guide

• Introduction pp. 1 - 3 / FF
• "Diversity and Difference" pp. 4 - 6 / FF
• "Oppression" pp. 7 - 9 / FF
• "Master's Tools" pp. 35 - 37 / FF
  • & Notes from Audre Lorde's "Master's Tools"

9.11

Facilitating Group: Frank Collins, Cody Walden

NOW Meeting Wednesday Sept. 17, 5:00 p.m., Forest Drive 1117

• Becoming 100% Straight" pp. 341 - 345 / FF
• "Queer Parenting in the New Millennium" pp. 296 - 299 / FF
• "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?" pp. 534 - 550 / FF

Facilitating Group: Victoria Thomas, Melissa Cannon

NOW Meeting Wednesday Sept. 17, 5:00 p.m., Forest Drive 1117

• "Doing Desire" pp. 302 - 312 / FF
• "Abstinence-Only: Breeding Ignorance" p. 257 / FF
• "Girls and Boys Together" pp. 141 -151 / FF
• "Hostile Hallways" pp. 152 - 156 / FF

9.18

Annotated Bibliography Assignment

Facilitating Group: Madeline Wade, Kathleen Fenlon

• Theorizing Difference From Multicultural Feminism" pp. 70 - 75 / FF
• Feminism Without Borders" pp. 76 - 81 / FF
• "Sex and War" pp. 441 - 452 / FF

Morris Dees, Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center -- Wed., Sept. 24, 7:00 p.m. in RU -- GOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Assign Short Paper 1 -- Due 10.2

9.25

Meet in classroom -- form groups for bib work -- go to library

Some journals to be sure you look at: Sex Roles http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2294, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Sexuality and Culture --

Violence

Sample Cultural Event Paper

Facilitating Group: David Stroman

"The Construction of Masculinity and the Triad of Men's Violence" pp. 33 - 55 / GV

• Center for Disease Control's Sexual Violence Fact Sheet http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/svfacts.htm &
• Intimate Partner Violence Fact Sheet http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/IPV/default.htm
• Additional sources for war, sexual violence

10.2

Domestic Violence & IPV

October 4-10 is Hunger & Homelessness Week at GSU! Sponsored by the Office of Student Leadership and Civic Engagement, this annual event is designed to raise awareness about hunger and homelessness world-wide, and to provide opportunities for students to get involved and make a difference. All students are invited to participate in the following events:

• Monday, October 6
  4:00-5:30pm: Poverty Simulation (RU Ballroom)
• Tuesday, October 7
  5:30-7:30pm: Hunger Banquet (RU Ballroom) - *Cost of Admission: 2 canned food items*
• Wednesday, October 8
  12:00-1:00pm: Lunch Discussion facilitated by Dr. Donna K. Fisher (RU 2084)*Free lunch for first 30 participants*
• 8:00-10:00pm: PBS Documentary: Waging a Living (RU Theater)
• Thursday, October 9
  11:00am-2:00pm: Hunger & Homelessness Fair (RU Rotunda)
• Friday, October 10
  12:00-4:00pm: Volunteer Opportunity (Meet at RU Rotunda) *Limited to 25 participants*

Doris Wilbon -- HIV/AIDS

Facilitating Group: SafeHaven, Swakara Douglas

• "Need: A Chorale for Black Women's Voices" pp. 80 - 85 / GV
• "Family Violence, Feminism, and Social Control" pp. 305 - / GV

Short Paper 1 Due

10.9

Facilitating Group: Tameka Rozier, Emily Haymans, Jessica Mitchell

• "Domestic Violence: The Intersection of Gender and Control" pp. 257 - / GV
• "Violence in Intimate Relationships: A Feminist Perspective" pp. 269 - / GV
• "To Judge Faolain, Dead Long Enough: A Summons" pp. 255 - / GV

wk 9 

10.14

Sexual Violence

Facilitating Group: Jessica Purtee, DaJavonn, Tisha Tanks

• "Undeclared War: African American Women Writers Explicating Rape" pp. 230 - / GV
• "The Rape" pp. 203 -
• "Fraternities and Rape" pp. 417 - 425 / FF
• "Supremacy Crimes" pp. 428 - 430 / FF

10.16 

Facilitating Group: Elizabeth Hobbs, Kathryn Williams

• "Who Stole Incest?" pp. 360 - / GV
• "The Second Photograph" pp. 304 - / GV
• "Child Sexual Abuse and the Regulation of Women: Variations on a Theme" pp. 342 - / GV

"Masculinization and Globalization" pp. 82 - 92 -- This is a bit of a tough read, so I'll facilitate today / FF

10.23

Finish annotated bibliography -- due 10.28, along with Final Project Proposal

Final Project Proposal Requirements:

• A paragraph about what you want to do and why
• A paragraph about what you already know about this -- what life experiences have you had that related to this, what have you learned (through research, discussion, courses) about this issue
• A paragraph outlining the things you have to complete in order to do your project and the time table for each component (literally, what you will be doing each week from now until the projects are due at the end of the semester)

VOTE. Design Impacts Democracy -- On Exhibit at Georgia Southern University’s Center for Art & Theatre October 20-30, 2008

Back to Bodies

Facilitating Group: Lacie Donaldson, Kat Briley, Sara F

• Eating Disturbance and Sexual Trauma in Childhood and Adulthood. International Journal of Eating Disorders ; Dec2001, Vol. 30 Issue 4, p401-412, 12p, 4 charts (available through EbscoHost -- if this link is expired, use the Galileo database to access the article)
• Slim Hopes: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7143sc_HbU
• Killing us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FpyGwP3yzE
• Anorexia video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12_9WVsmM0c
• About Face http://www.about-face.org/

Annotated Bibliography & Final Project Proposal Due 10.28

10.30

Bodies and Control of . . .

Facilitating Group: Jessica Jinks

• "The Way it Was" on E-Reserve http://libweb.lib.georgiasouthern.edu/reserves/AmyWGST2530TheWayItWas.pdf -- remember, you have to enter the galileo password to access this article -- enter the password on both lines of the form
• Are US Policies Killing Women? http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/74469/
• NOW & Abortion Rights http://www.now.org/issues/abortion/
• Center for Reproductive Rights GGR http://www.crlp.org/pub_fac_ggrbush.html
• PBA Ban: Ginsberg's Dissent
  • Feministing.com's commentary http://feministing.com/archives/006888.html
  • The Dissent http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/05-380.ZD.htm

Assign Short Paper 2 -- due 11.6

FILM: Persepolis -- Monday Nov. 3, 7:00 p.m. RU Theater

. . . or: lack of control. . .

Facilitators: Jessica Mitchell

Lawsuit Against KBR/Halliburton for Human Trafficking

11.6

"Image Emergency: Reviving the Female Identity" Tuesday, Nov. 11, Russell Union Ballroom from 7:00-10:00pm.

Short Paper 2 Due

Visitations of War -- go if you can!!

FYI: Bibliography of writing men, masculinities, sexualities

Sex Trafficking:

• Not For Sale
• How, Where Human Trafficking Begins
• International Trafficking of Women the United States
• Free the Slaves

State Violence

V to the 10th -- SuperLove in the Superdome: Interview with Eve Ensler

• shameless plug for the Vagina Monologues and invitation to audition tonight and tomorrow, 7 - 10 p.m., RU 2047
• Code Pink Joins V-Day in New Orleans

Katrina Video

The Real Cost of Prisons

"Image Emergency: Reviving the Female Identity" Tuesday, Nov. 11, Russell Union Ballroom from 7:00-10:00pm.

11.13

We're not meeting in class today. Finish Short Paper #2 and watch these films; we'll discuss films on the 18th

Women of Liberia: Fighting for Peace

Women Fleeing War Video Preview

11.18

Film discussion and link to Global Gender Gap: http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/report2007.pd

Race, Poverty, Gender, Katrina

• Amy Goodman: Interview with Lorrie Beth Slonsky http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B11FD3E550C768CDDA00894DD404482
• New Orleans Resident on Gov't Betrayal http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/12/1426233&mode=thread&tid=25
• Hitchins & Galloway http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/16/1223201&mode=thread&tid=25
• The Militarization of New Orleans http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/16/1222257&mode=thread&tid=25

11.20

Library work on final projects --

Nov. 24 - 28: Thanksgiving Holiday

12.4 

http://www.womenwarpeace.org/node/4

Final Project Work -- scheduling presentations days/times and Final Exam format -- need to be in class!