Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Additional Reading Links

Here is a complete list of links for the additional reading assignments for the semester. These links and more detailed information on each class period can be found under the "Schedule" tab in Learning Suite.


Monday, September 11th--The Biology of Gender
The Sensitive Question of Intersex Athletes

Wednesday, September 13th--Psychology and Sociology of Gender
Gender Unicorn
Dove Real Beauty: Kylee Friar Tucks Barbershop 

Monday, September 18th--Feminists Theories and Practices: Part I
No additional readings

Wednesday, September 20th--Feminists Theories and Practices: Part II
Johanna Brenna: Transnational Feminism and the Struggle for Global Justice
Jyotsna Agnihotri Gupta: Towards Transnational Feminsms: Some Reflections and Concerns in Relation to the Globalization of Reproductive Technologies
Valentine M. Moghadam: Transnational Feminisms 

Monday, September 25th--Gender and Language
No additional readings

Wednesday, September 27th--Gender and Culture 
Ijeoma Oluo: Beyonce's Lemonade is about Much More than Infidelity and Jay Z  
Aleichia Williams: Too Latina to be Black, Too Black to be Latina 

Monday, October 2nd--Troubling the Notion of the "Traditional" Family
No additional readings

Wednesday, October 4th--Dismantling Oppression
Gloria Steinem: If Men Could Menstruate
Lauren Besser: Had Bernie been Bernadette--The Heartbreaking Truth about American Patriarchy

Monday, October 9th--Busting Myths of Female Sexuality 
Anne Koedt: The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm  

Wednesday, October 11th--Understanding Homosexualities
Kira Cochrane: Why It's Never Too Late to be a Lesbian 
Gay and Mormon: Josh's Story

Monday, October 16th--The Technology of Birth Control
Planned Parenthood: A History of Birth Control Methods

Wednesday, October 18th--Women's Global Reproductive Rights
Zakiya Luna: From Rights to Justice: Women of Color Changing the Face of U.S. Reproductive Rights Organizing

Monday, October 23rd--The Embodiment of Gender and the Standards of Female Beauty
No additional readings

Wednesday, October 25th--Clothing Female Bodies, Modesty, and the Male Gaze
Beth Caplin: Why We Shouldn't Say "Modest is Hottest"  

Monday, October 30th--The History of Education
No additional readings

Wednesday, November 1st--Contemporary Global Issues Related to Women's Access to Education
Malala Yousafzai: Nobel Lecture 

Monday, November 6th--The Unpaid Work of Women
Pat Mainardi: The Politics of Housework 

Wednesday, November 8th--Women's Access to Employment and Pay Equality 
James Damore: Google's Ideological Echo Chamber 
Note to Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai
Quillette: The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond
J. Doe--Medium: Here's Your Point by Point Refutation of the Google Memo
Kieran Snyder: Why Women Leave Tech: It's the Culture, Not Because 'Math is Hard'

Monday, November 13th--Intimate Partner Violence
No additional readings

Wednesday, November 15th--Sexual Harassment, Assault, Violence, and Abuse
No additional readings

Monday, November 20th--Religion as a Tool of Oppression and Liberation for Women
No additional readings

Monday, November 27th--Global Women's Issues: Water
Why is the Global Water Crisis is a Woman's Issue
How Did We Get Here? The Crisis in Flint
Lead-Laced Water in Flint: A Step-By-Step Look at the Making of a Crisis
Yurok Tribe Braces for Worst Fisheries Disaster in Klamath River History
How a Remote California Tribe Set Out to Save Its River and Stop a Suicide Epidemic 
Water Crisis on the Navajo Reservation

Wednesday, November 29th--Global Women's Issues: Human Trafficking 
Gerassi: A Heated Debate: Theoretical Perspectives of Sexual Exploitation and Sex Work
The Global Slavery Index
Sex Trafficking of Americans: The Girls Next Door
Butler: A Critical Race Feminist Perspective on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
"I carried his name on my body for nine years" the tattooed trafficking survivors reclaiming their past 

Monday, December 4th--Women's Activism: Voting Rights
No additional readings

Wednesday, December 6th--Women's Activism: The Women's March
The Women's March Website
Tolentino: The Somehow Controversial Women's March on Washington
Pussyhat Project
You'll See These Pussyhats at the March
Campbell: The "Pussyhat" Project
America Ferrera's Speech at the Women's March on Washington
Manigault-Bryant: Do Not Look for Me at the Women's March on Washington

Monday, December 11th--Presentation of Digital Stories
No additional readings

Wednesday, December 13th--Presentation of Digital Stories
No additional readings



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