Announcements

Your takehome test is now available. It has detailed instructions at the beginning, but please get in touch with one or both teachers if you have questions of any kind. The test is due Tuesday, June 10 by 5pm-- this is a rigid deadline unless you have already made other arrangements. You may hand in your test by email, or in hard copy to Moon's office (MS 301). It should be fun-- enjoy!

• May 3-May 31 at the Athenaeum Theater: New Anatomies
• May 8-July 12 at the Museum of Contemporary Photography: The Furtive Gaze
• Tuesday, May 20 at 7pm in BSLC 109: Bay Buchanan (sister of Pat), "The Failures of Feminism"
• Wednesday, May 21 at 8pm in Harper 130: Martha Nussbaum, Sibyl Schwarzenbach, and Scott Anderson discuss "What's Wrong with Prostitution?"
• Friday, May 23 at 6:30, 9, 11:30 at Doc Films: "Das Experiment." (Film based on real "Stanford Prison Experiment": 20 men agree to participate in a month-long experiment in which they are put in prison, half as prisoners and half as guards.)
• Thursday, June 5 at 7:30pm, Jane Gottesman discusses her book Game Face: What Does A Female Athlete Look Like? at Women and Children First, 5233 N. Clark

Course Material

Course syllabus-- occasionally updated; worth visiting regularly.

Reading schedule.

e-reserves (tip: if you sort by author, you get all the documents on one page and it's much easier to find things).

Guidelines for response papers.
Here are postings of some sample response papers. They have been chosen to give a sense of the wide range of approaches that are invited in these papers.

• A Destructive Peace (Caroline Hall)
• Source of Evil (Erin Roosa)
• In Defence of Marxist Feminism (Ana Minian)
• Take Home Assignments (Naomi Sobel)
• The Gaze (Fay LaManna)
• Voice (Kasia Houlihan)
• Contradictions (Nadia Gaya)
• What if you want to want what they want you to want? (Courtney Wassell)

MENU of some ideas for projects

Handouts

Context for Manifestos: Timeline (word file).

Chemical structure of sex hormones (word file).

Lyrics to "You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman" (word file).

Freud's essay "Medusa's Head."

Borges' "certain Chinese encyclopedia."

Notes complementing lectures

Notes on Lacan.

Notes on Butler --- excerpt from Preface to Gender Trouble.

Notes on biology (still being updated).

Excerpt from Irigaray's je, tu, nous.

John Money, excerpt from a case file.

Jury Selection in Dallas County, excerpt.

External Links

Episode summaries from HBO's prison series, OZ. Note the soap opera quality.

the Wickedary of Mary Daly et al.

Mimesis in Irigaray.

Semiotics for Beginners.

Feminist glossary.

Emi Koyama's eminism.org.