Women's History and Feminist Theory--Update

Links:
Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography (1928)
Elsie Clews Parsons, The Journal of a Feminist (London: Thoemmes, 1994).
Patricia Raybon, My First White Friend: Confessions of Love, Race, and Forgiveness (New York: Penguin, 1996).
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (New York: Pantheon, 1979).
Alice Walker, The Color Purple (New York: Pocket Books, 1982).
Working Girl (Film to be viewed in class, or at the Audio-Visual Department at the Library)
Salt of the Earth (Film to be viewed in class, or at the Audio-Visual Department at the Library)
Imitation of Life (Film to be viewed in class, or at the Audio-Visual Department at the Library)


Week Four: The Historical Creation of Patriarchy
Monday, September 22 The Scientific Construction of Gender (cont.)
Wednesday, September 24 The Creation of Patriarchy
Readings: Woolf, Orlando; Parsons, Journal of a Feminist
 
Week Five: Women's Economies
Monday September 29 Discuss Orlando in class
Wednesday, October 1 NO CLASS--Classes follow a Friday Schedule
Readings: Woolf, Orlando; Parsons, Journal of a Feminist
 
Week Six: Feminism and Identity
Monday, October 6 Discuss Elsie Clews Parsons, The Journal of a Feminist
Wednesday, October 8 Review for Midterm in Class (Click here for the Study Guide
Readings: Woolf, Orlando; Parsons, Journal of a FeministReadings:
 
Week Seven: FIRST MIDTERM
Monday, October 13 CUNY CLOSED--No class.
Wednesday, October 15 First Midterm
Readings: Raybon, My First White Friend
 
Week Eight: Working Girls, cont.
Monday, October 20 Watch Working Girl in class
Wednesday, October 22 Feminism and Class Issues; Discuss Working Girl
Readings: Raybon, My First White Friend; Mary Childers and bell hooks, "A Dialogue About Race and Class"
 
Week Nine: Feminism and Race
Monday, October 27 View Imitation of Life in class.
Wednesday, October 29 Feminism and Race Issues; Discuss Imitation of Life
Readings: Raybon, My First White Friend
 
Week Ten: Communities and Communication Among Women
Monday, November 3 View Salt of the Earth in class
Wednesday, November 5 Discuss Salt of the Earth
Readings: Raybon, My First White Friend
 
Week Eleven: Women's Ways of Knowing
Monday, November 10 Discuss Raybon, My First White Friend
Wednesday, November 12 Review in class; pass out Second Midtermtake-home exam.
Readings: Raybon, My First White Friend
 
Week Twelve: Feminism and Utopia
Monday, November 17 Women's Writing
Wednesday, November 19 Women Remaking the World--Utopian Feminism
Readings: Gilman, Herland
 
Week Thirteen: Herland and Other "Women's Places"
Monday, November 24 Women and Sociocultural Critique
Wednesday, November 26 Discuss Gilman, Herland
Readings: Gilman, Herland; Walker, The Color Purple
 
Week Fourteen: Womanism and Feminism
Monday, December 1 Womanism
Wednesday, December 3 Histories Behind The Color Purple
Readings: Walker, The Color Purple
 
Week Fifteen: The Color Purple
Monday, December 8 Discuss Walker, The Color Purple
Wednesday, December 10 Discuss Walker, The Color Purple
Readings: Walker, The Color Purple
 
Week Sixteen: Finding Our Place
Monday, December 15 Summing Up
Readings: Walker, The Color Purple
 
Final Exam Wednesday, 17 December 1997
 

Prepared by Professor Catherine Lavender for History 182 (Women's History and Feminist Theory), The Department of History, The College of Staten Island of The City University of New York. Send email to lavender@postbox.csi.cuny.edu
Fall Semester 1997. Last modified: Thursday 23 October 1997