| Monday | 8/27 | Introduction to Course & Syllabus Review | ||
| Wednesday | 8/29 | Introduction to Literary Analysis | ||
| “Introduction: Feminist Manifestos,” Penny Weiss (excerpt) | ||||
| Monday | 9/3 | NO CLASS | ||
| Wednesday | 9/5 | Manifestos: Women’s Suffrage | ||
| “Declaration of Sentiments and Reasons,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton | ||||
| “Feminist Manifesto,” Mina Loy | ||||
| Monday | 9/10 | NO CLASS | ||
| Wednesday | 9/12 | Manifestos: Women’s Liberation | ||
| “Redstockings Manifesto,” Redstockings | ||||
| “The Personal is Political,” Carol Hanisch | ||||
| Monday | 9/17 | Manifestos: Women’s Spaces | ||
| “Position Paper on Women,” Young Lords Party | ||||
| “Riot Grrrl Manifesto,” Kathleen Hanna/Bikini Kill | ||||
| Wednesday | 9/19 | NO CLASS | ||
| Monday | 9/24 | Manifestos: Global Women | ||
| We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (excerpt) | ||||
| In class viewing: “We Should All Be Feminists,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||||
| Wednesday | 9/26 | Manifestos: Minority Voices | ||
| “Lean In: Our Feminist Manifesto,” Rabata | ||||
| “What We Believe,” Black Lives Matter | ||||
| Monday | 10/1 | Introduction to Women’s Bodies | ||
| Wednesday | 10/3 | Women’s Bodies: Instutions of Control | ||
| The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman | ||||
| Monday | 10/8 | NO CLASS | ||
| Wednesday | 10/10 | Women’s Bodies: Instutions of Control | ||
| The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman | ||||
| DUE Proposal for Essay #1: Manifestos | ||||
| Monday | 10/15 | Women’s Bodies: Reclaiming | ||
| “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens,” Alice Walker | ||||
| Wednesday | 10/17 | Women’s Bodies: State Control | ||
| The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (excerpt) | ||||
| Monday | 10/22 | Women’s Bodies: State Control | ||
| The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (excerpt) | ||||
| Wednesday | 10/24 | Women’s Bodies: State Control | ||
| In class viewing: The Handmaid’s Tale episode | ||||
| Monday | 10/29 | Women’s Bodies: State Control | ||
| In class viewing: The Handmaid’s Tale episode | ||||
| DUE Essay #1: Manifestos | ||||
| Wednesday | 10/31 | Women’s Bodies: Sexuality | ||
| “Night Women,” Edwidge Danticat | ||||
| Monday | 11/5 | Midterm Presentations | ||
| Wednesday | 11/7 | Women’s Bodies: Poetic Expression | ||
| selected poems, Julia de Burgos | ||||
| Monday | 11/12 | Women’s Bodies: Poetic Expression | ||
| selected poems, Sylvia Plath | ||||
| selected poems, Rupi Kaur | ||||
| Wednesday | 11/14 | Women’s Bodies: Beyond the Physical | ||
| Soledad, Angie Cruz (chp 1) | ||||
| Monday | 11/19 | Women’s Bodies: Beyond the Physical | ||
| Soledad, Angie Cruz (chps 2 +3) | ||||
| Wednesday | 11/21 | Women’s Bodies: Beyond the Physical | ||
| Soledad, Angie Cruz (chp 4) | ||||
| Monday | 11/26 | Women’s Bodies: Beyond the Physical | ||
| Soledad, Angie Cruz (chp 5) | ||||
| Wednesday | 11/28 | Women’s Bodies: Beyond the Physical | ||
| Soledad, Angie Cruz (chp 6) | ||||
| DUE Proposal for Essay #2: Bodies | ||||
| Monday | 12/3 | Women’s Bodies: Beyond the Physical | ||
| Soledad, Angie Cruz (chp 7) | ||||
| Wednesday | 12/5 | Women’s Bodies: Beyond the Physical | ||
| Soledad, Angie Cruz (chp 8) | ||||
| Monday | 12/10 | Women’s Bodies: Beyond the Physical | ||
| Soledad, Angie Cruz (chps 9 +10) | ||||
| Wednesday | 12/12 | Women’s Bodies: Beyond the Physical | ||
| Soledad, Angie Cruz (chp 11) | ||||
| Monday | 12/17 | Final Exam | ||
| Wednesday | 12/19 | Course Conclusion | ||
| DUE Essay #2: Bodies | ||||
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