| Day |
Date |
In-Class
Activities and Handouts |
Homework
Assignments |
| 1 |
W, Aug 22 |
Intro
to class, Policy Statement, Syllabus, Assignments, Class Home Page,. |
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Write
Journal #1 -- intro to yourself and attitudes towards feminism
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Read handouts on feminism
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| 2 |
F, Aug 24 |
DEFINITIONS
Discuss
different defintions of feminism
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Write
Journal 2a -- on definitions of feminism
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Read handouts on literary criticism
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| 3 |
M, Aug 27 |
Discuss
definition of Literary Crticism
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Write
Journal 2b -- on literary criticism
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Read handouts on feminist lit crit
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| 4 |
W, Aug 29 |
Discuss
feminist lit crit
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Write Journal 2c on Feminist Lit Crit
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Read intro materials on Woolf
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and
Chapter One of Room
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| 5 |
F,
Aug 31 |
VIRGNIA
WOOLF: THE FIRST FEMINIST CRITIC
Discuss
Virginia Woolf and A Room of One's Own
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Write Journal 3a on VW
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Read Chapters 2-4 of Room
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| 6 |
M, Sep 3 |
 Discuss
Virginia Woolf and A Room of One's Own, Chaps 2-4
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Write Journal 3b on VW
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Read
Chaps 5-6 of Room
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| 7 |
W, Sep 5 |
 Discuss
Virginia Woolf and A Room of One's Own, Chaps 5-6
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| 8 |
F, Sep 7 |
 Woolf
Share -- images and poems on Room
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Read:
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Handout on de Beauvoir
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Xerox
Book, Ellman, Thinking of Women
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| 9 |
M, Sep 10 |
FEMINIST
CRITIQUE

Discuss
First Articulations of Misogyny:
De Beauvoir and Ellman
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Write Journal 4a on DeBeauvoir and Elllman
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Read
Xerox Book on and by Millett
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| 10 |
W, Sep 12 |
 Discuss
Kate Millett
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Write Journal 4b on Kate Millett
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Read Fetterly "On the Politics of Literature" 564-73 and Russ, Anomolousness"
97-105
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| 11 |
F,
Sep 14 |
Discuss
Fetterley & Russ
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Write Journal 4c on Fetterley and Russ
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Read Xerox Book: Gardiner, Mind Mother
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| 12 |
M, Sep 17 |
 Discuss
Feminism
and Psychoanlysis
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Write Journal 5a on Gardiner
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Read
Xerox book, Masden
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| 13 |
W, Sep 19 |
 Discuss
Feminism and Psychoanalysis |
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Write Journal 5b, on Gardiner
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| 14 |
F,
Sep 21 |
 Discuss
Feminism and Psychoanalysis
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Write Journal 5c on Marsden
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Read
materials in xerox book on Research project
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| 15 |
M, Sep 24 |
 Discuss
Feminism and Archetypal Criticism
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Write Journal 6a on using Campbell chart to analyze a film or book
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Read Xerox book, Pearson and Pope
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| 16 |
W, Sep 26 |
 Discuss
Feminism and Archetypal Criticism
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Write Journal 6b on the feminist version of the quest-- using a book or
movie with a female hero as an example.
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Read
Materials on Research Project
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| 17 |
F,
Sep 29 |
 Discuss
Research Project
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Read
"Canon", 73-5; Kolodny, 171-87; and Robinson 115-28.
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Write Journal 6c on ideas for research project or on archetypal crit
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M, Oct 1 |
GYNOCROTICISM --
RECOVERY
Discuss
Rewriting Literary History: Canons, Kolodny, Robinson
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Read
Showalter, 269-88
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Read
Spaull on "Gynocriticism" 83-94
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Write Journal 7a on Canons, Kolodny, Robinson
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| 19 |
W, Oct 3 |
Discuss
The British Tradition:
Showalter
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Read
Gilbert and Gubar "Infection in the Sentence" 21-33
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Read
Spaull and Millard on "The Anxiety of Auhorship" (122-53)
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Write Journal 7b on Gilbert and Gubar
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| 20 |
F, Oct5 |
Discuss
Gilbert and Gubaar
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Read
Nina Baym, "Melodramas of Beset Manhood"
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Write Journal 7c on Gilbert and Gubar
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Write
Proposal and Initial Bibliography for Research Project
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| 21 |
M, Oct 8 |
Discuss
The American Tradition: Nina Baym
Midterm
ID List
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Proposal
and Initial Bibliography for Final Project Due by 5:00 PM Monday, Oct 10
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Review
for Midterm
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| 22 |
W, Oct 10 |
Review
for Midterm
Midterm
Core list
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| 23 |
F, Oct12 |
Take
Midterm |
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M-T Oct 15-16 |
FALL BREAK |
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Dickinson
"My Life Had Stood"
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Read
Taggart and Anderson on Dickinson
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| 24 |
W, Oct 17 |
Dickinson Unit
Biographical
and New Criticism: Taggart & Anderson
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Read
Cody and Gelpi on Dickinson
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Write journal 8a on Dickinson poem, Taggart and Anderson
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| 25 |
F, Oct
19 |
Psychoanalytic
Readings of Dickinson: Cody & Gelpi
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| 26 |
M, Oct 22 |
Psychoanalytic
Readings of Dickinson: Cody & Gelpi Cont.
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Write Journal 9a on Gelpi
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| 27 |
W, Oct 24 |
Feminist
Readings of Dickinson
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Write Journal 9b on Fem critics
of Dickinson
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| 28 |
F, Oct
26 |
Early
African-American Feminist Criticism
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W&H: "Ethnicity", 687-89
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(X)Alice Walker, "In Search
of Our Mother's Gardens" (1974/ 1983)
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(X) Alice Walker, "Zora Neale
Hurston" (1979)
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Class
Notes
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Write
Journal 9c on Early African American Crit
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| 29 |
M, Oct 29 |
African-American Feminist Criticism: Recovery
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| 30 |
W, Oct 31 |
African-American Feminist Criticism: Reassessment
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Read one of three articles
in W&H
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Paula Gunn Allen (746 ff)
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Glorai Anzaldua (765 ff)
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Amy Ling, (776 ff)
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| 31 |
F, Nov
2 |
Exploring Ethnicities
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Five
Summaries of Good articles Due |
| 32 |
M, Nov
5 |
Early
Lesbian Criticism
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W&H: Zimmerman, "What Has
Never Been" pp. 76-96
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Barbara Smith, "The Truth That
Never Hurts," W&H: pp. 690-711
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STOP
HERE-- SYLLABUS NOT COMPLETED.
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W, Nov 7 |
More
Recent Lesbian Crit:
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Terry Castle, "Syvia Townsend
Warner and the COunterplot of Lesbian Fiction:\" 532 ff.
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Bonnie Zimmerman, “Lesbians
Like This and Lesbians Like That” (Xerox)
Women Reading:
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W&H: Pat Schweikert, "Reading
Ourselves" pp. 525-45
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Jonathan Culler, "Reading as
a Woman"
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| 33 |
F, Nov 9 |
Women
Reading:
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W&H: Radway “The Readers
and Their Romances”
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| 34 |
M, Nov 12 |
French
Feminism:
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W&H: "The Body," pp.331-333
and "Desire," pp. 399-403
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W&H: Ann R. Jones, "Writing
the Body", pp. 357-70
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| 35 |
W, Nov 14 |
French
Feminism: Cixous
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W&H: "The Laugh of the
Medusa," pp. 334-49
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| 36 |
F, Nov 16 |
Film
and “The Gaze”:
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Laura Muhlvey, “Visual
Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975), W&H, pp. 432-442
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| 37 |
F,
Nov 17 |
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| 38 |
M, Nov 20 |
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W, Nov 22 & Friday
Nov 24 |
Thanksgiving Break |
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| 39 |
M,
Nov 27 |
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| 40 |
W, Nov 29 |
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| 41 |
F, Dec
1 |
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| 42 |
M, Dec 4 |
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| 43 |
W, Dec 6 |
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| 44 |
F, Dec
8 |
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Final Exam : 9:00 AM in
Martin M-302.
BRING YOUR LAPTOP
Final
Quiz on Mechanics
Editing
Exercise
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All links should be working
on web site
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Final project should be up
and workign
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Quiz on surface errors
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Editing exercise as well
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