Course Syllabus

Readings

Readings and Assignment Sheets are available through the links below or, if marked "CR," through the Canvas Course Reserves link at left. Bring HARD COPY of all readings to class.  Assignments are due in class, at the start of class unless otherwise noted (ignore the time stamp in the "assignments summary").

Unit One: Introduction

23 Aug: Week One-- Introductions

• Mann, Doing Feminist Theory (Sections 1 and 2)
• Due: Writing Sample and Cover Letter

29 Aug: Week Two-- Practice Writing/Writing Practice

• Silvia, How to Write a Lot
• Booth, "Thinking In Print" (2008, CR)
• Lamott, "Shitty First Drafts" (1994, CR)
• Rockquemore, "The Sunday Meeting"
• Reading questions on Silvia et al
• Due: Weekly Assignment #1: Writing Practice Paper & Completed Writing Calendar, 23-29 Aug (click on "Weekly Writing Work Plan Calendar)

5 Sept: Week Three—No Class—Labor Day

Unit Two: Histories and Theories

12 Sept, Week Four: Historicizing Women's Studies I

• Messer-Davidow, Disciplining Feminism (2002), Introduction, Chpts 3 and 4
• hooks, "Feminist Education for Critical Consciousness" (2002, CR)
• Morgan, "The Proper Story of Womankind: on Women's Studies" (1973, CR)
• Pheterson, "The Struggle of an Academic Feminist" (1982, CR)
• Due: Weekly Assignment #2: Create Reading Questions
• Taxonomic Questions on EMD Intro
• 12:50- 2:30, class discussion
• 2:40-3:50, MA students early dismissal!
• Phd students meet with tt to discuss research agendas!

19 Sept, Week Five: tt out of town

• Bibliographic workshop with library subject specialist Paul McDonough, BRING LAPTOPS to Library West, room 211.
• ** Due via Canvas** by 12:50 pm: Weekly Assignment #3, Report on Local Resources

26 Sept, Week Six: the Pre-Problematized World

• Background on Readings
• Arnold, from Culture and Anarchy (1867-8, CR)
• Bierstedt, "Sociology and General Education" (1970, CR)
• Appelby et al, "The Heroic Model of Science"  (1995, CR)

• Due: Weekly Assignment #4: Comparative Note-Taking
• Generic Note-Taking Form

3 Oct, Week Seven: Historicizing Women's Studies II

• Messer-Davidow, Disciplining Feminism, chpts 1 and 5
• Feminist Studies Forum, "Doing Feminism in Interdisciplinary Contexts"
• Introduction by Anke and Rosner, articles by Friedman, Dimock, Wiegman, Katz, and Subramanian (CR)

• Due: Weekly Assignment #5: Journal Report
• Belcher Journal Report Form here at "Journal Review Worksheet"

10 Oct., Week Eight: Women's Studies at UF: State of the Field: A Panel discussion by CWSGR Advanced Graduate Students/Alums

• Anna Armitage (MA 2015), US History teacher, Pacetti Bay Middle School
• MA Thesis: "Seeking Recognition: The Gendered Tradition of African American Education for Citizenship"
• Robert Baez (MA 2016), 1st Year PhD, Sociology
• MA Thesis: “'Living Unapologetically': LGBTQ+ Youth Navigating Rural Communities"
• Anquinetta Calhoun (Certificate Student), PhD Candidate, Counselor Ed
• MA Thesis, Working Title: "Africana Girls, the Myth of the Strong Black Woman, and Its Effects on Help-seeking Behavior in a School Setting."
• Karina Vado (MA 2014), 2nd Year PhD, English
• MA Thesis: “To Go Where No Man Has Gone Before: The Imaginings of Latin American Feminist Futures in Gioconda Belli’s El Pais de las Mujeres”
• Read: Booth, "From Topics to Questions" and "Planning"
• Due by email Thursday, 13 Oct., noon: Weekly Assignment #6: Mid-Term Self-Assessment & Final Project Proposal
• Assignment Sheet; Call for Proposals; Example Pitch Letter

17 Oct, Week Nine: Work Week: No Formal Class Meeting

• Meet individually with instructor to discuss and troubleshoot final projects
• Due at meeting: Final Project Workplan

Unit Three: Disciplines, Methods, Discourses

24 Oct, Week Ten: Feminist "Standpoint" and the Revolt against Positivism

• Smith, "Women's Perspectives as a Radical Critique of Sociology" (1974, CR)
• Harraway, "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective" (1988, CR)
• Collins, "The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought" (1989, CR)
  • Due: Weekly Assignment #7: Numbered Paragraph List
  • The Point of this Week's Readings!

31 Oct. Week Eleven: CWSGR Guest Speaker/Grad Symposium, Assistant Professor of Psychology Patrick Grzanka, University of Tennessee, “From ‘Multiculturalism’ to ‘Intersectionality’: Difference and Identity at the Nexus of Academia and Activism”

• Grzanka, P. R. (2014). Intersectional objectivity. In P. R. Grzanka (Ed.), Intersectionality: A foundations and frontiers reader (pp. xi-xxvii). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

• Gordon, L. (2016). ‘Intersectionality,’ socialist feminism and contemporary activism: Musings by a second-wave feminist. Gender & History, 28, 340-357.

• Lethabo-King, T. (2015). Post-identitarian and post-intersectional anxiety in the neoliberal corporate university. Feminist Formations, 27(3), 114-138. 

• Cole, E. R. (2008). Coalitions as a model for intersectionality: From practice to theory. Sex Roles, 59, 443–453. 

• Recommended (but not required): 

• Reed, T. V. (2001). Heavy traffic at the intersections: Ethnic, American, Women’s Queer, and Cultural Studies. In J. Butler (Ed.), From color-line to borderlands: The matrix of American ethnic studies (pp. 273-292). Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press (CR).

7 Nov, Week Twelve: "Standpoint" in the Humanities

• Welter, "The Cult of True Womanhood" (1966, CR)
• Smith-Rosenberg, "The Female World of Love and Ritual" (1975, CR)
• Carby, "Slave and Mistress: Ideologies of Women under Slavery" (1987, CR)
• Due: Weekly Assignment #8: Reverse Outline
• TT outline

14 Nov: Week Thirteen: From "Multicultural Communication" to "Trigger Warnings"

• hooks, "Talking Back" & "When I was a Young Soldier for the Revolution:  Coming to Voice" (1989, CR)
• Halberstam "You are Triggering Me!' The Neoliberal Rhetoric of Harm, Danger, and Trauma" and "Triggering Me, Triggering You" 
  
  • please browse the responses to "You are Triggering Me!" that are cited in "Triggering Me, Triggering You"
• Cole, E. R. (2008). Coalitions as a model for intersectionality: From practice to theory. Sex Roles, 59, 443–453. 
• Guest Speaker, LB Hannahs, Graduate Assistant for the Vice President of Student Affairs

21 Nov: Week Fourteen:  Work Week

• Meet individually with instructor to discuss and troubleshoot final projects
• Due via email 24 hours before meeting: final project status report

28 Nov: Week Fifteen- Feminist Pedagogy

• Henderson, Feminist Pedagogy (2013; this is a nice overview with bibliography)
• Belenky, "Toward an Education for Women" from Women's Ways of Knowing (1986, CR)
• hooks, "Building a Teaching Community" (1994, CR)
• Broad, "FemiQueer PedagogieS" (2001, CR)
• Ludlow, "From Safe Space to Contested Space" (2004, CR)

Unit Four: The Present State of the Field

5 Dec: Week Sixteen--  Conclusions

• Research Presentations

Final Projects Due in CWSGR office by Noon, Monday, 12 December