January 8: Class Outline: Intro to Women's and Gender Studies

What will you do in class today?

• Writing prompt:  What do you think feminism is?  Why do you think it exists?  Do you think it is needed, or not?
• Share and discuss
• Viewed the powerpoint presentation and discuss the issues raised
• Discuss the syllabus and class expectatons
• Look over the blog and discuss how we will use it
• You can view the powerpoint below:

 


Preview of Chapter 1 ( in discussion and powerpoint)

Group work: 

• Get into groups
• Each pick one of the essays in Chapter 1
• Claiming an Education
• Forty Years of Women's Studies
• The Housewife's Moment of Truth
• A Day without Feminism
• Feminist Politics
• Facebook for Women vs. Facebook Design by Feminists
• Still Needing the "F" Word
• "My Heroines"
• Read
• Discuss
• Choose a spokesperson
• Teach the class the three most important points of your reading selection

Some key terms and concepts from Chapter 1:

• women's studies
• androcentrism
• gender
• How did women's studies come about?
• rebalancing the curriculum
• transformation of traditional knowledge
• first wave feminism (suffrage) - definition, strengths, weaknesses, key people
• second wave feminism - definition, strengths, weaknesses, key people
• third wave feminism - definition, strengths, weaknesses, key people
• Susan B. Anthony (activist)
• turning points for women rights
• the personal is political
• patriarchy
• interdisciplinary
• goals of women's studies
• relationship between women's studies and feminism
• transnational feminism
• liberal feminism
• radical feminism
• marxist feminism
• socialist feminism
• multiracial feminism
• zines
• myths associated with feminism
• backlash
• postfeminism
• misogyny
• lesbian baiting