Week 1: 26 August
TH Introduction to the Course: Who are you -- what are your women's and gender studies (two plurals)?
ASSIGNMENT 1 DUE: Personal History

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PART I: Where does WGS come from?: History and Locus

WEEK 2: 31 August, 2 September

TU Origins in the 19th Century: Political Roots
History Readings

• Karen Offen, European Feminisms, passim
  • "Prologue: History, Memory, and Empowerment," 1-18
  • "Thinking About Feminism in European History," 19-26
  • "Epilogue: Reinventing the Wheel?," 379-95
• Ann Taylor Allen, "The March through the Institutions" (opt.)
• Estelle B. Freedman, No Turning Back, passim

Key Original Voices:

• Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women, 65-155
• "Seneca Falls Declaration"
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, selections from Correspondence

DISCUSSION QUESTION: Which projects distinguish these feminisms?
RESOURCE TO INTRODUCE: Précis for analysis

TH The Early 20th Century: The Practical Project (Anglo-American)
History Reading

• Barbara Miller Solomon, In the Company of Educated Women, passim, esp. 1-140

Key Original Voices:

• Margaret Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization and Woman and the New Race, passim
• Jane Addams, Democracy and Social Ethics, passim
• Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

DISCUSSION QUESTION: Which projects distinguish these feminisms?
ASSIGNMENT DUE: Précis (any original voice -- one chapter will do)

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WEEK 3: 7, 9 September

TU The Latter 20th Century: The Political Project
History Reading (all passim)

• Marcia Cohen, The Sisterhood
• Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open
• Alice Echols, Daring to be Bad
• RECOMMENDED: Kate Weigand, Red Feminism
       Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique

Original Voices:

• Angela Davis, Women, Race & Class, passim
• ---, Lectures on Liberation
• Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, passim
• Gloria Steinem, "I Was a Playboy Bunny," "If Men Could Menstruate"
• Check out the WGS bibliography from the Center (on your class CD as resourcelist.pdf) for other voices

DISCUSSION QUESTION: What distinguishes post-war feminisms?

TH Since 1985: The Theoretical and Institutionalized Critical Projects
History Reading(all passim)

• Liesbet van Zoonen, Feminist Media Studies
• Claire Duchen, Feminism in France
• Bonnie G. Smith, ed., Global Feminisms Since 1945

Original Voices:

• Hélène Cixous, "Laugh of the Medusa"
• Chandra Mohanty, "Under Western Eyes"
• Catharine R. Stimpson with Nina Kressner Cobb, Women's Studies in the United States
• Beverly Guy-Sheftall with Susan Heath, Women's Studies: A Retrospective

ASSIGNMENT DUE: Précis (any original voice)

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WEEK 4: 14, 16 September

TU Backlash and Current Projects: From Institutionalized WGS through GLBT Theory and Identity Politics

• Susan Faludi, Backlash, Chaps. 1 & 2, Epilogue
• Karen Lehrman. "Off Course," and Responses to the article (the most public of WS exposés)
• Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge, Professing Feminism, passim (note that this represents ANTI-women's studies -- prepare to refute it)
• --Review by Michiko Kakutani
• Deborah A. Burghardt, et al., "Women's Studies Faculty"
• ALSO:
  • Pamela L. Caughie. "Graduate Education in Women's Studies"
  • Judith Kegan Gardiner, "Paradoxes of Empowerment"
  • Pamela L. Caughie. "Professional Identity Politics"
  • Sally L. Kitch. "Ph.D. Programs and the Research Mission of Women's Studies"
  • Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards. "The Number One Question about Feminism"
  • Anne Mamary. "Interventions"

CLASS DISCUSSION: Institutional configurations of WGS
ASSIGNMENT 2 DUE: Locate history of WS (not women's participation, but actual organizational links and academic stuff) in areas you're interested in (USE THE GUIDE TO WS).

PART II: What do WGS professionals do?, 1: Authorization and Communities of Authority

TH Who are my people, 1?: Institutions, Organizations, and Disciplines, and Why You Need to Interface with Them

CLASS DISCUSSION: An introduction to National WS organizations, foundations, museums, and policy projects (includes NWSA, NOW, NMWA, various women's organizations within national professional organizations -- see class website for links page)
ASSIGNMENT 3 DUE: Find Your People in the Academy

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WEEK 5: 21, 23 September

TU CLASS DISCUSSION: financing women's studies

• Note that Baumgardner Book in the back has resources
• look at grants section of class website
• national archives and conferences

ASSIGNMENT 4 DUE: Situate Yourself Nationally
PROOF OF WARMUP ASSIGNMENT DUE: last possible date

TH Who are my people, 2?: Activism and Community-Based WGS
Original Voices:

• Excerpts from Leslie Heyword and Jennifer Drake, eds., Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism
  • Michele Sidler, "Living in McJobdom: Third Wave Feminism and Class Inequality"
  • Leslie Heyword and Jennifer Drake, "We Learn America like a Script: Activism in the Third Wave; or, Enough Phantoms of Nothing"
  • Deborah L. Siegel, "Reading Between the Waves: Feminist Historiography in a 'Postfeminist' Moment"
• Jennifer Baumbardner and Amy Richards, ManifestA, 1-86, 233-342, 267-381 (note that 323 on is reference sources of great note)

CLASS DISCUSSION: Introducing resources (see class website)

• local chapters of nationals (e.g. Feminist Majority), Austin and area
• campus outreach projects and community education
• community-based initiatives in Austin (guerrilla and community radio, coops, etc).
• state and local initiatives

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WEEK 6: 28, 30 September

TU Identifying Forms of Output: How to make an impact--professional communication expectations
Original Voices

• Mike Rose and Karen A. McClafferty, "A Call for the Teaching of Writing in Graduate Education" (download as rose.pdf)
• (optional) Thomas P. Miller, "Treating Social Writing as Social Praxis" (download as pdf)

CLASS DISCUSSION: What forms of professional communication will you need to master?
For example:

• writing, speaking, presentation skills (academic/public)
• teaching (community education, academic)
• grant-writing
• technical (PowerPoint, web publishing, list-servs, organizational)

RESOURCES TO INTRODUCE:

• UT Graduate School's Professional Development and Community Engagement Program
• Style manuals
  Style Manuals
  Proofreaders' Marks
  
• Computing at UT (Webspace, Webmail, Labs)
• Software and Hardware
  Campus Computer Store for deals
  Bevoware free software
  EndNote
• Free training and handouts (e.g. html how-tos)
  Free Computer Training (see esp. ITS short courses)
  Free Handouts which can teach you most beginning courses
  Thesis Support
  Special Characters in HTML
  Writing and editing manuals
• Division of Rhetoric and Composition: Student Resources on style, documentation, research, etc.: http://www.drc.utexas.edu/student_resources/

ASSIGNMENT 5 DUE: Find Your Cause and Outreach

TH Class presentation: CVs, Resumés, grant proposals
READ -- CV guide, Grants sections of website
Grant-writing tutorials:

• http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html
• http://www.mcf.org/mcf/grant/writing.htm
• http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/research/writing.htm
• http://www.cpb.org/grants/grantwriting.html

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WEEK 7: 5, 7 October

TU DISCUSSION: Based on your series of postings: how do I plan my time at UT.
Also bring in a paper copy of the CV -- we may have a critique session using the doc cam.
ASSIGNMENT 6 (parts 1 & 2) DUE: Presenting Myself

Part III. The Academic Face of WGS = What do WGS professionals do?, 2: Skills, Outputs, Resources, and Self-Authorization

TH Research and Professional Information-Gathering, 1: Using Primary Sources
CLASS PRESENTATION: UT RESOURCES OF NOTE

• PCL (includes special collections)
  (see especially Databases and Indexes to Articles)
• HRC (Ransom Center)
• Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection
• Archives
  Center for American History (e.g. Natchez Trace Collections)
  L.B.J. Presidential Library and Museum
  --(current director: Betty Sue Flowers, a long-time friend of WGS at UT)
• Blanton Museum
• Texas Memorial Museum
• Austin History Center (not UT, but close!)
• UT Research Web
  and particularly EUREKA, a search function for research specialties
• Center for Teaching Effectiveness
• Faculty affiliates of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies

ASSIGNMENT 7 due: Evaluating and working with online archives

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WEEK 8: 12, 14 October

TU GUEST: Elizabeth L. Garver, HRC. MEET IN HRC
TOPIC: Using Archival and Primary Sources at UT

TH Research and Professional Information-Gathering, 2: Secondary Sources
Topic: bibliographies, search engines, UT Library Online
GUEST PRESENTATION: Lindsey Schell, PCL; MEET IN PCL 1.124 !!

• See especially Databases and Indexes to Articles, the Gender Studies Database from NISC

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WEEK 9: 19, 22 October

TU Research Methods: Original Research and Analysis
Reading

• Shulamit Reinharz with Lynn Davidman, Feminist Methods in Social Research (passim -- read around)

ASSIGNMENT 8 due: Evaluating web-based resources.

TH Ethics of Research and Teaching:
Professional Issues

• UT Vice President for Research: Office
• Office of Research Support and Compliance
  -see particularly the information on IRB and Human Subject training and compliance
• "stealing" women's stories, crafts, etc.: Position of the researcher
• peer review and access mechanisms
• evaluation/assessment
• ownership of intellectual property
• teaching ethics (see Center for Teaching Effectiveness for various approaches)
• ethics section of class links page

Voices

• Judy Chicago, Through the Flower (excerpt)
• Linda Nochlin, "Women, Art, and Power" and "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"
• Claudia Clark, Radium Girls (excerpt)

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WEEK 10: 26, 28 October

TU CLASS DISCUSSION: what kinds of research I will need/problems in using existing resources as a feminist
ASSIGNMENT 9 DUE: My Site of "Primary Sources" and My Research Issues

PART III: Basics of Theory: The Roots

TH CLASS LECTURE: How feminist theory grew: roots and keys from Western thought

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WEEK 11: 2, 4 November

TU Models of History, Consciousness-Raising, and Revolution: Hegel and Marx to Critical Theory

• G. F. W. Hegel, Reason in History
• ---, Phenomenology of Spirit (excerpt)
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology
• Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
• Antonio Gramsci, selections from An Antonio Gramsci Reader

TH

• Linda Nicholson. "Feminism and Marx"
• John Clark, et al., "Subcultures, Cultures, and Class"
• Nancy Fraser. "What's Critical About Critical Theory"

ASSIGNMENT DUE: Précis (any text from this week)

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WEEK 12: 9, 11 November

TU Signification, Marginalization, Consciousness: Freud to French Feminism

• Sigmund Freud, An Outline of Psycho-Analysis
• Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics (excerpts)
• Jacques Lacan, "The Mirror Stage"

TH

• Elaine Marks and Isabel de Courtivron, eds., New French Feminisms (excerpts)
• Hélène Cixous. "The Laugh of the Medusa'
• Luce Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman (excerpts)
• ---, This Sex Which is Not One (excerpts)
• Julia Kristeva, Revolution in Poetic Language (excerpts)
• ---, "The System and the Speaking Subject"

ASSIGNMENT DUE: Précis (any text from this week)

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WEEK 13: 16, 18 November

TU Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, The Gaze, Alterity

• Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge (excerpts)
• ---, "Two Lectures"
• Jacques Derrida, "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"
• ---, "Differance"

TH

• Toril Moi, "Appropriating Bourdieu"
• Laura Mulvey, Visual and Other Pleasures
• Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory: An Introduction

ASSIGNMENT DUE: Précis (any text from this week)

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WEEK 14: 23 November(+ Thanksgiving)

T ASSIGNMENT 10 DUE as part of class symposium

TH Thanksgiving

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WEEK 15: 30 November, 2 December

T Class Symposium continued

TH ASSIGNMENT 6, part 3, due

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FINAL EXAM TIME: Saturday 11 December 9-12AM
FINAL ASSIGNMENT DUE IN TO MY OFFICE