English 132: GSLC in Am. Lit Spring 2008

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English 132 STUDENT CALENDAR Spring 2008: Online

Primary Readings (not including pdfs):
The Awakening, Chopin
The Son Also Rises, Hemingway
Death of a Salesman, Miller
Hidden: A Gender, Bornstein
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, ed. Rothenberg

Assignments:
Three 2.5-3 page Response Papers
Several thoughtful Discussion Posts
Mid-term essay
Final essay

Introduction to Course and Victorian Sentimentality

Week 1 (1/28 - 2/1)
• Post a brief introduction of yourself in the “Discussion” forum.
• Read Beecher, “Treatise on Domestic Economy” Chapters 1-3 and Grimke’s letter to Beecher (all pdfs under “Readings” on class website)
• Read “Amy’s Notes” for week 1 (under “Amy’s Notes” on class website)

Week 2 (2/4 – 2/8)
• Read Sedgwick, Hope Leslie (excerpt – pdf in “Readings”)
• Read Alcott, Little Women (excerpt – pdf in “Readings”)
• Post response to discussion questions over weeks 1&2 (in “Discussions”) – Due Sunday, 2/10 by Midnight

The Fall of the Sentimental Ideal and the Emergence of the “New Woman”

Week 3 (2/11 – 2/15)
• Read “The Antisuffragists: Selected Papers” in RCG, pg. 543
• Read Introduction to Chopin, pgs. 3-21
• Read Chopin, The Awakening, chapters I – XV (pgs 22-67)
• Post response to discussion questions (in “Discussions”) – Due Sunday, 2/17 by Midnight

Week 4 (2/18 – 2/22)
• Read newspaper clippings: “The Tragedy of Motherhood” and “Says Old Fashioned Mother is Failure” (pdfs in “Readings”)
• Finish Chopin, The Awakening, chapters XVI – XXXIX (pgs 68-139)
• Read “Contextual Documents” (pgs 140-166)

The “Lost Generation”

Week 5 (2/25 – 2/29)
• Read “Myth of the Opt-Out Mom” in RCG, pg. 473
• Read Sojouner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman” (pdf in “Readings”)
• Read “Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873” in RCG, pg. 564
• Read “Smells Like Racism” in RCG, pg. 143
• 2-3 page response paper – Due Sunday, 3/2 by midnight

Week 6 (3/3 – 3/7)
• Read newspaper clipping “The Sex War” (pdf in “Readings”)
• Read “Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes” in RCG, pg. 597
• Read Hemingway, Chapters I – XI
• Post response to discussion questions (in “Discussions”) – Due Sunday, 3/9 by Midnight

Week 7 (3/10 – 3/14)
• Read Hemingway, Chapters XII – XIX
• Read “He Defies You Still” in RCG, pg 458
• 2-3 Page Response Paper – Due Sunday, 3/23 (after Spring Break) by Midnight

Week 8 (3/17 – 3/21) SPRING BREAK

Week 9 (3/24 – 3/28)
• Mid-Term Exam

Class, Gender, and the “American Dream”

Week 10 (3/31 – 4/4)
• Read Miller, Act I
• Read “Class in America – 2006” in RCG, pg. 182
• Read “Women’s Pay: Why the Gap Remains a Chasm” in RCG, pg. 370
• Read “The Wage Gap and Its Costs” in RCG, pg. 373

Week 11 (4/7 – 4/11)
• Read Miller, Act II and Requiem
• Read “Masculinity as Homophobia” in RCG, pg. 80
• Read “Read “A New Vision of Masculinity” in RCG, pg. 717
• Post response to discussion questions (in “Discussions”) – Due Sunday, 4/13 by Midnight

“Invisible” Genders

Week 12 (4/14 – 4/18)
• Read Bornstein
• Read “The Social Construction of Sexuality” in RCG, pg. 65
• Post response to discussion questions (in “Discussions”) – Due Sunday, 4/20 by Midnight

Week 13 (4/21 – 4/25)
• Read “Confronting Anti-Gay Violence” in RCG, pg. 738
• Read “Boy Punished for Talking About Gay Mom” in RCG, pg. 319
• Read “Lesbian and Gay Rights in Historical Perspective” in RCG, pg. 586
• 2-3 Page Response Paper – Due Sunday, 4/27 by Midnight

Gender in an Online World

Week 14 (4/28 – 5/02)
• Read “Gender Wars in Cyberspace” (pdf in “Readings”)
• Read “Bonding and Bondage Online” (pdf in “Readings”)
• Assignment: Visit “Blogher.com” (http://www.blogher.com/bloghers-blogrolls) and check out 3 blogs of your choice.
• Post response to discussion questions (in “Discussions”) – Due Sunday, 5/04 by Midnight

Week 15 (5/05 – 5/09)
• Readings TBA
• Post response to discussion questions (in “Discussions”) – Due Sunday, 5/11 by Midnight

Week 16 (5/12 – 5/13) and Finals Week
• Final Exam


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