Swarthmore College

Women's Studies 1

Introduction to Women's Studies

Body-Talk: Engendering the Female Body from Modernity to Postmodernity

Spring 2000

Sunka Simon, Asst. Prof. of German and Women's Studies

Office Hours in Kohlberg 312: T/Th: 2:30-3:30pm

Email: ssimon1

Telephone: (610) 328-7354

Course Description

This introductory core course is geared especially towards second semester students interested in learning the tools of analysis based on the intersections between gender, race, and class issues in the acquisition, organization, and dissemination of knowledge. It is further intended for those students pondering the role of gender construction in their home disciplines or considering a concentration in Women's Studies.

Women's Studies I is designed around one overarching topic crucial to women's lives, to the representation of women's experiences, and to the scholarly research as well as interpretations of gender and sex. The course focuses on the body as a matrix of discursive projections and manifestations. From the late eighteenth century to today, we trace the appearances, development, and signification of "body-talk" - i.e. rhetoric, textuality, architecture, ethnography, and science of the female body, of Woman as figure, and of individual historical women in Western and Non-Western societies. At the same time, class participants learn about the historical and epistemological specificity of "body-talk" through contributions to gender-conscious research from all disciplines: humanities, sciences, social sciences.

After the first two weeks of general introduction and historical readings, a professional member of one of the disciplines gives a guest lecture in the class. These lectures are organized thematically so that the students gain a sense of development as well as get exposed to different methodological approaches to one specific aspect of "body-talk." At the end of the semester, the class comes together for two weeks of review, outlook, and critical assessment.

Each student is responsible for regular attendance at all class meetings and scheduled lectures, for participating in a discussion group that meets for at least one hour once a week to compose a weekly topic-paper based on reading assignments and the course lectures, for two individual papers and a final project outlined below. We will collaborate closely with the capstone seminar, taught by Marion Faber and Jeanne Marechek, by setting up a mentoring program and occasional meetings throughout the semester.

Textbooks (available at the bookstore)

1. Conboy, Katie and Nadia Medina, Sarah Stanbury. Eds. Writing on the Body. Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
2. Peach, Lucinda Joy. Ed. Women in Culture. A Women's Studies Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.

Readings

All other readings are assigned weekly in coordination with the lecture topics. They are available in the reserve binders at the reserve desk of McCabe Library. There are four binders. It is your responsibility to leave enough time prior to class for checking out the folder, for screening videos, and for reading.

Primary texts and videos are shelved on General Reserve behind the Circulation Desk at Mc Cabe Library.

For discussion meetings, reading group sessions and your paper assignments, consult the honor's reserve shelf at McCabe Library (which also houses the capstone course bibliography) - see extensive General Women's Studies Bibliography and course bibliography at end of syllabus. Be considerate of others and avoid hogging books!!

Requirements

Attendance and Class Participation

Each student is responsible for:

1. regular attendance at all scheduled class meetings (lectures and discussions) - 30%
2. participating in a discussion group that meets for at least one hour once a week and composes a topic paper - 20%
3. two individual papers - 30%
4. a final group project outlined below - 20%

We will collaborate closely with the capstone seminar, taught by Sunka Simon (German) by setting up a TA program for the student-centered reading/discussion groups.

Papers

Our Writing Associates from the Writing Center will read and discuss your drafts with you IF you give them enough time to work with (1-2 weeks). Make an appointment before you hand the papers to me.

For the first paper, you will select two readings from two different disciplines. Use the following questions as guidelines for your outline and argument:

1) What contributions does each text make towards women's studies, towards understanding the construction of gender within the discipline, and in culture and society?

2) Is there a common ground (of criteria, methodology, philosophy, political position etc.) to the two readings, and, if so, what makes up the common ground between these two approaches?

3) Is this "common ground" what you have come to understand as "women's studies" or does it differ from your understanding of women's studies? How and why (not)? (5 pages)

 

The second paper should focus on one of the disciplinary lectures, its accompanying readings, your topic paper and notes from the discussion of that topic and individual research. Use the following questions as guidelines for your outline and argument:

1) Is there a specific case study that has determined the development of theories on the body or has dominated the "body-talk" in this particular discipline?

2) What constitutes a/the "body" in this discipline?

3) What role does the body, and specifically the female body, play in the represented discipline?

4) What kind of questions has the discipline historically asked about the body?

5) At what type of answers has it arrived?

6) Which problems or conflicts surface in the light of recent discoveries or the interaction with contemporary theories?

7) In light of these general issues, how do you interpret the individual angles of inquiry presented by the lecture and the readings? (10 pages)

 

Final Group Project

At the end of the semester, your reading group will be responsible for presenting a group project about "body-talk" to the class. It is to your advantage to start thinking about this project early so you can gather the necessary information. Prior to the presentation, you will consult with me and select an appropriate topic and related research material. Each member of the group has to participate evenly. Each group (of no more than 5 students) has 20-30 minutes for their presentation followed by a discussion. This is your chance to pick the aspect of women's studies that you find most interesting and work on a "body"-related topic within your preferred discipline, inter-disciplinarily, audio-visually, dramatically etc. Surprise us intelligently! Your presentation and the discussions thereof will form the basis of a final group-paper due the last day of class.

Former Group Projects:

Spring Semester 1998: "A Constructive Approach to the Identity of Woman"

(Sam Gottlieb, Maya Seligman, Sarah Jay, Claire Feldman-Riordon, Chris Scheller)

http://kestrel.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~maya/project.html

 

Syllabus 2000

(subject to change)

January 18 - January 20 - January 25 -January 27 - February 1 - February 3 - February 8 - February 10 - February 15 - February 17 - February 22 - February 24 - February 29 - March 2 - March 14 - March 16 - March 21 - March 23 - March 28 - March 30 - April 4 - April 6 - April 11 - April 13 - April 18 - April 20 - April 25 - April 27

NOTA BENE: Assignments for a class meeting appear under that meeting, which means that you have to have read and prepared them over the weekend before they appear in the syllabus, thus "Assignments" under January 25 need to have been read prior to January 25.

January 18  

Historical and Cultural Construction of the Female Body: 18th -20th Century Introduction to Course, Topic, Methodology, Requirements

1. Moira Gatens, "Corporeal Representation in/and the Body Politic" Writing on the Body
2. Reserve: Thomas Lacqueur, Discovery of the Sexes" Making Sex

After the meeting, acquaint yourselves in your reading groups, select a meeting room and go over syllabus to determine a regular date, time and location of meetings

Reading Group Assignment for this week:

1. Chapter 1 of Women in Culture (pp.15-49)
2. Discuss these readings with the help of "suggested activities," pp. 50-52.

January 20 (in McCabe Library)

Women's Studies Resources in the Library and on the Web

Anne Garrison, Humanities Librarian

Class Assignment for January 20:

1. Find one current article in a periodical and one older book on the subject of your interest in Women's Studies. Print out your findings and locate the items. Were they what you expected? Would they help you for a paper on that topic? Why/not? How else could you proceed to find adequate resources?

January 25

Agenda: The Female Body in Women's Movements

Class Assignment for January 25:

1. Reserve: Yasmine Ergas, "Feminisms of the 1970s" A History of Women
2. Reserve: June Hannam, "Women, History and Protest" Introduction to Women's Studies

Reading Group Assignment for this week:

1. Reserve: Videos: The Body Beautiful, Home is struggle
2. Chapter 2 of Women in Culture (pp. 55-82)
3. Discuss with the help of "suggested activities," p.82.

January 27

Gender, Sex, Class, and Race

Class Assignment for January 27:

1. Susan Bordo, "The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity" Writing on the Body
2. Patricia J. Williams, "On Being the Object of Property" Writing on the Body
3. Reserve: Dasiea Cavers-Huff and Janice Kollitz, "Seeing Ourselves Through the Eyes of the 'Other'" Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality

February 1

The De/Construction of the Gendered Body

Class Assignments for February 1:

1. Monique Wittig, "One is not born a Woman" Writing on the Body
2. Sandy Stone, "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto" Writing on the Body

Reading Group Assignment for this week:

1. Nancy Mairs, "Carnal Acts" Writing on the Body
2. Discuss the connections between the female body, disease, and performance that Maies makes. How does her essay comment on Russo, Wittig, Stone, Butler, and hooks?

February 3

The Body in Performance

 Class Assignments:

1. Mary Russo, "Female Grotesques: Carnival and Theory" Writing on the Body
2. Judith Butler, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory" Writing on the Body
3. bell hooks, "Selling Hot Pussy" Writing on the Body

February 8

Literature and Criticism: Narrating the Female Body

Class Assignments for February 8:

1. Reserve: Gill Frith, "Women, Writing, and Language. Making Silences Speak," Women's Studies
2. Reserve: Mary Eagleton, "Feminist Reading," Working with Feminist Criticism

Reading Group Assignments for this week:

1. Chapter 3 of Women in Culture, pp. 91-114.
2. Reserve: Read the original "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian and one variation of it (or see the latest Disney version) and discuss the implications of the article for the gender and culture-specific reception of that fairy tale.
3. Discuss the differences between image, metaphor, myth, and fairy tale as forms of representation and their implications for girls and women. Write out a set of 10 questions important to read such a text with a critical edge and email them to me on Wednesday!!

February 10

Sleeping Beauty? Narrating the Female Body II

Class Assignments for February 10:

1. Choose your favorite book or magazine for the age-group of your choice (6-10 years, 11-16 years, 17-21 years), read it carefully, and then write notes based on the questionnaire you receive that was put together out of your suggestions from February 8. In addition ask yourselves: Is the questionnaire adequate? Would you amend it? Why and how?

February 15 **** First paper due ****

Psycho-Babble? Body-Talk in Psychology

Class Assignments for February 15:

1. Reserve: Sigmund Freud, "Anna O." Studies on Hysteria (excerpts)
2. Dianne Hunter, "Hysteria, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism: The Case of Anna O." Writing on the Body

Reading Group Assignments for this week:

1. Reserve: Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted (include the recent film of the same name in your discussions, if you've seen it). Discuss further: How does Kaysen challenge the Freudian paradigm? How does language figure into this challenge?

February 17

Body-Talk in Philosophy

Tamsin Lorraine, Associate Prof. of Philosophy

Class Assignments for February 17:

1. Sandra Lee Bartky, "Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power" Writing on the Body
2. Luce Irigaray, "This Sex which is not one" Writing on the Body
3. Audre Lorde, "Uses of the Erotic. The Erotic as Power" Writing on the Body

February 22

Consuming Passions: Food and Fashion

Class Assignments for February 22:

1. Reserve: Chapter 13 of Women's Health

Reading Group Assignments for this week:

1. Chapters 4 and 6 of Women in Culture
2. Watch one of the following films (that you have not seen before!) as a group and discuss in relation to our readings and class discussion: Eating (1990), Angels and Insects (1995), Pumping Iron Two: The Women (1985), Like Water for Chocolate (1992), Tampopo (1986), Ready to Wear (1995), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Babette's Feast (1987), Pretty in Pink (1986), Pretty Woman (1990), Mirror, Mirror (1990).

February 24

Consuming Passions: Food and Fashion II

Bring an ad or image related to fashion from a magazine to class that you find particularly striking and that you would like to discuss!

Class Assignments for February 24:

1. Reserve: Jane Gaines, "Costume and Narrative: How Dress tells the Woman's Story," Fabrications. Costume and the Female Body
2. Reserve: Leslie W. Rabine, "A Woman's Two Bodies: Fashion Magazines, Consumerism, and Feminism" On Fashion

February 29

Woman and Mass Culture

Class Assignments for February 29

1. Reserve: Luisa Passerini, "The Ambivalent Image of Woman in Mass Culture" A History of Women
2. Reserve: Margaret Marshment, "The Picture is Political: Representations of Women in Contemporary Popular Culture" Introduction to Women's Studies

Reading Group Assignments for this week:

1. Catherine McKinnon, "Rape: On Coercion and Consent" Writing on the Body
2. Linda Williams, "A Provoking Agent: The Pornography and Performance Art of Annie Sprinkle" Writing on the Body.
3. Discuss how Sprinkle deals with the representational dilemma and how Williams interprets her pro-women pornography. Further discuss how McKinnon would react to Sprinkle's body-performances. In your opinion, is pornography a) totally anti women and anti-feminist per se, b) good or bad depending on who is producing it for whom, c) a means to deconstruct the male-dominated heterosexual gaze-structure? How so /not?

March 2

Body Talk in Biology

Scott F. Gilbert (Biology, Swarthmore)

Class Assignments for February 3:

1. Donna Haraway, "The Persistence of Vision" Writing on the Body
2. Reserve: Carol Stabile, "Shooting the Mother. Fetal Photography and the Politics of Disappearance," The Visible Woman
3. Reserve: Biology and Gender Studies Group, "The Importance of Feminist Critique for Contemporary Cell Biology" Hypatia 3.1 (1988)

Suggested Further Reading:

1. Reserve: Londa Schiebinger, "Why mammals are called mammals" and ""Theories of Gender and Race, "Nature's Body"
2. Reserve: A.Fausto-Sterling, "Hormonal Hurricanes" and "Hormones and Aggression" Myths of Gender
3.  

 March 14

Bodies in Production: Women in Film, TV, and Video

Class Assignments:

1. Chapter 5 of Women in Culture
2. Annette Kuhn, "The Body and Cinema: Some Problems for Feminism" Writing on the Body
3. Tania Modleski, "Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film" Writing on the Body

Reading Group Assignment:

1. Group 1: Romantic Comedy - An Affair to Remember and Sleepless in Seattle
2. Group 2: Indie: Bagdad Cafe and Passion Fish
3. Group 3: TV -Ally McBeal, Dawson's Creek, Buffy and Roswell
4. Group 4: Chick Flicks: Little Women, Waiting to Exhale, Bahji on the Beach
5. Group 5: Horror: Scream and The Innocents (Turn of the Screw)
6. Group 6: Classic Hollywood - Blonde Venus and Gilda

March 16

Sequel: Women in Film, TV, and Video II

Patty White, Asst. Prof. of Film and Media Studies

Class Assignments for March 16:

1. Reserve: Sigmund Freud, "Fetishism"
2. Reserve: Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
3. Mary Ann Doane, "Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator" Writing on the Body

March 21

Gendered Spaces

Class Assignments for March 21:

1. Reserve: Shirley Ardener, "Ground Rules and Social Maps," Women and Space
2. Reserve: Daphne Spain, "Space and Status," Gendered Spaces
3. Reserve: Edward Said, "Introduction," Orientalism (1979)
4. Reserve: Linda Nochlin, "The imaginary Orient," Art in America (1983)
5. Reserve: Zeynep Çelik, "Gendered Spaces in Colonial Algiers" The Sex of Architecture

Reading Group Assignment for this week:

1. Chapter 8 of Women and Culture
2. Reserve: Luisa Valenzuela, "Other Weapons," Other Weapons (1982)
3. Discuss how space is gendered, and how the social construction of space is related to sexual violence !

 

March 23

(Un)Safe Spaces: Sexual Abuse

Class Assignments:

1. Reserve: Chapter 12, Violence against Women, Women's Health

March 28

Transnational Feminisms I

Farha Ghannam, Asst. Prof. of Anthropology

Class Assignments for March 28:

t.b.a.

Reading Group Assignments for this week:

1. bring your second paper drafts to the group meeting and workshop the problems, questions you are facing. Help each other constructively by suggesting strategies for overcoming the problems, concrete ideas you might have for solving a dilemma etc. However, do NOT expect others to do the work for you. Write the group members' names on your paper, before you hand it in.

March 30 *****Second Paper due*****

Transnational Feminisms II

Class Assignments:

1. Gloria Anzaldúa, "La Concienca de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness," Writing on the Body

 

April 4 **** Proposal for Final Presentations due*****

Colored Women as Reproducing Bodies in the United States

Sarah Willie, Asst. Prof. of Sociology and Black Studies

Class Assignments:

1. t.b.a.

 Reading Group Assignments:

1. t.b.a.

 

April 6

The Body Politic

Carol Nackenoff, Prof. of Political Science

Class Assignments for April 11:

 t.b.a.

Reading Group Assignments:

1. Chapter 7 and 9 from Women in Culture
2. Reserve (on language lab computers in Kohlberg): Patchwork Girl (hypertext novel)

 

April 11

The Post-Human Body: Cyborgs, Fembots and Hybrid Women, PART I

Class Assignments for April 13:

1. Reserve: Donna Haraway, final chapter, Primate Visions
2. Rosi Braidotti, "Mothers, Monsters, and Machines" Writing on the Body
3. Reserve: Susan M. Squier, "Reproducing the Posthuman Body: Ectogenetic Fetus, Surrogate Mother, Pregnant Man," Posthuman Bodies

 

April 13 **** Outline of Final Presentations due ****

Gender and Politics in the Third World

Lisa Hajjar, Asst. Prof. of Sociology, Moorehouse College, Georgia

Class Assignments:

1. Reserve: Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Under Western Eyes. Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses" Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
2. Reserve: Lata Mani, "Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India," Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History
3. Reserve: Leila Ahmed, "The Struggle for the Future," Women and Gender in Islam

 

April 18

The Post-Human Body: Cyborgs, Fembots and Hybrid Women, PART II

Class Assignments for April 18:

1. Watch one of the following you have not already seen: Alien 3, Alien Resurrection, Star Trek: First Contact, Metropolis, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Captive Wild Woman (1943), Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, The Seventh Sign, Species I or II, The Fifth Element, The Matrix

April 20: Final Project Presentations

 

April 25: Final Project Presentations

 

April 27: Final Project Presentations and Conclusion

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