ERI200Y - Course Reading List

1. Why are we here? What do we mean when we talk about Women’s/Gender Studies?

What is "women’s studies?" What are the Goals of Women’s/Gender Studies? What are the terms and techniques of Women’s/Gender Studies?

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2. Beginnings of Feminism–What do Women Want?

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3. Women’s Special Nature

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4. Essentialism

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5. Gender and Science

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6. Gender and Science (Part Two)

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7. Gender and Science (Part Three)

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8. Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret

9. Gender, Race and Power

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10. Gendered Spaces

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11. Cult of Domesticity

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12. Gender and the Body

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13. Gender and Violence

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14. Gender and (Criminal) Justice

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15. Gender, Work and Technology

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16. Utopia–Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland

17. Gender and Language

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18. Gender and Intimacy: Homosocial Desire

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19. Men

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20. Last Class: Where are we going?

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