New Schedule for 369

M

4/16

Unit IV

Sexuality

Menstruation

Elisa J. Sobo, "Menstrual Taboos, Witchcraft Babies, and Social Relations," 143-70.

Rahel Wasserfall, "Menstruation and Identity: The Meaning of Niddah for Moroccan Women Immigrants to Israel," 309-27.

Mary Douglas, "Couvade and menstruation: The relevance of tribal studies," 170-179.

(44 pages to read)

Final project reading lists due with all Ohiolink, ILL, and recall requests made

Position Paper #9 option 1

W

4/18

Instructor Ill: Group work

F

4/20

Unit IV

Sexuality

Reproduction

Rosan A. Jordan, "The Vaginal Serpent and other themes from Mexican-American Women's Lore," 26-44.

Janice Boddy, "spirits and selves in Northern Sudan: the cultural therapeutics of possession and trance," 4-27.

(34 pages to read)

Position Paper #9 option 2

Sun

4/22

Video, required attendance or see the video before class on Monday

You Don't Know Dick

050 Mudd, 2 p.m.

M

4/23

Unit IV

Sexuality

Sexual Difference

Marjorie Garber, "Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender," 321-336.

Suzanne Kessler, "Creating Good-Looking Genitals in the Service of Gender," 153-173.

(32 pages to read)

Position Paper #10 option 1

W

4/25

Unit V

Body parts

Hair

Olivia Vlahos, "Dead Ends," 125-43.

Marina Warner, "The Language of Hair: Donkeyskin III," "From the Beast to the Blonde: The Language of Hair II," 353-86.

(51 pages to read)

Position Paper #10 option 2

F

4/27

Unit V

Body parts

Hair

Noliwe M. Rooks, "Nappi by Nature: Afros, Hot Combs, and Black Pride," "Beauty, Race, and Black Pride," "Afterword," 1-21, 23-50, 53-54.

Carol Delaney, "Untangling the Meanings of Hair in Turkish Society," 53-73.

(66 pages to read)

Position Paper #10, option 3

Position Paper #10 option 2

Sun

4/29

Video, required attendance or see the video before class on Monday

Wedding Song

050 Mudd, 2 p.m.

M

4/30

Unit V

Body parts

Skin

Phyllis Gorfain, Deborah Kapchan, Katharine Young, "Wedding Song: Film Review Essay," 79-92.

Deborah Kapchan, "Moroccan Women's Body Signs," 4-34.

(50 pages to read)

Position Paper #11 option 1

W

5/2

Unit V

Body parts

Skin

Rosenblatt, Daniel. "The Antisocial Skin: Structure, Resistance, and 'Modern Primitive' Adornment in the United States," 287-334.

(53 pages to read)

Position Paper #11 option 2

F

5/4

Unit V

Body Parts

Skin

McCallum, Donald. "Historical and Cultural Dimensions of the Tatoo in Japan."

Position Paper #11, option 3

Sun

5/6,

Unit VI

Presentations

Presentations 1 and 2, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

M

5/7

Unit VI

Presentations

Presentation 3

T

5/8

Unit VI

Presentations

Presentation 4, Beauty Pageant, Peters Hall

W

5/9

Unit VI

Presentations

Presentation 5

F

5/11

Wrap-up, evaluations, special breakfast party in Wilder!

Evaluations due in class.

Final papers and projects write-ups due midnight.