syllabus
| Week 1 | Tuesday, January 20 | Intro to the Course Course Expectations -See The F-Word: A Video about Feminism by Marcia Jarmel and Erin Gallagher |
Read for the 27th -Ways of Seeing, Read What is Feminism page from girl zine “blue Jean”
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| Week 2 | Tuesday, January 27 | Representation,
Media and Control; Technologies of Power -See Women’s Voices: The Gender Gap Movie (1985) -Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin (1936) -Born in Flames (1982)
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Read
for the 3rd -Mechanical Brides |
| Week 3 | Tuesday, February 3 | Gender and the Household -See “TV Commercials” (1960) -In class Essay Quiz on the readings -Group Proj. 1: Popular Image makeover assign. |
Read for the 10th -Technologies and Gender: Fabrics of power in Late Imperial China by Francesca Bray Ch. 6, “Women’s Work and Women’s Place” -”Technological Revolutions and the Gutenberg Myth,” by Scott Cook |
| Week 4 | Tuesday, February 10 | Gender
Roles in History: Women, Tools, & the Apparatus -See excerpt, Fiber in Art 1968) -The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980) -A Woman's Place (1986) -Group Project 1: DUE |
Read
for the 17th -Nattering on the Net, Ch. 7, “Women, Power, and Cyberspace,” by Dale Spender course evals 1 |
| Week 5 | Tuesday, February 17 | Women
Inventors, Women in Technology Today -See After the Montreal Massacre by Gerry Rogers (1990) |
Read
for the 24th -excerpts from wired magazine -“Netiquette 101,” by Jay Machado -”Fonts and Phrasing,” by Alexander Galloway
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| Week 6 | Tuesday, February 24 | The Language of Technology -Read wired lists in class -See A Word in Edgewise by Heather McLeod (1986) Group Project 2: Language makeover assn. |
Read for the 3rd Games for girls articles in packet -Girl Games: The New Feminine Mystique” (pearce) -”cyberfeminism, or why women love cyberspace” (pearce)
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| Week 7 | Tuesday, March 3 | Games
for Girls and Boys, Men and Women -See I, Doll by Tula Asselanis (1996) See games -Group Project 2: Language makeover DUE |
Read for the 10th Nothing. Break. |
| Week 8 | Tuesday, March 10 | Spring Break | Read for the 17th -”A Rape in Cyberspace,” by Julian Dibbel -”Webstruck” Electronic Eros, Ch 6 “Men and Machine-Women” Claudia Springer |
| Week 9 | Tuesday, March 17 | Sex, Power, and Cyberspace Explore Chat rooms/avatar spacesfor next class See:Leaving the 20th Century -In-Class group proj 3 assigned: explore chat for march 24 |
Read for the 24th -The War of Desire & Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age, Ch. 3, “In Novel conditions,” Sandy Stone -”Extended-Body: An Interview with Stelarc,” by Atzori and Woolford Ch. 4, Springer, “Muscular Circuitry” |
| Week 10 | Tuesday, March 24 | Activity;
Explore Chatroom The Invincible Male Body? Stellarc In class Essay Quiz on the readings -In-Class group proj 3 due |
Read
for the 31st -”Visual Pleasure & Narrative Cinema “ by Laura Mulvey |
| Week 11 | Tuesday, March 31 | Individual meetings Discuss Mid Term Project |
Read for the 7th -"The Cyborg Manifesto,” Donna Haraway |
| Week 12 | Tuesday, April 7 | The Cyborg -See “Metropolis” by Fritz Lang (1926) Show excerpts from Bladerunner and ghost in the machine |
Read for the 14th -TBA |
| Week 13 | Tuesday, April 14 | Race and Technology -See "And Still I Rise" by Ngozi Onwurah (1993) Mid Term Project Due |
Read for the 21st -World Art
Article, “Sailor Moon” -KISS article |
| Week 14 | Tuesday, April 21 | The
Digital Star System Explore TombRaider Kiss dolls |
Read
for the 28th -Open for class decision |
| Week 15 | Tuesday, April 28 | Open | |
| Week 16 | Tuesday, May 4 | final projects due! | |
| Week 17 | May 5 - 14 | Finals Week. |
Last Updated on 1/19/98
By Mary Flanagan