Schedule (revised)

WEEKS 6 & 7: SPRING VACATION

WEEK 8: Race, Class, and the Welfare Queen

3/30: Black Women and Welfare

Patricia Hill Collins, “Get Your Freak on: Sex, Babies, and Images of Black Femininity,” Black Sexual Politics (2004), 119-148.

Premilla Nadasen, “From Widow to ‘Welfare Queen’: Welfare and the Politics of Race,” 
Black Women, Gender and Families, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 2007), pp. 52-77.

Anonymous, “Having a Baby Inside Me Is the Only Time I’m Really Alive” (1965) in Harriet Siegerman, ed., The Columbia Documentary History of American Women Since 1941 (2007), 157-58. 

Powerpoint:  Images of Black Working-Class Womanhood

Discussion Question [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [pick a passage]

4/1: Stigmatizing Poverty

Vivyan C. Adair, “Branded with Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in the United States.” Signs 27, no. 2 (2002): 451–71.

Jennifer A. Sandlin, Jennie Stearns, Julie Garlen Maudlin, and Jake Burdick, “’Now I Ain’t Sayin’ She a Gold Digger’: Wal-Mart Shoppers, Welfare Queens, and Other Gendered Stereotypes of Poor Women in the Big Curriculum of Consumption,” Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 11:5(2011), 464–482

George Will, “Mothers Who Don’t Know How,” [reprinted from Suddenly: The America Idea Abroad and at Home (1990)], in Ladd-Taylor and Umansky, ed., Bad Mothers, 280-282.

Powerpoint: Stigmatizing Poverty, Policing Consumption

Discussion Question [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [pick a passage]

WEEK 9: Stigmatizing Disability / Misogyny and State Power

4/6:  Targeting Disabled Women

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “Re-shaping, Re-thinking, Re-defining: Feminist Disability Studies” (Center for Women Policy Studies, 2001).

Violence Against People with Disabilities Occurs at Alarming Rates

Examined Life Judith Butler & Sunaura Taylor, Aug 27, 2011.

4/8: Misogyny, Race, and State Violence

Andrea Smith, “Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide,” in Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (2005), 7-34.

Gloria Anzaldúa,”We Call Them Greasers” and “To Live in the Borderlands Means You” from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987).

Mary Ann Tetreault, “The Sexual Politics of Abu Ghraib:
 Hegemony, Spectacle, and the Global War on Terror,” Feminist Formations, 18:3 (Fall 2006), 33-50.

Powerpoint: Misogyny and State Violence

Discussion Question [1] [2] [3] [4] [pick a passage]

UNIT 4: MISOGYNY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

WEEK 10: Misogynoir / Trans-misogyny / Transmisogynoir

4/13: Misogynoir

Kelly Macias, “Sisters in the Collective Struggle”: Sounds of Silence and Reflections on the Unspoken Assault on Black Females in Modern America,” Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies 15:4 (2015), 260–264

Moya Bailey, “Misogynoir in Medical Media: On Caster Semenya and R. Kelly,” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 2:2(2016), 1-31.

Shanita Hubbard, “Opinion: Russell Simmons, R. Kelly, and Why Black Women Can’t Say #MeToo.” The New York Times, December 15, 2017.

Crunk Feminist Collection, excerpts:

Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin Boylorn, “Introduction,” 9-12

Aisha Durham, “Do we need a body count to count? Notes on the serial murders of Black women,” 22-24

Brittney C. Cooper, “Refereeing Serena: racism, anger, and US (Women’s) tennis,” 45-47

Brittney C. Cooper, “SlutWalks vs. Ho Strolls,” 51-54

Eesha Pandit, “Reproductive injustice and the ‘War on Women,’ or an ode to the intersections,” 145-148

Aisha Durham, “Sticks, stones, and microphones: a melody of misogyny,” 178-79

Powerpoint: Misogynoir

Discussion Questions [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [pick a passage]

4/15:  Trans-misogyny / Trans-misogynior

Julia Serano, Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive (2013), chapters 5-6. 

Serano, “Trans Woman Manifesto,” Whipping Girl (2007). 

Elías Cosenza Krell (uses they/them pronouns), “Is Transmisogyny Killing Trans Women of Color? Black Trans Feminisms and the Exigencies of White Femininity,” Transgender Studies Quarterly 4:2(May 2017), 226-242.

Powerpoint:  Transmisogyny

Discussion Questions [1] [2] [3] [4] [pick a passage]

WEEK 11: Men’s Rights, Online Misogyny, and Hillary-Haters

4/20:  Men’s Rights Movement / Online Misogyny

Paul Elam, “Why I don’t care what you think about my style,” 
January 30, 2018.

Michael Kimmel, “White men as victims: The men’s rights movement” in Angry White Men (2017).

Bailey Poland, “Misogynist Movements,” Haters: Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online (2016).

Emma Alice Jane, “‘Back to the Kitchen, Cunt’: Speaking the Unspeakable about Online Misogyny.” Continuum 28, no. 4 (July 4, 2014): 558–70.

Anita Sarkeesian, Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (online video series).  Here is one example and another.

Look at misogynist hashtags on social media (e.g., #Feminazis).

Powerpoint:  Men’s Rights Movement and Online Misogyny

Discussion Questions [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [pick a passage]

4/22: Misogyny and Electoral Politics

Karrin Vasby Anderson
, “’Rhymes with Blunt’: Pornification and U.S. Political Culture,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Vol. 14, No. 2 (SUMMER 2011), pp. 327-368. [about 2008 election].

Jessica Ritchie, “Creating a Monster: Online media constructions of Hillary Clinton during the Democratic Primary Campaign, 2007–8,” Feminist Media Studies, 2013
Vol. 13, No. 1, 102–119

David Smith, “Why the sexist ‘likability test’ could haunt female candidates in 2020,” The Guardian, January 4, 2019. 

Kate Manne, “Warren succeeded because voters saw her as caring. That’s also why she failed,” Washington Post, March 6, 2020.

Cristina López, “Sexist right-wing smear against Kamala Harris moves from the fever swamps to Fox,” Media Matters, Jan. 1, 2019.

MSNBC Interrupts Hillary Clinton’s Speech To Complain About Her Voice

Powerpoint:  Misogyny and Presidential Campaigns

Discussion Questions [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [post an example] [pick a passage]

WEEK 12 – #MeToo and Trumpism

4/27: #MeToo, Rape Culture, Intersectionality