Week 1
Wednesday, 1/4
Four discussion questions due by noon via google forms.
Special guest: Meredith Kahn, Librarian for Gender & Sexuality Studies
Reading due:
1) Cael Keegan. 2016. "On Being the Object of Compromise." TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 3(1-2): 150-157.
Optional – Brenda O’Neill. 2000. “Methodology, Feminist.” In Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, 339–42. London: Taylor & Francis.
Optional – Matt Brim and Amin Ghaziani. 2021. "Methods." In Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, 153-154. New York: New York University Press.
Friday, 1/6
Please complete this brief opening survey by midnight.
For students participating asynchronously, the participation worksheet is due by midnight.
Week 2
Tuesday, 1/10
Four discussion questions due by midnight via google forms.
Wednesday, 1/11
Special guest: Dr. Sara McClelland, Associate Professor of Psychology and Women's & Gender Studies
Readings due:
1) Harley Dutcher and Sara I. McClelland. 2019. "Laboring to Make Sex "Safe": Sexual Vigilance in Young U.S. College Women." Sex Roles 81:399–414.
Qualitative Interviewing
2) Sally Nathan, Christy Newman, and Kari Lancaster. 2018. "Qualitative Interviewing." Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences. pp: 1-20.
Optional – Annette Lareau. 2021. "Learning to Interview" and "How to conduct a Good Interview" from her Listening to people: A practical guide to interviewing, participant observation, data analysis, and writing it all up. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. The full book is available online through UM's wonderful library.
Optional – Allison Alexy. 2020. "Talking Through Difficult Topics." Studying Japan: Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods, edited by Nora Kottmann and Cornelia Reiher. Baden-Baden: Nomos Press, pp: 204-210.
Friday, 1/13
For students participating asynchronously, the participation worksheet is due by midnight.
Week 3
Tuesday, 1/17
Four discussion questions due by midnight via google forms.
Wednesday, 1/18
Special guest: Dr. Petra Kuppers, Professor of English Language and Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, Theater and Dance, Art and Design
Readings due:
1) Chapter 1, "Social Somatics: Tentacular Methods on the Horizon"
2) Chapter 4, "Crip Time, Rhythms, and Slow Rays: Speculative Embodiment," from her book, Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. The full book is available through open access.
Friday, 1/20
For students participating asynchronously, the participation worksheet is due by midnight.
Week 4
Tuesday, 1/24
Four discussion questions due by midnight via google forms.
Wednesday, 1/25
Special guest: Dr. Yi-Li Wu, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and History
Readings due:
1) Yi-Li Wu. 2020. "Tales from the Archives: Revisiting Yi-Li Wu's Cold Wombs and Cold Semen: Explaining Sonlessness in Sixteenth-century China." Hypotheses.org.
2) Yi-Li Wu. 2000. "The Bamboo Grove Monastery and Popular Gynecology in Qing China." Late Imperial China 21(1): 41–76.
Friday, 1/27
For students participating asynchronously, the participation worksheet is due by midnight.
Week 5
Tuesday, 1/30
Four discussion questions due by midnight via google forms.
Wednesday, 2/1
Special guest: Dr. Lisa Harris, F. Wallace and Janet Jeffries Collegiate Professor of Reproductive Health, and Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Readings due:
1) Lisa Harris. 2019. "My Day as an Abortion Care Provider." New York Times, October 22.
2) Lisa A. Martin, Jane A. Hassinger, Michelle Debbink, Lisa H. Harris. 2017. "Dangertalk: Voices of abortion providers." Social Science and Medicine 184:75-83.
Friday, 2/3
For students participating asynchronously, the participation worksheet is due by midnight.
Week 6
Tuesday, 2/7
Four discussion questions due by midnight via google forms.
Wednesday, 2/8
Special guest: Dr. Andrea Bolivar, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Faculty Associate of Latina/o Studies Program
Readings due:
1) Andrea Bolivar. 2021. "'Nothing Feels Better than Getting Paid': Sex Working Trans Latinas’ Meanings and Uses of Money." Feminist Anthropology 2: 298-311.
2) Andrea Bolivar. 2021. "'This Pussy Actually Grabs Back': A Trans Latina Expansion of 'Pussy.'" Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 42(2): 158-179.
Friday, 2/10
For students participating asynchronously, the participation worksheet is due by midnight.
Week 7
Tuesday, 2/14
Four discussion questions due by midnight via google forms.
Wednesday, 2/15
Special guest: Dr. Rovel Sequeira, LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow of Women's and Gender Studies
Readings due:
1) Rovel Sequeira. 2020. "Death of a Museum Foretold? On Sexual Display in the Time of AIDS in India," Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism, Edited by Joshua Adair and Amy K. Levin, 101-112. New York: Routledge.
2) Rovel Sequeira. 2023. "The Anatomy of Habit: Prison Sexology and the Scandal of Pederasty in Colonial India." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 29(1): 43-60.
Friday, 2/17
Please complete this brief closing survey by midnight. (A link will be added by 2/14.)
For students participating asynchronously, the participation worksheet is due by midnight.
This course does not have a final exam or final project.