This page is a schedule of all class sessions and associated assignments. If changes are made to the course materials and assignments, they will be reflected here. All readings must be completed by Tuesday of each week unless otherwise noted.

Week 1: Tuesday August 26 & Thursday August 28 Topic: Intros	No assignments due
Week 2: Tuesday September 2 & Thursday September 4 Topic: Exploring Gender, Activism, and Social Change	Judith Lorber, “The Social Construction of Gender” pg 121-124 Martel et al, What Counts as Activism?
Week 3: Tuesday September 9 & Thursday September 11 Topic: First Wave Feminism	Podcast: History that Doesn’t Suck! #119: Women’s Suffrage and the Passage of the 19th Amendment  Available on YouTube here: 119: Women’s Suffrage & the Passage of the 19th Amendment Available on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/119-womens-suffrage-the-passage-of-the-19th-amendment/id1291579828?i=1000579159572 Available on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ndU1Aw8ZUhtLG6e9YIqqq Olivia Guy-Evans, “A Brief Summary of First Wave Feminism”
Week 4: Tuesday September 16 & Thursday September 18 Topic: Second Wave Feminism	Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl” Find OER resource for second wave feminism
Week 5: Thursday September 25 No class Tuesday September 23 Topic: Third Wave Feminism	Combahee River Collective Statement YouTube: Kimberlé Crenshaw TED talk – The Urgency of Intersectionality. (CW: Police Brutality)The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw | TED Transcript here Find possible OER for third wave feminism?
Week 6: Tuesday September 30 No class Thursday October 2 Topic: Work & Labor	Fuck You, Pay Me from Pleasure Activism by Chanelle Gallant edited by adrienne maree brown (CW: Rape) Women – Like Men But Cheaper: On Work from Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen Ghodsee
Week 7: Tuesday October 7 & Thursday October 9 Topic: Motherhood & Care Politics	A Modest Proposal for a Fair Trade Emotional Labor Economy from Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha What to Expect When You’re Expecting Exploitation: On Motherhood from Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen Ghodsee
Week 8: Thursday October 16 No class Tuesday October 14 Topic: Bodily Autonomy	YouTube: Maliha Jabeen Khan TED talk – What Do You Assume About the Hijab? What do you assume about the hijab? | Maliha Jabeen Khan | TEDxRegina Transcript here Find OER piece on bodily autonomy & activism/social change (abortion, gender affirming healthcare, disability)
Week 9: Tuesday October 21 & Thursday October 23 Topic: Immigration	Youtube: Melissa Seigel (2023). Gendered Aspects of Migration . Youtube Gendered Aspects of Migration Transcript here
Week 10: Tuesday October 28 & Thursday October 30 Topic: Witches & Monsters	Introduction from In Defense of Witches by Mona Chollet (CW: discussions of antisemitism) Introductory Notes & Monologue from My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix by Susan Stryker (CW: suicide, outdated language, anti-trans language) up to top of pg 241
Week 11: Tuesday November 4 & Tuesday November 6 Topic: The Carceral System	Midterm Due October 24th by 11:59PM Watch in Class on October 22nd: The Feminist in Cell Block Y Nicole Hahn Rafter, Gender, Prisons, and Prison History
Week 12: Tuesday November 11 & Thursday November 13 Topic: LGBTQ+	Youtube: KQED Arts (2016). Screaming Queens . Youtube. Screaming Queens | KQED Truly CA Queer (In)Justice?
Week 13: Tuesday November 18 & Thursday November 20 Topic: Feminist Activism Today	Youtube: Vice (2022). Vice Debates: Anti & Pro Feminists Debate Abortion, Trans Rights, and #MeToo . Youtube. Anti & Pro Feminists Debate Abortion, Trans Rights, and #Metoo | VICE Debates Ealasaid Munro, Feminism: A Fourth Wave?
Week 14: Tuesday November 25 No class Thursday November 27 Topic: Men’s Rights Movement & Other Countermovements	Youtube: Vice (2023). Vice Debates: ‘Be A Man’: Modernists and Traditionalists Debate Masculinity . Youtube. ‘Be A Man’: Modernists and Traditionalists Debate Masculinity | VICE Debates Tristan Bridges, Antifeminism, Profeminism, and the Myth of White Men’s Disadvantage
Week 15: Tuesday December 2 & Thursday December 4 Topic: Pop Culture	Katrín Pálmad. Þorgerðardóttir, Eyja M. J. Brynjarsdóttir, Barbie Breakups and Feminist Utopia
Week 16: Tuesday December 9 & Thursday December 11 Final Presentations	Final Projects due at start of class December 9