Calendar

WGS 376/LIT 316
Global Women Writers:
Women on War

Spring 2006

Calendar of Readings and Assignments

I. Frameworks: Literary theory, conflict theory

Thursday, January 19 Introductions

Genre: What kind of writing is women's nonfiction about war?

Monday, January 23 Feminist theory and nonfiction

Readings (on SOCS): Adrienne Rich, "Notes toward a Politics of Location," Susan Griffin, "The Red Shoes"

First Essay due

Thursday, January 26 Hearing Cassandra

Location

Who was Cassandra??

Stockhold Int'l Peace Institute (tracks global military expenditures)

Readings (on SOCS): "Cassandra's Daughters" (introduction to Women on War--available on SOCS in case you don't have the book yet); Chapter 6, "License to Feel" from Megan Boler, Feeling Power (notice that the excerpt from Feeling Power on SOCS includes both chapters 6 and 8--only chapter 6 is due today)

II. Women on War: Warnings, Mourning, Resistance, Hope

Monday, January 30 Hearing Cassandra

Gender

Spectating v. Bearing Witness

Readings: Chapter 8, "A Pedagogy of Discomfort" from Feeling Power (on SOCS)

Selections from Part I of Women on War (available on SOCS for those who do not yet have the book; other readings in Part I are optional)--Enheduanna, "Lament to the Spirit of War," Emma Goldman, "Patriotism as 'Menace to Liberty', Rosa Luxemburg, "Militarism as a Province of Accumulation," Edna St. Vincent Millay, "O Earth, Unhappy Planet Born to Die," Martha Gellhorn, from "The Face of War," Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Progress," Carilda Oliver Labra, "Declaration of Love," Grace Paley, "Is There a Difference Between Men and Women" and "What If (This Week)", Wislawa Szymborska, "Children of the Epoch," Maxine Kumin, "The Nightmare Factory," Christa Wolf, from Cassandra, Adrienne Rich, from Dark Fields of the Republic: Six Narratives, Bella Akhmadulina, "Words Spoken by Pasternak During a Bombing," Margaret Atwood, "Bread," Barbara Ehrenreich, from Blood Rites: The Religion of War

Thursday, February 2 Hearing Cassandra

Selections from Part I of Women on War--Wendy Rose, "The Fifties," Ann Druyan, "At Ground Zero in Hiroshima," Lilliam Jimenez, "To the Soldiers of El Salvador," Carol Cohn, "Sex and Death and the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals," Vandana Shiva, "BIoterror and Biosafety," Joan Smith, from Misogynies: Crawling from the Wreckage, Jasmina Tesanovbic, "Women and Conflict: A Serbian Perspective"

Monday, February 6 Cycles of Violence: Remembering and Mourning

Women on War, Part II, pp. 99-157.

Thursday, February 9 Cycles of Violence: Remembering and Mourning

Women on War, Part II, pp. 157-214.

Monday, February 13 Resistance

Women on War, Part III: Adelaide-Gillette Dufresnoy, "The Deliverance of Argos"; Ida B. Wells-Barnette, "A National Crime"; Olive Schreiner, from Women and Labour: Women and War, Gabriela Mistral, "Finnish Champion," Agnes Smedley, from Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution, Marina Tsvetayeva, from Verses to Chekia, Sylvia Townsend-Warner, "The Drought Breaks," Lenore Marshall, "Political Activism and Art," Muriel Rukeyser, "Kathe Kollwitz," Nadine Gordimer, "The Artist's Rebellious Integrity," Maya Angelou, "And Still I Rise," Margaret Randall, "Memory Says Yes," Toni Morrison, from Sula, Sandra Gilbert,"The Parachutist's Wife," Darlene Keju-Johnson, "Nuclear Bomb Testing on Human Guinea Pigs," Luisa Valenzuela, "I Am Your Horse in the Night," Ileana Malancioiu, "Antigone," Isabel Allende, from The House of Spirits, Michele Najlis, "They Followed Us into the Night," Alenka Bermudez, "Guatamala Your Blood," Carolyn Forche, "Return," Kimiko Hahn, "The Bath," Molyda Szymusiak, from The Stones Cry Out, Women in Black of Belgrade, "We Are All Women in Black"

Thursday, February 16 Hope and Survival

CLASS WILL NOT MEET TODAY. Please meet with your Study Circle group before next Monday, compare your notes from your respective roles, and prepare a brief (15 min.) report for Monday's class. STUDY CIRCLE ROLES

From Part IV of Women on War: Sappho, "To an Army Wife in Sardis," Jane Addams, from Peace and Bread in Time of War, Sibilla Alermo, "Yes to the Earth," Ch'iu Chin, "Free Women Blossoming from Old Battlefields," Eleanor Roosevelt, "In Defense of the United Nations," Lolita Lebron, "I Have All the Passion of Life," Meridel le Sueur, "Women Know a Lot of Things," Denise Levertov, "Making Peace" and "What It Could Be," Nina Cassian, "On a Japanese Beach," Ruth Kluger, from Still Alive, Daisy Al-Amir, "The Future," Lynne Sharon Schwartz, "The Spoils of War," Lady Borton, "A Forgiving Land," Xuan Quynh, "My Son's Childhood," Ann Snitow, "Holding the Line at Greenham Common," Alice Walker/Zora Neale Hurston, "Only Justice Can Stop a Curse," Nancy Morejon, "Black Woman," Mairead Corrigan Maguire, "Letter to an Iraqi Woman," Petra Kelly, "Women and Ecology," Linda Hogan, "Black Hills Survival Gathering, 1980," Flora Brovina, "A New Dawn in Town," Daisy Zamora, "Song of Hope" and "When We Go Home Again," Ana Istaru, "A Time of Cannons Comes Flying"

Recommended extra credit lecture: Business 124, 4 PM: Lecture, "World Poverty, Institutional Structures, and Historical Wrongs" - Professor Thomas Pogge, Australian University Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.

II. Nicaragua, 1980s: A Memoir of the Contra War

Monday, February 20 Dunbar-Ortiz, Blood on the Border, Prologue and chapters 1-5

In class, we will wrap up the readings from Women on War with STUDY CIRCLE reports.

Thursday, February 23 Dunbar-Ortiz, Blood on the Border, chapters 6-11

As you read nonfiction by women about conflict...

Monday, February 27 Dunbar-Ortiz, Blood on the Border, chapters 12-17 and Epilogue

www.CostOfWar.com

III. South Africa after 1989: Looking Back on Apartheid

Thursday, March 2 Gobodo-Madikizela, A Human Being Died That Night, "Appendix: A Short History of Apartheid" and Chapters 1-4

Monday, March 6 Gobodo-Madikizela, A Human Being Died That Night, Chapters 5-7 and Epilogue

III. Iran: A Story of Childhood and a Return

Thursday, March 9 Satrapi, Persepolis, v. I

Spring Break!

Monday, March 20 Thursday, March 9 Satrapi, Persepolis, v. I

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/806268.stm

http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Iran.htm

http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/arccrisis/afghan-irantimeline.html

http://www.nokhodi.com/chr_all.asp

Thursday, March 23 Satrapi, Persepolis, v. II wrap-up

IV. Hawaii and the World: A Book of Peace

Monday, March 27 Kingston, The Fifth Book of Peace, "Fire" and "Paper"

Berkeley fire

Thursday, March 30 Kingston, The Fifth Book of Peace, "Water," through page 189

Mario Savio

People's Park Riot, 1969

http://www.altmanphoto.com/Bkly.Confront.jpeg

http://www.ncf.ca/~ek867/peoples.park.jpg

http://www.altmanphoto.com/People's.Park.Riot.fr.jpeg

http://www.peoplespark.org/69gall6.html - James Rector

2:00 PM facilitation team: Lisa, Sean, Colin, Melissa
4:00 PM facilitation team: Lori, Jackie, Alexis, Brittany

Monday, April 3 Kingston, The Fifth Book of Peace, "Water," "Earth" through page 300

http://www.apahelpcenter.org/articles/article.php?id=22

Thursday, April 6 Kingston, The Fifth Book of Peace, finish

2:00 PM facilitation team: Heather, Natalie, Iris, Shannon
4:00 PM facilitation team: Joe, Jess, Ed, Amanda

IV. 9/11/01: New York, Washington, the World

Monday, April 10 Women on War: Helen Caldicott, from The New Nuclear Danger, pp. 28-39; Barbara Kingsolver, "A Pure, High Note of Anguish," pp. 86-88; Theresa Hitchens, "Why Missile Defense Will Not Make Us Safer," pp. 88-90; Arundhati Roy, "The Algebra of Infinite Justice," pp. 90-97; Ruth Rosen, "Blind, Unpredictable Terror," pp. 261-2; Robin Morgan, "Ghosts and Echoes: Letter from Ground Zero," pp. 315-321; Michelle Chihara, "Tough Love," pp. 350-355.

SOCS: Suhair Hammad, "First Writing Since"

http://www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/bios.php?name=shammad

V. Baghdad The ongoing blog

Thursday, April 13 Riverbend, Baghdad Burning, Introduction, through page 93

2:00 PM facilitation team: Kyle, Lindsay, Christy, Bobbi Jo
4:00 PM facilitation team: Jenna, Chris, Amanda, Brian

Monday, April 17 Riverbend, Baghdad Burning, pp. 94-176

http://dear_raed.blogspot.com  

Look for Salam's translation of Faiza's post, Dec. 23

http://picturesinbaghdad.blogspot.com/

http://www.womensaynotowar.org/article.php?id=817
http://www.womensaynotowar.org/article.php?id=814
http://www.womensaynotowar.org/article.php?id=810

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=103439066&url_num=8&url=http://wbjourdan.com/codepink.mov 

http://www.womensaynotowar.org/article.php?id=803  news articles

http://www.womensaynotowar.org/article.php?id=932  Faiza

http://www.webitnow.com/html/spiderweb.jpg

Thursday, April 20 Riverbend, Baghdad Burning, finish

Applying the guidelines essay due

2:00 PM facilitation team: Katie, Ryan, Greg, Dan
4:00 PM facilitation team: Evie, Kate, Danielle, Daria

VI. India and Empire

Monday, April 24 Arundhati Roy, An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, "Peace is War," "Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy," and "When the Saints Go Marching Out'

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/876C49E4-C476-4C60-AC60-1D222CF6CA17.htm Al Jazeera

http://media.maps.com/magellan/Images/NEPAL-W2.gif Nepal map

http://www.tomaatnet.nl/~wesker/jpg/jow22.jpg

http://www.dmvclinic.com/nepal/images/4437.jpg

http://www.steffengorgas.com/photography/nepal/Nepal%20-%20camp%20on%20Mera%20La.jpg

http://www.mindlesspleasures.com/Nepal/Kangchenjunga/Kangchenjunga,-north-face-w.jpg

http://www.alain-collet.com/nepal/Kathmandu/Photo_big/Nepal-2003-25-12.jpg

http://www.channel4.com/news/media/2006/04/week_3/23_nepal_l.jpg

http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/01/25/2006-01-25__inter01.jpg

http://images.derstandard.at/20060126/np.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/country_profiles/1166516.stm - chronology

http://metafella.topcities.com/bush/bp14/bushp14.htm Feb. 15, 2003