WGST
330
Global Feminisms:
Women in War and Peacemaking
Fall 2002
Schedule
August 27-September 17 Global Feminisms and the Critical Work of Decentering
August 27 Who are we and what is the course all about?
August 30 Reading: Beyond Beijing, pp. 7-75 (packet)
September 6 Reading: Beyond Beijing, pp. 76-101; Amrita Basu, "Globalization of the Local/Localization of the Global"; Angela Miles, "North American Feminisms/Global Feminisms--Contradictory or Complementary?" (in packet)
September 10 Reading: Susan Moller Okin, "Feminism, Women's Human Rights, and Cultural Differences"; Uma Narayan, "Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism" (in packet)
September 13 Chapters 6 and 8 from Megan Boler, Feeling Power (in packet)
September 17 Concept papers due (bring 2 copies to class); organize news bureaus.
September 20-October 15 Gender and Armed Conflict: Theories and Sites
September 20 Peer critiques due; Part I of The Women and War Reader (pp. 1-37)
Ceremony honoring women troops, vets
News Bureaus Lite Presentations - September 24-October 15
September 24 Chapters 5, 6, and 7 of The Women and War Reader
September 27 Final revision of concept paper due; Chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11 of The Women and War Reader
October 1 Part III of The Women and War Reader
http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/overview.htm
http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/treatment/pkeeping.htm
October 4 Part IV of The Women and War Reader
http://www.feminista.com/v5n1/dworkin.html
October 8 Part V of The Women and War Reader
October 11 Chapters 29, 30, 31, 32, and 33 of The Women and War Reader
October 15 Chapters 34, 35, 36, and 37 of The Women and War Reader
October 18 Reverse Midterm questions due (by e-mail).
October 25-November 5 Interlude: Review/September 11 and Afghanistan
October 25: First phase of research writing project
Organize News Bureaus Extra Rich
Reading links:
Institute for Women's Policy Research, "Why Gender Matters in Understanding September 11: Women, Militarism, and Violence" (scroll down the home page to New Publications to click on the PDF file for this report)
Suheir Hammad, "First Writing Since" (poem)
Statement of the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan
Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberto Menchu, an open letter to President Bush
Statement by Hon. Barbara Lee on Use of Force Resolution
"Transnational Feminist Practices Against War," a statement by Paola Bacchetta, Tina Campt, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Minoo Moallem, and Jennifer Terry
Sunera Thobani, speech at Women's Resistance Conference; follow-up article, "War Frenzy"
October 29
Barbara Kingsolver, "Our Flag Was Still There"
November 1 & 5: Readings online
Read:
"The Taliban's Bravest Opponents" by Janelle Brown, Salon Magazine. Article about the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan.
Cynthia Peters, "Women's Patriotic Role," ZMag
Cynthia Peters, "Where are the Afghan women?"
Janelle Brown, "Optional Burquas and Mandatory Starvation"
Laura Bush's radio address on Afghan women, White House, November 17, 2001
Afghan Women's Summit: Proclamation
"We felt safer under Taliban, say Kabul residents," Hindustan Times, 1/25/02
"Give me security, then I will remove my burqa," News International, January 31, 2002
"What do Afghan women want?" Alternet
And browse:
November 8-December 3 Transnational Examples: Women, War, Resistance
November 8 and 12 Frontline Feminisms, Part I
November 15 and 19 Frontline Feminisms, Part II
Second phase of research writing due November 19
November 22 and 26 Frontline Feminisms, Part III
December 3 and 6 Frontline Feminisms, Part IV
December 10 Wrapping Up
December 10: In-class journals due
Monday, December 16, 2:30-4:30 PM: Final presentations of research writing projects; Third phase of research writing due
Additional resources
Amnesty International on CEDAW: Why hasn't the US ratified CEDAW?
MILOSEVIC: Historic War Crimes Trial Opens in the Hague
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Dan Snyder, "Nonviolence in Personal and Political Life"
Jelena Batinik, "Feminism, Nationalism, and War: The 'Yugoslav Case' in Feminist Texts," Journal of International Women's Studies, Vol. 3, #1, November 2001.
Women's Learning Partnership, Toward a Compassionate Society (PDF file)