Books You Should Buy
You need a few books for this course.
Estelle Freedman’s No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Margaret Atwood, Year of the Flood
Site Basics
A short video tour of the site!
Class Readings and Materials
Books
Estelle Freedman, No Turning Back
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
Articles and Excerpts: See Documents section
Judith Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination” (from Inside/Out)
Teresa deLauretis, “The Technology of Gender” (from The Technology of Gender: Essays on Film, Theory, and Fiction)
Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto” (from Simians, Cyborgs, and Women)
J. Jack Halberstam, “Automating Gender: Postmodern Feminism in the Age of the Intelligent Machine” (from Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology)
Anne Fausto-Sterling, “Dueling Dualisms” from Sexing the Body
Sue V. Rosser, “Using the Lenses of Feminist Theories to Focus on Women and Technology” from Women, Gender, and Technology
Siobhan Somerville, “Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body” (from Queering the Colorline)
Films
Sleeper
Alien
Multimedia Materials
FemTechNet Dialogues (posted to the FemTechNet Commons)
Additional readings, including timely articles from blogs, newspapers, and online magazines, may be assigned. They will be linked on the course site.
Face to Face Meeting Dates
Thursdays from 6:00-7:30 p.m.
- Sept 12
- Sept 26
- Oct 10
- Oct 24
- Nov 7
- Nov 21
- Dec 12
Syllabus
Hi Again! You can find our syllabus under the Documents tab. But here’s a link to the syllabus.
The syllabus is arranged chronologically. Have the readings/assignments completed *by* the associated date. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Welcome!
Hi Everyone,
I would like to welcome you all to a class that I am very excited to teach, “Imagining Gender: Exploring Narratives of Technology.” I feel so lucky to have an extraordinary group of students to work with and learn together about some topics that are important to me.
I would also like to welcome my colleague Emily Sherwood, who will be our Instructional Technology Fellow for the class. Emily is an accomplished scholar with a speciality in instructional technology, besides being an all-around smart, resourceful, and nice person.
A little about me and why I wanted to teach this class…
I am an English teacher by training, and my work is focused on the early 20th century, and especially the time around and between WWI and WWII. The late 19th and early 20th centuries (like the late 20th and early 21st centuries!) were a time a great technological expansion, which caused both a lot of excitement and anxiety. The first World War did a lot to complicate beliefs about the symmetry of “technology” and “progress”–new war technologies led to massive loss of life. And how does gender fit into this? Not coincidentally, it was a time of changing and expanding rights for some women, changes in fashion, gender roles, and more. Understanding how gender and politics change in reaction to, with, and through technology has been a big part of my research work. Like Emily, I was also an ITF, and using technological tools for active learning and projects has been a huge part of my teaching work. I am delighted to bring them both together in this class.
As you probably already know, this class is part of FemTechNet’s DOCC experiment. When I heard about the FemTechNet project, I knew I wanted to be part of it, and I knew Macaulay was the right place to do it. We’ll have a chance to talk to students and professors from other schools, and to all learn together.
So what I’d really like now is to hear more about you and why you wanted to take the class. Please post an introduction for yourself and make sure to categorize it as “Introduction.” I am looking forward to a great semester with you!
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