MaddAddam Trilogy page numbers refer to Anchor Paperback editions
Feb 2
In Class:
Eric Molinsky, “A Perfect World” (Imaginary Worlds podcast, Episode 13) https://soundcloud.com/emolinsky/a-perfect-world
A History of Western Feminism in 101 Seconds
Feb 16
Oryx & Crake Chapters 1-9
Atwood, “Dire Cartographies” (ebook, available via Amazon, B&N, Google Play, and others)
- Protected: Sue Rosser, “Using the Lenses of Feminist Theories to Focus on Women and Technology
- Protected: Greta Gaard, “Ecofeminism Revisited”
Feb 23
Complete Oryx and Crake
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, “Quest to Grow Human Organs inside Pigs in Japan”
Brandon Griggs, “How Test-tube meat could be the future of food”
Peruse http://caroljadams.com/ (web site of Carol J Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat)
Radiolab; CRISPR (podcast, June 6, 2015)
http://www.radiolab.org/story/antibodies-part-1-crispr/
March 1
YOTF Through “Saint Euell of Wild Foods” (page 156)
- Protected: Siobhan Somerville, “Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body”
- Protected: Barbara Katz Rothman, “Genetic Technology and Women”
- Protected: Dorothy Roberts, “Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia?”
March 8
YOTF Through “Pollination Day” (page 308)
Peruse the directory of intentional communities and watch a few videos and read the rules at http://www.dancingrabbit.org/
Nathan Heller, “Bay Watched”
March 15
YOTF Through end of novel
Readings on domestic and affective labor TBD
March 22
Allison Dunlap, “Eco-Dystopia: Reproduction and Destruction in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”
- Protected: Katherine Snyder, The Post-Apocalyptic and Post-Traumatic in Oryx & Crake
- Protected: J. Brooks Bouson, A Return to the Post-Apocalyptic Future
March 29
MaddAddam through “Scars” (page 104)
Secondary Readings TBD
April 5
MaddAddam through “Black Headlamp” (200)
Secondary Readings TBD
April 12
MaddAddam through “Piglet” (288)
Secondary Readings TBD
April 19
MaddAddam through end of novel
Secondary Readings TBD
May 3
May 10
May 17
May 24