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Menstruation, HPV, and Menopause
After doing the readings and watching the short videos, please write a response that addresses how women learn to think about their sexuality as girls, young women, and older women from the ways in which menstruation, HPV, and menopause are presented. Please keep your responses focused on these three factors rather than writing randomly on other ways (the media, for example) in which women are exposed to messages about their sexuality.
Question for Week 4: Pain and Disability
“To have pain is to have certainty; to hear about pain is to have doubt.” Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain, p. 18
Please write a response about this quotation from Elaine Scarry’s book (which we’re not reading). How does it describe a central tension in most of what you’ve read this week?
We’ll also be talking about living with disability, which may or may not fit in with discussions of pain. You don’t need to include the articles that don’t fit this prompt in your answer (though you should still read them!) 🙂
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everyone is registered
Dear all,
I looked at the most recent class list, and everyone is indeed registered for the class. Yeah! I’ll see you all next week. Later today I’ll post the weekly question that you can think about as you do the reading. Best, Prof. Reis
Readings
This page contains links to some of your readings that are accessible by PDF. A password will be provided to you in class for the readings.
Week 1: August 30
Week 2: September 6
- Protected: Margaret Lowe, “From Robust Appetites to Calorie Counting”
- Protected: April Herndon, “Mommy Made Me Do It”
Week 3: September 13
- Protected: Audre Lorde, “Breast Cancer: Power v. Prosthesis”
- Protected: Wilson, “Let’s Talk about Sex and. . . . Cancer”
- Protected: Lochlann Jain, “Cancer Butch”
Week 4: September 20
- Protected: Christine Miserandino, “The Spoon Theory”
- Protected: Meghan O’Rourke, “What’s Wrong With Me”
- Protected: Deborah Kent, “Somewhere a Mockingbird”
- Protected: Nancy Mairs, Waist-High in the World
Week 5: September 27
- Protected: Ellen Forney, Marbles
- Protected: Siobhan Brooks, “Black Feminism in Everyday Life”
- Protected: Mary Wood, Life Writing and Schizophrenia
- Protected: Linda Logan, “The Problem with how we treat Bipolar Disorder”
Week 6: October 18
Week 7: October 25
Week 8: November 1
- Protected: Merle Hoffman, Intimate Wars (abortion foremother, Lilith Magazine)
- Protected: Adrienne Asch, “Will We Need Abortion in Utopia?”
- Protected: Alison Rieheld, “Not all Objectification is Sexual”
- Protected: Erik Eckholm, “Case Explores Rights of Fetus Versus Mother”
Week 9: November 8
- Protected: Wendy Kline, “Communicating a New Consciousness”
- Protected: Janet Golden, Message in a Bottle
Week 10: November 15
- Protected: Laura Mamo, HPV article, “Producing and Protecting Risky Girlhoods”
- Protected: Susan Haack, “HPV Vaccine: Panacea or Pandora’s Box”
- Protected: Judith Houck, Hot and Bothered
Week 11: November 22
Week 12: November 29
- Protected: Leonore Tiefer, “Female Sexual Dysfunction”
- Protected: Carolyn Herbst Lewis, “Waking Sleeping Beauty”
Week 13: December 6
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