Schedule of Assignments

 

Unit I:  Masculinity and Gender – Case Studies

Week 1:

Aug 25 Mon:    Introduction

Aug 27 Wed:    Handouts: Urrea “Whores”; Bacho: The Wedding

 

Week 2:         

Sep 01 Mon:    Carol Cohn: Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals

Sep 03 Wed:    Reading: R.W. Connell - Gender pp. 1-28

 

Week 3:

Sep 08 Mon:    R.W. Connell: Gender pp. 97-114

Sep 10 Wed:    R.W. Connell: Gender  pp. 136-151    

           

Unit II:  The Biology of Masculinity and Gender

Week 4:         

Sep 15 Mon     R.W. Connell: Gender pp. 53-75;  Discussion: What role do Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin play in hegemonic masculinity?

Sep 17 Wed     Handout: Beeman – “What are you? Male, Herm, Merm, Ferm, or Female?”; Fausto Sterling (Handouts): Of Genes and Gender; online text, please print out: The 5 Sexes Revisited;

Presenters: Jessica O’Grady, Jacob Torrey, C. Partridge

 

Week 5:

Sep 22 Mon     Handout: Fausto Sterling: How to Build a Man; Presenters: Brian O’Keefe, Dominic Bochichio

Sep 24 Wed     Handout: Sapolsky: The Trouble with Testosterones - Will Boys Just Be Boys?; Video to be shown: Sex Unknown

                        Class Outlines

 

After the last class on Friday, 26th of September, Fall Break begins. Classes resume Wednesday, October 1.

 

Unit III: Boys to Men - Childhood, Adolescence, and Rites of Passage

 

Week 6:

Oct 01 Wed     Midterm Review

 

Unit III: Male Sexuality - Cultural Arrangements

Week 7:

Oct 06 Mon     Midterm Handouts: Wilson and Wilson: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for Chattel;

Oct 08 Wed     Loe – Rise of Viagra: Introduction, Mandatory Library Research

 

Week 8:

Oct 13 Mon     Loe – Rise of Viagra: The Rise of Erectile Dysfunction; Presenters: Brandon Hutson, Andrew Bachman, Raymond Petosa

Oct 15 Wed     Abstract for Papers ! Due Today Loe – Rise of Viagra: Fixing the Broken Male Machine;

Presenters: Amber Rusello, Angela Chircop, Kevin Linares

 

Week 9:         

Oct 20 Mon     Loe – The Pill does not Always Thrill;

Presenters: Brad Handy, Chris Felix, Shane Spink

 

Oct 22 Wed     Loe – The Search for the Female Viagra;

Presenters: Travis Walrath, Barbara Johnston, Erin Laing

Please bring your laptop to class if you have one, for a training session on how to use the library resources

 

Week 10:       

Oct 27 Mon     Jensen - Getting Off: pp. 1-36

Presenters: Danielle Bain; Ben Hunold

Book Review Due! Please submit to turnitin.com and follow the instructions provided there

Note: you can only do one book review

 

Oct 29 Wed     Jensen - Getting Off: pp 37- 50; 97-120; 

Presenters: Precious Franklin, Kanyin Oyo

 

Week 11:

Nov 03 Mon    Jensen – Getting Off: pp.133-153; additional readings: Pornography In Small Places And Other Spaces; statistics on pornography;

Presenters: Chris H, Nicole

Readings:

 

Nov 05 Wed    Jensen – Getting Off: pp. 153-186; additional readings t.b.a.

Presenters: Juan Campoverde and Nilangi Kulasinghe

 

 

Unit IV: …. - Institutional Arrangements

Week 12:       

Nov 10 Mon    In-Class Discussion; Instructions sent via e-mail. Please pick up new readings in front of my office in Snell 272.

Book Review Due! Please submit to turnitin.com and follow the instructions provided there

Note: you can only do one book review

 

 

Nov 12 Mon    Prison Masculinities: Package 1;

Presenters: MacKenzie Cook, Alison Schroeder, Peter Cannellos

 

Week 13:

Nov 17 Mon    Prison Masculinities: Package 2;

Presenters:  Robyn Baumgartner, Pat Rhodes, Phil Ables

 

Nov 19 Wed    Review for Final

 

Week 14:

Nov 24 Mon    Final

 

Thanksgiving Break Begins at end of Classes on Tuesday, November 25. Classes Resume on Monday, Dec. 01

 

Week 15:

Dec 01 Mon     Individual Conferences with Instructor

Dec 03 Wed     Individual Conferences with Instructor

 

Week 16:        Finals Week

Dec 08 Mon     Paper Due at 10am