Week 5

If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual
influence from what is generally regarded as American culture,
you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.

—Fran Lebowitz

Week 5
M 2.22
READ: CR—“Boys Get Cool Stuff, Girls Get Pink Stuff” by Kate Harding, “What Girls Want” by Caitlin Flanagan, “Auditorium” by Caroline Kettlewell, “Tight Jeans and Chania Chorris” by Sonia Shah, “I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady, “Pushing Away the Plate” by Min Jin Lee; PT, p. 193-213; eR—“Testosterone” from This American Life
IN-CLASS: Reading discussion; Preview—Autobiographical essay
NOTE: Men only should attend this session.

W 2.24
READ: CR—“Boys Get Cool Stuff, Girls Get Pink Stuff” by Kate Harding, “What Girls Want” by Caitlin Flanagan, “Auditorium” by Caroline Kettlewell, “Tight Jeans and Chania Chorris” by Sonia Shah, “I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady, “Pushing Away the Plate” by Min Jin Lee; PT, p. 193-213; eR—“Testosterone” from This American Life
IN-CLASS: Reading discussion; Preview—Autobiographical essay
NOTE: Women only should attend this session.

UPCOMING:

Week 6
M 3.1
READ: CR—“The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage” by Theodore B. Olson, “Same-Sex Marriage: ‘A Basic Civil Right’”
IN-CLASS: Lecture—“Gender Politics on Film”

W 3.3
READ: CR—“Same-Sex Marriage: Losing a Battle, Winning the War” by Andrew Cohen, “Stupidity, Gay Marriage, and the Evolution of Religion” by Dan Agin, “Why I Fought for the Right to Say ‘I Do’” by Greta Christina; GL, p. 1-43
IN-CLASS: Autobiographical essay
DUE: Journal 2