IDEAS AND RIGHTS
Week 2. The Right to Work
Session 1: Woolf, Virginia, A Room of One’s Own, Chapter 1-3
Session 2: Kollontai, Alexandra, “Communism and the Family” (selections)
Week 3. Private and Public
Session 1: Scholz, Second Wave Reader, Chapter 4, first part (pp. 66-88)
Choose the one you have not read before:
de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) “Introduction” or Friedan, Betty The Feminine Mystique (1963) (selections)
Session 2: Baranskaya, Natalia, A Week Like Any Other Week
Clips in class: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1979) by Vladimir Menshov
Week 4. Sexual Revolutions
Session 1: Ensler, Eve The Vagina Monologues (choose any 3)
Session 2: Herzog, Dagmar “The Romance of Socialism”, pp.184-220
Ghodsee, Kristen “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism”, The New York Times, Aug 12, 2017
Blogpost on “Ideas and Rights” due on Scalar
