Week 8. Reproduction, Sex, and the State
Session 1: Shrage, Laurie, “Fetal Ideologies and Maternal Desires: A Post-Enlightment Account of Abortion,”
McBride Stetson, Dorothy “Introduction: Abortion, Women's Movements, and Democratic Politics”, “Conclusion: Comparative Abortion Politics and the Case for State Feminism”
Session 2: Kligman, Gail The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu’s Romania, pp.1-70
Week 9. The Other Woman and “the Oppositional Gaze”
Session 1: bell hooks, “The Oppositional Gaze”
Clips in class: Illusions (1983) by Julie Dash
Session 2: Ayka (2018) by Sergei Dvortsevoi,
Kaganovsky, Lilya “Sergei Dvortsevoi: Ayka (My Little One)” Film Review, Kinokultura, # 65 (2019)
Week 10. Imprisoned Women
Session 1: Orange Is the New Black, Season 1, ep.1-2
Angela Davis’ “Public Imprisonment and Private Violence: Reflections on the Hidden Punishment of Women” from Frontline Feminisms, pgs, 3–16.
Session 2: Borenstein Eliot, Pussy Riot: Speaking Punk to Power, Intro, chapters 4, 6
Gessen, Masha, “Punishment”
Blogpost on “Power and Protest” due on Scalar
Week 11: Conclusions and Final Projects presentations
