Imagining the Body

WOW!  It's our last week - Things have shifted a bit so read on...

Monday's class time and location is different than usual, so look closely at the schedule below. Notice also that some of the original deadlines have been changed.

The seminar ticket for Monday is to bring one text-based question from the readings (a question that integrates the two readings is best) and one from the NPR story (a total of TWO questions). 

READ before Monday seminar:

Feinberg, Leslie.  2003.  "Transgender Warriors: Making History."  Pgs. 272-279 in Heasley, Robert and Betsy Crane (eds.) Sexual Lives.  (required; available on website.  Bring printed copy to seminar)

Wright, Kai.  2003.  "To be Poor and Transgender."  Pgs. 339-344 in Heasley, Robert and Betsy Crane (eds.) Sexual Lives. (required; available on website.  Bring printed copy to seminar)

The readings are posted on Ares under the title "Sexual Lives."  

LISTEN to the following NPR stories BEFORE Monday seminar:

"Two Families Grapple with Sons' Gender Preferences," by Alix Spiegel, at

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90247842

"Parents Consider Treatment to Delay Son's Puberty," by Alix Spiegel, at

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90273278

Your in-class final exam will be Wednesday morning (after you turn in your portfolios to our offices).  You can expect 2 questions covering the material since your integration paper (ie. one from the 2nd program theme and one from the 3rd program theme).  You may not use any class notes or texts, but you may bring one 4x6 card with you on which you can organize a set of notes.

For those of you that didn't get a copy of the yoga articles by Judith Lassater, they are posted under downloadable files entitled "Cultivate Your Connections."
Please free-write for about 5 minutes about your experience of picking one yama or niyama and sticking with it for a week.  Bring this to yoga on Thursday.

Several of you have asked what should be in your portfolio.  The best way to figure that out is to go through our schedule, week by week, and make sure every assignment is in a clearly marked section of a three-ring binder (or something similar).  Additionally, you should include all your notes and handouts, also in their respective, appropriate sections.

 The article "Face" has not yet been placed on Ares, so we won't be reading it for Thursday morning.

 ****Reminder - Class begins at 10:30 on Wednesday.*****

Ticket to seminar on Thursday - Bring one solid question (typed) which you feel is substantial enough that you can use it to lead a 5-minute discussion in seminar.  Make sure your question references a specific citation from the text and that it is typed.

READ before Monday seminar:
“Self-Mortification and the Stigma of Leprosy in Northern India” (required; available on Ares online.  Bring printed copy to class on Monday AND to seminar)
Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face prologue and chs. 1-6 (pgs. 1-117)

READ before Thursday seminar:
Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face chs. 7-12 (pgs. 118-223)
Munro, Alice.  “Face” (required; available on Ares.  Bring printed copy to seminar)

YOGA available all week:  Tuesday 1:30-3:00 in CRC 314 with Nicole, Thursday in class with Nathan, and Friday, 12-1 in COM 210 with Paul.

FOR ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY INSTRUCTIONS SEE THE PURDUE ONLINE WRITING LAB AT:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/

FOR APA FORMATTING AND STYLE GUIDES GO TO:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

FOR MLA FORMATTING AND STYLE GUIDES GO TO:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

Hi all - hope you are doing well while we are away at the faculty retreat.

Some reminders about Week 7 - 

Remember to bring a copy of Tolle's A New Earth  to class in the MORNING on Monday.

Optional Yoga on Tuesday at 1:30 in CRC 315 (Nicole) and Friday in COM 210 (Paul).

Book Reviews (with all copies etc.) due on Monday.

Seminar ticket will be given out in class on Monday, but will involve you working with a passage of your choice from the text, so you can look for it now as you read.

What's going on in week 6??

If you'd like to recommend a text for winter quarter, please submit a written request with the book title, author and reason why you think it fits our program themes. If you have a copy of the text to loan us for a week or so, that would be helpful, too.

If you'd like to see a good example of an integration paper (written by one of your peers), look for the downloadable file under "downloadable files."

BOOK REVIEW DUE ON MONDAY. PLEASE REMEMBER YOU WILL NEED TO BRING AT LEAST FOUR COPIES OF YOUR DRAFT - ONE FOR YOU AND ONE FOR EACH MEMBER OF YOUR PEER REVIEW GROUP! HAVE THESE WITH YOU WHEN YOU ARRIVE ON MONDAY.

Notice that your faculty are on retreat this week, so we will be away from campus from Wednesday afternoon on. Yes, it's true - THERE IS NO CLASS ON THURSDAY. You have plenty to do, however, right?

Remember - there is optional yoga on Tuesday at 1:30 in the CRC - taught by Nicole. You are all invited.

READ before Monday seminar:
Lorber and Moore “Eve, Venus, and ‘Real Women’: Constructing Women’s Bodies” Chapter 4 (pgs. 85-111 in Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives (required; available on Ares online. Bring printed copy to seminar)
Lorber and Moore “Adonis, Don Juan, and ‘Real Men’: Constructing Men’s Bodies” Chapter 5 (pgs. 113-136) in Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives (required; available on Ares online. Bring printed copy to seminar)

READ before Wednesday:
Young “Breasted Experience: The Look and the Feeling” (Pgs. 152-163 in Weitz)
Hooks “Selling Hot Pussy: Representations of Black Female Sexuality in the Cultural Marketplace” (Pgs. 122-132 in Weitz)
Godsey “Cro-Magnon Karma: One Dude and His Body Image Issues” Pgs. 287-298 in Edut’s Body Outlaws (required; available on Ares online. Bring printed copy to seminar)

What's up for week 5????

*****OPTIONAL YOGA TAUGHT BY NICOLE ON TUESDAY AT 1:30 IN THE CRC - UPSTAIRS IN ROOM 314******

It's a week of checking in - so be ready to receive progress reports from the faculty and to give feedback to each member of your peer group about how that process is going.

We've been getting questions about what is due on Monday:

Your question and its significance to the program (this is described in the assignment)

You have to have FIVE annotated sources that will be part of your prospectus.  We am not evaluating what TYPE of sources they are, just that they are FIVE sources that can be used as a part of your prospectus. Since your final prospectus must have ten sources, three of which are peer-reviewed articles and three of which are scholarly books, it would be a GOOD idea (but not REQUIRED) that you include some of this in your bibliography for MONDAY.  Email us if you get stuck.

Seminar ticket for Thursday:  Please identify the thesis of the entire text, Tortured subject as well as proved a 2-3 sentence summary of the thesis of each chapter.  NB:  don't neglect reading the vocabulary discussed at the beginning of the text, or you will have a struggle!

Also - there are a couple of films coming to the Olympia Film Society which look right up our alley:

11/8 at 9 pm - You Have a Body

11/12 at 7:30 - XXY

Check out the film festival site for details:  

http://www.olympiafilmfestival.org/

READ before Monday seminar:
Silverman’s Tortured Subjects introduction and chs. 1, 2, and 3

READ before Thursday seminar:
Silverman’s Tortured Subjects chs. 4, 5, and 6

NEED MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO WRITE AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY??

Use this website:  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/

Your annotations should include a one-sentence summary, an ASSESSMENT and a REFLECTION of each entry.  This will make sense to you after you read the description of the annotated bibliography.

You can also use this online writing lab at Purdue to answer questions about MLA and APA style guides including in-text citations and more.

Check it out!

THE wiki page to help you in your research (thank you Jules Unsel):

http://www2.evergreen.edu/wikis/librarywiki/index.php?title=College_Rese...

Several students have asked about where to find the Koppelman reading. WE ARE NOT USING IT, SO DON'T SPEND ANY MORE TIME WORRYING ABOUT IT!

READ before Monday seminar:
Popenoe’s Feeding Desire prologue and chs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Koppelman’s “How to Read a Text” (required; available on website.  Bring printed copy to peer learning group meeting)

READ before Thursday seminar:
Popenoe’s Feeding Desire chs. 6, 7, 8, and 9

**IMPORTANT NOTE**

The publisher of Crawley et al.'s Gendering Bodies reports that this text will be out of stock until the end of October.  TESC's bookstore recommends that you go to dealoz.com to order books.  We recommend that you borrow the book from a classmate for the short-term.  We will post the chapters on ares as soon as possible.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

READ before Monday seminar:

TUESDAY AFTERNOON -!!!READ THIS IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE SCANNING THE ARTICLES!!!

 We have learned there are multiple problems scanning this week's articles.  As of 12:30 today, that should be fixed, although one article is on CLOSED reserve in the library rather than e-reserve.  We are continuing to monitor this problem although you shoud be able to download your articles now OR get them from the library circulation desk and make copies in the library (this will cost money).

Week One: How is the body socially constructed? (part one)

READ before Monday seminar:
Syllabus and covenant
Mary Douglas paragraph included in the summer letter