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 Tentative Syllabus – Sex, Gender, and Evolution – Winter 2005

Date

Wk

Topics

Due

08 Jan

1

Introduction and Review

 

Oppression – Frye: In class reading

 

Natural selection exercise

 

15 Jan

2

Kinship and Biology

 

Sexual Dimorphism in Life History – Delph (sex differences in plants)

 

Is there a family? – Collier et al.

 

Kinship… - Lassiter

 

22 Jan

3

Origins of Gender Hierarchy

 

Sociobiology – Wilson (Ch. 27 on human sociobiology) (Ch. 26 on nonhuman primates is optional)

 

Evolution’s Rainbow Ch. 1-5

 

The Search for Origins: Unraveling the Threads of Gender Hierarchy - Rayna Rapp Reiter

 

{optional: Men, feminism, and men’s contradictory experiences of power – Kaufman}

 

---> Pot Luck

 

29 Jan

4

Brains and Families

 

 

 

Evolution’s Rainbow  Ch. 6 – 9, 12

Mid term quiz

 

 

Mother Nature - Hrdy

 

 

 

Baboons with briefcases vs langurs with lipstick - Sperling

 

 

 

Gender, genetics, and generation: reformulating biology in Lesbian kinship – Hayden

 

 

 

Film “Ladies of the Lake” (the search for Matrilineal societies)

 

05 Feb

5

Concepts of race and sexuality

 

 

 

Liberal Arts Forum

Kinship and sociobiology across cultures (paper due)

 

 

Film on history of concept of race.

 

 

The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism (excerpt) – van Ausdale and Feagin

 

 

Origins of Human Races and Racism - Vandermeer

 

 

 

Scientific racism and the homosexual body - Somerville

 

12 Feb

6

Sexuality and Diversity

 

 

 

Possible film TBA or workshop

Present and discuss papers on kinship and sociobiology across cultures

 

 

Evolution’s Rainbow Ch. 19-20 (and Ch. 18, for new students)

 

 

 

History of Sexuality (sections 1-3, pp. 3-73)

 

19 Feb

7

Sexuality and Power

 

History of Sexuality - (sections 4-5, pp. 77-159)

 

Additional readings TBA

 

Film: Boys Don’t Cry

 

26 Feb

8

Gender Identity

 

She’s Not There

 

Evolution’s Rainbow Ch. 13

 

Guests: Marsha Botzer, the founder of the Ingersoll Gender Center, and two colleagues will discuss trans issues.

 

05 Mar

9

Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and  Politics

 

 

 

Kiss of the Spider Woman (excerpts)

Final papers due

 

 

Evolution’s Rainbow Ch. 22

End-of-program quiz

 

 

Film: Kiss of the Spider Woman

 

12 Mar

10

Potluck and final festivities!!!

 

 

Poster session on individual research project