State Law and Social Policy & Activism and Feminist Futures

This Week: 

State Law and Social Policy

Activism and Feminist Futures

Read: Chapters  11 and 13

View: Video 6

Write: Final Blog Entry 

Take the Final Exam on Blackboard August 1.  

Blog Entry Chapter 11: State Law and Social Policy

The key concepts contained in Chapter 11 include aspects of the state, institutions, government, and representation. The author discusses suffrage, the Founding Fathers, the US Constitution, the Congress, Senate, House of Representatives and other dimensions of inequality and privilege. Other topics include the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the criminal justice system, the police and the military.

For your reference, I have attached a link to the Southeastern Institute for Women in Politics, offering support for women seeking public office.

http://www.scelectswomen.com/

Blog Chapter 13: Activism and Feminist Futures

Key concepts contained in Chapter 13 include feminism, activism, politics of knowledge, future trends, backlash, transformation, global issues, economic vs. political democracies, capitalism, consumerism, environmental justice, peace and justice-based politics.

For your reference, I have attached a link to the video of Natalie Merchant singing “Wonder” a song that celebrates the differences among us and emphasizes that thriving involves love, patience, and faith.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-6zpYFAzhAZY/wonder/

July 30 :            Final blog entry

                        What have you learned during this course? What surprised you most?  

Final Exam will open at 5 a.m.

Based on request from a student, the final exam will open early, beginning at 5 a.m.

Week of July 21-25

This Week: 7/21 to 7/25         

Women’s Work Inside and Outside the Home

Resisting Violence Against Women

Read: Chapters  8 and 10

View: Video 5

Write: (2) Blog Entries

 

July 23: Blog Entry Chapter 8

July 25: Blog Entry Chapter 10

Women's Work Inside and Outside the Home & Resisting Violence Against Women

This week:

Women’s Work Inside and Outside the Home

Resisting Violence Against Women

Read: Chapters  8 and 10

View: Video 5

Write: (2) Blog Entries

Chapter 8: Women’s Work Inside and Outside of the Home

Key concepts in this chapter include labor force, women workers, economic system, global economy, globalization, multinational corporations, paid and unpaid labor, domestic work, gender division of household labor, comparable worth, horizontal and vertical segregation, occupational segregation by gender, primary labor market, secondary labor market, glass ceiling, glass elevator, glass precipice, sexual harassment, double day of work, second shift and “pink collar.” Below you will find links to the AAUW report on the gender gap along with a CNN video that ran when the report was released.

http://www.aauw.org/resource/press-call-graduating-to-a-pay-gap/

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2012/10/27/jones-graduate-gender-gap.cnn

Chapter 10: Resisting Violence Against Women

Key concepts contained in Chapter 10 include violence against women, sexual terrorism, rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, stalking, rape spectrum, sexism, misogyny, patriarchy, battering, physical abuse, incest, global human trafficking, militarism, women and war, cybersex, forces prostitution and pornography.

For your reference, I have attached a link to RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network), indicating that every two minutes someone in the United States is sexually assaulted.

http://www.rainn.org/statistics 

July 23:             Women’s work outside the home question

What are the various kinds of sexual harassment and the statistics on its occurrence?

July 25:             Violence against women question

Describe a rape myth described in the text. What implication does this myth have for our society?  

Final Exam planning

Please note that the final exam will be conducted online on August 1. It will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Link to Video #4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEXiyI5cX9Y

Health and Reproductive Rights & Family Systems,

Health and Reproductive Rights

Family Systems, Family Lives

Read: Chapters 6 and Chapter 7

View: Video 4

Write: (2) Blog Entries

Write:  Term paper 

Paper due by 5 p.m. on July 18. Please use Turn it In Link on Blackboard. 

Chapter 6: Health and Reproductive Rights

Key concepts in Chapter 6 include health, wellness, systems of inequality and privilege, androcentrism, medicalization, stereotypes, global capitalism, environmental racism, environmental justice, fertility, voluntary motherhood, contraception, forced sterilization, pregnancy crisis centers, eugenics, sexually transmitted diseases and abortion. By the time you finish this chapter, you should be able to understand the connections between systems of privilege and inequality, and health and reproductive issues.

You will find a link below to the National Organization for Women’s fact sheet on historical highlights on reproductive rights.

http://www.now.org/issues/abortion/roe30/timeline.html

Chapter 7: Family Systems, Family Lives

Key concepts in Chapter 7 include family, institutions, global economy, militarism, imperialism, kinship, monogamy, polygamy, polygyny, polyandry, nuclear family, extended family, multigenerational families, family values, lesbian families, conflict, love, divorce, masculine privilege in families, models of family structure, parenting, mothering, lesbian mothering, Defense of Marriage Act and poverty. Below you will find a link to the NOW’s fact sheet on Motherhood. As you review these materials, think about the messages about gender you received in your family when you were growing up.

http://www.now.org/issues/mothers/facts.html

Blog Entries This Week: 

July 16:             Health and reproductive rights question

                        What are the politics involved with contraceptive/birth control access and usage?

July 18:             Family systems and family lives question

                        Explain the difference between family as institution and family as experience.