|
Willis 418, ext. 4123 |
Spring 1999 |
|
POSC 256 |
|
Course Requirements:
|
Take-home midterm |
25% |
|
Final exam |
30% |
|
Final paper |
35% |
|
Participation |
10% |
Please note: There will be NO CLASS on Thurs. April 1, because of Passover. I will try to schedule an extra class, probably some time in May. In addition, I will be away on Thurs. April 8, once again because of Passover; on Thurs. April 15 I will be at a conference. However, there WILL be class on the 8th and 15th, as I am arranging for you to watch "The Age of Innocence," which we will be reading later in the term.
Tues. March 30
Introduction
Thurs. April 1
NO CLASS
Tues. April 6
Sophocles, "Antigone"
Thurs. April 8
Watch "The Age of Innocence".
Tues. April 13
Plato's Republic, Book V, secs. 449a-467e (res.)
Thurs. April 15
Watch "The Age of Innocence".
Tues. April 20
Locke, Two Treatises of Government
1st Treatise, Ch. 5 (subjection of Eve)
2nd Treatise, Ch. 6 (paternal power)
2nd Treatise, Ch. 7, secs. 77-90
Edmund Leites, "Locke's Liberal Theory of Fatherhood" (res.)
Thurs. April 22
Rousseau, Emile, Bk. V (selections to be announced)
Tues. April 27
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman (selections to be announced)
Thurs. April 29
Mill, "The Subjection of Women"
Tues. May 4
Gilman, Herland
Sara Ruddick, "Maternal Thinking" (res.)
Thurs. May 6
Wharton, The Age of Innocence, chs. 1-16
Tues. May 11
Wharton, The Age of Innocence, chs. 17-end
TAKE-HOME MIDTERM DUE
Thurs. May 13
Jean Bethke Elshtain, "Feminism, Family, Community" (res.)
John Hardwig, "Should Women Think in Terms of Rights?" (r)
Rosemarie Tong, ch. 5, "Carol Gilligan's Ethics of Care," Feminine and Feminist Ethics (res.)
Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family, ch. 1
Tues. May 18
Okin, Justice, chs. 2-5
Thurs. May 20
Okin, Justice, chs. 6-8
Tues. May 25
Purdy, In Their Best Interest?, Introduction, chs. 1-2
Thurs. May 27
Purdy, Interest, chs. 3-4
Tues. June 1
Purdy, Interest, chs. 5-Conclusion
Jane English, "What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?" (res.)
PAPER DUE
Mon. June 7
FINAL EXAM, 7 p.m.