Violence Against Women Women S Studies 4930-1736F/6934-1746F

WST 3325.001 Gender-Based Violence and Resistance

Fall 2017, 3 Credits

Professor Jane Caputi, Women’s Studies, , 297-3865, CU 229

Catalog Description

An examination of violence based on gender, including rape, prostitution, pornography harassment, incest, battering, and sexual murder. Class texts and materials include political theory and analysis, first-person accounts, novels, poetry, and popular culture items.

Course Description

This class offers an intersectional feminist approach to understanding and resisting gender-based violence (GBV). GBV is the general term used to name violence that occurs as a result of the normative role expectations associated with each gender as gender is related to power inequalities, as expressed in a specific society. GBV takes form in interpersonal, communal and state violences.

Required Books:

Bancroft, Lundy, (2003). Why Does He Do that? Penguin Books.

Ochoa, M. and B. K. Ige, Eds. (2007). Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence. Emeryville, CA, Seal Press.

O'Toole, L. L., J. R. Schiffman, et al., Eds. (2007). Gender Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New York, New York University Press.

Kempadoo, K. (2004). Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race, and Sexual Labor. New York, Routledge.

Gilligan, James. On Violence. Norton. 1996.

Mogul, Josey, L. Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2011.

Requirements

Students are expected to attend all classes and keep current with reading assignments and to be prepared to discuss them on the days they appear on the course outline. I will take attendance and if you miss more than one class, I reserve the option to reduce your grade by 3 points per missed class.

Objectives

· Become familiar with a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on myth and archetype in relation to sex, gender and power in American popular culture

· Build analytical, writing and critical thinking skills.

· Expand upon ability to theorize

· Become able to synthesize various perspectives; argue effectively for or against them, critically think about the issues involved, offer well-thought out and defensible interpretations of pop-cultural images, personages, and texts, that incorporate ideas from the readings and discussions, and that reflect your own ideas about the movies and the issues involved.

Grading Explanation

A+: 97-100

A: 94- less than (<) 97

A-: 90 to < 94

B+: 87 to < 90

B: 84 to < 87

B-: 80 to < 84

C+: 77-< 80

C: 4-<77

C-: 70 - <74

D+: 67-<70

D: 64= <67

D-: 60-<64

F: < 60

Assignments

Reflection Paper 1 10%

Reflection Paper 2 10%

Presentation 10%

Class participation 15%

Midterm 25%

Final 30%

Attendance and Classroom Etiquette

Please do not arrive late or leave early. I will take attendance and may enhance your grade as I choose based on excellent participation. If you miss more than two classes, I reserve the right to diminish your grade by one level, e.g., a C to a C-. And if you miss more than 3 I will definitely do so.

Policy Statement

“In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act(ADAAA), students who require reasonable accommodations due to a disability to properly execute coursework must register with Student Accessibility Services (SAS)—in Boca Raton, SU 133 (561-297-3880); in Davie, LA 203 (954-236-1222); or in Jupiter, SR 110 (561-799-8585) —and follow all SASprocedures.”

Code of Academic Integrity policy statement

Students at Florida Atlantic University are expected to maintain the highest ethical standards. Academic dishonesty is considered a serious breach of these ethical standards, because it interferes with the University mission to provide a high quality education in which no student enjoys an unfair advantage over any other. Academic dishonesty is also destructive of the University community, which is grounded in a system of mutual trust and places high value on personal integrity and individual responsibility. Harsh penalties are associated with academic dishonesty. For more information, see the Code of Academic Integrity in the University Regulations at http://www.fau.edu/regulations/chapter4/4.001_Code_of_Academic_Integrity.pdf.

Religious Accommodations

http://www.fau.edu/regulations/chapter2/Reg%202.007%208-12.pdf

Item 2 (b) states, "Class Attendance: Any student, upon notifying his or her instructor, will be excused from class or other scheduled academic or educational activity to observe a religious holy day of his or her personal faith. Such notification shall be made no later than the end of the second week of the applicable academic term."

Aug. 22: Introduction to Class

Read: Gender-based violence: a confused and contested term by Sophie Read-Hamilton ,

http://www.odihpn.org/humanitarian-exchange-magazine/issue-60/gender-based-violence-a-confused-and-contested-term

http://guides.womenwin.org/gbv/conflict/context/what-is-gender-based-violence

Aug. 29: Read Gender Violence (GV), xi-130.

Sept. 5: Labor Day, no class.

Sept. 12, GV133-245, View: The Line, Reflection Due

Hooks, “Seduced by Violence No More”

Sept. 19: GV, 247-296; 451-459

Sept. 26. Why Does He Do That?

Shout Out, pp. xxi-78

Oct. 3: GV, pp. 297-364

View Two Spirit

Oct. 10: Shout Out, 219-238, Midterm

Oct. 17:Pornography: GV: 365-408; Claire, Exile and Pride excerpt

Dworkin, Letters, pp.227-275.

Nussbaum, “Objectification”

Oct. 24:

Caputi, J. (2003). ""Take Back What Doesn't Belong to Me": Sexual Violence and the "Transmission of Affect"." Women's Studies International Forum 25(4): 1-14.

Oct. 31: GV: 409-418; Shout Out, pp. 81-109; 273-286. Lloyd, Girls Like Us or Kempadoo, Sexing the Caribbean

Nov. 7: HayleyNelson; Sunshower; Caputi and Russell, “Femicide” Reflection Due

View: Aileen Wuornos

Nov.14: Read: Friedman and Valenti, Yes Means Yes