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Professor Julia Landweber
Program in Women's and Gender Studies
Montclair State University

Syllabus

Additional Course Materials
Quotations about Feminism
Discussion Group Topics
Discussion Groups:
Sect. 04 (11:30am)
Sect. 05 (1:00pm)
General Essay Topics (due Mon, Oct. 26)
Semester Outline/Exam Guide

Help with writing
How to Cite and Document References
Getting an A on a Paper
A Good Thesis is...
5 Ways of Looking at a Thesis
Grading Standards for Essays

Required Online Readings
"If I Were a Man"
"On the Job, Nursing Mothers Find a 2-Class System"
"Free the Pill!"
"Abortion: Trouble in Numbers?"
"The Pro-Life Continuum"
"Daytona Beach: Beyond Beats and Rhymes"
"The Problem of a Pregnant Pause"
Lisa Belkin, "The Opt-Out Revolution"
Susan Douglas, "Mammas In the Marketplace"

Additional Articles and Sites of Interest
Stem-Cell Debate Ignores Women (Alternet.org 10/30/06)
What Do Women Want? Just Ask: Money Talks, And They're Buying (NYTimes 10/29/06)
Equal Pay Act of 1963
Title VII - Civil Rights Act of 1964

MSU Sexual Harassment Policy and Procedures
Title IX - Education Amendment Act of 1972

"On the Air, on Their Own: Iraqi Women Find a Forum" (NYTimes 9/4/05)
"For Some Girls, the Problem With Math Is That They're Good at It" (NYTimes 2/1/05)
"Confronting the Mommy Myth" (4/04)
"Birth, Choices"
Mothers Movement Online
Moms Rising
 
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