WMST 102: Sections 02
"Women's Worlds"
Fall 2008

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

Syllabus



Additional Course Materials
Quotations about Feminism
Discussion Group Topics
Discussion Groups
General Essay Topics (due Monday, Oct. 13)
Semester Outline/Exam Guide

Help with writing
Getting an A on a Paper
A Good Thesis is...
5 Ways of Looking at a Thesis
General Grading Standards for Essays

Required Online Readings
"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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