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Week 1: August 28-September 1

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Session 1: 8/29 Overview of the course, indicating the range of issues and voices to be heard;

Introductory Topic: Authority, Science, and Art: Frankenstein in Literature and Classic Horror Film
--Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (New York: Bantam Books, 1991)
--Caroline J.S. Picart, The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein (Westport, CT and London, England: Praeger, 2001), Chapters 1 and 5.
--Slides of Henri Fuseli’s Nightmare
--Video Excerpts from James Whale’s Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein; Terence Fisher’s Frankenstein Created Woman and Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein


Supplementary Readings:
--Anne Mellor, “Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein,” Romanticism and Feminism (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press), pp. 220-232.
--Janice Hocker Rushing and Thomas S. Frentz, Projecting the Shadow: The Cyborg Hero in American Film (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1995), esp. pp. 1-8, 11-99, 165-221.
--Caroline J.S. Picart, “Re-Birthing the Monstrous: Whale’s (Mis)Reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 15 (1998): 382-404.
--William Veeder, Mary Shelley and Frankenstein: The Fate of Androgyny (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, pp. 157-194.


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Session 2: 8/31

Due to an dance exhibition at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio at 8:25ish p.m., Dr. Picart will need to dismiss the class 5 minutes early. You are all welcome to come and cheer her on at the studio, and come for a free dance party as her guests. See:

1139 E Tennessee St
Tallahassee, FL 32308
(850) 681-8884


The Persistence of the Frankensteinian Complex in Hybrid Film Genres: Between Horror and Laughter

--Caroline J.S. Picart. Remaking the Frankensteinian Myth on Film: Between Laughter and Horror(Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003), especially Chapters 1 and 5.
--Clips from the Videos of Alien, Blade Runner, and Terminator I and II.


Week 2: September 4-8

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NOTE: Dr Picart will be at the USDSC World's Competition Sept. 8-9. Classes go on as usual. If she needs to be urgently contacted, call 850 559 1636
Session 1: 9/5 Sociology Versus Philosophy of Science: Politics and Aesthetics in Science

STUDENTS HAVE TO SIGN UP FOR THEIR PREFERRED DATES FOR STUDENT-LED DISCUSSIONS, AND FINAL PAPER PRESENTATIONS

--Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Third Edition (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996), esp. pp. 1-110.
--Thomas Kuhn, “Second Thoughts on Paradigms,” The Essential Tension (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1977), pp. 293-319.
Film Excerpts: The Way of Science

Supplementary Texts:
--Caroline J.S. Picart, The Darwinian Shift: Kuhn vs. Laudan (Acton Massachusetts: Copley, 1997). Video excerpts from Kuhn’s Paradigm Paradigm, The Way of Science, A Glorious Accident: Stephen Jay Gould, and It’s a Wonderful Life

Week 2

Session 2: 9/7 Decentering the Sovereign Subject

--Sandra Harding, “Why ‘Physics’ is a Bad Model for Physics,” Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? (New York: Cornell University Press, 1988), pp. 77-102.


Week 3: September 11-15

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Session 1: 9/12 Decentering the Sovereign Subject

--Trinh T. Minh-ha, “Outside In Inside Out,” When the Moon Waxes Red; Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics (New York and London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 65-78.
--Excerpts from Videos of Trinh Minh-ha’s Naked Spaces—Living is Round and Reassemblage

Film Excerpts: Naked Spaces

Week 3:

Session 2: 9/13 The Politics of Gender and Race in Science

--Donna Haraway, “Apes in Eden, Apes in Space: Mothering as a Scientist for National Geographic,” Primate Visions (New York and London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 133-185

Film Excerpts: Gorillas in the Mist


Week 4: September 18-22

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Session 1: 9/19 The Politics of Gender and Race in Art

--bell hooks, “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators,” Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics, eds. Peggy Zeglin Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer (State College, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 1995), pp. 142-159.

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Session 2: 9/21 The Issue of Biological Essentialism in Science

--Londa Schiebinger, Nature’s Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993), pp. 1-114.

Film Excerpts: The Sex Files


Week 5: September 25-29

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September 30, 2006: You are invited to dance performances by Dr. Kay Picart, Darian Chancellor and the TCC Dance Company at the Bloxham-Lewis Park; this is in keeping with the Asian Coalition of Tallahassee's "Experience Asia" event (see: http://www.asiantlh.org/)

Session 1: 9/26 The Issue of Biological Essentialism in Art

--Mary Garrard, Excerpts from Artemisia Gentileschi: the image of the female hero in Italian Baroque art (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989).
Slides and images of Artemisia Gentileschi’s work
Artemisia (director: Agnes Merlet): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123385/

Week 5:

Session 2: 9/28 Nature, Science and Art

PROJECT PROPOSAL DUE (2-3 PAGES—Statement of Problem, Method, Literature Review)

--Mary D. Garrard, “Leonardo da Vinci and Creative Female Nature,” Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics, eds. Peggy Zeglin Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer, University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1995, pp. 326-353.

--Slides and video images of da Vinci’s works


Week 6: October 2-6

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Session 1: 10/3 Nature, Science and Art

--Londa L. Schiebinger, Nature’s Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993), pp. 115-212.
Film: Alien 3

Week 6:

Session 2: 10/5 The Multicultural Gaze: Standpoint Theories and the Relevance of Social Location

--Sandra Harding, “Common Histories, Common Destinies: Science in the First and Third Worlds,” Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991), pp. 218-248.

Supplementary Texts:
The Multicultural Gaze: Standpoint Theories and the Relevance of Social Location
--Sandra Harding, “ ‘…and Race?’ Toward the Science Question in Global Feminism,” Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991), pp.191-217.


Week 7: October 9-13

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Session 1: 10/10 Technologies of Gender in Critical Theory

--Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” Simians, Cyborgs, Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 149-182.

Week 7:

Session 2: 10/12 Technologies of Gender in Science Fiction Literature

Octavia Butler, Dawn (Warner Books, 1997).
Possible Film: Alien Resurrection


Week 8: October 16-20

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October 19-25: Dr. Picart may be gone for one day for official business; if so, then the class will be taped and she will grade the reports as soon as she is back.

Session 1: 10/17 Technologies of Gender in Science Fiction Literature and Film

Margaret Atwood, Handmaid’s Tale (Anchor Books, 1998). ISBN: 038549081X
Movie Excerpts: The Handmaid’s Tale

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Session 2: 10/19 Feminist Activism as Related to Science

--Donna Haraway, “The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Constitutions of Self in Immune System Discourse,” Simians, Cyborgs, Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 203-230.


Week 9: October 23-27

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Session 1: 10/24 Feminist Activism as Related to Science

--Donna Haraway, “The Contest for Primate Nature: Daughters of Man-the-Hunter in the Field, 1960-80,” Simians, Cyborgs, Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 81-108.
Movie Excerpts: Blade Runner

Week 9

Session 2: 10/26

FIRST DRAFTS (7-10 PAGES) DUE

Feminist Activism as Related to the Arts

--Trinh Minh-ha, “Cotton and Iron,” When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp.11-26.
Movie Excerpts: Reassemblage


Week 10: October 30-November 3

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November 3-5: Dr. Picart will be away on official business; class goes on as usual. If she is needed urgently, call 850 559 1636.

Session 1: 10/31 Feminist Activism as Related to the Arts

--Trinh Minh-ha, “The Story Began Long Ago,” and “Commitment from the Mirror-Writing Box,” Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Bloomington and Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1989), pp. 1-44.
Movie Excerpts: Naked Spaces

Week 10

Session 2: 11/2 Gender and Bio-Ethical Issues

--Tom Beauchamp and James Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), Chapter I


Week 11: November 6-10

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Session 1: 11/7 Gender and Bio-Ethical Issues

--Helen Bequert Holmes and Laura M. Purdy, Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992), selected excerpts

Week 11

Session 2: 11/9 Eros and the Machine

--Donna Haraway, “Metaphors into Hardware: Harry Harlow and the Technology of Love,” Primate Visions (New York and London: Routledge, 1981), pp. 231-243.


Week 12: November 13-17

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Dr. Picart will be away from Nov. 15-19. She will be missing class on Nov. 16 for the NCA Conference. She will also be competing in the Ohio Star Ball DanceSport Championships. Class will continue as usual, taped, and under assistant supervision. Assignments will be upon her return.

Session 1: 11/14 Gender, Race, and Law

Williams, Patricia J. (1988), ‘On Being the Object of Property,’ Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14, pp. 5-24 in Feminist Legal Theory II, pp. 487-508
Film: Beloved

Week 12

Session 2: 11/16 An Intersectional Analysis of Gender, Race and Law

Kimberle Crenshaw (1989), ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,’ The University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989, pp. 139-67, in FLT-I, pp. 443-472


Week 13: November 20-24

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Thanksgiving Holiday - Nov. 23rd, 24th
Dr. Picart will be away from Nov. 24 till 26; if you need her help urgently, call 850 559 1636.
Session 1: The Violence Against Women Act

Picart, C.J.S., “Rhetorically Constructing and Deconstructing Victimhood and Agency: The Violence Against Women Act’s Civil Rights Clause,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Volume 6:1 (spring 2003).

Week 13

Session 2: Violence and Gender in Holocaust and Horror Films

Picart, Caroline J.S. and David Frank (with Introductions by Dominick LaCapra and Edward Ingebretsen) Frames of Evil: Holocaust as Horror in American Film Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, forthcoming 2006, especially: Picart, C.J.S. and Frank, D. "Horror and the Holocaust: Genre Elements in Schindler's List and Psycho," The Horror Film, ed. Stephen Prince (Rutgers University Press, 2003).

Supplementary Texts:
Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List
Steven Spielberg, Schindler’s List
Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho


Weeks 14 and 15: November 27-December 8

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You are invited to dance performances by Dr. Picart and the TCC Dance Company at the Festival of Lights here in Tallahassee. Details to come.

FINAL PRESENTATIONS AND FINAL PAPERS (WITH DRAFT COPIES AND SUMMARY OF CHANGES;

SPOT and self-evaluations for attendance and participation; class party