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Women's Health
"The Biology of Female Sexuality"   

Course Syllabus for Fall 2005

 Higley Aud

 

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Instructor: KathRyn L. Edwards
   PBX 5398
                                                E-mail: EDWARDSR                                              
       Office hours: M/W 10-noon F 2:30-3:30, Higley Room 214

Texts:   
                A New View of a Woman's Body, Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers
                

            *Articles on reserve in Higley Reading Rm 211.  There will be 1 copy of each article.  Individuals
             (or groups) can copy articles in Bio Rm 212 at a cost of 10¢/ page during the hours of 8:30am-noon,
             1:00-4:30 pm M-F. These articles are not to be REMOVED from Higley Reading Rm except to copy).

 
optional:    The New Our Bodies Ourselves, Updated and expanded for the millennium, 
                                                                                    Boston Women's Health Book Collective
 


Week of

 

Aug. 30

Women's Health Resources
  

                        Audre Lorde is our Muse and showing of ONE FINE DAY

                        Introduction
Some practical feminist theory to formulate guidelines for our interactions

  *J. Trebilcot: "Dyke methods"
  *S. Hoagland: "Power, paternalism, and attending"
  *R. Christoph: "Anger, the creative fire"
  *A. Lorde: "There is no hierarchy of oppressions"
  *A. Lorde: "Age, race, class, and sex: women redefining difference"

                        
 


Sep. 6    

 


 

NV: Ch 2, 3
CWH: Ch 15 to p.299
*Rebecca Chalker: The Clitoral Truth, Chp 1 and 4
*Enserink: Lets talk about sex…and drugs (libido boosting?)
Showing of Dodson: Self-Loving video in Crozier Center(A-V 92.0357)…TBA

*Optional reading: The Multiogasmic Man (Chia and Arava)

Unique anatomy of the female body
Gynecological examination : self look
Physiology of female sexual response
               


Sep. 13


 

CWH: Ch 12, 13, 14
*Philaretou: Perils of Masculinity excerpt
*T. Beneke: "Rape language"
Kilbourne: Killing Us Softly video
BC: Ch 1

Rape and relational abuse…..guest Wendy Busenburg-Taylor
Science of hormones

Sep. 20

Menstruation Links

CWH: 15 p.78-84, 52, 63
NV: Ch 4, 5
*G. Steinem: "If men could menstruate"
BC: Ch 2

Ovarian/uterine cycle
assignment: reading a medical research paperdue

   
      

Sep. 27



Human Reproduction Links


 

CWH: Ch 17, 126-128, Ch
reproductive anatomy of the cat (groups)
BC: Ch 5

Reproduction: fertilization
Early pregnancy: more hormones
Early fetal development

                         
              

              
         

Oct. 4



Birth Control Links

CWH: Ch 16, 9, 10, 11
NV: Ch 7, 9

Page *N. Tuana: "The weaker seed: The sexist bias of reproductive theory."
BC: Ch 6

Birthing : Video: Jay Mothersoul's home video of giving birth while at Kenyon Birth Control: to be or not to be a breeder

Page 6 Bio 104 Fall 2005

    
 

Oct. 13


One Class

               Oct. 18   

           

 

CWH: Ch 18

No Quiz

Biology of infection: body defenses and how they work

Thursday (20): Abortion Discussion

Oct. 25

STD's Links

Biology of infection: HIV and other STDs
assignment: reading a cancer research paper….due

Nov. 1


Cancer Links

CWH: Ch 20

Biology of cancer
Class Project 1st Reports Due  


Nov. 8


Breast, ovarian, and uterine cancers

Nov. 15



 

CWH: Ch 19
Biology of heart disease
Cancer Paper Analysis Due

                                      


Nov. 19-27

              

Fall Break

            Nov. 29 Catch up

Dec. 6

 

Class Project: group presentations

Dec. 13

one day


   Class Project : group presentations
             
        
 

                                        
                                                                                     

 

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