Biology 104

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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