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Group Project: Graphic Novel of Gender Theory

• Due: TBA
• 100 points each (300 points total).
• For the group project, transform one of the theories for this course (listed below) into a comic. The comics from all the group projects in this course will be compiled into an online resource.
• Group Project Rubric.pdf
• Group Project Rubric.docx  

Basic Instructions:

• Students are responsible for three group projects. For each of the group projects, students will transform oneunit for this course into a comic or illustration. These comics will be compiled into an online resource.
• These comics or illustrations will be presented before class. Presentations will be no more than ten minutes.  
• Along with the illustration, each student will be responsible for summarizing the main arguments, ideas, and terms presented in one of the essays. These summaries should be no more than one page. 
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Group One Local Identities and Politics 

• Due: Monday, 27 January 2014
• Muriel Rukeyser “The Poem as Mask” (p. 84)
• T. V. Reed “The Poetical is the Political” (p. 85)
• Elizabeth Martinez “La Chicana”
• The Combahee River Collective “A Black Feminist Statement”  
• Charlotte Bunch “Lesbians in Revolt” (p. 129)
• Leslie Feinberg “Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come” (p. 148) 
• Shulamith Firestone “The Culture of Romance” (p. 123) 

Group Two Social Processes Configuring Differences

• Due: Wednesday, 5 February 2014
• Heidi Hartmann “The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union” (p. 187)
• Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work(p. 202) 
• Monique Wittig “One Is Not Born a Woman” (p. 246)
• Lila Abu-Lughod “Orientalism and Middle East Feminist Studies” (p. 218)
• Mrinalini Sinha “Gender and Nation” (p. 227)
• Raewyn Connel “The Social Organization of Masculinity” (p. 252) 

Group Three Boundaries and Belongings

• Due: Wednesday, 19 February 2014
• Donna Kate Rushin “The Bridge Poem” (p. 266)
• Gloria Anzaldùa “The New Mestiza Nation” (p. 277)
• Lionel Cantù “Well Founded Fear” (p. 296) 
• Minnie Bruce Pratt “Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart” (p. 285)
• Audre Lorde “I am Your Sister” (p. 292)
• Andrea Smith “Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change” (p. 321) 
• Leila Ahmed “The Veil Debate Again” (p. 306) 
• Obioma Nnaemeka “Forward: Locating Feminisms/Feminists” (p. 317)
• Mari Matsuda “Beside My Sister, Facing the Enemy” (p. 332)

Group Four Standpoint Epistemologies Situated Knowledges Poststructuralism

• Due: Wednesday, 5 March 2014
• Nancy Hartsock “The Feminist Standpoint” (p. 354)
• Uma Narayan “The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist” (p. 370)
• Patricia Hill Collins “Defining Black Feminist Thought” (p. 379)
• Cheshire Calhoun “Separating Lesbian Theory From Feminist Theory” (p. 395)
• Donna Haraway “Situated Knowledges” (p. 412)
• Luce Irigaray “The Sex Which Is Not One” (p. 426)
• Lata Mani “Multiple Mediations” (p. 433)
• Sandra Bartky “Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power” (p. 447)
• Judith Butler “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution” (p. 462)

Group Five Bodies and Emotions

• Due: Wednesday, 19 March 2014
• Alison Jaggar “Love and Knowledge” (p. 486)
• Kathy Davis “Reclaiming Women’s Bodies” (p. 502) 
• Sara Ahmed “Multiculturalism and the Promise of Happiness” (p. 517)
• Lucille Clifton “Lumpectomy Eve” (p. 533) 

Group Six Solidarity Reconsidered

• Due: Wenesday, 2 April 2014
• Chandra Talpade Mohanty “Under Western Eyes Revisited” (p. 536)
• Suzanna Danuta Walters “From Here to Queer” (p. 553)  
• Paula Moya “Chicana Feminism and Postmodernist Theory” (p. 571)
• Malika Ndlovu “Out of Now-here” (p. 589)