applied

This page relates to an earlier version of ANT4808. The current offering is available at: Applied07.

The Fall 2005 offering of ANT4848 at the Fort Walton Beach Center will expand on the four-year rape awareness project, developed through the applied anthropology program and supplemented with a final special seminar on sexual assault and gender violence entitled Culture, Gender, & Aggression. The class will work on a self-organized schedule to develop campus/community activities relating to sexual assault awareness. Activities in the class include interviews, analysis, class discussion, information gathering, writing, and potentially a project involging program planning, meeting planning, public relations, and public presentations.

APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY READING SUGGESTIONS

The following readings cover essays from Transforming a Rape Culture and a number of books relating to the themes of the course. Students, working as a group, will develop the reading list from these resources, then complete common readings supporting in-class and on-line discussions. Minimally, discussions will focus on the key themes of the course, topics in books and articles, and critical comments warranted by reading and experience. Class discussions will be limited to class members and guests invited by or approved by the instructor. The course meets in FWBC Building 3, Room 329 from 9:30-12:15 on Wednesdays. Readings will be provided either in hard-copy or on-line by the instructor, or through library resources, and will be completed on dates assigned by the seminar. As readings are assigned, they will be annotated with a due date on the list below. Students assigned specific readings will submit written reviews of no longer than 500 words in the appropriate on-line discussion--these will serve as a basis of both on-line and in-class responses.

Against Our Will : Men, Women and Rape, Susan Brownmiller

Backlash : The Undeclared War Against American Women, Susan Faludi

Back Off: How to Confront and Stop Sexual Harassment and Harassers, Marty J. Langelan

Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin

Barbie Culture: Core Cultural Icons, Mary F. Rogers

Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence, Myriam Miedzian

Breaking the Patriarchal Code : The Linguistic Basis of Sexual Bias, Louise Goueffic

Cunt : A Declaration of Independence, Inga Muscio The War Against Women, Marilyn French

Feminism is For Everybody, Bell Hooks.

Manifesta : Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, Jennifer Baumgardner & Amy Richards

Pornography: Men Possessing Women, Andrea Dworkin

Sacred Pleasure : Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body, Riane Eisler

Religious Violence and Abortion : The Gideon Project, Dallas A. Blanchard and Terry J. Prewitt

Reviving Ophelia : Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Mary Bray Pipher

Teaching to Trangress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, Belle Hooks

The Politics of Women's Bodies : Sexuality, Appearance and Behavior, Rose Weitz (ed)

The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love, Jill Conner Browne

The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler, Gloria Steinem (Eds)

The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels

The Goddess in the Gospels : Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine, Margaret Starbird

The Morning After : Sex, Fear, and Feminism, Katie Roiphe

Transforming a Rape Culture readings:

"Fraternities and the Rape Culture", Chris O'Sullivan (p. 23)

"Erotica vs. Pornography", Gloria Steinem (p. 31)

"I just raped my wife! What are you going to do about it, Pastor", Carol J. Adams (p. 57)

"Women with a Sword", D. A. Clarke (p. 393)

"Outside In: A Man in the Movement", Richard S. Orton (p. 237)

"Raising Girls for the 21st Century", Emilie Buchwald (p 179)

"How Rape Is Encouraged in American Boys and What We Can Do to Stop It", Myriam Miedzian (p. 153)

"The Language of Rape", Helen Benedict (p. 101)

"The Date Rape Play: A Collaborative Process", (p. 227)

"Radical Heterosexuality... or How to Love a Man and Save Your Feminist Soul", Naomi Wolf (p. 359)

"The Not Yet Spoken", Susan Griffin (p. 443)

The Sexual Politics of Meat : A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, Carol J. Adams

Warrior Marks : Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women, Alice Walker, Pratibha Parmar, Vicki AustinSmith

Witchcraze : A New History of the European Witch Hunts, Anne Llewellyn Barstow