Course Materials and Daily Activities

Tuesday, July 13 "Technology + Feminism = Technofeminism"

Course materials for today:

1. "Wired Woman Society." http://www.wiredwoman.com/society/
2. "CyberChicks." http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Pier/4890/index.html
3. "Surfer Girl Magazine." http://www.surfergrrl.com/
4. "Borg Queen." http://clgray.simplenet.com/strtrk/stpics/sttng/brgqueen.jpg
5. "Neuromancer's Molly." http://www.eaze.net/~dene/molly.html
6. "Tomb Raider's Lara Croft." http://www.eaze.net/~dene/lara.html
7. "Newsweek Cover Image." http://www.eaze.net/~dene/cover.html
8. "WS 5343 / Eng 5903 Website." http://www.eaze.net/~dene/Feminist_Cyberculture
9. "TWUMOO." http://www.twumoo.edu
10. "Theories." http://www.eaze.net/~dene/theories.html
11. "Definition." http://www.eaze.net/~dene/definition.html

In-class:

1. Discuss course, feminist theory, and technofeminism (See print articles by McDonald, Ahuja, Wagner, and Coyle; Humm's Dictionary)
2. Follow links on the web
3. Visit TWUMOO
4. Work with email, set up distribution list, and introduce listserv

To prepare for next time:

Look over:
1. "Borg Queen." http://clgray.simplenet.com/strtrk/stpics/sttng/brgqueen.jpg
2. "The Cyborg Handbook." http://www.thomson.com/routledge/feature/1995/cyborg.html
3. Rosi Braidotti's "Cyberfeminism with a Difference." http://www.let.ruu.nl/womens_studies/rosi/braidot1.htm
4. Candance Churchill's "Cyberfeminism Vs. Ecofeminism?." http://www.earthsystems.org/list/ecofem/0361.html
5. "Cyberfeminism." http://digitarts.va.com.au/grrrowl1/shan/
6. "TechnoFeminism@Second Millenium." http://pages.wooster.edu/prushab/TechFem/
7. "What is Cyberfeminism?." http://www.obn.org/cfundef/statistiken/Statis2.htm
8. "WWWomen: Feminism." http://www.wwwomen.com/category/femini5.html

Read:
1. "Donna Haraway." http://www.anu.edu.au/english/haraway.html
2. Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." http://www- leland.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html
3. "Hyperlink to Donna Haraway." http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~RF6T-TYFK/haraway.html
4. Hary Kunizu's "You Are Borg." http://www.wired.com/wired/5.02/haraway/index.html
5. Plato's Republic, Book VII

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