Dr. Dene Grigar, Assistant Professor
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Course Materials and Daily Activities

Wednesday, July 14 Philosophical and Theoretical Contexts

Course materials for today:

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. Plato's Republic, Book VII
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

In-class:

1. Discuss Haraway's "The Cyborg Manifesto,"technofeminism, other feminisms
mentioned or alluded to in her essay

2. Discuss Plato's Republic, Book VII
3. Examine Diane Greco's "Cyborg: Engineering the Body Electric"
4. Work in TWUMOO

To prepare for next time:

Read, from Computers and Composition:
1. Aschauer's "Tinkering with Technological Skill"
2. Sullivan's Wired Women Writing"
3. Takayoshi's "No Boys Allowed"
4. Burns' "The Writers We Happen to Teach"

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