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"Wired Women, CyberChicks, and Surfer
Girls: Summer 1999 Syllabus |
Tuesday, July 13 "Technology + Feminism= Technofeminism" Introduction to course; Quick tutorial of online resources; McDonald's "A Woman's Place;" Ahuja's "Computer toys just for boys;" Wagner's "Why Those Buxom 3D Babes Just Leave Me Feeling Flat;" Coyle, "How Hard Can It Be?;" Humm's Dictionary of Feminist Theory Prepare for Next Time: Read Plato, Republic Book VII; Haraway's "The Cyborg Manifesto" |
Part 2: "Philosophical, Theoretical, Social, and Cultural Context(s) Underlying Technofeminism"
Wednesday, July 14 Philosophical and Theoretical Context(s) Discuss Plato's Republic, Book VII and Haraway's "The Cyborg Manifesto;" Explore Greco's "Cyborg;" Work in TWUMOO Prepare For Next Time: Aschauer's "Tinkering with Technological Skill," Sullivan's "Wired Women Writing," Takayoshi's "No Boys Allowed," Burns' "the Writers We Happen to Teach" |
Thursday, July 15 Social and Cultural Context(s) Discuss Aschauer's "Tinkering with Technological Skill," Sullivan's "Wired Women Writing," Takayoshi's "No Boys Allowed," Burns' "the Writers We Happen to Teach" Prepare for Next Time: Dibbell's "A Rape in Cyberspace, Peterson's "Sex and the Cybergirl," Bruckman's "Finding One's Own," and Gilboa's "Elites, Lamers, Narcs, and Whores" |
Friday, July 16 Social and Cultural Context(s) Discuss Dibbell's "A Rape in Cyberspace, Peterson's "Sex and the Cybergirl," Bruckman's "Finding One's Own," Gilboa's "Elites, Lamers, Narcs, and Whores" Prepare for Next Time: Read Gibson's Neuromancer; Look over online sources provided in the class website about Gibson and Neuromancer |
Part 3: Images of Feminist Cyberculture on the Printed Page
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Online discussion via email about Gibson's Neuromancer |
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Continued online discussion via email about Gibson's Neuromancer Prepare for Next Time: Read Moore's "No Woman Born" |
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Online discussion via email about Moore's "No Woman Born" |
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Continued online discussion via email Moore's "No Woman Born" Begin Work on Final Paper |
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Online discussion synthesizing all readings Continue Working on Final Paper; Read LeCourt and Barnes' "Writing Multiplicity," Hocks' "Feminist Interventions;" Kairos 2.2 "Gender and Electronic Discourse" http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/index_f.html |
***Students are reminded that a MOO Session will be scheduled during the weekend to discuss all readings
Part 4: Feminist Cyberculture in Pixelated Text
| Monday, July 26 Technofeminism and Webtexts |
| Tuesday, July 27 Technofeminism and MOOspaces |
| Wednesday, July 28 Technofeminism and Other Technologies |
| Thursday, July 29 f2f Presentations of Papers |
***Project Due: Seminar Paper due by noon on Monday, August 9 via email or the web.
