Welcome to Soc/WS 327A!

Introduction

• Course syllabus
• Course reading guide
• About the professor
• Professor's homepage
• On-line sociology resources for Iowa State students

Sample Assignments

• Barbie: Queen of the Prom
• "10 Sneaky Ways to Get a Guy by Tonight!"
• King of Queens analysis

Wednesday, Aug. 25

• Renzetti and Curran, chapter 1

Friday, Aug. 27

• Male-female differences

Monday, Aug. 30

• Social constructionism
• Key points from Stewart

Wednesday, Sept. 1

• Roy on the social construction of gender

Friday, Sept. 3

• Kimmel’s “Masculinity as Homophobia”
• Roy on masculinity

Wednesday, Sept. 8

• The Social Construction of Beauty

Friday, Sept. 10

• Intersections between Gender, Class and Race

Monday, Sept. 13

• McIntosh on "White Privilege and Male Privilege"

Friday, Sept. 17

• Lucal on "What It Means to Be Gendered Me"

Monday, Sept. 20

• Renzetti & Curran, chapter 2/social construction of sex

Wednesday, Sept. 22

• Renzetti & Curran, chapter 3
• Exam #1 review sheet

Monday, Sept. 27

• Early childhood gender socialization (R & C, ch. 4; Coltrane, ch. 5)

Friday, Oct. 1

• Schools and gender (R & C, chapter 5)

Monday, Oct. 4

• Thorne on borderwork

Wednesday, Oct. 6

• Messner and Pollack on learning masculinity

Wednesday, Oct. 13

• Coltrane on "Love, Sex and Marriage" (chapter 2)
• Williams on "Male-Male Friendship and Male-Female Marriage"

Friday, Oct. 15

• Risman and Schwartz on "After the Sexual Revolution"

Monday, Oct. 18

• Three articles on men and sex

Wednesday, Oct. 20

• Homosexual partners

Friday, Oct. 22

• Engagement proposals

Wednesday, Oct. 27

• Coltrane on "Paid Work and Family Life"/Housework research

Friday, Oct. 29

• Coltrane and Gerson on family care

Monday, Nov. 1

• Exam #2 review sheet

Friday, Nov. 5

• Language, media and gender

Friday, Nov. 12

• The Boys Next Door

Monday, Nov. 17

• Rape (Boswell & Spade, Pelka)

Monday, Nov. 29

• Gender, Employment and the Economy (R&C, ch. 8)

Wednesday, Dec. 1

• Discrimination in the Workplace (Featherstone, Crittenden, Fong-Torres)

Friday, Dec. 3

• Christine Williams on "The Glass Escalator"

Wednesday, Dec. 8

• Cynthia Enloe's "The Globetrotting Sneaker"

Friday, Dec. 10

• Final exam review sheet