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Schedule for Reading and
Exercises
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| week 1 |
Introduction & Greeting |
The exercise from the first
class - the letter from the 'normal girl' wondering if she was going to grow up
to be a pedophile was from Dan Savage's Book Savage
Love (click on the link to read Amazon's
description).
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week 2 1/18
Overview of Violence Against Women &
Its Effects
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O’Toole & Schiffman: Part I, Introduction to sections 1 & 2 (including
opening poems); ch 6 Scheffield;ch 11 Donat &
D’emelio; ch 24 Jaffee, et al; ch 32 Kurz.
Levy: Part I, two
stories
Recommended:
The United Nations' Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women
and see Kerry Cuomo's book, Speak
Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World.
There's a pretty slick, informative website
to support the book.
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Go to the Human Rights
Watch Global Report on Women's Human Rights. Find a chapter that looks
interesting and read through it (there are 7 chapters). Write a 2 page paper summarizing the
information you read and make sure to review the general recommendations for
change. Be
prepared to give a brief presentation to the class on that chapter.
Recommended:
For more on human rights violations of
women in US prisons, see "Not Part of My Sentence"
and "Nowhere to Hide:
Retaliation Against Women in Michigan State
Prisons.
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week 3 1/25
Masculinity & Violence Against Women
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O’Toole
& Schiffman: ch 2 Kaufman; ch 5 Messerchmidt; ch 13 Pelka; ch 20
Whittaker |
Explore the men's groups
opposing violence page of StopViolence and write a
2 page paper outlining what you think are the most important ideas or
actions.
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week 4 2/1
Rape & Sexual Assault Overview
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O’Toole
& Schiffman: Part II, Introduction to Section 2; ch 12 Adise
Scully,
ch 1 – 2;
Levy,
from Part III read Gallers & Lawrence
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Recommended
link: Stop Prison Rape
Recommended
book: Surviving
the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape
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week 5 2/8
Rape by Strangers & Date Rape
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Scully,
ch 3-5 |
For more details about the search for date rape
drugs, click here
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| week 6 2/15
Rape & how to help a victim
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Scully,
ch 6 - 7 & Afterword
Levy,
Part II: Greene & Chadwick |
For more information on the search for how to help a rape victim, click
here
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week 7 2/22
Battering & Domestic Violence
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O’Toole
& Schiffman: Part II, Introduction to Section 3.
Levy:
Part I, two stories; Part II, Gamache + Graham & Rawlings
NIJ:
ch 1 & 2
Go
to the website for Safehouse &
read about the laws in Michigan. (start on p 25 of the Survivor's
Handbook) |
exercise about the next section to add to
stopviolence
Recommended book: Barrie
Levy's In
Love and in Danger: A Teen's Guide to Breaking Free of
Abusive Relationships & there's a Spanish version - Jovenes,
Enamorados Y En Peligro: Una Guia Para Adolescentes Para
Librarase De Una Relacion Abusiva.
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week 8 3/1
Battering: race, homosexual
relationships & programs for all batterers
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O’Toole
& Schiffman: ch 17 Dobash; ch 18 hooks; ch 19 Renzeti
NIJ:
ch 3
Go
to the Ann Arbor Safehouse website & read the ‘info for
professionals’ section on Why Some Battered Women Sometimes Stay.
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From the
Domestic Violence resources at StopViolence,
find the link to the Nashville Police Department and go to the “Guide to
Domestic Violence and Risk Assessment”. In a 1-2 page paper, review what
you thought were the most important or most helpful points.
Recommended:
Tribal
Court Clearinghouse [information
on violence against American Indian, Alaskan Native and First Nations
women. Great page with links that also are relevant to all women.]
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SPRING
BREAK - 3/5 to 3/9
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week 9 3/15
Responses to battering, issues in
intervention
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NIJ:
ch 4 – 5;
Levy,
Part II: Sugerman & Hotaling; White
Recommended:
SilentWitness
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Write a 1-2 page review and commentary of the Catholic Social Services
program, Alternatives to Domestic
Aggression. Also, read and bring to class a copy of the Safety Plan
in the Nashville Police Dept's Domestic Violence section (see week 8 for
the location).
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week 10 3/22
Sexual harassment
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O’Toole
& Schiffman: ch 9 Gutek & Koss; ch 10 Quina. |
For information on the paper options for sexual harassment, click
here.
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week 11 3/29
Erotica, Porn, & sex Work
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O’Toole
& Schiffman: 29 Segal; ch 33 Brod; ch
28 Mackinnon |
For information on the internet exercises, click
here.
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| week 12 4/5 |
TERM
PAPERS DUE |
| week 13 4/12
Responses, public policy and best practices |
O’Toole
& Schiffman:ch 30 Miedzian
Levy,
Part III: three chapters, your choice |
Go to the U.S. Dept of Justice, Violence Against Women
Office. Find the
checklist of actions that can be taken to end violence against women.
List the 5 items you think are most important and discuss why.
Resources due for next stopviolence page
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Want to know what
else you can do right now to help? Click
here. There are some other ideas for social change here.
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| week 14 4/19
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final
paper due
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Assignment for final paper, click here
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