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WEEKLY
SCLEDULE
- You
are expected to attend class regularly, Finish
the assigned readings before
coming to class and participate in class discussions
actively (and, one hopes, enthusiastically).
- Each
student will identify a particular "conflict Zone" and provide to the
class periodic reports and critical analyses on the activities of
women’s movement or organization in their chosen conflict zone,
applying the principles and lessons drawn from the course.
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Dates
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Topics And
Readings
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January
24
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Defining Global
Violence Against Women
Women,
War and Conflict Zones:
- Women In
A Insecure World
- Violence against Women Is a Male Issue
- World Conflict Zones
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| January
31 |
Women,
war and and Violence: A global Persrective
The
‘Other’ Terrorism: Militarism And Violence Against Women
IVAWA
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| February
7 |
War
Redefined: Class Discussion
Readings:
- Making Female Bodies the Battlefield, Susan
Brownmiller
- The
Changing Landscape of War: War Redifined, Documentary
& Discussion
- National
Security/Human Security
- Study
Questions: Class Discussion
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February
14
V
Day Event
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Reading:
ANTHOLOGY:
A MEMORY, A MONOLOGUE, A RANT, AND A PRAYER
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| February 21 |
Ethnic
Cleansing or Genocide
Why The The great Distinction : Class
Discussion?
Reading:
- Ethnic
cleansing’ bleaches the atrocities of genocide
- Genocide
in the 20th Century
- Genocide
in
Rwanda,
- Ethnic
Cleansing Kosovo,
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| February 28 |
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| March 7 |
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March 14
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| March 21 |
International Womens Day Performances
Close the
Gender Gap
Nobel
Women's Initiative
- Violence
against Women as a Human Rights Violation
- Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action
- UN
Resolution
1325
- What
Can Be Done
International
Women's Day March 8th 2017 |
March
25- April 2
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No Class Spring Break
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April
4
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Women
Organize for Social Change
Reading:
Appadurai, Sources
of Global Violence from Ethnocide to
Ideocide, Fear of small Numbers 1-13
Please Read, Mass Rape, 54-72
- Special
Vulnerability of Refugee Women: Foca, a town in the
former Yugoslavia, Bosnia
- I
Came to Testify2
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| April
11 |
Women Building Peace: Women's Agency
and Liberian Women's Peace Movement:
Acts
of Resistance: Empowering Women
Liberia
Country Profile
Milestones
Leymah
Gobwee,
Pray
the Devil Back to Hell |
| April
18 |
- Women in Conflict Zones in
Afghanistan
- Malala.
Hope for Girls.
- Fact Sheet:
- Please watch this before coming to class
- Rethink Afghanistan
- Peace
Unveiled
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April
25
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Acts
of Resistance: Empowering Women
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May
2
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May
9
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Class
Presentations
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