Literature & Language Essay: Daughter of the Dust

Course Name: Gender & Sexuality
Papers/Assignments:
1: You are required to keep a journal. Every week you will write a 200-300-word impression of what we are studying. This doesn’t need to be academic, but it does need to be considered. I will collect your journals just about every other week.
2: You are required to write 3 short papers (3pages/900 words) during the semester. The first is due Week 4. The second is due Week 8. And the final one is due Week 12.
Course Outline
Week 1 (10/01) – Introduction
- Watch Paris is Burning
Week 2 (10/08) – Joan Wallach Scott, “Gender: A Useful Term for Historical Analysis” and Donna Haraway, “’Gender’ for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word”
- Watch: Daughters of the Dust
Week 3 (10/15) – Selections from Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: Volume I”
- Watch: Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette
Week 4 (10/22) Dr. Sarah Krier
- Watch The Crying Game
- First Paper Due
Week 5 (10/29) – Judith Butler, selections from Gender Trouble;
- Watch Querelle
Week 6 (11/05) – Dr. Magda Szcezsniak
- My Own Private Idaho
Week 7 (11/12) – Donna J. Haraway’s “The Cyborg Manifesto”
- Watch Born in Flames
Week 8 (11/19) – Selections from Linda Williams’s Hardcore: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible”
- Watch Jeanne Dielman
- Second Paper Due
It's time for your second paper (3 pages, 900 words). It can be about any topic we have read or discussed since the first one was due.
The papers must also contain your own thoughts, opinions, and criticisms of what we’ve been reading. Papers must be double-spaced, typed in 12-point Times New Roman or a similar font with one-inch margins top/bottom and left/right. The crafting of a paper of this length is often more difficult than writing a longer paper, so plan the time it will take to write accordingly. I am looking to see that you understand the material we are covering, therefore try not to bring in outside references unless they are relevant to the argument you are trying to make. I am more than happy to look at the papers before you hand in your final drafts.
Do not use Wikipedia. It’s not rigorously checked for factual accuracy and nor written by experts in the field.
(You may focus on one topic in the Second paper, I will share some of my journals and required readings for reference. My first paper is unsatisfactory by professor, he gives comment: 'This is a compelling paper, but I'm not sure you ever make an argument. Instead you just give me a recap. There are some nice moments, like when you bring in contemporary issues in race and gender. And I like that you did some outside research. But it is not clear to me what you thought of it.' Please avoid the same issue. Thank you)