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Schedule
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1. Introduction to Gender and Technologies
1. Introduction to Gender and Technologies
What is Technology? Why does it matter to the study of gender?
Key Concepts: social construction of technology
technological determinism
Friday, September 10
In Class: Introductions, Syllabus Review
Tuesday, September 14
Assignment: Task 0 Due 12pm
Watch: Critical Reading Strategies (7 mins)
Read: Dumit - "How I Read"
Friday, September 17
Read: 1.1 Cowan - "How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum" (10 pages)
Read: 1.2 Winner - "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" (17 pages)
Tuesday, September 21
In Class: Introduction to the Implosion Project
2. Technologies of Control
2. Technologies of Control
How do technologies intervene in our home and work? Do they always serve to improve lives? Whose lives?
Key Concepts: situated knowledges
mutual constitution of technology and society
Section Film:: Hidden Figures (2016) (for content warning see Syllabus)
Friday, September 24
Assignment: Task 1 Due 12pm
Read: 2.1 Cowan - The Industrial Revolution in the Home (20 pages)
Read: 2.2 Haraway - Situated Knowledges (25 pages)
Tuesday, September 28
Read: 2.3 Jain - Short-Handled Hoe (26 pages)
Friday, October 1
Read: 2.4 Murphy - Feminism at Work (24 pages)
Tuesday, October 5
Assignment: Task 2 Due 12pm
Read: 2.5 Van Oort - Worker Surveillance (15 pages)
Read: 2.6 Wajcman - Time Management (22 pages)
Friday, October 8 - Class on zoom
Guest Lecture: Sala McGuire, Psomas
Tuesday, October 12 - NO CLASSES FALL BREAK
Friday, October 15
Guest Training: Sarah Moazeni, Research & Instruction Librarian
3. Intimate Technologies
3. Intimate Technologies
What kinds of technologies do we include in our bodies? How do technologies shape our health or ideas of 'normalcy'? How are race and gender entwined in the history of reproductive technologies?
Key Concepts: standpoint theory
material cultural studies
Section Film: Belly of the Beast (2020) (for content warning see Syllabus)
Tuesday, October 19
Assignment: Task 3 Due 12pm
Read: 3.1 Landecker - HeLa (39 pages)
Friday, October 22
Listen: Vedantam/Penman - The Mothers of Gynecology (26 mins)
Tuesday, October 26
Read: 3.3 Olsznko-Gryn - The Pill (18 pages)
Read: 3.4 Vora - Surrogacy (38 pages)
Friday, October 29 - Class on zoom
Guest Lecture: Dr. Jessica Holzer, University of New Haven
Supplemental Reading: Maternal Morbidities (15 pages)
Assignment: Implosion Project Due 4pm
Tuesday, November 2
Read: 3.5 Dumit - Mass Health (30 pages)
Read: 3.6 Cevetello - Glucometer (9 pages)
In Class: Final Project Prompt
Friday, November 5 - Class on zoom
Guest Lecture: meriko borogrove
4. Digital Technologies
4. Digital Technologies
Does the digital or online world provide the possibility for escape from the biases of embodied technologies?
Key Concept: New Jim Code
Section Film: Code: Debugging the Gender Gap (2015) (for content warning see Syllabus)
Tuesday, November 9 - Class on zoom
Assignment: Task 4 Due 12pm
Guest Lecture: Vanessa Hsu
Friday, November 12
Guest Training: Sarah Moazeni - Research & Instruction Librarian
Tuesday, November 16
Listen: Adam Conover Technology and Race with Ruha Benjamin (1 hour)
5. Technologies of Identity
5. Technologies of Identity
How are the borders between nations technologies? What about the historical, genetic, or cultural borders, could those be technologies too?
Key Concepts: Indigenous Cosmopolitics
Prison Industrial Complex
Friday, November 19 - Class on zoom
Read: 5.1 Hatch - Prison Food (18 pages)
Read: 5.2 Hobart-Maroney - Race and Microbes (20 pages)
In class: Prompt of Peer-review of Final Project Proposal
Assignment: Final Project Proposal for Peer-review Due 4pm
Tuesday, November 23 - Class on zoom
Guest Lecture: Dr Stephanie Maroney, University of California, Davis
Watch - Radical Fermentation Dialogue Series: Dr Stephanie Maroney (1 hour)
Supplemental Reading - Nash-Maroney - Bubbling (3 pages)
Assignment: Final Project Proposal Peer-review Due 4pm
Friday, November 26 - NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING BREAK
Tuesday, November 30
6. Speculative Technologies
6. Speculative Technologies
What is the future of technology? How can we shape the future by imagining otherwise? Does it matter who builds the technology?
Key Concepts: Speculative Fabulation
Feminist Science and Technology Studies
Section Film: Picture a Scientist (2020) (for content warning see Syllabus)
Friday, December 3
Assignment: Final Project Annotated Bibliography Due 4pm
Tuesday, December 7
Assignment: In-Class Presentations - Part 1
Friday, December 10
Assignment: In-Class Presentations - Part 2
Tuesday, December 14
Assignment: Task 5 Due 12pm
In class: Wrap up - Gender and Technologies
Wednesday, December 22
Assignment: Final Paper Due 4pm
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