Women, Identity, Relationship, and the Writings of Simone de Beauvoir

FDN 3545/5545, Women, Identity, Relationship, and the Writings of Simone de Beauvoir

Jan. 9	Introduction.
Jan. 16	Beauvoir, The Second Sex, pp. v-xlii and The Woman Destroyed, pp. 123-254.
Jan. 23	Beauvoir, She Came to Stay, Part I
Jan. 30	Beauvoir, She Came to Stay, Part II
Feb. 6	J.-P. Sartre, “Existentialism is a Humanism”
	Discussion: Heidegger, Nietzsche, Husserl, Dostoyevsky, Kierkegaard.
Feb. 13	Beauvoir, Second Sex: “The Data of Biology” (Part I)
Feb. 20	Beauvoir, Second Sex, “History” and “Myth”
Feb. 27	Second Sex, Sketches
March 6	Second Sex, Sketches
	Discussion: Sartre, Theory of the Emotions.
March 12	Spring Break ASU.
March 20	Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. (The complete memoir.)
	Discussion: Fanon, Black Skins, White Masks, or See March 27, below.
March 27	Prior readings, revisited.
April 3	Miller and Stiver, The Healing Connection, pp. 1-83.
	Discussion: Sartre, "Sketch of a theory of the emotions."
April 10	Miller and Stiver, The Healing Connection, pp. 84-195.
April 17	Easter Holiday.
April 24	Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, pp. 7-113.
	Discussion: Geertz, Levi-Strauss, and Foucault.
May 1	Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, pp. 115-217, and 225-239.
	(Meet at Dr. Turner's house.)
	Take Home Final Assigned.
	Final due May 9.