Playing with Categories:
Re-doing the Politics of Sex and Gender
Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges
Fall 2005

Discussion Notes

Day 1: Playing with Categories Day 2: Playing with Philosophy in the Flesh Day 3: Playing with the categories "gender" and "student" Day 4: Playing with the categories "work" and "play" Day 5: Exploring (existentially!) the categories "nature" and "culture" Day 6: "The Uses and Abuses of Anthropology..." and Continued Metaphorization Day 7: More Meditations on Categorizations Day 8: Constructing the Category "Sex" Day 9: Middlesex: Themes for Discussion Day 10: Playing with Middlesex...Aiming for the "full story" Day 11: Playing with your paper proposals Day 12A: Announcements Day 12B: Does Biology Have Anything to Contribute to Thinking About Sex and Gender? (Paul Grobstein, First Session) Day 13: Picking Up Where We Left Off.... Day 14: Does Biology Have Anything to Contribute to Thinking About Sex and Gender? (Paul Grobstein, Second Session) Day 15: Challenging the categories of "gender" and "sex" Day 16: Erotic Labor--and the Rules of Play Day 17: Learning to Labor Day 18: Self-Damnation--or Imagining Better? Day 19: Standing Up--or Lying Down? Cherrie Moraga and Jimmy Corrigan Day 20: Continuing the Discussion of Masculinity, with Little Jimmy Corrigan Day 21: On Reading Women--Discussion of your proposed book projects Day 22: Anne and Jen tell their Feminist Stories of "Origin" Day 24: Virginia Woolf's 1938 essays, Three Guineas-- Woman's Education, Professionalization...and War-Making? Day 25: Three Guineas, Day Two Day 26: Christine Walley on coalition-building