University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2015 Professor: Lauren Gutterman

University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2015 Professor: Lauren Gutterman AMS 370 [email protected]/ BUR 406 BUR 436A Office hours: T 2-4pm or by T/TH 12:30-2:00 appointment

Sexuality, Reproduction, and American Social Movements

Description: This class will examine contemporary topics such as the battle for abortion access and struggles for gay and lesbian rights, as well as less familiar movements in American history: suffragists’ calls for “voluntary motherhood,” Native Americans’ efforts to prevent the adoption of their children by white families, struggles against forced sterilization, and black women’s political organizing against rape in the Civil Rights era. Ultimately, this course aims to put today’s battles for sexual and reproductive justice into broad historical context and to uncover how gender, race, and class have fundamentally shaped such movements. We will see that sexual and reproductive justice entails not only freedom from sexual violence, but access to sexual pleasure; the right to use birth control, as well as the right to bear and raise children.

Goals: • To introduce you to historical methods of studying movements for sexual and reproductive justice • To broaden our understanding of the individuals, groups, and social factors that have contributed to social changes regarding sexuality and reproduction • To help you place current events into historical context • To learn how to identify and critique scholarly arguments • To learn how to build your own arguments

Major Questions: • What defines a social movement? • What different arguments and techniques have been used to work for sexual or reproductive justice? • How have the meanings of sexual and reproductive rights/justice changed over time? • How have race, class, gender and sexual orientation shaped movements for sexual and reproductive justice in the U.S.?

Assignments:

Reading Responses Students will be required to complete 8 reading responses over the course of the semester. In these brief responses (1-2 paragraphs) you should demonstrate your engagement with the readings. You might try to summarize the author’s most important point (s); explain what part was most interesting to you and why; highlight a part of the readings that was unclear to you; or link the readings to other material we’ve read in class or current events taking place. Please always include at least one question for discussion. These responses will not be graded. You will receive credit simply for completing the assignment. However, if it is clear to me that you have not put any thought or time into the assignment you will not get credit for it. These response papers should be turned in to the correct folder on Canvas by 12am the day before class.

Participation Active participation is essential to this course. Missing more than 2 classes will affect your grade. Missing more than 6 classes will result in an F. Participation requires more than simply showing up to class. You must complete the readings in advance and come to class prepared to actively contribute to discussion. If you do miss a class please contact one of your peers to find out what you missed.

Class Presentation Each student will make a 5 minute presentation to the class about an item from the news or from popular culture and explain its relevance to that day’s reading material.

Midterm Papers For this assignment you will be required to complete two short 4-6 page papers. The questions for the midterm will be given one week ahead of time.

Syllabus Assignment If you would add an additional week to this course, what topic of sexual/reproductive justice would you pick? Develop an annotated bibliography of 4 possible readings. This topic will be the focus of your final paper. Details will be given later.

Final Paper For this assignment you will be required to complete one 8-10 page paper based on the research you did for your syllabus assignment and the reading we have done in class. You will also be required to turn in an outline and intro before the paper is due.

Additional Notes/Requirements I reserve the right to create additional in-class assignments that will count towards your participation grade.

Plus/minus grades will be used in this course.

All students are required to visit me once during office hours. You cannot earn an A in this course if you do not come to office hours at least once.

Late assignments may be docked 5 points each day they are late. If you believe you will require an extension you must contact me at least 24 hours in advance.

University Resources and Policies I strongly encourage you to use the Undergraduate Writing Center, FAC 211, 471- 6222, http://www.uwc.utexas.edu. The Undergraduate Writing Center offers free, individualized, expert help with writing for any UT undergraduate, by appointment or on a drop-in basis.

Students who are found guilty of academic dishonesty will fail the course and be recommended for suspension from the university. Plagiarism occurs if you represent as your own work any material that was obtained from another source, regardless of how or where you acquired it. For examples of plagiarism, see http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/scholdis_plagiarism.php

Students with disabilities may request appropriate academic accommodations from the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, Services for Students with Disabilities, 471-6259, http://www.utexas.edu/diversity/ddce/ssd/.

By UT-Austin policy, you must notify me of a pending absence at least fourteen days prior to the date of observance of a religious holy day. If you must miss a class, an examination, a work assignment, or a project in order to observe a religious holy day, you will be given an opportunity to complete the missed work within a reasonable time after the absence.

2 Evaluation: Attendance and class participation (including class presentation) – 20% Reading responses – 15% Midterm Papers (each 4-6 pages) – 30% Final Paper (8-10 pages) – 35% total Syllabus assignment – 10% Research paper outline/intro – 5% Final draft – 20%

A 100-93 / A- 92-90 / B+ 89-87 / B 86-83 / B- 82-80 / C+ 79-77 / C 76-70 / D 69-60 / F 59-lower

Weekly Schedule: Introduction Thursday, Aug. 27

Methods: Sex, History, Politics Tuesday, Sept. 1 • Carole Vance, “Social Construction Theory: Problems in the History of Sexuality,” in Knowing Women: Feminism and Knowledge, ed. Helen Crowley and Susan Himmelweit (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992), 132-144. • Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality,” in Culture, Society and Sexuality: A Reader, ed. Peter Aggleton and Richard Parker (Philadelphia: UCL Press, 1999), 143-178.

The Long Struggle for Birth Control and Abortion Access Thursday, Sept. 3 • Linda Gordon, “Voluntary Motherhood: The Beginnings of Feminist Birth Control Ideas in the U.S.” Feminist Studies 1 no.¾ (Winter-Spring 1973): 5-22. • Janet Farrell Brodie, “Menstrual Interventions in the Nineteenth-Century U.S.,” in Regulating Menstruation: Beliefs, Practices, Interpretations, ed. Etienne van de Walle and Elisha P. Renne (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 39-63.

Tuesday, Sept. 8 • Andrea Tone, “Contraceptive Consumers: Gender and the Political Economy of Birth Control in the 1930s,” Journal of Social History 29, no.3 (Spring 1996): 485-506. • Jessie M. Roderique, “The Black Community and the Birth Control Movement,” in Passion and Power: Sexuality in History, ed. Kathy Peiss et. al. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989), 138-154.

Thursday, Sept. 10 • Rickie Solinger, “The Population Bomb and the Sexual Revolution: Towards Choice,” in American Sexual Histories, ed. Elizabeth Reis (West Sussex: Blackwell, 2012), 320-344. • Beth Bailey, “Prescribing the Pill” in Sex in the Heartland (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002), 105-120.

Tuesday, Sept. 15 • Leslie Regan, “Radicalization of Reform,” in When Abortion Was a Crime (Berkeley: University of California, 1996), 216-245. • Sherie M. Randolph, “Not to Rely Completely on the Courts: Florence “Flo” Kennedy and Black Feminist Leadership in the Reproductive Rights Battle, 1969-1971,” Journal of Women's History, 27, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 136-160

Towards Reproductive Justice Thursday, Sept. 17 • Laura Briggs, “The Politics of Sterilization, 1937-1974,” in Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S Imperialism in Puerto Rico, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003): 142-161. • Jennifer Nelson, “Abortions Under Community Control,” in Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement, (New York: NYU Press, 2003), 113-132.

Tuesday, Sept. 22 • Laura Briggs, “Orphaning the Children of Welfare: ‘Crack Babies,’ Race and Adoption Reform,” in Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption, ed. Jane Jeong Trenka et. al. (Cambridge: South End Press, 2006): 75-88. • Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark and Kekek Jason Todd Stark, “Flying the Coop: ICWA and the Welfare of Indian Children,” in Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption, ed. Jane Jeong Trenka et. al. (Cambridge: South End Press, 2006), 125-138.

Thursday, Sept. 24 • Jenni Vainik, “The Reproductive and Parental Rights of Incarcerated Mothers” Family Court Review 46, no.4 (October 2008): 670-694. • Rachel Roth, “Searching for the State: Who Governs Prisoners Reproductive Rights?” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society 11, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 411-438. • Alex Stern, “Sterilization Abuse in State Prisons: Time to Break With California's Long Eugenic Patterns,” Huffington Post, July 23, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-stern/sterilization- california-prisons_b_3631287.html.

Tuesday, Sept. 29 • Alison Piepmeier, “The Inadequacy of “Choice”: Disability and What’s Wrong with Feminist Framings of Reproduction,” Feminist Studies 39, no. 1 (2013): 159-186. • Carly Thomsen, “From Refusing Stigmatization toward Celebration: New Directions for Reproductive Justice Activism,” Feminist Studies 39, no. 1 (2013): 149-159. • SisterSong, “What is RJ?” Available here: http://sistersong.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=141

Claiming Sexual Pleasure/Knowledge Thursday, Oct. 1 • April Haynes, “Obscenity, Sex Education, and Medical Democracy in the Antebellum United States,” in American Sexual Histories, ed. Elizabeth Reis (West Sussex: Blackwell, 2012), 166-176. • Ellen Carol Dubois and Linda Gordon, “Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Thought,” Feminist Studies 9, no. 1(Spring 1983): 7-29. • MIDTERM PAPER DUE FRIDAY MIDNIGHT ON CANVAS

Tuesday, Oct. 6 • Anne Koedt, “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm,” in Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women’s Liberation Movement, ed. Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 100-110. • Erica Jong, “The Zipless Fuck,” in Sexual Revolution ed. Jeffrey Escoffier et. al. (New York: Thunders Mouth Press, 2003), 143-147. • Ariel Levy, “Female Chauvinist Pigs,” in Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (New York: Free Press, 2006), 89-117.

4 Combating Sexual Abuse/Harassment Thursday, Oct. 8 • Danielle L. McGuire, “‘It Was like All of Us Had Been Raped’: Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle," Journal of American History, 91, no. 3 (December 2004): 906-931.

Tuesday, Oct. 13 • Carrie N. Baker, “The Emergence of Organized Feminist Resistance to Sexual Harassment in the United States in the 1970s,” Journal of Women’s History, 19, no. 3 (2007): 161–184. • Robin Tolmach Lakoff, “Sexual Harrassment on Trial: The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Narrative(s),” in Women’s America: Refocusing the Past, ed. Linda Kerber and Jane Sherron De Hart (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 670 – 676. • Listen to the following story on NPR (6 minutes): Sasha Khokha “Silenced By Status, Farm Workers Face Rape, Sexual Abuse,” All Things Considered, November 5, 2013, Available at: http://www.npr.org/2013/11/05/243219199/silenced-by-status-farm-workers-face-rape-sexual- abuse

Thursday, Oct. 15 • Rebecca Traister, “Ladies, we have a problem” The New York Times, July 20, 2011. • “An Open letter from Black Women to the Slutwalk,” BlackWomen’s Blueprint.org, September 23, 2011. • Walt Bogdanich, “Reporting Rape and Wishing She Hadn’t” The New York Times, July 12, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/us/how-one-college-handled-a-sexual-assault- complaint.html • Also, explore It Happens Here website: http://ithappenshereamherst.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/survivingatamherstcollege/

From Fallen Women to Sex Workers’ Rights Tuesday, Oct. 20 • Peggy Pascoe, “Gender Systems in Conflict: The Marriages of Mission-Educated Chinese-American Women,” Journal of Social History, 22, no.4 (Summer 1989): 631-652. • Don Romesburg, “’Wouldn’t a Boy Do?’ Placing Early-Twentieth-Century Male Youth Sex Work into Histories of Sexuality,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18, no. 3, (September 2009): pp. 367- 392

Thursday, Oct. 22 • Beth Bailey and David Farber, “Prostitutes on Strike: The Women of Hotel Street During World War II” in Women’s America: Refocusing the Past, ed. Linda Kerber et. al.(New York: Oxford, 2000), 431-439. • Wendy Chapkis, “Sex Worker Self-Advocacy,” in Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor (New York: Routledge, 1997): 181-209.

Tuesday, Oct. 27 • FILM SHOWING: Live Nude Girls Unite!

The Gay and Lesbian Movement Thursday, Oct. 29 • Martin Meeker, “Behind the Mask of Respectability: Reconsidering the Mattachine Society and Male Homophile Practice, 1950s and 1960s,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 10, no. 1 (January 2001): 78-116. • Simon Hall, “The American Gay Rights Movement and Patriotic Protest,” Journal of the History of

5 Sexuality, 19, no.3 (September 2010): 536-562. • MIDTERM PAPER #2 DUE FRIDAY MIDNIGHT

Tuesday, Nov. 3 – Drop Date/Election Day • Radicalesbians, “The Woman-Identified Woman,” (Pittsburgh: Know, Inc., 1970). Available here http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/wlm/womid/. • Heather Murray, “Free for All Lesbians: Lesbian Cultural Production and Consumption in the United States during the 1970s,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 16, no. 2 (May 2007): 251-275.

Thursday, Nov. 5 • Pat Califia, “A Secret Side of Lesbian Sexuality,” in Sexual Revolution ed. Jeffrey Escoffier et. al. (New York: Thunders Mouth Press, 2003): 527-536. • Whitney Strub, “Lavender Menaced: Lesbianism, Obscenity Law, and the Feminist Antipornography Movement,” Journal of Women’s History, 22, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 83-107.

Tuesday, Nov. 10 • Jennifer Brier, “Marketing Safe Sex: The Politics of Sexuality, Race, and Class in San Francisco, 1983- 1991,” in American Sexual Histories, ed. Elizabeth Reis (West Sussex: Blackwell, 2012), 345- 367. • Marlon Bailey, “Performance as Intravention: Ballroom Culture and the Politics of HIV/AIDS in Detroit” in Souls: a Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, 11, no.3 (September 2009): 253 -274.

Thursday, Nov. 12 • Patrick McCreery, “Save Our Children/Let Us Marry: Gay Activists Appropriate the Rhetoric of Child Protectionism” Radical History Review 2008, no. 100 (Winter 2008): 186-207. • Dean Spade and Craig Willse, “Marriage Will Never Set Us Free,” OrganizingUpgrade.com, here: http://www.organizingupgrade.com/index.php/modules-menu/beyond-capitalism/item/1002- marriage-will-never-set-us-free. • SYLLABUS ASSIGNMENT DUE IN CLASS

Fighting for Trans Rights/Visibility Tuesday, Nov. 17 • Joanne Meyerowitz, “Sex Change and the Popular Press: Historical Notes on Transsexuality in the United States, 1930-1955,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, 4, no. 2 (1998): 159-187 • David Valentine, “The Categories Themselves,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, 10, no. 2 (2004): 215-220

Thursday, Nov. 19 • Susan Stryker, “Transgender Liberation,” in Transgender History (Berkeley: Seal Press, 2008), 59-89 • FILM SHOWING: SCREAMING QUEENS • FINAL PAPER OUTLINE/INTRO DUE IN CLASS

Tuesday, Nov. 24 • Megan Rohrer, “Man-i-fest: FTM Mentorship in San Francisco, 1976-2009,” OutHistory.org. Available online here: http://www.outhistory.org/exhibits/show/man-i-fest • “About,” WeHappyTrans.org • Please also watch at least two 7Questions videos on WeHappyTrans.com: http://wehappytrans.com/tag/7qs/ • Dean Spade, “What’s Wrong with Trans Rights?” excerpted from Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law (South End Press, 2011). Available here:

6 https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/_file/Justice_for_All/CLE_Professor_Dean_Spade.pdf • FINAL PAPER WORKSHOP IN CLASS

Thursday, Nov. 26 – Thanksgiving Tuesday, Dec. 1 – Student Selected Topic • Readings TBA

Thursday, Dec. 3 – Last Class, Discussion of Final Papers • FINAL PAPERS DUE FRIDAY MIDNIGHT