Week 9: Imagining Exotic Otherness (Week of March 16)
- Wong, “Broken Blossoms…Servitude to Freedom”
- “The Madama Butterfly Effect”
- Short films: “They’re All So Beautiful” (Documentary, 2013)
- Film: “Thai Brides” (Documentary, 2010)
Week 10: Women on the Move (Week of March 23)
- Bailey, “From Front Porch to Back Seat”
- Henry Ford Museum, “The Automobile and Women’s Suffrage”
- Muller, “The Women Who Said No…the Anti-Suffrage Movement”
Week 11: Spring Recess (Week of March 30)
Week 12: Dangerous Women (Week of April 6)
- Sanger, “Comstockery in America”
- Sanger, “The Need for Birth Control”
- Podcast: “How An Anti-Vice Crusader Sabotaged the Birth Control Movement”
- Podcast, “The Women Who Became Sex Radicals”
Week 13: Reproductive Fitness and Unfitness (Week of April 13)
- Podcast: “Unfit” (Radiolab, 2021)
- Brockell, “Britney Spears, Carrie Buck…the History of Controlling ‘Unfit” Women”
- National Archives, “An Indigenous Woman’s Legal Fight After Forced Sterilization”
- Film: “No Mas Bebes” (Documentary)
Week 14: Liberatory Technology? (Week of April 20)
- Spencer, “The Birth Control Revolution” (1966)
- Pendergrass, “The Bitter Pill: Harvard and the Dark History of Birth Control”
- Schlessinger, “The Downside of Shacking Up…the Feminist Movement”
Week 15: Monstrous Motherhood (Week of April 27)
- Podcast: “What if There Was No Destiny?” (Radiolab, 2012)
- Szalavitz, “The Demon Seed That Wasn’t”
- Thomson-Deveaux, “The New Moral Panic Over Drug-Dependent Babies”
Week 16: Imagined Futures (Week of May 4)