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Created:September 9, 2002
Latest Update: September 9, 2002
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Week 4: Week of September 16, 2002
Women in Society
11:30 - 12:45 pm - SBS B131

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, August 2002.
"Fair use" encouraged.

1. Issues for Discussion
   • Gender and abandonment
   • Gender in the courtroom
   • Morality and gender in relationships

2. Site Readings for the Week.

   Essays and Articles:

   1. Report of Murder Trial
   2. Definitions of Circumstantial Evidence
   3. Bar Codes and Terrorists

      The above two files will need to be reviewed for the discussion of the murder trial: and we will discuss the moral and aesthetic decisions involved, for which you will need to review the following:

   4. A Summary of Lawrence Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development Copyright 2000 by Robert N. Barger, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame. Backup

3. Hardcopy Text Reading for the Week.

   • Bauer and McKinstry. Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic. Introduction. pp.1-6.
   • Bauer and McKinstry. Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic Chapter 1: The Dilemmas of a Feminine Dialogue. pp. 7-20.
   • Ruether. Sexism and God-Talk. Chapter 1. Feminist Theology: Methodology, Sources, and Norms. pp. 12-46.

4. Practice Modules: Discussion Questions, Practice and Self Tests.

   1. Practice Module on Introduction to Moral Textures
   2. Practice Module on Murder Trial Not up yet.

5. Reference Readings

   Resources and Overview:

   • Resource Page of Links for Feminism
   • Resource Page of Links for Maria Pia Lara
   • Index of Site Modules on Maria Pia Lara's Moral Textures
   • Index of Site Modules on Rosemary Radford Reuther's Sexism and God-Talk
   • Index of Readings on Bakhtin and Feminism Not up yet.