GENDER AND RELIGION

Topics

• Week 1 - Key Concepts and Themes
• READ: Joan Wallach Scott “Gender: Still a Useful Category of Analysis?” Diogenes 225: 7-14.
• LISTEN: “ Race, Gender, and Sexuality – What’s Religion Got to Do With ‘Em? ” Keeping it 101 (Podcast)
• READ: “ The Gender Gap in Religion Around the World ” Pew Research Centre
• ASSIGNMENTS: Discussion #1 due
• Week 2 - Women: The Birth of Religion?
• READ: Ronald Hutton, “The Neolithic Great Goddess: A Study in Modern Tradition” The Pomegranate 2: 22-35.
• READ: Jacques Leslie “ The Goddess Theory ” Los Angeles Times.
• WATCH: “ Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf) ” Smart History (YouTube video)
• ASSIGNMENTS : Annotated Reading #1 due (Hutton article)
• Week 3 - Women in the Bible