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Archive of Class Notes

Day One: Welcome to the Dinner Party!

Day Two: Reading Three Guineas

Day Three: Reading Ourselves

Day Four: Instituting Criticism

Day Five: Against Personal Testimony

Day Six: "It's Hard to See the Forest When You're a Tree"

Day Seven: Expanding the Frontiers of the Politics of Reading

Day Eight: "That Other Limitless Country," "The Dark Continent," the Unconscious

Day Nine: Refusing to Remain Figurative

Day Ten: Homesick with Nowhere to Go

Day Eleven: Reconstructing Consciousness

Day Twelve: A Visit with Susan Stryker

Day Thirteen: Naming the Silence

Day Fourteen: "The strange ambiguity of existence made body"

Day Fifteen: Is Gender Burning?

Day Sixteen: Is a Canon a Cannon?

Day Seventeen: Reimagining Disability

Day Eighteen: Continuing Our Discussion of Disability

Day Nineteen: Reading Kindred

Day Twenty: Tasting The Book of Salt

Day Twenty-One: Licking The Book of Salt

Day Twenty-Two: The Lesbian Poet--To Conform or Not To?

Day Twenty-Three: Lesbian-Feminist Readings of Poetry and Life

Day Twenty-Four: Feminist Drama--"The Heidi Chronicles"

Day Twenty-Five: Feminist Drama, continued: "How I Learned to Drive"

Day Twenty-Six: Feminists Performing

Day Twenty-Seven: Performances Continue