Observations each week: Russ Category Observations and work outs from
Elgin books as assigned.

Two Short Pieces:

1) One on a woman that could have been a role model for you if you had ever heard of her
(lack of models). Choose from the following four books: Marion Tinling's Women into the Unknown:
A Sourcebook on Women Explorers and Travelers; Annie Laurie Gaylor's Women without Superstitions;
Ethelie Ann Vare and Greg Ptacek's Mother's of Invention; Mabel Armstrong's Women Astronomers:
Reaching for the Stars (Discovering Women in Science). Prepare a 1-2 page introduction of her
for someone younger than yourself - for example elementary or high school.

2)A rewrite of an article changing the point of view to feminine from masculine (nature
articles are especially good for this), sample compy from Women and Language (Men & Mooses).

Abstracts: Materials to be shared with classmates. First Abstract is one issue of Women and Language.

Papers: Three short papers, each of about 5 pages.

The first paper is on difference: Discover something that women have in a different culture
that you would like to have or that is more empowering than anything you have in your
culture or that places women in an agent role where yours does not. Two examples are
your Sampler, others under resources for the course.

One paper must be on grammatical treatment of person (with principle categories not marked
and description of where in the language sex is marked or not marked) in a non-European language.

The third paper is your choice.