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Two ideas for the course's additional text...

1. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, which I have not read but is on my "To Read" list. This text would be interesting from several perspectives... it's about women using education to subvert a regime that represses women. These women are creating their own education, rather than accepting the one given to them by men. This idea connects to our discussion at the beginning of the course about the importance of women's education for feminists (i.e. our Three Guineas class). Also, this book exhibits a blending of genres, which is something that we have also touched on in discussion but not fully examined. In addition, the book discusses canonical texts by Fitzgerald, Austen, etc., and it would be intersting to see how their literary analysis compares to our own, Western feminist approach.

2. the film Born into Brothels- as I mentioned in class, this is a documentary that primarily focuses on the lives of children born into Calcutta's red light district. I thought this film was extremely well done- beautiful, moving, enlightening, etc.- and relevant to the class in many regards. First and foremost, during the beginning of the course, we discussed the idea of "child care" as being part of feminism, yet the idea of children is not something that we've returned to. This book might allow us to examine the way in which feminism can apply to the lives of children.

also, just as a note, The Handmaid's Tale sounds good.