Oops, sorry this is so late in being posted. I will accept your blog comments posted here until this Sunday, since I posted this so late.

In this week’s class we will focus on a critique of birth control as population control. We will also have a guest speaker, Dr. Betsy Hartmann, from the Population and Development program at Hampshire College to talk about population control. Please make sure to respond to the readings for this week! Several of you have not yet posted a blog or given me your blog name–remember that your blog entries count for 30% of your final grade!!

Also, the “From Explosion to Implosion” reading did not download properly onto the course website. Please disregard this reading for next week.

This week’s readings begin our discussion of contraception. Please post your comments to the reading(s) here. Remember that I am interested in learning how you relate what you are reading about to experiences you have had, to other ways you have learned about contraception in the past, and then to your reactions to the readings. You do not need to respond to all of the readings–I am more interested in your conducting an in-depth analysis or writing an elaborate commentary on something that struck you in the reading, than in your being able to review all of the themes from the readings.