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Discussion Robin Burke GAM 206

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Admin o Cards? o Bibliography due today

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Outline o Discussion o Yalom o Eales o The game itself o Trading Cards

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Process o Small group discussion o combined groups (8 10 students) o Discuss o Yalom (15 minutes) o Class discussion (10 minutes) o Eales (15 minutes) o Class (10 minutes) o Chess (15 minutes) o Class (10 minutes)

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Questions to ask o Secondary source o Who wrote it? o Why did they write? o What is their methodology? o what sources? o how are sources used? o What is their argument?

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Source #1 o Yalom, Marilyn (2005) Birth of the Chess Queen. HarperCollins.

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Who? o Senior scholar at the Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University o Books o A History of the Wife (2002) o A History of the Breast (1997) o Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory (1993) o Women Writers of the West Coast: Speaking of Their Lives and Careers (1983) o Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness (1985) o Inside the American Couple: New Thinking/New Challenges (2002) o Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions (1992) o Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century (1985) o Le Temps Des Orages: Aristocrates, Bourgeoises Et Paysannes Racontent (1989)

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Why? o Standard academic reasons o Examine the connection between women and chess o Examine the paradox of female power on the chessboard

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Source #2 o Eales, Richard (1985) Chess: The History of a Game. Facts on File.

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Who? o Richard Eales o retired from the Department of History, University of Kent o FIDE rating of 2300, just below International Master o Books o Chess: The History of a Game (1985) o The Political Context of Law: Proceedings of the Seventh British Legal History Conference (2003) o Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints and Scholars, 1066-1109 (1993)

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Why? o Major work of chess history o Murray, H. J. R. (1913) A History of Chess. Oxford. o Formidable scholar with knowledge of ancient languages o So complete (for the time) that no one attempted anything similar for 70 years o but eventually new evidence emerged, and perspectives on history changed. o Eales o is attempting to bring the history of chess into the 20 th century

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Groups o Groups 1 and 2 o Groups 3 and 4 o Group 5 and half of 6 o Group 7 and half of 6 o Unless we have missing people