Courses:

Feminist Political Thought >> Content Detail



Study Materials



Readings

LEC #TOPICSREADINGS
1Introduction to the Course
2Issues of the CourseDelmar, Rosalind. "What is Feminism?" In What is Feminism? Edited by Juliet Mitchell, and Ann Oakley. Pp. 8-33.

Cott, Nancy F. "Feminist Theory and Feminist Movements: The Past Before Us." In Ibid. Pp. 49-62

Beauvoir, Simone de. "Introduction." In The Second Sex. 1949. Pp. xv-xxxiv.

Rhode, Deborah L. "Media Images/Feminist Issues." In Feminism, Media & the Law. Edited by Martha A. Fineman, and Martha T. McCluskey. New York, 1997. Pp. 8-21.

"Doing Theory." In Making Face. Pp. 335-45, 370-75 and 377-402.
3Thoughts on MethodsDodson, Lisa. Don't Call Us Out of Name. Pp. vii-13.

Narayan, Kirin. "How Native is a 'Native' Anthropologist?" In Situated Lives. Edited by Lamphere et al. Pp. 23-41.

"Still Trembles Our Rage," and "If You would be My Ally." In Making Face. Pp. 3-4, 20-41, 46-54 and 297-325.

Collins, Patricia Hill. "Mammies, Matriarchs and Other Controlling Images." In Black Feminist Thought. Pp. 67-90.

Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. "African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race." Signs 17, no. 2 (1992): 251-74.

Poovey, Mary. "The Ideological Work of Gender." In Uneven Developments. 1988. Pp. 1-2.
4"Femaleness" and the BodyMartin, Emily. "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles." In Situated Lives. Pp. 85-98.
 
Simmonds, Felly Nkweto. "My Body, Myself: How Does a Black Woman Do Sociology," Helen Marshall. "Our Bodies, Ourselves: Why We Should Add Old-Fashioned Empirical Phenomenology to the New Theories of the Body," and Evelynn M. Hammonds. "Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence." In Feminist Theory and the Body. Edited by Janet Price, and Margrit Shildrick. New York, 1999. Pp. 50-75 and 93-104.

Ginzburg, Faye. "The Body Politic: The Defense of Sexual Restriction by Anti-Abortion Activists." In Pleasure and Danger. Edited by Carole S. Vance. 1984. Pp. 173-88.

———. "The 'Word-Made' Flesh: The Disembodiment of Gender in the Abortion Debate." In Situated Lives. Pp. 142-56.

Poovey, Mary. "The Abortion Question and the Death of Man." In Feminists Theorize the Political. Edited by Judith Butler, and Joan Scott. 1992. Pp. 239-56.
5The Work of FamilyDodson. Don't Call Us. Pp. 14-49.

Lewin, Ellen. "'This Permanent Roommate,'" Beatriz M. Pesquera. "In the Beginning He Wouldn't Lift a Spoon," and Matthew Guttman. "The Meanings of Macho." Situated Lives. Pp. 192-34.

Rollins, Judith. "Invisibility, Consciousness of the Other, Ressentiment," and Leslie Salzinger. "A Maid by Any Other Name: The Transformation of 'Dirty Work' by Central American Immigrants." In Situated Lives. Pp. 255-91.

Folbre, Nancy. "The Unproductive Housewife: Her Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Economic Thought." In History and Theory. Edited by Barbara Laslett et al. 1997. Pp. 42-63.
6Gender and SexualityDodson. Don't Call Us. Pp. 50-82.

Ross, Ellen, and Rayna Rapp. "Sex and Society." In Powers of Desire. Edited by Ann Snitow et al. Pp. 51-73.
 
Rubin, Gayle. "The Traffic in Women." In Toward an Anthropology of Women. Edited by Rayna R. Reiter. 1975. Pp. 157-77. [Optional pp. 178-210].

Peiss, Kathy. "Charity Girls and City Pleasures," Rennie Simson. "The Afro-American Female," and Amber Hollibaugh, and Cherrie Moraga. "What We're Rollin Around in Bed With: Sexual Silences in Feminism," and Joan Nestle. "My Mother Liked to Fuck." In Powers of Desire. Pp. 73-88, 229-35, 394-405 and 468-70.

"The Nature of the Beast: What is a Lesbian?" Pp. 29-49.

Clausen, Jan. "My Interesting Condition." Out/Look (Winter 1990): 11-21.
7Pornography, Rape, and the Politics of ConsentPateman, Carole. "Women and Consent." In The Disorder of Women. Pp. 71-89.

Marcus, Sharon. "Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention." In Feminists Theorize the Political. Edited by Judith Butler, and Joan W. Scott. Pp. 385-403.

Benedict, Helen. "Blindfolded: Rape and the Press's Fear of Feminism." In  Feminism, Media. Edited by Fineman, and McCluskey. Pp. 267-72.

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. "The Mind That Burns in Each Body: Women, Rape and Racial Violence," and Ann Barr Snitow. "Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different." in Powers of Desire. In The Politics of Sex. Pp. 329-333, 245-63.

Cuklanz, Lisa M. Rape on Trial: How the Mass Media Construct Legal Reform and Social Change. (1996): 1-32.
8Gender and MotheringDodson. Don't Call Us. Pp. 83-113.

Ashe, Marie. "'Bad Mothers' and Welfare Reform in Massachusetts: The Case of Claribel Ventura." In Feminism, Media. Edited by Fineman, and McCluskey. Pp. 203-16.

Pollitt, Kathe. "'Fetal Rights': A New Assault on Feminism," and Annette R. Appell. "On Fixing 'Bad' Mothers and Saving Their Children." In "Bad Mothers": The Politics of Blame in Twentieth-Century America. Edited by Molly Ladd-Taylor, and Lauri Umansky. 1998. Pp. 285-98 and 356-80.

Ragone, Helena. "Chasing the Blood Tie: Surrogate Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Fathers," and Lopez, Iris. "Agency and Constraint: Sterilization and Reproductive Freedom Among Puerto Rican Women in New York City." Situated Lives. Pp. 110-27 and 157-171.
9The Welfare StateDodson. Don't Call Us. Pp. 114-46.

Fraser, Nancy, and Linda Gordon. "'Dependency' Demystified:  Inscriptions of Power in a Keyword of the Welfare State." Social Politics 1, 1 (Spring 1994): 4-31.

Lubiano, Wahneema. "Black Ladies, Welfare Queens, and State Minstrels: Ideological War by Narrative Means." In Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power. Edited by Toni Morrison. 1992. Pp. 323-63.

Mink, Gwendolyn. "The Lady and the Tramp: Gender, Race, and the Origins of the American Welfare State." In Women, the State, and Welfare. Edited by Linda Gordon. 1990. Pp. 92-122.

"Welfare: Facts and Fictions," Ms. (May/June 1995): 93, and  "Welfare." Ms. (July/Aug. 1995): 50-61.
10The Political SphereDodson. Don't Call Us. Pp. 147-85.

Duke, Lois Lovelace, ed. Women in Politics: Outsiders or Insiders? Prentice Hall, 1996. Pp. 33-44, 78-99, 127-143, 175-186, 199-214, 295-313 and 322-337.
11Militarism and GenderCohn, Carol. "Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals." In Feminist Theory in Practice and Process. Edited by Micheline R. Malson et al. Pp. 107-138.

Pohl, Frances K. "Ritual and Sacrifice at Tailhook '91: A Documentary Exhibition and Political Action." In Women Transforming the Political. Edited by Cathy J. Cohen et al. 1997. Pp. 238-55.

Enloe, Cynthia. Maneuvers. Pp. 1-34 and 108-52.
12International PoliticsStoler, Ann L. "Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth-Century Colonial Cultures," Jean Comaroff. "The Empire's Old Clothes," Faye V. Harrison. "The Gender Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment: A View from Jamaica." Pena, Devon G. "The Mirror of Exploitation." In Situated Lives. Pp. 373-419 and 451-85.

Enloe. Maneuvers. Pp. 49-53, 68-79 and 235-87.
13Concluding Thoughts and Student PresentationsDodson. Don't Call Us. Pp. 186-221.

Enloe. Maneuvers. Pp. 103-7 and 288-300.

 








© 2010-2021 OpenCollege.com, All Rights Reserved.
Open College is a service mark of AmeriCareers LLC.