Kristina Busse

Feminism and Gender Theory

Syllabus

DateDescription
M 1/8 Introduction
Foremothers
W 1/10Mary Wollstonecraft, "Of the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society"
F 1/12 John Stuart Mill, "The Subjection of Women"
M 1/15 Martin Luther King Day
W 1/17 Margaret Fuller, “The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women”
F 1/19 Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
M 1/22 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (excerpt)
Anglo-American Feminism, French Feminism, and Film Theory
W 1/24 Kate Millet, from Sexual Politics [A&C]
F 1/26Second Wave Overview
M 1/29 Gayle Rubin, "The Traffic in Women"
W 1/31 Luce Irigaray, “Women on the Market”; “Commodities Among Themselves”td>
F 2/2 Maurice Blanchot, Helene Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa"
M 2/5 Monique Wittig, “One is Not Born a Woman”
W 2/7Julia Kristeva, "Women’s Time"
F 2/9 Annette Kolodny, "Dancing Through the Minefield"
M 2/12 Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
Ethics, Law, and Feminism
W 2/14 Anette C Baier, "The Need for More than Justice"
F 2/16 Joan Tronto, “An Ethic of Care” [A&C]
M 2/19 Jean Hampton, “Feminist Contractarianism”
W 2/21 Martha Nussbaum, Women and Cultural Universals”
F 2/23 Catherine MacKinnon, “Difference and Dominance”
M 2/25 Susan Moller Okin, “Toward a Humanist Justice”; Drucilla Cornell, “Feminism, Utopianism, and the Role of the Ideal in Political Philosophy”
Postmodernism, Science, and Feminism
W 2/27 Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson, “Intro”
F 3/2 Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson, “Social Criticism without Philosophy”
M 3/5 Elizabeth Anderson, “Feminist Epistemology: An Interpretation and a Defense” ; Helen Longino, “Can There Be Feminist Science?”
W 3/7 Sandra Harding, “Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology”
F 3/9 Donna Haraway, “Cyborg Manifesto”
M 3/12 Spring Break
W 3/14 Spring Break
W 3/16 Spring Break
, Postcolonialism, and Feminism
M 3/19 bell hooks, “Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory”
W 3/21 Barbara Smith, “Toward a Black Feminist Criticism”
F 3/23 Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,” “Sexism”
M 3/26 Gayatri Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
W 3/28 Gloria Anzaldua, "Towards a New Consciousness" from Borderlands
Lesbian, Gender, and Queer Theory
F 3/31 Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”
M 4/2 Teresa de Lauretis, “Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation”
W 4/4 Gayle Rubin "Thinking Sex"
F 4/6 Judith Butler, from Gender Trouble
M 4/9 ctd.
W 4/11 Eve Sedgwick, “Axiomatic”
F 4/13 ctd.
Transgender and Masculinity Theory
M 4/16 Leslie Feinberg, from Stone Butch Blues
W 4/18 Sandy Stone “The Empire Strikes Back: A Post-Transsexual Manifesto” ; Anne Fausto-Sterling, “How to Build a Man”
F 4/20 Judith Halberstam, from Female Masculinity (excerpt)
M 4/23 WORKSHOP
W 4/25 Halberstam ctd.
F 4/27 No Class