Institute for Women's Studies & Gender Studies, New College, University of Toronto
NEW 360Y: FEMINISM: TEXTS, THEORIES
Reading Schedule - 2001 - 2002
Professor Kay Armatage, Innis College Rm 224. Tel. 416-978-8572; Fax 416-978-5503. Email Kay.Armatage@utoronto.ca

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Web Sites for Women's Studies Tue. Sept. 11 Introduction & Course Mechanics.
Tue. Sept. 18 ORIGINS & DIRECTIONS OF FEMINIST THEORIES

• Caroline Ramanazoglu, "Feminism as Contradiction," Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression (London: Routledge, 1997).
• bell hooks, "Feminism: a Transformational Politic"
• Ann Snitow, "A Gender Diary,"Conflicts in Feminism, ed. M. Hirsch & A. Fox Keller (New york: Routledge, 1990).
• Ellen Neuborne, "Imagine My Surprise"
  Tue. Sept. 26 UNCOVERING FEMINIST HISTORY
• Hazel Carby, "On the Threshold of Women's Era: Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black feminist Theory"
• Vron Ware, "White Women's Burden?', Beyond the Pale

Film: Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman (1989, 26 min.)

Tue. Oct. 2 THE IDEAL OF EQUALITY: FEMININITY & THE RIGHTS OF MAN

• Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (author's introduction; chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 9)

Film: The Yellow Wallpaper (1978, 15 min.)

Tue. Oct. 9 THE SUBJECT OF FEMINISM

• Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (Introductions, Translator's Note, Chapters XV, XXI)

Film: Simone de Beauvoir (BBC)

Tue. Oct. 16 THE SUBJECT OF FEMINISM cont'd.

• Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (Chapters XXIII, XXV, Conclusion).
• E. Spelman, "Simone de Beauvoir and Women: Just Who does she think 'We' Is?" Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought (Boston: Beacon Press, 1988).
  Tue. Oct. 23 CRITIQUE OF PATRIACHY
• Kate Millet, "Theory of Sexual Politics," Sexual Politics (New York: Avon Books, 1970).
  Tue. Oct. 30 FEMINISM AND HETEROSEXISM
• Adrienne Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence"
• Radical Lesbians, "Woman Identified Woman," The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory, ed. L Nicholson (New York: Routledge, 1997).
• Monique Wittig, "One is Not Born a Woman," The Second Wave.

Film: Gendernauts (1999, 80 min.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENTS DUE TODAY

Tue. Nov. 6 FEMINIST MATERIALISM

• Gayle Rubin, "The Traffic in Women," The Second Wave.
• H. Hartmann, "The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Toward a More Progressive Union," The Second Wave.

Film: Marxism: The Theory that Split the World (1971, 26 min.)

Tue. Nov. 13 THE CONSTRUCTION OF "WOMAN"

• Joan Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis"
• Denise Riley, "Does Sex Have a History?" Am I That Name? Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988).
  Tue. Nov. 20 FEMINIST METHOD
• Sandra Harding, "Is There a Feminist Method?"
• Sandra Harding, "The Instability of the Analytical Categories of Feminist Theory"
  Tue. Nov. 27 REVISITING THE PUBLIC & THE PRIVATE
• bell hooks, "Homeplace," Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics (Toronto: Between the Lines, 1990).
• Nancy Fraser & Linda Nicholson, "A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the Welfare State"
  Tue. Dec. 4 INTERROGATING THE FEMINIST STANDPOINT
• Nancy Hartsock, "The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism," The Second Wave.
• Patricia Hill Collins, "Defining Black Feminist Thought," The Second Wave.
• Marlee Kline, "Women's Opression and Racism: A Critique of the 'Feminist Standpoint'"
  HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Tue. Jan. 8 INTERROGATING WHITENESS

• Ruth Frankenberg, Excerpts,White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
• Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies," R. Delgado & J. Stefancic, eds., Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997).
• bell hooks, "Overcoming White Supremacy: a Comment"
• Himani Bannerji, "Introducing Racism: Notes Toward an Anti-Racist Feminism," Thinking Through: Essays on Feminism, Marxism and Anti-Racism (Toronto: Women's Press, 1995).
  Tue. Jan. 15 INTERSECTIONALITY
• Audre Lorde, "Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference"
• Kimberle Crenshaw, "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Color"
• Himani Bannerji, "In the Matter of X," Thinking Through.

Film: Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lord (1995, 60 min.)

Tue. Jan. 22 FEMINISM & FIRST NATIONS: AUTHENTICITY & ESSENTIALISM

• Lee Maracle, Excerpts, I Am Woman: a Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism (Vancouver: Press Gang, 1996).
  Tue. Jan. 29 PROBLEMATIZING IDENTITIES: AUTHENTICITY & ESSENTIALISM
• Saloni Mathur, "bell hooks Called Me a 'Woman of Color,'" The Other Woman: Women of Colour in Contemporary Canadian Literature, ed. Makeda Silvera (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1995).
• Pratibha Parmar, "Other Kinds of Dreams," Feminist Review no. 31 (Spring 1989).
• Anitha Sheth & Amita Handa, "Jewel in the Frown: Striking Accord Between India/n Feminists"

Film: A Place of Rage (1991, 52 min.)

Additional Reading:
Diana Fuss, "Essentialism in the Classroom"

Tue. Feb. 5 THE SUBJECT IN QUESTION: FEMINISM & POSTSTRUCTURALISM

• Joan Scott, "Deconstructing Equality-versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism"
  Tue. Feb. 12 SEX WARS
• C. MacKinnon, "Sexuality," The Second Wave.
  Amber Hollibraugh, "Desire for the Future: Radical Hopes in Passion and Pleasure," Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, ed. C.S. Vance (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984).
• "Petition in Support of the Scholar and Feminist IX Conference," Pleasure and Danger.
• Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex"
• Lynne Segal, "Talking Straight: Reclaiming Hopes for Women's Sexual Liberation," Z Magazine (Nov. 1994), 45-48.

Film: Female Misbehaviour (1993, 90 min.)

Tue. Feb. 19 READING WEEK - NO CLASS
Tue. Feb. 26 QUEER THEORY

• Kathleen Martindale, "What Makes Lesbianism Thinkable? Theorizing Lesbianism from Adrienne Rich to Queer Theory," Feminist Issues: Race, Class and Sexuality (New York: Prentice Hall, 1995).
• Dana Takagi, "Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America," Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience, ed. R. Leong (New York: Routledge, 1996).
• Clare Hemmings, "Locating Bisexual Identities: Discourses of Bisexuality and Contemporary Feminist Theory," Mapping Desire, ed. D. Bell & G. Valentine (New York: Routledge, 1995).

Film: Thank God I'm a Lesbian

Tue. Mar. 5 GENDER AS PERFORMANCE

• Judith Butler, "Imitation and Gender Subordination," The Second Wave.
• Judith Butler, excerpts, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1989).

Film: The Virgin Machine (1987, 90 min.)

Additional Reading: Caryl Flinn, "The Body in the (Virgin) Machine," Arachne Vol. 3 no. 2 (1996), 48-66.

Tue. Mar. 12 FEMINIST ECONOMICS - DOMESTIC & GLOBAL

• Marilyn Waring, Excerpts, If Women Counted: a New Femionist Economics (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988).
• Evelyn Nakano Glenn, "From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labour"
• K. Hossfelt, "Their Logic Against Them"

Film: Sisters in the Struggle (1991, 50 min.)

TERM PAPERS DUE TODAY - NO EXTENSIONS

Tue. Mar. 19 GLOBAL FEMINISM TO POSTCOLONIAL FEMINISMS

• Chandra Talpade Modhanty, "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses"
  Uma Narayan, "Contesting Cultures," The Second Wave.
• Aamir Mufti & Ella Shohat, "Introduction", A. McClintock et al (eds), Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Perspectives (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
  Film: My Mother's Place (1990, 49 min.)

Additional Reading:
I. Bakker, "Introduction," Rethinking Restructuring: Gender and Change in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 196).

Tue. Mar. 26 COURSE WRAP-UP - NO READING ASSIGNED