Handouts; plus Writing on the Body:
Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory,
Conboy, Medina, Stanbury, eds. Columbia U Press, 1997.
Feb 2 | Introduction, background. Olga Broumas' "Cinderella" from Beginning With O. | |
Feb 9 | Janice Mirititani, "Prisons of Silence";
Trin T-mihn Ha, "Not You/Like You: Post-
Colonial Women and the Interlocking
Questions of Identity and Difference";
Shirley Geok-lin Lim, "Asians in Anglo-
American Feminism: Reciprocity and
Resistance." |
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Feb (16) 23 |
Hortense Spillers, "Mama's Baby, Papa's
Baby"; Monique Wittig, "One is Not Born a
Woman." |
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Mar 2 |
Sandra Bartky, "Foucault, Femininity
and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power";
Michel Foucault, from "Discipline and Punish." |
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Mar 9 |
Susan Bordo, "The Body and the
Reproduction of Femininity"; Stoler,
from Race and the Education of Desire.
Background reading: Gayle Rubin, "The
Traffic in Women" (reserve rm). |
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Mar 16 |
Ehrenreich and English, from For
Her Own Good; NYT handout; Audre Lorde,
"Uses of the Erotic, the Erotic as Power."
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