UNIT ONE: POLITICAL THEORIES
Go to Unit Two
Go to Unit Three
1/12 What is feminism?
What is theory?
Background on Locke
and classical
liberalism
1/14 Mary
Wollstonecraft, readings from A
Vindication of the Rights
of Woman: FP 25-85
1/19 John Stuart Mill, reading from The Subjection of Women: FP 183-238, FF 150-158; NOW Bill of Rights: FF 159
1/20 Hear Phyllis Boans tonight, speaking in Keller Hall Reception
Room at 7:30 p.m.
Her talk is entitled: "In Praise of Bridges: Women's Leadership
in Creating the Civil Rights Movement."
1/21 Angela Davis, "Class and Race in the Early Women's Rights Campaign," in Women, Race and Class: 46-68 (on reserve; or click here to read it online- requires Adobe Acrobat. This reading is only available from campus computers). Also read Sojourner Truth's speech, "Ain't I A Woman?" on reserve or online.
1/26 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, reading from Women and Economics: FP 566-598 . Interested in Gilman? Read Herland and/or "The Yellow Wallpaper" online.
1/28 REVISED SCHEDULE; NOTE CHANGES BELOW
2/2 Friedrich Engels, reading from The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State: FP 478-497; Karen Sacks, "Engels Revisited: Women, the Organization of Production, and Private Property," in Toward an Anthropology of Women: 211-234 (on reserve)
2/4 Simone de Beauvoir, reading from The Second Sex: FP 672-705
2/9 Gayle Rubin,"The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political
Economy
of Sex," in Toward an Anthropology of Women: 157-210
(on reserve)
2/11 Vandana Shiva, "Development, Ecology, and Women," in Healing the Wounds: 80-90 (on reserve or online--from campus computers only); Barbara Ehrenriech and Annette Fuentes,"Life on the Global Assembly Line": FF 359-366
2/16 Cherrie Moraga, "From a Long Line of Vendidas: Chicanas and Feminism": FF 203-212
2/18 EXAM ON POLITICAL THEORIES
UNIT TWO: HERMENEUTIC THEORIES
Go to Unit Three
2/23 Juliet Mitchell,"Freud and Lacan: Psychoanalytic Theories of Sexual Difference," in Women: The Longest Revolution: 248-277 (on reserve)
Speaking this evening at 7:30: Stephanie Coontz (Alice Haynes Room)
2/26 Jessica Benjamin, "A Desire of One's Own: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Intersubjective Space," in Feminist Studies/Critical Studies: 78-101 (on reserve)
3/2 Vertigo
3/4 Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," in Issues in Feminist Film Criticism: 28-40 (on reserve); Tania Modleski,"Femininity by Design," in The Women Who Knew Too Much: 87-136 (on reserve)
SPRING BREAK
3/16 Sigmund Freud, "Femininity": FF 127-134
3/18 Luce Irigaray,Speculum of the Other Woman: 13-73
3/23 Irigary, Speculum: 73-129
3/25 No Class--instructor at professional conference
3/30 Barbara Christian, "The Race for Theory," Cultural Critique 6 (Spring 1987): 51-63 (on reserve)
4/1 Review hermeneutic theories PAPER DUE
UNIT THREE: EPISTEMOLOGICAL THEORIES
4/6 Marilyn Frye,"The Possibility of Feminist Theory": FF103-112; Patricia Hill Collins, "Toward an Afro-centric Feminist Epistemology":FF 93-103
4/8 Vrinda Dalmiya and Linda Alcoff,"Are Old Wives' Tales Justified?": FE 217-244
4/13 Sandra Harding,"Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology": FE 49-82
4/15 Helen Longino, "Subject, Power, and Knowledge: Description and Prescription in Feminist Philosophies of Science": FE 101-120
4/20 Evelyn
Fox Keller, A Feeling for the Organism
To learn more about Barbara McClintock, click
here.
4/22 Keller, continued
FINAL EXAM:
Monday, April 26, 2 - 5 p.m.