Faculty Committee
Maurizia Boscagli, Julie Carlson, Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook,
L. Aranye Fradenburg, Candace
Waid
Reading List
+ Selections available for purchase
at the desk of the Staff Graduate Adviser
Precursor Texts:
Theory:
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Volume 1
- Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality,
"Female Sexuality," "Femininity"
- Jacques Lacan, "The Mirror Stage," Feminine Sexuality
- Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of
Woman
History:
- John Boswell, Christianity, Homosexuality, and Social
Tolerance
- Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality, Volume
1
- Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex
- Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct
Single-Author Books:
- Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera, Part
1
- Leo Bersani, Homos
- Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
- Judith Butler, "Melancholy/Gender: Refused Identification"
and "Melancholy, Ambivalence, and Rage," from The Psychic
Life of Power
- Rey Chow, chs. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 in Writing Diaspora
- Teresa de Lauretis, The Practice of Love
- Lee Edelman, "Homographesis" and "Tearooms and Sympathy"
from Homographesis
- Ruth Frankenberg, White Women, Race Matters
- David Halperin, 100 Years of Homosexuality
- Rosemary Hennessy, Materialist Feminism and the Politics
of Discourse
- Luce Irigaray, "Any Theory of the Subject Has Always
Been Appropriated by the Masculine," from Speculum of
the Other Woman; "Women on the Market," and "This Sex
Which is Not One," from This Sex Which Is Not One
- Laura Kipnis, "Looks Good on Paper," and "(Male) Desire
and (Female) Disgust," from Ecstasy Unlimited
- Kobena Mercer, chs. 5, 6 in Welcome to the Jungle
- Jacqueline Rose, The State of Fantasy
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men
- Kaja Silverman, Threshold of the Visible
- Gayatri Chakavorty Spivak, "French Feminism in an International
Frame" from In Other Worlds; ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 in
Outside in the Teaching Machine; "Can the Subaltern
Speak?" in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture
- Trinh T. Minh-ha, Woman, Native, Other
- Monique Wittig, The Straight Mind and Other Essays
Collections:
- Bersani, "Is the Rectum a Grave"; Crimp, "AIDS: Cultural
Analysis/Cultural Activism" and "How to Have Promiscuity
in an Epidemic"; Treichler, "AIDS, Homophobia and Biomedical
Discourse"; Watney, "The Spectacle of AIDS" in AIDS:Cultural
Analysis/Cultural Activism, ed. Douglas Crimp
- Julia Kristeva, "Women's Time," "Stabat Mater," "Might
Universality be our Foreignness?", "Psychoanalysis as Counterdepressant"
in The Kristeva Reader, ed. Toril Moi
- Chandra Mohanty, et. al., Third World Women and the
Politics of Feminism
Essays: (Note: A work constitutes roughly 5
essays)
- Rosi Braidotti, "Organs without Bodies," differences
1991
- Judith Butler, "Feminism Meets Queer Theory," differences
1994
- Hazel Carby, "White Women Listen! Black Feminism and the
Boundaries of Sisterhood," in The Empire Strikes Back:
Race and Racism in 70's Britain
- Helene Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa," in The Signs
Reader, eds. Abel and Abel or New French Feminisms,
ed. Marks and de Courtivron
- Julia Kristeva, "Approaching Abjection"+ in Powers
of Horror
- Shirley Geok-lin Lim, "Assaying the Gold: or, Contesting
the Ground of Asian-American Literature,"+ NHL 24,
1
- Maria Lugones, "Playfulness, 'World-Traveling,' and Loving
Perception," in Feminist Social Thought: A Reader,
ed. Diana Tietjens-Meyer
- D. A. Miller, "Anal Rope" in inside/out, ed. Diana
Fuss
- Tania Modelski, "A Postmortem Postfeminism" from Feminism
Without Women
- Cherrie Moraga, "From a Long Line of Vendidas"+ from Loving
in the War Years
- Constance Penley, "Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Study
of Popular Culture"+ from Cultural Studies Reader
- Gayle Rubin, "The Traffic in Women"
- Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex"
- Chela Sandoval, "US Third World Feminism"
- Joan Scott, "The Evidence of Experience" in Conflicts
in Feminism, eds. Hirsch and Fox-Keller
- Linda Singer, "Sex and the Logic of Late Capitalism" from
Erotic Welfare
- Hortense Spillers, "Momma's Baby, Poppa's Maybe,"(+) diacritics
1987
- Sara Suleri, "Woman Skin Deep," Critical Inquiry
- Klaus Theweleit, "Women, Flood, Bodies" from Male Fantasies,
vol. 1
- Patricia Williams, "On Being the Object of Property" from
The Alchemy of Race
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