Faculty Committee: Maurizia Boscagli, Julie Carlson, Bishnupriya Ghosh, L. Aranye Fradenburg
Selections available for purchase at the desk of the Staff Graduate Adviser
Precursor Texts:
Theory:
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Book 1: Facts and Myths
- Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, “Female Sexuality,” “Femininity”
- Jacques Lacan, “The Mirror Stage,” Seminar XX: On 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 “Psychic Inceptions: Melancholy, Ambivalence, Rage,” from The Psychic Life of Power
- Rey Chow, chs. 1, 2, 3, 5, and 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, States of Fantasy
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men
- Kaja Silverman, Threshold of the Visible World
- 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?” and “Psychoanalysis as Counterdepressant”
- 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, “Against Proper Objects” 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, “Floods, Bodies, History” from Male Fantasies, Vol. 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History
- Patricia Williams, “On Being the Object of Property” from The Alchemy of Race
Revised 7/99
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