ERI200Y - Course Reading List
1. Why are we here? What do we mean when we talk about Womens/Gender Studies?
What is "womens studies?" What are the Goals of Womens/Gender Studies? What are the terms and techniques of Womens/Gender Studies?
Required Readings:
"Introduction: Conceptualizing Canadas Gendered Pasts" (GP 1-11).
bell hooks, "Feminism: a transformational politic" in talking back: thinking feminism
thinking black (Toronto: Between the Lines, 1989) 19-27 in Course Reader.
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, "Infection in the Sentence: the woman writer and the anxiety of authorship" (fem 21-32).
Emily Martin, "The End of the Body?" in The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy eds., Roger Lancaster and Micaela DiLeonardo (New York: Routledge, 1997) 543-558 in Course Reader.
2. Beginnings of FeminismWhat do Women Want?
Required Readings:
Mary Wollstonecraft, selections from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, ed. Carol H. Poston (New York: Norton, 1988; rpt. 1792) 52-77 in Course Reader.
John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women <http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/jsmill-women.html or http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/mill/women.html>
Susan Mendus, "The Marriage of Two Minds: The Ideal of Marriage in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill" in Susan Mendus and Jane Rendall, eds., Sexuality and Subordination (London: Routledge, 1989) 171-191 in Course Reader.
Simone de Beauvoir, selections from The Second Sex, trans. H. M. Parshley (New York: Vintage, 1974; rpt. 1953) 3-41; 122-155 in Course Reader.
Judith Lowder Newton, "Power and the Ideology of Womans Sphere" (fem 880-895).
Recommended Readings (all available on the course Web site):
St. Thomas Aquinas, "Whether Woman Should have been made in the First Production of Things"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Selections
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Sojourner Truth, "Aint I a Woman?"
The UN Fourth World Conference on Women: The Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action.
3. Womens Special Nature
Required Readings:
Sigmund Freud, "Femininity" in New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (New York: Norton, 1965; originally published in 1925, 1931) 112-135 in Course Reader.
Sigmund Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Simon and Schuster)
Luce Irigaray, "This Sex Which is not One" (fem 363-369).
Jane Gallop, "The Fathers Seduction" (fem 489-506).
D. H. Lawrence, "Cocksure Women and Hensure Men" in Selected Essays (Toronto: Penguin, 1954) 31-34 in Course Reader.
Havelock Ellis, "The Functional Periodicity of Women" in Man and Woman: A Study of Human Secondary Sexual Characters (New York: Arno Press, 1974; originally published in 1904) 244-257 in Course Reader.
Anne Digby, "Womens Biological Straitjacket" in Susan Mendus and Jane Rendall, eds., Sexuality and Subordination (London: Routledge, 1989) 192-220 in Course Reader.
4. Essentialism
Required Readings:
Anne Fauto-Sterling, "How to Build a Man" in The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy eds., Roger Lancaster and Micaela DiLeonardo (New York: Routledge, 1997) 244-248 in Course Reader.
Sherry Ortner, "Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?" in Woman, Culture, and Society eds. Michelle Rosaldo and Louise Lampere (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974) 67-87 in Course Reader.
Deborah McDowell, "Recycling: race, gender and the practice of theory" (fem 234-247).
Teresa de Lauretis, "Upping the Anti (sic) in feministy theory" (fem 326-339).
5. Gender and Science
Required Readings:
Sally Slocum, "Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology" in Toward an Anthropology of Women ed. Rayna Reiter (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975) 36-50 in Course Reader.
Nancy Chodorow, "Family Structure and Feminine Personality" in Woman, Culture, and Society eds. Michelle Rosaldo and Louise Lampere (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974) 43-66 in Course Reader.
Emily Martin (1991), "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Sterotypical Male-Female Roles," Signs 16 (3):485-501 in Course Reader.
Thomas Laqueur, "Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology" in The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy eds., Roger Lancaster and Micaela DiLeonardo (New York: Routledge, 1997) 219-243 in Course Reader.
6. Gender and Science (Part Two)
Required Readings:
Elizabeth Sheehan, "Victorian Clitoridectomy: Isaac Baker Brown and his Harmless Operative Procedure" in The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy eds., Roger Lancaster and Micaela DiLeonardo (New York: Routledge, 1997) 325-334 in Course Reader.
Suzanne Kessler (1990), "The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants," Signs 16(1): 3-26 in Course Reader.
Donna J. Haraway, "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective" in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991) 183-201 in Course Reader.
Kate Millett, "Theory of Sexual Politics" in Sexual Politics (Garden City: Doubleday, 1970) 23-58 in Course Reader.
7. Gender and Science (Part Three)
Required Readings:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wall-Paper" anthologized in R.V. Cassill (ed.), The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 5th Edition (New York: Norton, 1995) 679-93 in Course Reader.
Shoshana Felman, "Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy" (fem 7-20).
Nina Baym, "The Madwoman and her Languages" (fem 279-292).
Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, "The Sexual Politics of Sickness" in For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts Advice to Women (Garden City: Doubleday, 1978) 91-126 in Course Reader.
Recommended Readings:
Jay Gould, "Womens Brains"
8. Mary Elizabeth Braddons Lady Audleys Secret
9. Gender, Race and Power
Required Readings:
Kate Chopin, "Desirées Baby" anthologized in Fictions Many Worlds ed. Charles May (Toronto: Heath, 1993) 55-59 in Course Reader.
Barbara Christian, "The Highs and the Lows of Black Feminist Criticism" (fem 51-56).
Amy Ling, "Im Here" (fem 776-783).
Elizabeth Abel, "Black Writing, White Reading" (fem 827-852).
Joanna de Groot, "Sex and Race: The Construction of Language and Image in the Nineteenth Century," in Susan Mendus and Jane Rendall, eds., Sexuality and Subordination (London: Routledge, 1989) 89-128 in Course Reader.
Audre Lorde, "Power" in Course Reader.
Audre Lorde, "The Masters Tools will never dismantle the Masters House" in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Trumansburg: The Crossing Press, 1984) 110-113 in Course Reader.
Audre Lorde, "The Transformation of Silence in Language and Action" in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Trumansburg: The Crossing Press, 1984) 40-44 in Course Reader.
Audre Lorde, "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism" in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Trumansburg: The Crossing Press, 1984) 124-133 in Course Reader.
John Lutz, "Gender and Work in Lekwamman Families, 1843-1970" (GP, 80-105).
10. Gendered Spaces
Required Readings:
Myra Jehlen, "Archimedes and the Paradox of Feminist Criticism" (fem 191-212).
Biddy Martin and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Feminist Politics: Whats Home Got to Do with It?" (fem 293-310).
Constance Backhouse, "Child Custody" from Petticoats and Prejudice (Toronto: Womens Press, 1991) 200-227 in Course Reader.
Mary Anne Poutanen, "The Homeless, the Whore, the Drunkard, and the Disorderly: Contours of Female Vagrancy in the Montreal Courts, 1810-1842" (GP, 29-47).
Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour" anthologized in R.V. Cassill (ed.), The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 5th Edition (New York: Norton, 1995) 228-30 in Course Reader.
11. Cult of Domesticity
Required Readings:
Helena Michie, "Confinements: The Domestic in the Discourses of Upper-Middle-Class Pregnancy" (fem 57-69).
Janice Radway, "The Readers and their Romances" (fem 574-608).
Leslie Rabine, "Romance inthe Age of Electronics Harlequin Enterprises" (fem 976-991).
Suzanne Morton, "To Take an Orphan: Gender and Family Roles Following the 1917 Halifax Explosion" (GP, 106-122).
Margaret Hillyard Little, "A Fit and Proper Person: The Moral Regulation of Single Mothers in Ontario, 1920-1940" (GP, 123-138).
Cora Kaplan, "Pandoras Box: subjectivity, class, and sexuality in socialist feminist criticism" (fem 956-975).
12. Gender and the Body
Required Readings:
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Birthmark" anthologized in R.V. Cassill (ed.), The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 5th Edition (New York: Norton, 1995) 741-54 in Course Reader.
Ann Rosalind Jones, "Writing the Body: toward an understanding of lécriture féminine" (fem 370-383).
Myra Dinnerstein and Rose Weitz, "Jane Fonda and other Aging Bodies: Femininity and the Limits of Resistance" in Feminist Issues 14(2) Fall 1994:3-24 inCourse Reader.
Susan Bordo, "Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture" in Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993) 139-164 in Course Reader.
Susan Bordo, "Reading the Slender Body" in Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993) 185-212 in Course Reader.
Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, "Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction" in The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy eds., Roger Lancaster and Micaela DiLeonardo (New York: Routledge, 1997) 134-150 in Course Reader.
Germaine Greer, "Abortion and Infanticide" in Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (New York: Harper & Row, 1984) 188-232 in Course Reader.
Recommended Readings:
Luce Irigiray, "Another CauseCastration" (fem 430-437).
Laura Mulvey, "Visual and Narrative Cinema" (fem 438-448).
13. Gender and Violence
Required Readings:
Barbara Johnson, "Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion" (fem 694-707).
Catharine MacKinnon, "Speech, Equality, and Harm: The Case Against Pornography" in The Price We Pay: The Case Against Racist Speech, Hate Propaganda and Pornography eds. Laura Lederer and Richard Delgado (New York: Hill and Wang, 1995) 301-322 in Course Reader.
Ann Russo, "Feminists Confront Pornographys Subordinating Practices: Politics and Strategies for Change" in Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality eds. Gail Dines, Robert Jensen and Ann Russo (New York: Routledge, 1998) 9-35 in Course Reader.
Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, "Questions and Answers" in Making Violence Sexy: Feminist Views on Pornography (New York: Teachers College Press, 1993) 78-96 in Course Reader.
bell hooks, "Violence in Intimate Relationships: A Feminist Perspective" in talking back: thinking feminism
thinking black (Toronto: Between the Lines, 1989) 84-91 in Course Reader.
Karen Dubinsky and Adam Givertz, "It Was Only a Matter of Passion: Masculinity and Sexual Danger" (GP, 65-79).
Catharine MacKinnon, "Sex and Violence: A Perspective" in Rape and Society: Readings on the Problem of Sexual Assaults, eds. Patricia Searles and Ronald Berger (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995) 28-34 in Course Reader.
Jane Caputi, "The Sexual Politics of Murder" in Rape and Society: Readings on the Problem of Sexual Assaults, eds. Patricia Searles and Ronald Berger (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995) 160-170 in Course Reader.
Recommended Readings:
Margaret Atwood, "A Womans Issue"
Susan Brownmiller, "Rape" in Against our Will: Men, Women and Rape (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975).
Andrea Dworkin, "I Want a Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During which there is no rape"
14. Gender and (Criminal) Justice
Required Readings:
Constance Backhouse, "Prostitution" from Petticoats and Prejudice (Toronto: Womens Press, 1991) 228-259 in Course Reader.
Sherene Razack, Looking White People in the Eye: Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classrooms (University of Toronto Press, 1998)
15. Gender, Work and Technology
Required Readings:
Sherry Turkle, "Tinysex and Gender Trouble" from Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995) 210-232 in Course Reader.
Nancy Forestell, "The Miners Wife: Working Class Feminity in a Masculine Context, 1920-1950" (GP, 139-157).
Kathryn McPherson, "The Case of the Kissing Nurse: Femininity, Sexuality, and Canadian Nursing, 1900-1970" (GP, 179-198).
Sharon Myers, "Not to be Ranked as Women: Female Industrial Workers in Turn-of-the-Century Halifax," in Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Womens History (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997) 216-237 in Course Reader.
Donna J. Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991) 149-181 in Course Reader.
Recommended
Readings:
From Barbie™ to Mortal Kombat, eds. Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins Gender
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17. Gender and Language
Required Readings:
Hélène Cixious, "The Laugh of the Medusa" (fem 347-362).
Bonnie Zimmerman, "What has never been: an overview of lesbian feminist literary criticism" (fem 76-96).
Joanna Russ, "Anomalousness" (fem 97-105).
bell hooks, "Talking Back" in talking back: thinking feminism
thinking black (Toronto: Between the Lines, 1989) 5-9 in Course Reader.
Joan Sangster, "Telling Our Stories: Feminists Debates and the Use of Oral History," in Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Womens History (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997) 302-321 in Course Reader.
Teresa deLauretis, "The Violence of Rhetoric: On Represention and Gender" in The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy eds., Roger Lancaster and Micaela DiLeonardo (New York: Routledge, 1997) 265-278 in Course Reader.
Lillian Robinson, "Treason our Text: feminist challenges to the literary canon" (fem 115-128).
Elaine Showalter, "A Criticism of our Own" (fem 213-233).
18. Gender and Intimacy: Homosocial Desire
Required Readings:
Havelock Ellis, "Homosexuality" in The Psychology of Sex (London: Heinemann, 1948) 188-219 in Course Reader.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Introduction from Between Men" (fem 507-523).
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles (fem 524-531).
Terry Castle, "Sylvia Townsend Warner and The Counterplot of Lesbian Fiction" (fem 532-554)
Elizabeth Meese, "When Virginia Looked at Vita..." (fem 467-481).
Siobhan Somerville, "Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body" in The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy eds., Roger Lancaster and Micaela DiLeonardo (New York: Routledge, 1997) 37-52 in Course Reader.
Recommended Reading:
Gore Vidal, The City and the Pillar
19. Men
Required Readings:
Susan Jeffords, "Masculinity as Excess in Vietnam Films" (fem 1046-1067).
Eric Setliff, "Sex Fiends or Swish Kids?: Gay Men in Hush Free Press, 1946-1956" (GP, 158-178).
Franca Iacovetta, "Defending Honour, Demanding Respect: Manly Discourse and Gendered Practice in Two Construction Sites, Toronto, 1960-61" (GP, 199-222).
20. Last Class: Where are we going?
Required Readings:
Sandra Burt, "Gender and Public Policy: Making Some Difference in Ottawa," in Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Womens History (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997) 479-495 in Course Reader.