Hist-4065-R

Readings from the Women's Movement: Politics and Theory

Prof. Lyde Cullen Sizer

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Nota Bene: I will be updating this regularly, especially to refine the readings by offering selections
(of course you are always welcome to read the whole book!)

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Week One (Jan. 24)

If you can get it:

Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America

If you cannot, read instead:

Alice Echols, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America

Week Two (Jan. 31)

*Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction, Rosemarie Putnam Tong, Chapters 1, 2, 5, 6 & 8. Intro & Conclusion.

also read:

*Simone De Beauvoir, Introduction, Part IV, chapter XXV, and the conclusion from The Second Sex.

Week Three (Feb. 7)

In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, Carol Gilligan.

and

Tong, Chapter 4.

Essay One, Due Wednesday, Feb. 9th, 3 pm
See assignments page for details

Week Four (Feb. 14)

Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought (most recent version)

and

Tong, chapter 7.

Week Five (Feb. 21)

Read either:
*Mary Daly, GynEcology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
*Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
*Susan Griffin, Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
*Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch

Week Six (Feb. 28)

*Maxine Hong Kingston, selections from The Woman Warrior

Faye Myenne Ng, Bone

Week Seven (Mar. 7)

Women and Revolution: A Discussion of the Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism, ed. Sargent. Read essays by: Sargent, Hartmann (both), Riddiough, Joseph, Harding, Vogel, Eisenstein.

Read one more chapter with a partner and be ready to offer a 5 minute critical summary (and quote) of the essay to open class. Be sure to juxtapose your essay with the others we collectively read.

and ALL READ

Tong, chapter 3.

Week Eight (Mar. 28)

Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color by Gloria Anzaldua. Read the Intro and Sections 1, 3, 6, 7.

Essay Two, Due Wednesday, March 30th, 3 pm
See assignments page for details

Week Nine (Apr. 4)

The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, With a New Afterword by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Week Ten (Apr. 11)

Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation by Karla Jay

Week Eleven (Apr. 18)

Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality, Toni Morrison, ed.

Week Twelve (Apr. 25)

Feminism Without Illusions, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Please Read The intro; Chapter One; Chapter Seven; Chapter Nine; Conclusion and Afterward. If you have time, read also Chapter Four.

Conference Paper Due Wednesday, April 27th, 3pm

Week Thirteen (May 2)

To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism by Rebecca Edby Walker--if you can, read it all. If not, read Steinem, Walker, Senna, DeLombard, Wolf, Cabreros-Sud, Lee, Abner, Slee, Davis.

Week Fourteen (May 9)

Oral Exhibitions

Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, (selections) by Arlie Russell Hochschild (Editor), Barbara Ehrenreich (Editor)