Critical Feminist Studies: An Introduction

Day 8 (Th, Feb. 9)
Mahasweta Devi. “Breast-Giver.” Trans. Gayatri Spivak. In Other Worlds. New York: Routledge, 1988. 222-240.

Gayatri Spivak. "A Literary Representation of the Subaltern: A Woman's Text from the Third World." In Other Worlds. New York: Routledge, 1988. 241-268 (both in our passworld protected file as SpivakBreastGiver).

Day 9 (T, Feb. 14)
Ross Kauffman & Zana Briski, dirs. Born into Brothels. Red Light Films. 2005. 83 minutes.

Day 10 (Th, Feb. 16)
Afsaneh Najmabadi."Truth of Sex." iranian.com. January 12, 2005.

Marilyn Hacker. "Canzone." Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002. New York: Norton, 2003. Available on Poetry Friday.

Gertrude Stein. "Lifting Belly." Bee Time Vine and Other Pieces, 1913-1927. Ed. Rebecca Mark. Rpt. Naiad Press, 1989  (in our password-protected file).

Day 11 (T, Feb. 21)
Monique T. D. Truong, The Book of Salt. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

Day 12 (Th, Feb. 23)
The Book of Salt, continued

5 p.m. Sun, Feb. 26: post on-line a proposal for the remainder of our semester's work together. Begin with a paragraph or two of a mid-semester evaluation of how we're doing in learning together: what's working? What needs working on? What should we keep, of our shared practices? What might we change up? Turn then from questions of "form" to those of "content": What other genres, geographies, forms of gender and sexuality studies would you like to explore, if the remainder of the class were an independent study? What do you recommend our exploring together? Why? How action-based or action-directed do you want our work to be?

Day 13 (T, Feb. 28)
Peggy McIntosh. “Interactive Phases of Curricular Re-Vision:  A Feminist Perspective.” Working Paper No. 124. Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. 1983. 1-33. Available through Education Resources Information Center.

On-line and in-class discussion about our own curricular re-vision.

5 p.m. W, Feb. 29: respond on-line to two of your classmates' proposals,
trying to nudge us as a group toward some consensus...

Day 14 (Th, Mar. 1): Discussion, continued....until a decision is made!

8 p.m. Fri, Mar. 3: second 4-pp. web event, exploring the connections between various forms of feminist thinking in different geographical locations.

SPRING BREAK Mar. 2-11

The Remainder of the Syllaship is co-constructed-->

Day 15 (T, Mar. 13)
Jeffrey Eugenides. Middlesex. New York: Picador, 2002. Books One and Two.

Day 16 (Th, Mar. 15)
Middlesex, Books Two and Three.

Day 17 (T, Mar. 20)
Middlesex, Books Three and Four.

Day 18 (Th, Mar. 22)
Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Day 19 (T, Mar. 27)
My Gender Workbook, continued
Post on-line three words you want to understand better,along w/ a short story (for each) of why...

Day 20 (Th, Mar. 29)
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Introduction, Chapters 1-3, 14. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. New York: Knopf, 2009. xi-xxii, 3-60, 233-254 (in our password protected file).

Half the Sky Movement

Women Hold Up Half the Sky exhibition and review

She's the First (Bryn Mawr's cupcake sale....)

Day 21 (T, Apr. 3)
Live Nude Girls Unite! (Video). Dir. Julia Query and Vicky Funari. First Run/Icarus Films, 2000 (70 min.): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264802/--available streaming from Netflix and on reserve in Canaday.

Day 22 (Th, Apr. 5)
bell hooks. Chapters 1, 7, 9, 11, 17, 19. Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000. 1-6, 37-43, 48-54, 61-66, 100-104, 110- 118 (in our password protected file).

Day 23 (T, Apr. 10)
The Undefeated, dir. Stephen K. Bannon. ReelzChannel. March 11, 2012.

Game Change, dir. Jay Roach. HBO. March 10, 2012 (a clip).
Try also http://www.1channel.ch/watch-2732264-Game-Change
and/or http://www.putlocker.com/file/93F4339F5A831C83

Sarah Palin on BitchMedia.

Day 24 (Th, Apr. 12)
Michael Kimmel, “Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity." Privilege: A Reader. Ed. Michael Kimmel and Abby Ferber. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003. 51-74.

Chris Ware. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. New York: Pantheon, 2000.

Day 25 (T, Apr. 17)
Jimmy Corrigan, continued….

Day 26 (Th, Apr. 19)
Helen Horowitz,  “A Certain Style of  ‘Quaker Lady’ Dress” and “Behold They Are Women!” Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women’s College From their Nineteenth-Century Beginnngs to the 1930s. New York: Knopf, 1984. 105-133 (in our password protected file).

Alissa Quart. When Girls Will Be Boys. New York Times Magazine. March 16, 2008.

aybala50. The Inside: History of women at Bryn Mawr College. Serendip. February 3, 2012.

8 p.m. Fri, Apr. 20: third 4-pp. web event, exploring ....?

Day 27 (T, Apr. 24)
Judith Halberstam, “Queer Temporality and Postmodern Geographies.” In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives. New York: New York University Press, 2005.  1-21 (in our password protected file).

-----. "Shadow Feminisms: Queer Negativity and Radical Passivity. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. 123-145 (in our password protected file).

Day 28 (Th, Apr. 26) Teach In!
Join with several other students to share your reflections on your experiences over the semester, encouraging, in a provocative and entertaining way, further exploration on the part of others in the class.

12:30 p.m. Fri, May 11:  12-pp. final web-events, checklists, portfolios, and self-evaluations due on-line.

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Note to Self: Next Time 'Round use
Wendy Brown. "Chapters 6-7: "Feminism Unbound: Revolution, Mourning, Politics" and 'The Impossibility of Women's Studies." Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 98-135.

http://freedominwickedness.tumblr.com/post/45189261347/on-title-ix-implications-of-trans-inclusion-in-womens

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Additional Resources
Classism vs. Feminism --> Gender, Body Image and (M)TV

Discussion about sexual assault and choice

It Gets Better--Love, Pixar--and response

National Young Feminist Leadership Conference (March 31-April 2, 2012)