- Winter 2018
Syllabus Description:
Georgia O'Keeffe, "Heliconia" (1939)
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Schedule of Reading
Economy
Week One
January 4:
class canceled due to MLA meeting
Week Two
January 9:
introductions
Gayle Rubin, “The Traffic in Women”
January 11:
Laura Mulvey, “Fears, Fantasies, and the Male Unconscious,” “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” and “Afterthoughts on Visual Pleasure” (background: Freud, “Fetishism” and “The Splitting of the Ego”)
Week Three
January 16:
Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror, chapters 1 and 3
Sylvia Federici, “The Great Caliban”
January 18:
Judith Butler, Antigone’s Claim
Week Four
January 23:
Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe” and “Interstices”
January 25:
Donna Haraway, Primate Visions, chapter nine
Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Epistemology
Week Five
January 30:
Nancy Hartsock, “The Feminist Standpoint”
Chela Sandoval, “U.S Third World Feminism”
February 1:
Kimberle Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex”
Robyn Wiegman, “Critical Kinship”
Week Six
February 6:
Gayatri Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and “The New Subaltern”
February 8:
Ama Ata Aidoo, Our Sister Killjoy
Week Seven
February 13:
Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, chaps 1, 4, and epilogue
February 15:
Wendy Brown, “Women Dissolved or Defended?” (in-class screening)
Implications
Week Eight
February 20:
Laura Kipnis, “Ecstasy Unlimited”
Carla Freccero, "Notes of a Post-Sex Wars Theorizer"
February 22:
Elizabeth Grosz, “Lesbian Fetishism?”
Kobena Mercer, “Reading Racial Fetishism”
Linda Williams, "Fetishism and Hard Core: Marx, Freud, and the Money Shot"
Week Nine
February 27:
Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex”
Gayle Rubin with Judith Butler, "Sexual Traffic"
March 1:
Octavia Butler, Fledgling
Week Ten
March 6:
Leo Bersani, “Is the Rectum a Grave?”
Darieck Scott, “Slavery, Rape, and the Black Male Abject” and “Notes on Black Power Bottoms”
March 8:
Lauren Berlant, “The Predator and the Jokester”
Masha Gessen, “Sex, Consent, and the Dangers of Misplaced Scale” and “The Selective Force of #MeToo”
Judith Levine, “Will Feminism’s Past Mistakes Haunt #MeToo?”