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Introduction to Course |
What is "queer"? What is "trans"? What do these terms mean? Discussion of sexual and gender identities as historically situated.
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Schiller, Greta. Before Stonewall. 1985.
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Medicalization and the "Birth of the Homosexual" |
Jagose, Annamarie. "Introduction" and "Theorising Same-Sex Desire." Chapters 1 and 2 in Queer Theory: An Introduction. pp. 1-22.
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. pp. 1-131.
Stryker, Suan. "(De)Subjugated Knowledges: An Introduction to Transgender Studies." Introduction in TG Reader. pp. 1-17.
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Medical Science, History, and Theories of Gender and Sexual Identity |
Halperin, David. "Is There a History of Sexuality?" In LGBT Reader. pp. 416-431.
D'Emilio, John. "Capitalism and Gay Identity." In LGBT Reader. pp. 467-476.
 von Krafft-Ebing, Richard. "Introduction" and "Foreword." In Psychopathia Sexualis. New York, NY: Arcade Publishing, 1998, pp. ix-xx. ISBN: 9781559704267.
———. "General Pathology." In Psychopathia Sexualis. New York, NY: Arcade Publishing, 1998, pp. 186-194, 221-235, and 274-284. ISBN: 9781559704267.
Somerville, Siobahn. "Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body." In Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology. Edited by Beemyn and Eliason. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1996, pp. 241-261. ISBN: 9780814712580.
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Constructing and Deconstructing Gender - the "Truth" of Sex |
Foucault, Michel. Herculine Barbin . New York, NY: Pantheon, 1980. pp. vii-xvii. ISBN: 9780394738628.
Hirschfeld, Magnus. "Selections from The Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress." In TG Reader. pp. 28-39.
Cauldwell, David O. "Psychopathia Transexualis." In TG Reader. pp. 40-44.
Benjamin, Harry. "Transsexualism and Transvestism as Psycho-Somatic and Somato-Psychic Syndromes." In TG Reader. pp. 45-52.
Stoller, Robert. "Biological Substrates of Sexual Behavior." In TG Reader. pp. 53-57.
Garfinkel, Harold. "Passing and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status in an 'Intersexed' Person." In TG Reader. pp. 58-93.
Spade, Dean. "Mutilating Gender." In TG Reader. pp. 315-332.
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Psychoanalysis, Desire, and Sexual and Gender Identities |
Turner, William B. "I Am the Very Model of the Modern Homosexual." In A Genealogy of Queer Theory. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2000, pp. 62-82. ISBN: 9781566397872.
Freud, Sigmund. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.
Abelove, Henry. "Freud, Male Homosexuality, and the Americans." In LGBT Reader. pp. 381-393.
Shepardson, Charles. "The Role of Gender and the Imperative of Sex." In TG Reader. pp. 94-102.
Valentine, David. "'I Went to Bed with My Own Kind Once': The Erasure of Desire in the Name of Identity." In TG Reader. pp. 407-419.
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The Invert, Third Sex, and Lesbians in History |
Wittig, Monique. "One is Not Born a Woman." In LGBT Reader. pp. 103-109.
Hale, Jacob. "Are Lesbians Women?" In TG Reader. pp. 281-299.
Boyd, Nan Alamilla. "Bodies in Motion: Lesbian and Transsexual Histories." In TG Reader. pp. 420-421.
Rubin, Henry. "The Logic of Treatment." In TG Reader. pp. 82-498.
Vinicus, Martha. "'They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong': The Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity." In LGBT Reader. pp. 432-452.
Newton, Esther. "Just One of The Boys: Lesbians in Cherry Grove, 1960-1988." In LGBT Reader. pp. 528-541.
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Performativity, Drag, and Gender Identity |
Butler, Judith. "Imitation and Gender Insubordination." In LGBT Reader. pp. 307-320.
Rubin, Gayle. "Of Catamites and Kings." In TG Reader. pp. 471-481.
Newton, Esther. "Selection from Mother Camp." In TG Reader. pp. 121-130.
Namaste, Ki. "'Tragic Misreadings: Queer Theory's Erasure of Transgender Subjectivity." In Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology. Edited by Beemyn and Eliason. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1996, pp. 183-203. ISBN: 9780814712580.
Surkan, Kim. "Drag Kings in the New Wave: Gender Performance and Participation." In The Drag King Anthology. Edited by Donna Troka, Kathleen Lebesco, and Jean Noble. New York, NY: Harrington Park Press, 2003, pp. 161-185. ISBN: 9781560233084.
Video
Livingston, Jennie. Paris Is Burning. 1990.
Taylor, Amanda, and Kim Brown. Dykes Do Drag. 2003.
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Stonewall, Marriage, and the Closet |
Jagose, Annemarie. "Gay Liberation." In Queer Theory: An Introduction. pp. 30-43.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. "Epistemology of the Closet." In LGBT Reader. pp. 45-61.
Warner, Michael. "Beyond Gay Marriage." In The Trouble with Normal. New York, NY: Free Press, 1999, pp. 81-116, and 117-147. ISBN: 9780684865294.
D'Emilio, John. "My Changing Sex Life." In The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002, pp. 199-209. ISBN: 9780822330233.
Willse, Craig, and Dean Spade. "Freedom in a Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage and Biopolitics." Widener Law Review 11, no. 2 (2005): 309.
Lawrence v. Texas |
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Local and Global Movements |
Feinberg, Leslie. "Transgender Liberation." In TG Reader. pp. 205-220.
Chase, Cheryl. "Hermaphrodites With Attitude." In TG Reader. pp. 300-314.
Nanda, Serena. "Hijras as Neither Man Nor Woman." In LGBT Reader. pp. 542-552.
Roen, Katarina. "Transgender Theory and Embodiment." In TG Reader. pp. 656-665.
Towle, Evan B., and Lynn M. Morgan. "Rethinking the Use of the 'Third Gender' Concept." In TG Reader. pp. 666-684.
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Lesbian Feminism and the Trans Debate |
Frye, Marilyn. "Some Reflections on Separatism and Power." In LGBT Reader. pp. 91-98.
Raymond, Janice G. "Sappho by Surgery." In TG Reader. pp. 131-143.
Riddell, Carol. "Divided Sisterhood." In TG Reader. pp. 144-158.
Sullivan, Lour. "A Transvestite Answers a Feminist." In TG Reader. pp. 159-164.
Koyama, Emi. "Whose Feminism Is It Anyway?: The Unspoken Racism of the Trans Inclusion Debate." In TG Reader. pp. 698-705.
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Visibility/Invisibility: Queering Gender and Sexuality |
Rubin, Gayle. "Thinking Sex." In LGBT Reader. pp. 3-44.
Kessler, Suzanne J., and Wendy McKenna. "Toward a Theory of Gender." In TG Reader. pp. 165-182.
Stone, Sandy. "The Empire Strikes Back." In TG Reader. pp. 221-235.
Green, Jamison "Look! No, Don't: The Visibility Dilemma for Transsexual Men." In TG Reader. pp. 499-508.
Prosser, Jay. "Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transubstantiation of Sex." In TG Reader. pp. 257-280.
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Regulating Gender and Sexuality: Masculinity, Violence, and Public Space |
Namaste, Viviane K. "Genderbashing." In TG Reader. pp. 584-600.
Brown, George R. "Transsexuals in the Military: Flight into Hypermasculinity." In TG Reader. pp. 537-544.
Dibbell, Julian. "A Rape in Cyberspace." Chapter 1 in My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1999. ISBN: 9780805036268. Originally published in somewhat different form in The Village Voice.
Surkan, Kim. "More Gender, Less Presumption: Cybersex as an Alternative to a Culture of Violent Sexuality." In Transforming a Rape Culture. Revised edition. Edited by Buchwald, Emilie, Pamela R. Fletcher, and Martha Roth. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2005 [1993]. ISBN: 9781571312693.
France, David. "An Inconvenient Woman." New York Times Magazine. May 28, 2000.
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Contemporary and Futuristic Portrayals of Gender and Sexuality |
Halberstam. "Skinflick." In TG Reader. pp. 574-583.
Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto." In TG Reader. pp. 103-118.
Melzer, Patricia. Excerpt from Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist Thought. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780292713079.
Surkan, Kim. "'I Want to Be a Real Boy': A. I. Robots, Cyborgs, and Mutants as Passing Figures in Science Fiction Film." Femspec 5, no. 1.
Singer. "From the Medical Gaze to Sublime Mutations." In TG Reader. pp. 601-620.
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