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Introduction (PDF) |
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What is feminist theory? (PDF) |
Haltzman, Scott. "7 Truths Men Wish You Knew about Men." Redbook 210 (February 1, 2008): 123.
What is feminism
Curious Feminist. "Introduction: Being Curious about Our Lack of Feminist Curiosity." Introduction, pp. 1-13.
Curious Feminist. "The Surprised Feminist." Chapter 1, pp. 14-18.
Curious Feminist. "Whom Do You Take Seriously?" Chapter 5, pp. 69-82.
What are women's experiences and how do we talk about them
Don't Call Us. Preface and Introduction, pp. vii-13.
Historical views of feminism
Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." Chapter 1 in Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 97-112.
Truth, Sojourner. "Ar'n't I a Woman?" In Theorizing Feminisms, p. 113.
Intersectionality – gender is not one thing
Lorde, Audre. "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 292-297.
Grillo, Trina. "Anti-Essentialism and Intersectionality: Tools to Dismantle the Master's House." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 30-40.
Identity politics
Combahee River Collective. "A Black Feminist Statement." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 412-417.
Matsuda, Mari. "On Identity Politics." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 418-421.
Anzaldua, Gloria. "La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 422-430.
Dominance approach to sex discrimination
MacKinnon, Catharine. "Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 244-255.
Social construction
Haslanger, Sally. "Gender and Social Construction: Who? What? When? Where? How?" In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 16-23.
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Sex, gender, and the body (PDF) |
 Martin, Emily. "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles." In Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader. Edited by Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick. New York, NY: Routledge, 1999, pp. 179-189. ISBN: 9780415925662.
Fausto-Sperling, Anne. "The Five Sexes." The Sciences 33, no. 2 (March 1993): 20-24.
———. "The Five Sexes, Revisited." The Sciences 40, no. 4 (July/August 2000): 18-23.
Bertky, Sandra Lee. "Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 277-292.
Butler, Judith. "Against Proper Objects." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 540-551.
Bornstein, Kate. "Send in the Clowns." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 382-384.
Bordo, Susan. "Material Girl: The Effacements of Postmodern Culture." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 385-404.
Film
Miller, Jennifer. Juggling Gender, VHS. Directed by Tami Gold. Harriman, NY: Anderson Gold Films, Inc., 1992.
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Embodied knowledge (PDF) |
Exile and Pride. "The Mountain." pp. 1-16.
Exile and Pride. "Clearcut: Explaining the Distance." pp. 17-28.
Exile and Pride. "Losing Home." pp. 29-40.
Exile and Pride. "Freaks and Queers." pp. 67-102.
Exile and Pride. "Reading across the Grain." pp. 103-122.
Exile and Pride. "Stones in My Pockets, Stones in My Heart." pp. 123-138.
Kadi, Joanna. "Stupidity 'Deconstructed'," in FT, pp. 40-50.
Nkweto Simmonds, Felly. "My Body, Myself: How Does a Black Woman Do Sociology?" In Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader. Edited by Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick. New York, NY: Routledge, 1999, pp. 50-63. ISBN: 9780415925662.
Marshall, Helen. "Our Bodies, Ourselves: Why We Should Add Old-Fashioned Empirical Phenomenology to the New Theories of the Body." In Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader. Edited by Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick. New York, NY: Routledge, 1999, pp. 64-75. ISBN: 9780415925662.
Film
Sprinkle, Annie, and Susan Stryker. Gendernauts, DVD. Directed by Monika Treut. New York, NY: First Run Features, 1999.
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The work of family (PDF) |
Don't Call Us. "Daughters' Work." Chapter 1, pp. 14-49.
Saul, Jennifer. "Politics of Work and Family." Chapter 1 in Feminism: Issues and Arguments. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 5-44. ISBN: 9780199249473.
Roberts, Dorothy E. "Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 445-456.
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Gender and sexuality (PDF) |
Don't Call Us. "Boyfriends, Love, and Sex." Chapter 2, pp. 50-82.
Rubin, Gayle. "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 527-540.
Lorde, Audre. "Use of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 188-192.
Hammonds, Evelynn. "Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 552-562.
Frye, Marilyn. "Willful Virgin or Do You Have to be a Lesbian to be a Feminist?" In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 325-332.
MacKinnon, Catharine. "Desire and Power." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 256-265.
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Pornography, rape, and the politics of consent (PDF) |
MacKinnon, Catharine. "Sex and Violence: A Perspective." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 266-271.
Stoltenberg, John. "Confronting Pornography as a Civil Rights Issue." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 298-310.
Duggan, Lisa, Nan D. Hunter, and Carole S. Vance. "False Promises: Feminist Antipornography Legislation." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 311-324.
Crenshaw, Kimberly. "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 159-173.
Marcus, Susan. "Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 368-381.
Langton, Rae. "Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts." Philosophy and Public Affairs 22, no. 4 (Autumn 1993): 293-330.
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Gender and parenting (PDF) |
Don't Call Us. "Choice and Motherhood in Poor America." Chapter 3, pp. 83-113.
Ruddick, Sara. "Notes Toward a Feminist Maternal Peace Politics." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 225-237.
Crittenden, Ann. "How Mothers' Work Was 'Disappeared': The Invention of the Unproductive Housewife," and "The Welfare State Versus a Caring State." Chapters 3 and 10 in The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 2001, pp. 45-64, 186-201. ISBN: 9780805066180.
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The welfare state (PDF) |
Don't Call Us. "Losses and Loathing in the Welfare Years." Chapter 4, pp. 114-146.
Fraser, Nancy, and Linda Gordon. "A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State." Signs 19, no. 2 (Winter 1994): 309-336.
Lubiano, Wahneema. "Black Ladies, Welfare Queens, and State Minstrels: Ideological War by Narrative Means." In Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality. Edited by Toni Morrison. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1992, pp. 323-363. ISBN: 9780679741459.
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The political sphere: policy and change (PDF) |
Don't Call Us. "Moving On: 'Don't Call Me Out of Name'." Chapter 5, pp. 147-185.
Young, Iris M. "Five Faces of Oppression." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 3-16.
Addams, Jane. "Women and Public Housekeeping, 1913." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 187-188.
Schechter, Susan. "Social Change on Behalf of Battered Women: Reforming the Criminal Justice System." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 140-150.
Fraser, Nancy. "Multiculturalism, Antiessentialism, and Radical Democracy: A Genealogy of the Current Impasse in Feminist Theory." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 459-469.
Feinberg, Leslie. "Walking our Talk." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 521-526.
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Militarism and gender (PDF) |
Cohn, Carol. "Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals." In Feminist Theory in Practice and Process. Edited by Micheline R. Malson, Jean F. O'Barr, Sarah Westphal-Wihl, and Mary Wyer. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991, pp. 107-138. ISBN: 9780226502946.
Curious Feminist. "All the Men Are in the Militias, All the Women Are Victims: The Politics of Masculinity and Femininity in Nationalist Wars." Chapter 7, pp. 99-118.
Curious Feminist. "Spoils of War." Chapter 8, pp. 119-121.
Curious Feminist. "Masculinity as a Foreign Policy Issue." Chapter 9, pp. 122-130.
Curious Feminist. "'What If They Gave a War...': A Conversation between Cynthia Enloe, Vivian Stromberg, and the Editors of Ms. Magazine." Chapter 10, pp. 131-144.
Curious Feminist. "Sneak Attack: The Militarization of U.S. Culture." Chapter 11, pp. 145-147.
Curious Feminist. "War Planners Rely on Women: Thoughts from Tokyo." Chapter 12, pp. 148-151.
Curious Feminist. "Feminists Keep Their Eyes on Militarized Masculinity: Wondering How Americans See Their Male Presidents." Chapter 13, pp. 152-154.
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International economics and politics (PDF) |
Curious Feminist. "Margins, Silences, and Bottom Rungs: How to Overcome the Underestimation of Power in the Study of International Relations." Chapter 2, pp. 19-42.
Curious Feminist. "The Globetrotting Sneaker." Chapter 3, pp. 43-56.
Curious Feminist. "Daughters and Generals in the Politics of the Globalized Sneaker." Chapter 4, pp. 57-68.
Curious Feminist. "A Feminist Map of the Blocks on the Road to Institutional Accountability." Chapter 17, pp. 233-236.
Curious Feminist. "Updating the Gendered Empire: Where Are the Women in Occupied Afghanistan and Iraq?" Chapter 19, pp. 268-305.
Sen, Amartya. "More than 100 Million Women are Missing." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 150-159.
Gandhi, Leela. "Postcolonialism and Feminism." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 470-480.
Stoler, Ann Laura. "Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 481-489.
Film
Gray, Lorraine. The Global Assembly Line, VHS. Harriman, NY: New Day Films, 1986.
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Research paper presentations (PDF) |
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Concluding thoughts and dilemmas (PDF) |
Don't Call Us. "A Common Woman's Resistance." Chapter 6, pp. 186-221.
Krik, Gwyn. "Standing on Solid Ground: A Materialist Ecological Feminism." In Theorizing Feminisms, pp. 501-520.
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