Tue. Sept. 18

ORIGINS & DIRECTIONS OF FEMINIST THEORIES 
- Caroline Ramanazoglu, "Feminism as Contradiction," Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression (London: Routledge, 1997). 
- bell hooks, "Feminism: a Transformational Politic" 
- Ann Snitow, "A Gender Diary,"Conflicts in Feminism, ed. M. Hirsch & A. Fox Keller (New york: Routledge, 1990). 
- Ellen Neuborne, "Imagine My Surprise"

Tue. Sept. 26

UNCOVERING FEMINIST HISTORY
- Hazel Carby, "On the Threshold of Women's Era: Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black feminist Theory" 
- Vron Ware, "White Women's Burden?', Beyond the Pale

Film: Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman (1989, 26 min.) 

Tue. Oct. 2

THE IDEAL OF EQUALITY: FEMININITY & THE RIGHTS OF MAN 
- Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (author's introduction; chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 9)

Film: The Yellow Wallpaper (1978, 15 min.) 

Tue. Oct. 9

THE SUBJECT OF FEMINISM 
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (Introductions, Translator's Note, Chapters XV, XXI)

Film: Simone de Beauvoir (BBC) 

Tue. Oct. 16

THE SUBJECT OF FEMINISM cont'd. 
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (Chapters XXIII, XXV, Conclusion). 
- E. Spelman, "Simone de Beauvoir and Women: Just Who does she think 'We' Is?" Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought (Boston: Beacon Press, 1988).

Tue. Oct. 23

CRITIQUE OF PATRIACHY 
- Kate Millet, "Theory of Sexual Politics," Sexual Politics (New York: Avon Books, 1970).

Tue. Oct. 30

FEMINISM AND HETEROSEXISM 
- Adrienne Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" 
- Radical Lesbians, "Woman Identified Woman," The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory, ed. L Nicholson (New York: Routledge, 1997). 
- Monique Wittig, "One is Not Born a Woman," The Second Wave.

Film: Gendernauts (1999, 80 min.) 

Tue. Nov. 6

FEMINIST MATERIALISM 
- Gayle Rubin, "The Traffic in Women," The Second Wave.
- H. Hartmann, "The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Toward a More Progressive Union," The Second Wave.

Film: Marxism: The Theory that Split the World (1971, 26 min.) 

Tue. Nov. 13

THE CONSTRUCTION OF "WOMAN" 
- Joan Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis" 
- Denise Riley, "Does Sex Have a History?" Am I That Name? Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988).

Tue. Nov. 20

FEMINIST METHOD 
- Sandra Harding, "Is There a Feminist Method?" 
- Sandra Harding, "The Instability of the Analytical Categories of Feminist Theory"

Tue. Nov. 27

REVISITING THE PUBLIC & THE PRIVATE 
- bell hooks, "Homeplace," Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics (Toronto: Between the Lines, 1990). 
- Nancy Fraser & Linda Nicholson, "A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the Welfare State"

Tue. Dec. 4

INTERROGATING THE FEMINIST STANDPOINT 
- Nancy Hartsock, "The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism," The Second Wave.
- Patricia Hill Collins, "Defining Black Feminist Thought," The Second Wave.
- Marlee Kline, "Women's Opression and Racism: A Critique of the 'Feminist Standpoint'" 

Tue. Jan. 8

INTERROGATING WHITENESS 
- Ruth Frankenberg, Excerpts,White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993). 
- Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies," R. Delgado & J. Stefancic, eds., Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997). 
- bell hooks, "Overcoming White Supremacy: a Comment" 
- Himani Bannerji, "Introducing Racism: Notes Toward an Anti-Racist Feminism," Thinking Through: Essays on Feminism, Marxism and Anti-Racism (Toronto: Women's Press, 1995).

Tue. Jan. 15

INTERSECTIONALITY 
- Audre Lorde, "Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference" 
- Kimberle Crenshaw, "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Color" 
- Himani Bannerji, "In the Matter of X," Thinking Through.

Film: Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lord (1995, 60 min.) 

Tue. Jan. 22

FEMINISM & FIRST NATIONS: AUTHENTICITY & ESSENTIALISM 
- Lee Maracle, Excerpts, I Am Woman: a Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism (Vancouver: Press Gang, 1996).

Tue. Jan. 29

PROBLEMATIZING IDENTITIES: AUTHENTICITY & ESSENTIALISM 
- Saloni Mathur, "bell hooks Called Me a 'Woman of Color,'" The Other Woman: Women of Colour in Contemporary Canadian Literature, ed. Makeda Silvera (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1995). 
- Pratibha Parmar, "Other Kinds of Dreams," Feminist Review no. 31 (Spring 1989). 
- Anitha Sheth & Amita Handa, "Jewel in the Frown: Striking Accord Between India/n Feminists"

Film: A Place of Rage (1991, 52 min.) 

Tue. Feb. 5

THE SUBJECT IN QUESTION: FEMINISM  & POSTSTRUCTURALISM 
- Joan Scott, "Deconstructing Equality-versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism"

Tue. Feb. 12

SEX WARS 
- C. MacKinnon, "Sexuality," The Second Wave.
Amber Hollibraugh, "Desire for the Future: Radical Hopes in Passion and Pleasure," Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, ed. C.S. Vance (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984). 
- "Petition in Support of the Scholar and Feminist IX Conference," Pleasure and Danger.
- Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex" 
- Lynne Segal, "Talking Straight: Reclaiming Hopes for Women's Sexual Liberation," Z Magazine (Nov. 1994), 45-48.

Film: Female Misbehaviour (1993, 90 min.) 

Tue. Feb. 19

READING WEEK - NO CLASS

Tue. Feb. 26

QUEER THEORY 
- Kathleen Martindale, "What Makes Lesbianism Thinkable? Theorizing Lesbianism from Adrienne Rich to Queer Theory," Feminist Issues: Race, Class and Sexuality (New York: Prentice Hall, 1995). 
- Dana Takagi, "Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America," Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience, ed. R. Leong (New York: Routledge, 1996). 
- Clare Hemmings, "Locating Bisexual Identities: Discourses of Bisexuality and Contemporary Feminist Theory," Mapping Desire, ed. D. Bell & G. Valentine (New York: Routledge, 1995).

Film: Thank God I'm a Lesbian

Tue. Mar. 5

GENDER AS PERFORMANCE 
- Judith Butler, "Imitation and Gender Subordination," The Second Wave.
- Judith Butler, excerpts, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1989).

Film: The Virgin Machine (1987, 90 min.) 

Tue. Mar. 12

FEMINIST ECONOMICS - DOMESTIC & GLOBAL 
- Marilyn Waring, Excerpts, If Women Counted: a New Femionist Economics (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988). 
- Evelyn Nakano Glenn, "From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labour" 
- K. Hossfelt, "Their Logic Against Them"

Film: Sisters in the Struggle (1991, 50 min.) 

Tue. Mar. 19

GLOBAL FEMINISM TO POSTCOLONIAL FEMINISMS 
- Chandra Talpade Modhanty, "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses" 
Uma Narayan, "Contesting Cultures," The Second Wave.
- Aamir Mufti & Ella Shohat, "Introduction", A. McClintock et al (eds), Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Perspectives (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997). 

Tue. Mar. 26