Oct 7Feminism Confronts “Settler Colonialism”

  • Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill, “Decolonializing Feminism: Challenging Connections Between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy,” Feminist Formations 26:1 (2013) 8-34 (Latte)

**DUE: FIRST SET OF JOURNAL ENTRIES BY EMAIL (5 PM by email)

Oct 11Borderland Writing

  • Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera, selections (Latte)

Oct 14Asian Americans: Gendered Betrayals and Subversions

  • Sumi K. Cho, “Converging Stereotypes in Racialized Sexual Harassment: Where the Model Minority Meets Suzie Wong.”
  • Selections from This Bridge Called My Back
  • Optional: Erin KhuêNinh, Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature (selections) (Latte)

Postmodern, Poststructuralist, and Queer Theories

Oct 18Foucault: Power, Discipline, and Docile Bodies,

  • RFT, 300-308
  • Foucault, “Method,” RFT, 309-311
  • Foucault, “Docile Bodies” (Latte)
  • Sandra Lee Bartky, “Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power,”RFT, 312-316

In-class Analysis of You Tube music video: Lady Gaga, “Bad Romance”

Oct 21Queer and Transgender Theories

  • Judith Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination,” RFT, 317-321
  • Kate Bornstein, “From Gender Outlaw,” RFT, 327-330
  • Judith Halberstein, “An Introduction to Female Masculinity: Masculinity Without Men,” RFT 331-335
  • Optional: Charlotte Fonrobert, “Gender Identity in Halakhic Discourse,” in

Oct 25Brandeis Monday

Oct 28Queer Gazes in Graphic Novels

  • Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2007)

Why am I who I am? How is gender identity formed, performed, repressed, and modified? Analyze the relationship between the daughter’s open lesbian existence and her father’s closed gay life. What does it mean to “queer” the family? Pay close attention to the intersection between the visual and verbal tropes in this graphic novel.

Nov 1Rose Art Museum Field Trip

**DUE: SECOND SET OF JOURNAL ENTRIES (5 PM by email)

Postcolonial and Global Feminism

Nov 4Decolonizing Theory and Transnational Feminist Praxis

  • Chandra MohantyTalpade, “Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anti-Capitalist Struggles,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28: 2 (2003): 499-535 (Latte)
  • GayatriChakravortySpivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” RFT, 500-504

Nov 8Postcolonial and Neoliberal Politics of Feminism

  • RatnaKapur, “Pink Chaddis and SlutWalkCoutour: The Postcolonial Politics of Feminism Lite,” Feminist Legal Studies 20 (2012): 1-20 (Latte)
  • Dina M. Siddiqi, “Solidarity, Sexuality, and Saving Muslim Women in Neoliberal Times,” WSQ 42: 3-4 (2014): 292-306 (Latte)
  • Optional: MaliniJoharSchueller, “Cross-cultural Identification, Neoliberal Feminism, and Afghan Women,” Genders 53 (2011)

NOV 9 (WED)Alison Bechdel Paper Due (5-6 pages) Submission through Latte

Nov 11 Voices of Feminism in Africa (Explore one website)

  • Minna Salami (Founder of MsAfropolitan, Nigeria)
  • Nana DarkoyaSekyiamah (Curator of Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, Ghana)
  • BellineSeyoum (Founder of African Feminism, Ethiopia)
  • ChimamandaNgozeAdiche (Writer, Nigeria)

Nov 15New Reproductive Technologies

  • Amrita Pande, “Commercial Surrogacy in India: Manufacturing a Perfect Mother-Worker,” Signs 35:4 (2010) (Latte)
  • Optional: SibylleLustenberger, “From Mumbai to Tel Aviv: Distance and Intimacy in Transnational Surrogacy Arrangements,” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 12: 2 (2016): 204-224

Nov 18Ecofeminism and Feminist Environmental Justice

  • Linda A. Malone, “Environmental Justice Reimagined Through Human Security and Post-Modern Ecological Feminism: a Neglected Perspective on Climate Change,” Faculty Publications (2015) (Latte)
  • Filomena Steady, “Women, Climate Change, and Liberation in Africa,” Race, Gender, and Class 21:1/2 (2012): 312-33 (Latte)

Nov 22Body Projects: Beauty, Gender, and Globalization

  • Sharon Heijin Lee, “Between Empires: Global Feminism, Plastic Surgery, and the Trouble with Self Esteem,” Frontiers: Journal of Women’s Studies 37:1 (2016): 1-31 (Latte)
  • Optional: Ruth Holliday and Joanna Elfving Hwang, “Gender, Globalization, and Aesthetic Surgery in South Korea,” Body and Society (2014)

In-class film clip: “I Want a Gangnam-Style Face”

THANKSGIVING BREAK

Nov 29Third Wave and Neoliberal Feminism

  • Rebecca Walker, “Being Real: An Introduction” RFT, 363-65
  • Astrid Henry, “Solitary Sisterhood: Individualism Meets Collectivity in Feminism’s Third Wave,” RFT, 389-393
  • Catherine Rottenberg, “The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism,” Cultural Studies 28:3 (2014): 418-37 (Latte)

Dec 2Group Presentations

Dec 6Group Presentations

Dec 7***FINAL SET OF JOURNAL ENTRIES DUE (5 PM BY EMAIL)

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