Ipse Ii, Winter 1989: Theories of Class and Gender
IPSE II, WINTER 1989: THEORIES OF CLASS AND GENDER
Instructors:
Leora Auslander. Office: 222 SS - 2-7940
George Steinmetz. Office: 3 SS - 2-3980
Teaching Assistants:
Carol Scherer
Loic Wacquant
Books to be purchased:
Edith Hoshino Altbach, et al. eds. German Feminism: Readings in Politics and Literature (Albany: State University at New York, 1984).
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1983.
Roland Barthes. Mythologies. Hill and Wang, 1957.
David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley, The Peculiarities of German History. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1985.
Claire Duchen, Feminism in France: From May '68 to Mitt‚rand (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986).
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: Volume I: An Introduction trans. Robert Hurley, (New York: Vintage, 1980).
Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks. New York: International Publishers, 1971.
Nannerl O. Keohane, M. Rosaldo and Barbara C. Gelpi, eds. Feminist Theory: A Critique of Ideology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).
Annette Kuhn and Annemarie Wolpe, Feminism and Materialism
Liz Stanley, The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant (New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1984).
Bryan Turner, Citizenship and Capitalism. 1987.
Recommended:
W.F. Haug, Critique of Commodity Aesthetics: Appearance, Sexuality and Advertising in Capitalist Society (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986).
John Hoffman, The Gramscian Challenge. Coercion and Consent in Marxist Political Theory. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987.
Rachel Kuhn-Hut, ed. Women and Work: Problems and Perspectives (Oxford, 1987)
Jensen, et. al. Feminization of the Labor Force: Paradoxes and Promises (Oxford, 1988)
Rosalind Coward, Patriarchal Precedents
Jahoda, M., P. Lazarsfeld, and H. Zeisel. Marienthal: The Sociology of an Unemployed Community. London, 1972.
Teresa de Lauretis, Technologies of Gender (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987).
G"ran Therborn. The Power of Ideology and the Ideology of Power. London: Verso, 1982.
Judith Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class and the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
Chris Weedon, Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory (London: Blackwell, 1987).
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
There will be two lectures (Mondays and Wednesdays) and one section meeting (Friday) per week. All undergraduates are expected to regularly attend their assigned section.
The written requirements for the course will be:
For undergraduates:
Two book reviews and a take-home final.
For graduate students:
Two book reviews and either the take-home final or a research project. If you are interested in the second option, please discuss it with Ms. Auslander or Mr. Steinmetz.
PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Wednesday, January 4: Leora Auslander
What do class and gender and modernity and postmodernity have to do with one another?
Reading:
Joan Scott, "On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History" in her Gender and the Politics of History (New York: Columbia, 1988): 53-68.
Christine Delphy, "Patriarchy, Domestic Mode of Production, Gender and Class"in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, ed. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988): 259-271.
Sally Alexander, "Women, Class and Sexual Difference," History Workshop 17 (Spring 1984): 125-149.
Recommended:
Craig Owens, "The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism." in Hal Foster, ed. The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Port Townsend, Washington: Bay Press, 1983): 57-83.
Friday, January 6: Discussion
Monday, January 9: George Steinmetz
Class Structure and Class Formation: Maps and Texts
Readings
Erik Olin Wright, Classes (London: Verso, 1985). Chapters 3-4.
Wright, Erik Olin. 1980. "Varieties of Marxist Conception of Class Structure." Politics and Society 9-3: 323-370.
Murphy, Raymond. 1986. "The Concept of Class in Closure Theory: Learning from rather than falling into the problems encountered by neo-Marxism." Sociology 20 (2): 247-64.
Przeworski, Adam. 1985. "The Process of Class Formation from Kautsky's `The Class Struggle' to Recent Controversies." In Capitalism and Social Democracy. Cambridge and Paris: Cambridge University Press and Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.
Katznelson, Ira and Aristide R. Zolberg (eds.). 1987. Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States. Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press. Introduction. Chapter One (pp. 3-41).
Pierre Bourdieu. "Social Space and the Genesis of Groups." Theory and Society 14 (6) (1985): 723-44.
Recommended:
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1987. "What Makes a Class? On the Theoretical and Practical Existence of Groups." Berkeley Journal of Sociology 32: 1-18.
Wednesday, January 11: George Steinmetz
Identity, Class and Gender
Reading:
Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses." In Lenin and Philosophy. London: NLB, 1971: 121-72.
Hall, Stuart. "The Problem of Ideology: Marxism Without Guarantees." in Marx 100 Years on, edited by B. Matthews (London: 1983): 56-85.
Marshall, Gordon. 1983. "Some Remarks on the Study of Working-Class Consciousness." Politics and Society 12-3: 263-302.
Mouffe, Chantal. "The Sex/Gender System and the Discursive Construction of Women's Subordination." Pp. 139-44 in Rethinking Ideology, edited by Sakari H„nninen and Leena Pald n. New York: International General/IMMRC, 1983.
Recommended:
Daniel Bertaux and Isabelle Bertaux-Wiame, "Artisanal bakers in France: how it lives and why it survives," in The Petite Bourgeoisie, edited by Frank Bechhofer and Brian Elliott (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981).
Friday, January 13: Discussion
Monday, January 16: George Steinmetz
Class Conflict and Consent in Marxist and Post-Marxist theory
Readings:
Laclau, Ernesto and Chantal Mouffe. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. London: Verso, 1985.
Recommended:
Tilly, Charles. The Contentious French. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap, 1986. Chapter 10, "Festivals and Fights in the Ile-de-France," pp. 313-350, and Ch. 12, pp. 380-404.
Louise Tilly. "Paths of Proletarianization: Organization of Production, Sexual Division of Labor, and Women's Collective Action." Signs Vol. 7 (2) (1981): 400-17.
Hoffman, John. The Gramscian Challenge. Coercion and Consent in Marxist Political Theory. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987.
Adam Przeworski, "Social Democracy as a Historical Phenomenon." New Left Review 122 (1980): 1-30.
John Rosenthal. "Who Practices Hegemony? Class Division and the Subject of Politics." Cultural Critique (Spring, 1988): 25-52.
Wednesday, January 18: Leora Auslander
Feminist Theories of Gender: the materialist arguments from
equality
Reading:
M. Gimenez, "The oppression of women: a structuralist Marxist view." in I. Rossi, ed. Structural Sociology (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982).
Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong, "Beyond Sexless Class and Classless Sex: Towards Feminist Marxism." in The Politics of Diversity, eds. R. Hamilton and M. Barrett, (London: Verso, 1986).
Mary O'Brien, "Feminist Theory and Dialectical Logic", in Keohane et al.
Annette Kuhn and Annemarie Wolpe, Feminism and Materialism, selected chapters.
Recommended:
Rosalind Coward, Patriarchal Precedents
Heidi Hartmann, "Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex," Signs (1976) 1: 137-70.
Friday, January 20: Discussion
Monday, January 23: Leora Auslander
Feminist Theories of gender: the argument from difference, and
getting beyond that distinction.
Ann Rosalind Jones, "Inscribing Femininity: French Theories of the Feminine" in Gayle Greene and Coppelia Kahn, eds. Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism (London and New York: Methuen, 1985)
Teresa de Lauretis "The Technology of Gender" in her Technologies of Gender (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987).
Denise Riley, "Does a Sex Have a History? 'Women' and Feminism," New Formations (1987).
Helene Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa," in New French Feminisms, ed. Elaine Marks and I. de Courtivon (New York: Schocken, 1981).
Alice Jardine, "Gynesis," Diacritics 12 (1982): 54-65.
Recommended:
Joan Scott, "The Sears Case" in her Gender and the Politics of History (New York: Columbia, 1988): 53-68.
Alice Kessler-Harris, "The Just Price, the Free Market, and the Value of Women" Feminist Studies 14 (Summer 1988): 235-251.
Wednesday, January 25: Leora Auslander
Theorizing sexuality and power
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: Volume I: An Introduction trans. Robert Hurley, (New York: Vintage, 1980).
Jessica Benjamin, "Master and Slave: The Fantasy of Erotic Domination," in Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, eds. Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983.)
Biddy Martin, "Feminism, Criticism and Foucault" in Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby, Feminism and Foucault (Boston: Northeastern University Press 1988): 3-21.
Friday, January 27: Discussion
Monday, January 30: George Steinmetz
Alternative forms of class relations in late 19th century Europe:
Labor Reformism, Parliamentary Democracy, and Nationalism
Reading:
David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley, The Peculiarities of German History. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985) Pp. 98-126 and 261-292.
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. (London: Verso, 1983) Read esp. pp. 11-50 and 80-147.
Therborn, G"ran. "The Rule of Capital and the Rise of Democracy." New Left Review (May-June 1977): 3-41.
Przeworski, Adam. "Social Democracy as a Historical Phenomenon." New Left Review 122 (1980): 1-30.
Moorhouse, H.F. "The Marxist theory of the labour aristocracy. Social History 1978 (3): 61-82.
Recommended:
Calhoun, Craig J. 1983. "The Radicalism of Tradition: Community Strength or Venerable Disguise and Borrowed Language?" American Journal of Sociology 88-5 (March): 886-914.
David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley, The Peculiarities of German History. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1985. Rest of book.
Wednesday February 1: George Steinmetz
Mature Class Relations in the Twentieth Century: Fordism, Corporatism,
Consumerism, and the Welfare State.
Reading:
Turner, Bryan. Citizenship and Capitalism. 1987.
Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks. New York: International Publishers, 1971.: "Americanism and Fordism" (pp. 277-320).
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Hill and Wang, 1957. Read esp. pp. 15-25, 41-42, 74-77, 84-87, and also Part Two if time allows.
Jessop, Bob. "Corporatism, Parliamentarism, and Social Democracy." In Trends Toward Corporatist Intermediation, edited by Philippe Schmitter and Gerhard Lehmbruch (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1979): 185-212.
Recommended:
Esping-Anderson, G. Politics Against Markets: The Social Democratic Road to Power. Princeton: PrincetonUniv. Press, 1985. Esp. Ch. 1 (pp. 3-40).
Friday, February 3: Discussion
Monday, February 6: Mid-term Break
Wednesday, February 8: Leora Auslander
The Gendering of Labor: -- Modern and Postmodern forms of Production,
Reproduction, and Consumption
Reading:
Joan Scott and Louise Tilly, "Women, Work and Family" Comparative Studies in Society and History
M. Barrett and M. McIntosh, "The 'family wage': some problems for socialists and feminists." Capital and Class, 11 (1980): 51-72.
Karin Hausen, "Family and Sex Role Division: The Polarisation of Sex Roles in the 19th century."
Luce Irigaray, "Women on the Market" and "Commodities among Themselves" in her This Sex Which is not One. 170-198.
Denise Riley, "The Free Mothers: Protnatalism and Working Women." History Workshop.
Recommended:
W.F. Haug, Critique of Commodity Aesthetics: Appearance, Sexuality and Advertising in Capitalist Society (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986).
Rachel Kuhn-Hut, ed. Women and Work: Problems and Perspectives (Oxford 1987)
Jensen, et. al. Feminization of the Labor Force: Paradoxes and Promises (Oxford, 1988)
Nanneke Redclift and Enzo Mingione, eds. Beyond Employment: Household, Gender and Subsistence (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985)
Friday, February 10: Discussion
Monday, February 13: Leora Auslander
Gender Formation and Consciousness -- First and Second Wave
Feminism.
Jean H. Quataert, Reluctant Feminists in German Social Democracy, 1885-1917 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), chapters 1, 2 and 4.
Carole Pateman, "Feminist Critiques of the Public/Private Dichotomy." in Public and Private in Social Life,S. Benn and G. Gaus (1983).
German Feminism: Readings in Politics and Literature eds. Edith Hoshino Altbach, et al. (Albany: State University at New York, 1984), selections.
Claire Duchen, Feminism in France: From May '68 to Mitt‚rand (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986), selections.
Recommended:
Julia Kristeva, "Women's Time" in Keohane, et al.
Chris Weedon, Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory (London: Blackwell, 1987).
Wednesday, February 15: Leora Auslander
Between fantasy and reality: Modern and Postmodern sexuality?
Reading:
Liz Stanley, The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant (New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1984), selections.
Leonore Davidoff, "Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Diaries of Arthur J. Munby and Hannah Cullwick," Feminist Studies 5 (Spring, 1979): 87-144.
Recommended:
Leonore Davidoff, "Mastered for Life: Servant and Wife in Victorian and Edwardian England," Journal of Social History (1973-1974)) 7: 406-428.
Gayle Rubin, "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex," in Rayna R. Reiter, ed. Towards an Anthropology of Women (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975).
Carole Pateman, "What's Wrong with Prostitution?" Chapter 7 in her The Sexual Contract (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988).
Judith Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class and the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
Friday, February 17: Discussion
Monday, February 20: Carol Scherer
Eugenics and Race
Readings to be announced
Wednesday, February 22: Loic Wacquant
Middle class formation
Readings to be announced
Friday, February 24: Discussion
Monday, February 27: George Steinmetz
The Decline of the Post-War Accord and the rise of new forms of
politics and class relations
Reading:
Offe, Claus. "Work: The Key Sociological Category?." Pp. in Contradictions of the Welfare State. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1984.
Offe, Claus. "Challenging the boundaries of institutional politics: social movements since the 1960s." In Changing Boundaries of the Political, edited by Charles S. Maier: 63-106. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1987.
Melucci, A. "New Movements, Terrorism, and the Political System." Socialist Review 56 (March-April 1981).
Offe, Claus. "Reaching for the Brake: The Greens in Germany." New Political Science (Spring 1983): 45-52.
Recommended:
Melucci, A. "The New Social Movements: A Theoretical Approach." Social Science Information 19:2 (1980): 217-18.
Stuart Hall. "The Toad in the Garden: Thatcherism among the Theorists." Pp. 35-73 in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, edited by Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988).
Bob Jessop et al., "Authoritarian Populism, Two Nations, and Thatcherism." New Left Review 147 (1984): 32-60.
Stuart Hall. "Authoritarian Populism: A Reply." New Left Review 151 (1985): 115-24.
Bob Jessop et al. "Thatcherism and the Politics of Hegemony: A Reply to Stuart Hall." New Left Review 151 (1985): 115-24.
Bob Jessop et al. "Popular Capitalism, Flexible Accumulation and Left Strategy," New Left Review 165 (1987): 104-22.
Bob Jessop, Thatcherism: A Tale of Two Nations (Cambridge: Polity, 1988).
Wednesday, March 1: Daniel Milo
"Is there a Postmodern History?"
Readings to be announced
Friday, March 3: Discussion
Monday, March 6: Roland Roth
Readings to be announced
Wednesday, March 8: George Steinmetz
Post Modernity and Modernity: Concluding Lecture
Reading:
F. Jameson, "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism." New Left Review 146 (1984): 53-93.
Douglas Kellner. "Postmodernism as Social Theory: Some Challenges and Problems" Theory, Culture, Society 5 (2-3) (1988): 239-69.
Chantal Mouffe. "Hegemony and New Political Subjects: Towards a New Concept of Democracy." Pp. 89-104 in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, edited by Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988).
Questions for the final handed out