Seminar Schedule (subject to change):
* unless otherwise noted, everyone is required to read the
text with the asterisk and at least one additional text
Week1:
January 7 Introductions
Course outline and design
Assignments and expectations
Reading: *Johanna Frueh "Erotic Faculties: Introduction"
(handout- to be read in class)
*Val Walsh “Eyewitnesses, not spectators – activists, not academics:
feminist pedagogy and women’s creativity
Week 2: January 14th nature/culture/bordercrossings
Readings:
*Ortner, Is female to male as nature is to culture? , Joyan Saunders and Lisa Platt "Brains on Toast: The inexact
science of gender", Kate
Bornstein My Gender Workbook (excerpt)
Moira Roth “Reading between the Lines; the imprinted spaces
of Sutapa Biswas”
** readings for the first two weeks
are available online as PDF files. You can access them here.
Week 3: January 21st MYTH
*Hattie Gossett: Is
it True What They Say About Colored Pussy?" poem ,
*Andrea Dworkin "The Fairy
Tales" ,
Film: The Life and Times of Sara Baartman: The Hottentot Venus
(or Killing us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women)
Suggested readings:
Patricia Hills Collins "Mammies, Matriachs and other controlling
Images"
Week 4: January 28th nature/culture II
Required readings (they open in a new window)
*Donna Haraway: Cyborg
Manifesto,
Faith Wilding "cyberfeminism"
Shelly Jackson 'my
body' - a Wunderkammer.
Week 5: February 4th GENERATIONS
Frueh
"Hannah Wilke: The Assertion of Erotic Will" ,
Mira Schor "From Liberation to lack" ,
* Nochlin, "Why have there been no great women artists?",
Griselda Pollock "Feminist Interventions in the histories
of art: an introduction"
Jackie Stacey "The Lost Audience: methodology, Cinema
history and feminist film criticism" ,
Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" ,
bell hooks "The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators"
web resource: Welcome to
Judy Chicago and Through the Flower,
Film:
Reclaiming Feminist Art in America 'Taking as
starting point the exhibition "Bad Girls" at the New
Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, critics and artists
discuss the differences between woman artists of the 1990's and
their immediate predecessors.'
Reading Week: February 11th-15th,
2002
Week 6: February 18th Altruism and Romantic Love (or, our Valentine’s
Day post-mortem)
Firestone, Shulamith. "Love: A Feminist Critique."
in Philosophy and Sex (2nd Edition). Edited by Robert Baker.
Buffalo: Prometheus Books. pp. 37-52.
*Simone de Beavoir: “The Woman in Love” Second Sex
*We will share ideas about final projects in class.
Week 7: February 25th MASQUERADE AND MONSTROUS
IDENTITY
Readings:
Judith Butler Gender trouble (excerpt) ,
*Laura Mulvey: "Cosmetics and Abjection: Cindy Sherman, 1977-1987"
,
web readings: Gendered
Monsters, The Chimera Herself
VNS MATRIX: H A U
N T I N G S (all women are ghosts)
Francesca da Rimini: I am my own Freak Show [no longer available
online]
Orlan
website.
Film: Nobody's Here but Me: Cindy Sherman.
great resource here:
the monstrous feminine in literature and art
(click
for more images)
Cindy Sherman,
Untitled Film Still #11. 1978. Collection The Museum of Modern
Art, New York.
Last date to drop courses without receiving a grade is March 1st
(February 8th for full year courses).
Week 8: March 4th
Writing Beyond the Ending
Pratibha Parmar Between Theory and Poetry (interview with Trinh
Minh-ha)
*Jaishree Odin "The
Edge of Difference: Negotiations Between the Hypertextual and
the Postcolonial”
*Carole Maso “Rupture,
verge, and precipice: precipice, verge, and hurt not” (poem)
Suggested: Angela Carter
Passion of a New Eve,
Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein or
L. Frank Baum's Patchwork
girl of Oz.
In class viewing - Shelly Jackson's Patchwork
Girl (hypertext)
Film (time permitting): Reassemblage
Week 9: March11th: MEMORY
*Toni Morrison "The Site of memory," distributed
in class
Dorothy Allison "A question of Class" , distributed
in class
bell hooks "An Aesthetic of Blackness: Strange and Oppositional"
distributed in class
web resource: Bubbe
The Digital Story Bee
DRAFTS due today. No formal class today (Caitlin
is doing a residency at Brown University) but you are expected
to bring two copies of your draft to distribute to your readers
today (you will also pick up two drafts to read). Please be on
time!
Week 10: March 18th
THE EVERYDAY: HOUSE and HOME
*Laura Scott Holliday
Kitchen
Technologies: Promises and Alibis, 1944-1966 (online)
* Shannah Ehrhart "Sally mann's Looking Glass houses"
Judith Halberstam "Techno-Homo:
On Bathrooms, butches and sex with furniture" ,
B. Ruby Rich "The Party Line: Gender and technology in the
Home" ,
Mira Schor "You Can't Leave Home without it" ,
*Biddy Martin and Chandra Talpade Mohanty "Feminist Politics:
What's Home Got to do with it?" Lesley Johnson 'As Housewives
we Are Worms': Women, Modernity, and the Home. (ebook)
Jane Fletcher "Uncanny
Resemblances: Sally Mann's Immediate Family"
website: "WomEnhouse
is a collaborative, multi-authored site that explores the politics
of domesticity and gender relations through virtual "rooms"
and conceptual domestic "spaces" by 24 artists, architects,
poets, art historians, and cultural theorists. WomEnhouse takes
its initial inspiration from the 1972 Womanhouse, a groundbreaking
feminist project by Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro and Faith Wilding,
and other artists involved in the Feminist Art Program at the
California Institute of the Arts and from the local community."
Reader Reports Due
Week
11 March 25 PUBLIC - the city body identity home
space
required reading: Meaghan Morris "Things to do with shopping
Centres" (online),
*Walker, Elizabeth Wilson Sphinx in the City (excerpt)
web
resource: jennicam.
Week 12: April 1st SILENCES
required reading: Sally Dawson "Womens' movements: feminism, censorship
and performance art" , Naomi Salaman "
Why Have there been no great women pornographers?" ,
*Audre Lorde "The transformation of Silence into Language
and Action"
Dorothy Allison "Sex Writing" The Importance and the
Difficulty" ,
*Rebecca Brown "What Keeps me Here"
Major Project due (in class).
Last day of classes for the winter term is April
5thth, 2002. Happy
a wonderful summer!
The exam period for undergraduates us April8th-25th. There will be no
formal exam for this course.
