Spring 2011 Womens Studies 100: Gender Theory (Sproul Hall 2355, 11:10-12:30) Tentative Syllabus Professor Alicia

Arrizn Alicia.Arrizon@ucr.edu INTN 2033C (951) 827-4359 or 6427 Office Hours: T & Th. 1-2 Course Description This course looks at a variety of theories that explain gender as one of feminisms central categories of inquiry, intersecting with many other social systems such as race and sexuality. In general, the course pays particular attention to how these markers of difference function to constitute and reinforce subject formations. The course emphasizes reading and writing. Students are expected to position themselves as theorists or active readers of theory, responding critically to the selected texts. They are also expected to come prepared to exchange ideas in class discussions and to take examinations regarding the required readings. Required Texts: Elizabeth Hackett and Sally Haslanger, Theorizing Feminisms: A Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). Selected Readings: A course reader will be available online at the Blackboard Learning System (ilearn.ucr.edu). Course Requirements: Lecture materials, class discussions, and supplemental readings are the priorities in this course. There is no text to replace lectures. Students are expected to complete all of the readings and be prepared to raise questions and issues for discussion in class. NO LATE PAPER WILL BE ACCEPTED. The requirements include: I. Class Attendance & Participation (20): Required reading and discussion of assigned material. Please be on time for class. Any absence will affect your final grade. Turn off any cellular phones and pagers during class. II. Five Unannounced Quizzes (6 points each x 5 = 30): Quizzes will be based on the course readings. No make up quiz. III. One Term Paper (20): Selected topics will be assigned by the professor. Term Paper should be 5-7-page long. See class schedule below for deadlines.

2 IV. Final Exam, June 8, 8-11. (30). Students are required to take a final written exam responding to key concepts and theories learned during the term. Grades: The final grade will be based on the following percentages: 100-98: A+; 97-95: A; 94-92: A-; 91-89: B+; 88-86: B; 85-83: B-; 82-80: C+; 79-77: C; 76-74: C-; 73-71: D+; and below: D or F. Class Lectures and Assigned Readings Week One (March 28-31): Introduction: Goals and Expectations. Gender Theory and Feminism(s) in the 21st Century. Read iLearn: Reading by Bonnie Zimmerman. Week Two (April 5-7): Gender Oppression, Exploitation, and Patriarchy. Read Theorizing Feminisms (TF), pp. 2-30 Class and Gender as Social Constructions. (TF), pp. 40-50. Week Three (April 12-14): Anti-Essentialism and Intersectionality. Read TF, pp. 30-40 and 159-173. The Politics of Race and Ethnicity: Third World/Womens of Color Feminisms Read TF, pp. 51-61 and 418-30. Week Four (April 19-21): The Eroticization of Dominance. Read: TF, pp. 256-266 and pp. 333-335 and Gwendolyn D. Pough (on iLearn). Term Paper will be assigned. Documentary: Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (2006). Manhood, Sexism, and Homophobia in Hip-Hop. Read: TF, pp. 266-271. Week Five (April 26-28): Cross-Cultural Methodologies and Interdisciplinarity. Read: TF, pp. 62-78. Cross Cultural Connections.

3 Read: TF, pp. 78-92 and Read iLearn: Paula Austin and Susan Muaddi Darraj. Week Six (May 3-5): Definitions of Womanhood: Beyond Humanism. Read: TF, pp. 113-139. The Power of the Erotic. Read TF, pp. 188-192 and pp. 192-200. Week Seven (May 10-12): Beauty and the Body: Myths and Realities/ Commodities and Discourse. Read: TF, pp. 277-292 Visual Texts will be discussed in class. Plastic Bodies: Critical Responses and Representation. Read: TF, 385-404. Week Eight (May 17-19): Gendering Diversity, Inequality and Sex Discrimination Read: TF, pp. 238-256and 292-297. Queering Feminist Theory. Read TF, pp. 540-564 Week Nine (May 24-26): Transgender Politics. Read TF, pp. 521-526. Video Presentation, TBA. Fantasies of Gender: Theorizations of Female Masculinities. Read: iLearn: Judith Halberstam. Term Paper is due. Week Ten (May 31-June 2): Postmodern Feminism. Read: TF, 340-352 and 363-368. Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Feminism. Read TF, pp. 470-481. Final Exam Date: 06/08/2011, 08:00A.M. - 11:00A.M.

Selected Readings and Bibliography: Interdisciplinary References to Gender Theory Andersen, Margaret and Patricia Hill Collins. 1995. Race, Class and Gender: An Anthology. CA: Wadsworth. Anzalda, Gloria E. 1987. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute Book Co. Anzalda, editor. 1990. Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color. San Francisco: Aunt Lute. -----. 1997. "To(o) Queer the Writer-Loca, escritora y chicana." In C. Trujillo, ed. Living Chicana Theory. Berkeley: Third Woman Press. Anzalda and Cherre Moraga, editors. 1981. This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color. New York: Kitchen Table. Austin, Paula. 2002. Femme-Inism: Lesson of my Mother. Hernndez, Daisy and Bushra Rehman, ed. Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Todays Feminism. New York: Seal Press. Baca, Maxine, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A. Messner. 2005. Gender Through the Prism of Difference. New York: Oxford University Press. Bederman, Gail. 1996. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917: University of Chicago. Bem, Sandra. 1993. The Lenses of Gender. New Haven: Yale. Blee, Kathleen M. 1998. Women and Radical Protest. New York: NYU Press. Bornstein, Kate. 1995. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us. New York: Vintage Books. Brenner, Johanna. 2003. Transnational Feminism and The Struggle for Global Justice. New Politics 9, no. 2. Browne, Irene. 1999. Latinas and African American Women at Work: Race, Gender, and Economic Inequality. New York: Russell Sage. Brush, Paula. 2001. Problematizing the Race Consciousness of Women of Color. Sings: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 27, no.: 171-198. Butler, Judith. 1997. "Gender Is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion. Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, & Postcolonial Perspectives. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

5 Butler, Judith. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York:Routledge. Chow, Esther Ngan-Ling. 1987. The Development of Feminist Consciousness Among Asian American Women. Gender & Society 1:284-99 Collins, Patricia Hill. 2000. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, Rev. 10th anniversary edition. NY: Routledge. Cooper, Vicki. 1998. Female Camp? Drag and the Politcs of Parody and Queer Performance. Cultural Studies from Birmingham 2.1. Cranny-Francis, Anne et al. 2003. Gender Studies: Terms and Debates. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Craske, Nikki. 1999. Women & Politics in Latin America. New Jersey: Rutgers. Darraj, Susan Muaddi. 2002. Its Not an Oxymoron: The Search for an Arab Feminism. Hernndez, Daisy and Bushra Rehman, ed. Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Todays Feminism. New York: Seal Press. De Lauretis, Teresa. 1987. Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film and Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. -----.1991. Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities: An Introduction. Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 3 (2): iii-xviii. Denzin, Norman K. 1993. "Sexuality and Gender: An Interactionist/Poststructural Reading." In P. England, ed. Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Disch, Estelle. 2000. Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology. 2nd edition. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co. East, Jean. F. 2000. Empowerment Through Welfare-Rights Organizing: A Feminist Perspective. Affilia 15:311-328. England, Paula. 1993. Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 2000. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books. Fine, Michelle and Lois Weis. 1998. The Unknown City: Lives of Poor and WorkingClass Young Adults. Boston: Beacon Press. Ferree Myra Marx, Judith Lorber and Beth B. Hess. 1999. ReVisioning Gender. Thousand Oaks. CA: Sage. Foucault, Michel. 1990 [1978]. The History of Sexuality. Vintage Books.

6 Hackett, Elizabeth and Sally Haslanger. 2006. Theorizing Feminisms: A Reader. New York: Oxford University Press. Halberstam Judith. 1998. Female Masculinities. Durham: Duke University Press. Haraway, Donna J. 1991. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge. Hardy Aiken, Susan, et al., ed. 1998. Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor, Materiality Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. Haywoode, Terry L. 1999. Working-Class Women and Local Politics: Styles of Community Organizing. Research in Politics and Society 7:111-134. Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 1994. Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Hong Kingston, Maxine. 1977. The Woman Warrior. New York: Vintage. Irons, Jenny. 1998. The Shaping of Activist Recruitment and Participation. Gender & Society 12:692-709. hooks, bell. 1984. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Boston: South End Press. .1992. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press. Hurtado, Ada. 1996. The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. -----. 1997. "The Politics of Sexuality and the Gender Subordination of Chicanas." in C. Trujillo, ed. Living Chicana Theory. Berkeley: Third Women Press. Jad, Islah. 1995. Claiming Feminism, Claiming Nationalism: Womens Activism in the Occupied Territories. In The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Womens Movements in Global Perspective, Amrita Basu, ed. Boulder: Westview. Kaminsky, Amy K. 1993. Reading The Body Politic: Feminist Criticism and Latin American Womens Writers. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Kaplan, Caren and Inderpal Grewal. 1999. Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies: Beyond the Marxism/Postructuralism/Feminism Divides. In Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminism, and the State. Durham: Duke University Press. Kessler, Suzanne and Wendy McKenna. 2002. Who put the Trans in Transgender: Gender Theory and Everyday Life. The International Journal of Transgenderism 4, 3. Also in www.symposion.com/ijt/gilbert/kessler.htm King, Deborah K. 1988. "Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology." Signs 14,1:42-69.

7 Kingfisher, Catherine Plissier. 1996. Women in the American Welfare Trap. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Messner, Michael. 1989. Masculinities and Athletic Careers. Gender & Society 3:7188. Levine, Stephen B. and Laura Davis. 2002. What I did for Love: Temporary Returns to the Male Gender Role. The International Journal of Transgenderism 6, 4. Also in www.symposion.com/ijt/ijtv06no04_04.htm McIntosh, Peggy. 2001. White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies (1988). In Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology, edited by M. Andersen and P. H. Collins. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Pp. 95-105. Mink, Gwendolyn. 1995. The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 1991. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses. In Third World Women and The Politics of Feminism. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo and Lourdes Torres, editors. Bloomingto: Indiana University Press. Pp. 51-80. Moraga, Cherre. 2000. "La Gera." Estelle Disch, ed. Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology. 2nd edition. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co: 564-570. -----. 1997. Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood. Ithaca: Firebrand Books. -----. 1983. Loving in the War Years: lo que nunca paso por sus labios. Boston: South End Press. -----. 1993. The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry. Boston: South End Press. Naples, Nancy A. 1998a. Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work, and The War on Poverty. New York: Routledge. -----. 1998b. Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing Across Race, Calss, and Gender. New York: Routledge. Neuwirth, Jessica. 2003. Globalization: A Secret Weapon for Feminists. http://www.feminist.com/resources/artspeech/inter/globaliz.html Norton, Rictor. 1997. The Myth of the Modern Homosexual: Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity. Washington: Cassel. Ostrander, Susan A. 1999. Gender and Race in a Pro-Feminist, Progressive, MixedGender, Mixed-Race Organization. Gender & Society 13:628-642.

8 Pough, Gwendolyn D. 2002. Love Feminism But Whers my Hip Hop? Hernndez, Daisy and Bushra Rehman, ed.Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Todays Feminism. New York: Seal Press. Pardo, Mary S. 1998. Mexican American Women Activists: Identity and Resistance in Two Los Angeles Communities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Roberts, D. 1997. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. New York: Pantheon. Russo, Ann. 1991. 'We Cannot Live without Our Lives': White Women, Antiracism, and Feminism. in Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, edited by C. T. Mohanty, A. Russo, and L. Torres: Indiana University Press. Salvaggio, Ruth. 1999. The Sounds of Feminist Theory. Albany: SUNY Press. Scott, Joan Wallach. 1999. Gender and the Politics of History, Rev. edition. New York: Columbia University Press. Sedgewick, Eve Kosofsky. 1990. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: University of California Press. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 1995. "Can the Subaltern Speak?" In The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, edited by B. Ashcroft, G. Griffiths, and H. Tiffen. London: Routledge. Stam, H.J. and H.L. Radke. 1994. Power/Gender: Social Relations in Theory and Practice. London: Sage. Tiano, Susan. 1994. Patriarchy on the Line: Labor, Gender and Ideology in the Mexican Maquila Industry. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Tong, Rosemarie. 1998. Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction. 2d ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Trattner, Walter I. 1999. From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America. 6th edition. NY: Free Press. West, Candace and Don Zimmerman. 1987. Doing Gender. Gender & Society 1(2):125-51. West, Candace and S. Fenstermaker. 1995. "Doing Difference." Gender & Society 9(#4) pp. 526-526. Aug. Wing, Adrien Katherine. 1997. Critical Race Feminism: A Reader. New York: New York University Press. Zavella, Patricia. 1987. Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

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