Required reading:
Compendium
Articles in the syllabus without a link or an x are gathered in compendia which you can buy in the bookshop, in the basement of Akademika/Kopiutsalget, Blindern.
Links
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Reading list:
Aarseth, Helene. “Between Labour and Love: The Re‐erotization of Home‐making in Egalitarian Couples within a Nordic Context,” NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 15:2-3 (2007): 133-143 (10 pp). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08038740701511669
xAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: We Should All Be Feminists. New York: Vintage Books, 2014 (8 pp).
Ahmed, Sara. “Feminist Killjoys.” The Scholar and Feminist Online 8:3 (2010) (11 pp). Link.
Alcoff, Linda i Hackett Elizabeth and Sally Haslanger (eds.): Theorizing Feminisms: A Reader, 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press. "The Problem of Speaking for Others", pp. 78-91.
Beauvoir, Simone de: The Second Sex. London: Vintage Books, 2010 (1979). Excerpt: “Vol. 2, Part I, chapter 1: Childhood” pp. 330-394 (64 pp). Link.
Bebel, August: Women and Socialism, 1910, (1879). "Women in the Future", Chapter XXVIII , 6 pages. link.
Bennett, Judith. History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Excerpt: “Ch 3 Who’s Afraid of the Distant Past?” pp. 30-53 (23 pp
Braidotti, Rosi. Metamorphoses: towards a materialist theory of becoming. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002. Excerpt: “Meta(l)morphoses” pp 212-263 (51 pp).
Butler, Jess. “For White Girls Only? Postfeminism and the Politics of Inclusion.” Feminist Formations, 25:1 (Spring 2013): 35–58 (23 pp). Link
Butler, Judith. “Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex.” Yale French Studies 72 (1986): 35-49 (15 pp). link (pdf).
xCarby, Hazel. “White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood.” Black British Cultural Studies, eds. Houston A. Baker, Jr. Manthia Diawara and Ruth H. Lindeborg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996: 61-84 (23 pp).
Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. Oxon: Routledge, 1993. Excerpt: “Ch 1 Kristeva, Femininity, Abjection” pp 8-15 (8 pp).
Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review 43:6 (1991): 1241-1299 (58 pp). Link.
Daly, Mary. Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Boston: Beacon Press 1978. Excerpt:Disemberment by Christian and Postchristian Myth, pp. 73-105 (32 pp).
Davis, Sue. The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women’s Rights and the American Political Tradition. New York and London: New York University Press, 2008. Excerpt: “Ch 10 Multiple Feminisms and Multiple Traditions. Elizabeth Cady Stanton in American Political Thought” pp. 309-318 (9 pp).
Garland-Thomson, Rosemary. “Feminist Disability Studies.” Signs, 30:2 (Winter 2005), pp. 1557-1587 (30 pp) Link.
Gournay, Marie Le Jars de. Apology for the woman writing: and other works. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2002. Excerpt: “The Equality of Men and Women” pp. 75-95 (20 pp).
Halberstam, Judith. “The Pregnant Man.” Velvet Light Trap 65 (Spring 2010): 77 (1 p). Link.
Haraway, Donna. “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s” Feminism/Postmodernism, eds. Ed. Linda Nicholson. New York and London: Routledge, 1990: 190-223 (33 pp). Link (pdf).
Haslanger, Sally. “Gender and Social Construction: Who? What? When? Where? How?” Theorizing Feminisms: A Reader, eds. Elizabeth Hackett and Sally Haslanger. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006: 16-23 (7 pp).
hooks, bell. “Theory as liberatory practice.” The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 4:1 (1992): 1-12 (11 pp). Link.
Ingraham, Chrys: “Heterosexuality: It’s Just Not Natural!” Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies, eds. Diane Richardson and Steven Seidman. Sage Publication, 2002 (7 pp). Link.
Irigaray, Luce. Speculum. Trans. Gillian C. Gill. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985. Excerpt: “Any theory of the subject” pp. 133-146 (13 pp).
Jaggar, Allison M. Just Methods. Paradigm Publishers, 2008. Excerpt: “Feminist studies” pp. 191-198 (7 pp).
xKafer, Alison. Feminist Queer Crip. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2013. Excerpt: “Ch 3 Debating Feminist Futures: Slippery Slopes, Cultural Anxiety, and the Case of the Deaf Lesbians” pp. 69-85 (16 pp).
Kelly, Joan. “Early Feminist Theory and the Querelle des Femmes, 1400-1789.” Signs: Journal of Women and Culture and Society 8:1 (1982): 65-109 (44 pp). link (pdf).
Kristeva, Julia. Tales of Love. New York: Colombia University Press, 1987. Excerpt: “Stabat Mater” pp. 234-263 (30 pp).
Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider, Berkeley: Crossing Press, 1984. Excerpt: “The Master’s tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House” (3 pp). Link.
Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider. Berkeley: Crossing Press, 1984. Excerpt: “An Open Letter to Mary Daly” pp. 66-71 (6 pp).
Luxemburg, Rosa. Selected Political Writings. Ed. and introduced by Dick Howard, 1971. Excerpt: “Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle.” Speech at the Second Social Democratic Women’s Rally, Stuttgart, Germany, May 12, 1912 (6 pp). link.
McRobbie, Angela. “Notes on the Perfect.” Australian Feminist Studies, 30:83 (2015): 3-20 (19 pp) Link.
Mercer, Kobena. “Black hair/style politics.” New Formations 3 (1987): 33-54 (22 pp) Link
Mitchell, Juliet. Women: The Longest Revolution. Essays in Feminism, Literature and Psychoanalysis, (1966) 1984. London: Virago Press. Excerpt: “Women: The Longest Revolution” pp. 17-54 (37 pp). link.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.” Feminist Review 30 (1988): 61-88 (28 pp). Link.
Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, eds. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999: 833-44 (12 pp). Link
Nussbaum, Martha C: Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Vol. 74, No. 2 , 2000. "The future of feminist liberalism", pp. 47-79 (33 pages). link.
Reddy, Vanita. “The nationalization of the global Indian woman.” South Asian Popular Culture, 4:1 (2006): 61-85 (24 pp).Link.
Rich, Adrienne. “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision.” College English 34:1 (1972): 18-30 (13 pp). link (pdf).
Rushin, Donna Kate. “The Bridge Poem.” This Bridge Called My Back, eds. Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua. Watertown, Mass.: Persephone Press, 1981: xxi-xxii (2 pp).
Scott, Joan W. Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. Excerpt: “Rereading the History of Feminism” pp. 1-18 (18 pp).
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. New York: Harvester, 1991. Excerpt: “Introduction: Axiomatic” pp. 1-65 (selection of 40 pages).
Shildrick, Margrit. Embodying the Monster: Encounters with the Vulnerable Self. London: Sage, 2002. Excerpt: “Ch 2 Monstering the (M)Other” pp. 28-47 (19 pp). Link.
Showden, Carisa R.. “What's Political about the New Feminisms?” A Journal of Women Studies, 30:2 (2009): 166-198 (33 pp) Link.
Spivak, Gayatri C. “Feminism and Critical Theory.” Women’s Studies International Quarterly 1:3 (1978): 241-246 (6 pp). Link.
Stone, Sandy. “The empire strikes back: a posttranssexual manifesto.” Body Guards, eds. Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub. New York: Routledge, 1991. (17 pp) http://sandystone.com/empire-strikes-back.html
Thomas, Carol. Female Forms. Experiencing and understanding disability. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1999. Excerpt: “Chapter 4 Disability and feminist perspectives: the personal and the political” pp. 65-83 (19 pp).
Truth, Sojourner. “Aint I a Woman?” Speech at the Women's Convention, Akron, Ohio, 1851 (1 p). Link.
Wittig, Monique. “One is not born a woman.” Feminist Theory Reader. Local and global perspectives, eds. Carole Mccann and Kim Seung-Kyung. New York: Routledge, 2003: 249-254 (5 pp). Link.
Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792. Excerpt: “Chapter II. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed” pp. 88-106 (18 pp). Link.