IPSE II, WINTER 1989:
Instructors:
Leora Auslander. Office:
George Steinmetz. Office:
THEORIES OF CLASS AND GENDER
222 SS - 2-7940
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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:
Oxford University Press, 1985.
Claire Duchen, Feminism in France:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986).
From May '68 to Mitt‚rand (London:
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality:
Robert Hurley, (New York: Vintage, 1980).
Volume I:
An Introduction trans.
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:
(Oxford, 1988)
Paradoxes and Promises
Rosalind Coward, Patriarchal Precedents
Jahoda, M., P. Lazarsfeld, and H. Zeisel. Marienthal:
Unemployed Community. London, 1972.
Teresa de Lauretis, Technologies of Gender
Press, 1987).
G"ran Therborn.
1982.
The Sociology of an
(Bloomington:
Indiana University
The Power of Ideology and the Ideology of Power. London: Verso,
Judith Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society:
State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
Women, Class and the
Chris Weedon, Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory
Blackwell, 1987).
(London:
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:
Princeton University 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): 40017.
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?
Formations (1987).
'Women' and Feminism,"
New
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:
Robert Hurley, (New York: Vintage, 1980).
Volume I:
An Introduction trans.
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): 321.
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:
Oxford University 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: Princeton Univ. 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 19th century."
The Polarisation of Sex Roles in
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:
Workshop.
Protnatalism and Working Women."
History
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.
1987)
Women and Work:
Problems and Perspectives (Oxford
Jensen, et. al. Feminization of the Labor Force:
(Oxford, 1988)
Paradoxes and Promises
Nanneke Redclift and Enzo Mingione, eds. Beyond Employment:
and Subsistence (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985)
Friday, February 10:
Household, Gender
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
Blackwell, 1987).
(London:
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:
State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
Friday, February 17:
Women, Class and the
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: Cambridge University 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. 3573 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): 11524.
Bob Jessop et al. "Thatcherism and the Politics of Hegemony:
Hall." New Left Review 151 (1985): 115-24.
A Reply to Stuart
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