課程大綱：
一、課程說明(Course Description)
二、指定用書(Text Books)
無。詳教學進度。
三、參考書籍(References)
詳教學進度。
四、教學方式(Teaching Method)
閱讀上課指定講義、課堂報告與討論。
五、教學進度(Syllabus)（暫訂）
Selected Readings on contemporary Feminism and Gender Theories
Bih-Er Chou
Spring 2006
Thur. 9-12
I. The Classics:
Liberalists-Wollstonecraft, Mary. 1792. A Vindication of the Rights of woman
Friedan, Betty, 1983. The Feminine Mystique. Penguin, Hamonsworth.
Marxists-Engels, F. 1972. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. Penguin.
Raidclas-Firestone, Shulamith. 1970. the Dialectic of Sex; the case for Feminist Revolution. new York:Bantam.
Socilaists-Rubin, Gayle. 1990 (1976). "The Traffic in women: Notes on the "Political Economy of Sex" in women,
Class and the Feminist Imagination; 74-113, Philadelphia: Temple U. Press.
Hartmann, Heidi. 1981. "the unhappy marriage of marxism and feminism: Toward a more progreesive
union' in L. Sargent (ed) Women and Revolution, Montreal: Black Rose Books.
II. Feminism and Psychoanalysis:
Mitchell, juliet. 1976. psychoanlysis and feminism. Penguin, Hamondsworth.
III. Postmodernists:
i.
Offen, K. 1989. "Defining feminism; A comparative historical approach" Signs 14(1); 119-57.
Scott, Joan. 1988 "deconstructing equality-versus-differece," feminist Studies 14
ii.
Butler, J. 1992. "contigent foundation: Feminism and the question of 'postmodernism'" in J. Butler and
J. Scott (eds) feminist theorizing the political: 3-21,New York: Routledge.
Nicholson, Linda 9ed), 1990. Feminism /Postmodernism, 1-18; 19-39; 40-62; 63-82. London:
Routledge.
iii.
Butler, J. 1990. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of Identity, London: Routledge.
Iv. Black feminism:
hook, bell 1984. Feminist theory: From margin to Centre, Boston: Pluto Press.
Collins, P. H. 2000. Black Feminst Thought (2nd ed), New York: Routledge.
V. Motherhood:
Rich, Adrienne 1986 (1976), Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, New York:
Norton.
Chodorow, N. 1978. The Reproduction of Mothering: Psholoanalysis and the sociology of Gender,
Berkeley: U of california Press.
Luker, K. 1984. The Politics of Motherhood, Berkeley: U of California Press.
VI.Power, Sex, Gender
Millett, K. 1970. Sexual politics, London: Rupert Hart-Davis.
klein, E., 1984. Gender Politics, Cambridge: Harvard U Press.
Greer, Germaine, 1977. the Female Eunuch, London: Grafton Books.
VII. Politics (the state), Sex, Gender
MacKinnon, K. 1989. Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, 155-214. Cambridge: Harvard U Press.
Dworkin, Andrea, 1994. 1994 "Pornography" in M. Evans (ed) The Woman Question; 258-262,
London:Sage
Pateman, C. 1994 "The Sexual contract" in the Woman Question; 233-245.
VIII. Gender, Knowledge/Methodology
Gilligan, C., 1982 In a Different Voice, Cambridge: Harvard U. Press.
Harding, S. 1991. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? 105-138, Ithaca: Cornell U Press.
Hartsock, N (1985) Money, Sex and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialsm, Boston:
Northeastern U Press.
____________ (1987) "the feminist standpoint: ...," in S. Harding (ed.) Feminism and Methodology,
Indiana: Indiana U Press.
Smith, D., 1987. The Everyday world as Problematic- A Feminist Sociology, Boston: Northeastern U
Press.
六、成績考核(Evaluation)
Class presentation and discussion of assigned readings-- 40%
term paper on a selected and approved topic (10 pages) (60%)