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Number：09510SOC 學分 Credit：3
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中文名稱 Course Title：女性主義理論
英文名稱 Course English Title：A Study of Feminist
Theories
任課教師 Instructor：周碧娥、林淑蓉、蕭嫣嫣
上課時間 Time：
上課教室 Room：人社 C306
R2R3R4
課程大綱：
一、課程說明(Course Description)
這門課的目的在於透過跨學科的教學，對不同學科女性主義的關鍵議題的討論，提供修
課同學對當代女性主義理論一個較全面的理解。授課內容包括兩部份：第一部 份是女
性主義與婦女運動的歷史回顧─內容涵蓋十八世紀以來的女性主義思潮與婦運，並以
Mary Wollstonecraft 與 Simone de Beauvoir 為焦點探討第一波女性主義思潮的內涵；第二
部份則是以當代女性主義的發展為重心，選擇其中對男流知識最具批判性與理論開創性
的議題，進行 原典閱讀與深度討論。閱讀的材料涵蓋文學、人類學、與社會學的論文
與影片。
二、指定用書(Text Books)
三、參考書籍(References)
無。詳見上課進度表。
四、教學方式(Teaching Method)
就指定的閱讀論文作摘要作口頭報告與討論為主。
五、教學進度(Syllabus)
W1 Introduction:
W2 1. Historical Review of Feminisms ad Women’s Movement
Part I First -Wave Feminisms and Feminists
W3 Mary Wollstonecraft
W4 Simone de Beauvoir
Part II Issues of Second-Wave Feminist Theories
W5 Subjectivity
W6 Pornography
W7 Film – Leaving Las Vegas/ Tess of D’Verville
W8 Motherhood
W9 Abortion
W10 Equality
W11 Students’Presentation of Proposed Term Papers
W12 Body
W13 Sesxuality
W14 Identity
W15 Colonialism
W 16 Presentation of Term Papers
Detail Readings:
I Women’s Movement and Feminisms:
Cott, Nancy F., 1987. “The Birth of Feminism” in The Grounding of Modern Feminism, Pp.
11-50. New Haven: Yale U. Press.
Jenson, J., 1996. “Representations of Difference: The Varieties of French Feminism” in M.
Threlfall (ed.) Mapping the Women’s Movement, Pp. 73-114. London: verso.
Mahon, E., 1996. “Women’s Rights and Catholicism in Ireland” in Mapping the Women’s
Movement, Pp. 184-215.
II. On Mary Wollstonecraft:
Falco, M . J. (ed), 1996. Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft, Chapter 1, 4, 6.
University Park: Penn State U. Press.
III. On Simone De Beauvoia
Simons, M. A., 1995. Feminist Interpretations of Simone De Beauvoia, Introduction, Chapter
1,8,12. Univesity Park: Penn State University.
Equality and Difference:
Tong, R. P., 1998. Feminist Thought, Pp. 10-34. Boulder, Co: Westview.
Young, I., 1998, “Polity and group difference: A critique of the idea of universal citizenship,”
Feminism and Politics, 401-430.
Squires, J., 1999, “Equality” in Gender in Political theory, 115-139, Cambridge: Polity.
Rhode, D., 1998, “The politics of paradigms: Gender difference and gender disadvantage,”
Feminism and Politics, 344-362.
Sarvasy, W., 1992, “Beyond the difference versus equality policy debate: citizenship, the quest
for a feminist welfare state,” Signs, 17 (2): 329-361
I. Political Economy of Gender: Patriarchal Capitalism
Mitchell, J. 1990. “Women: The Longest Revolution” in K. V. Hansen & I. J. Philipson (eds.)
Women, Class and the Feminist Imagination, Pp. 43-73. Philadelphis: Temple U. Press.
Rubin, Gayle, 1990. “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the “Political Economy of Sex” in
Women, Class and the Feminist Imagination, Pp. 74-113.
Eisenstein, Zillah, 1990. “Constructing a Theroy of Capitalist Patriarchy and Socialist
Feminism” in Women, Class and Feminist Imagination, Pp. 114-145.
Young, Iris, 1981. “Beyond the Unhappy Marriage: A Critique of the dualSystems theory” in L.
Sargent (ed.) Women and revolution, Pp. 43-70. Montreal, Canada: Black Rose Books.
.
III 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.
O’Bien, Mary, 1981. The Politics of Reproduction. Boston: Routeledge.
Oakley, Ann, 1974. Women’s Work: The Housewife, Past and Present, New York: Pantheon.
Corea, G., 1984. “Egg Snatchers” in R. Arditti, R. D. Klein and S. Minden (eds.) Test-Tube
Women: What Future for Motherhood? London: Pandora Press.
Rowland, Robyn, 1984. “Reproductive technologies: the Final Solution to the Woman’s
Question” in Test-Tube Women, London: Pandora Press.
Week 12 Gender, the Body and Performance
Butler, Judith
*1990 Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York &
London: Routledge. [read Part Three. Subversive Bodily Acts. esp. IV.
Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions, Pp. 163-180.]
1990 “Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory, and Psychoanalytic Discourse.” In
Feminism/Postpodernism. Edited and with an Introduction by Linda J.
Nicholson. New York & London: Routledge.
*1993 Bodies That Matter. On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” New York &
London: Routledge. [read Introduction and Chapter I. Bodies That
Matter.]
◎Foucault, Michel [trans. by Colin Gordon.]
1980 Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews & Other Writings 1972-1977. New
York: Pantheon. [read chapter 3. Body/Power. Chapter 6. Truth and
Power.]
*Bordo, Susan R.
1990 “The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity: A Feminist
Appropriation of Foucault.” In Gender/Body/Knowledge. Feminist
Reconstructions of Being and Knowing. Edited by Alison M. Jaggar and
Susan R. Bordo. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press.
*Haraway, Donna J.
1991 “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in
the Late Twentieth Century.” In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. The
Reinvestion of Nature. New York: Routledge.
Week 13 Sexuality
◎Foucault, Michel
1978 The History of Sexuality. New York: Vintage Books. [read Part Four.
The Deployment of Sexuality.]
Dimen, Muriel
1990 “Power, Sexuality, and Intimacy.” In Gender/Body/Knowledge. Feminist
Reconstructios of Being and Knowing. Edited by Alison M. Jaggar and
Susan R. Bordo. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press.
Rubin, Gayle
1975 “The Traffic in Women.” In Toward an Anthropology of Women. Edited
by Rayna R. Reiter. New York & London: Monthly Review Press.
＊1984 "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of
Sexuality," in Carol Vance, ed. Pleasure and Danger. London:
Routledge & Kegan Paul.pp. 267-319.
*Ross, Ellen & Rayna Rapp
1997 “Sex and Society. A Research Note from Social History and
Anthropology.”In The Gender and Sexuality Reader. Culture, History
and Political Economy. Edited by Roger N. Lancaster & Micaela di
Leonardo. New York & London: Routledge.
*Stanton, Domna C. ed.
1992 Discourses of Sexuality. From Aristotle to AIDS. Ann Arbor: The
University of Michigan Press. [read the chapter by Lynn Hunt,
“Foucault’s Subject in The History of Sexuality” & the chapter by
Catharine A. Mackinnon, “Does Sexuality Have a History?”]
Week 14 Identity
Moore, Henrietta
*1994 Gendered Persons: Dialogues between anthropology and Psychoanalysis.”
\ In Anthropology and Psychoanalysis. An encounter through culture.
Edited by Suzette Heald and Ariane Deluz. London & New York: Routledge.
*Gewertz, D.
1984 “The Tchambuli View of Persons: a critique of individualism in the
works of Mead and Chodorow,” American Anthropologist 86: 615-29.
Strathern, Marilyn
1988 The Gender of Gift. Berkeley: University of California Press. [read
Part I. esp. chapter 3 & 4.]
Whitehead, Harriet
1981 “The Bow and the Burden Strap: A New Look at Institutionalized
Homosexuality in Native North America.” In Sexual Meanings. The
Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality. Edited by S. B.
Ortner & H. Whitehead. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Giddens, Anthony
1991 Modernity and Self-Identity. Self and Society in the Late Modern Age.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Butler, Judith
1990 Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York
& London: Routledge. [read Two. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the
Reproduction of the Heterosexual Matrix.]
*Spivak, Fayatri C.
1995 “Acting Bits/Identity Talk.” In Idenities. Edited Kwame A. Appiah
and Henry L. Gates, Jr. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
De Lauretis, Teresa (ed.)
1986 Feminist Studies/Critical Studies. London: Macmillan. [read chapter 1.]
Grosz, Elizabeth
1990 Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction. London: Routledge.
Week 15 Colonialism
*Leacock, Mona E. Eleanor ed.
1980 Women and Colonization. Anthropological Perspectives. Praeger. [read
Introduction. & Chapter 3. The Mothers of the Nation: Seneca
Resistance to Quaker Intervention.]
Stoler, Ann Laura
1991 “Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender, Race and Morality in
Colonial Asia.” In Micaela de Leonardo, ed. Gender at the
Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern
Ear. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
1995 Race and the Education of Desire. Foucault’s History of Sexuality
and the Colonial Order of Things. Durham & London: Duke University
Press.
*Alexander, M. Jacqui & Chandra T. Mohanty (eds.)
1997 Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures. New York
& London: Routledge. [read Introduction: Genealogies, Legacies,
Movements; chapter 1. Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts.]
Kennedy, Dane
2003 “Imperial History and Post-colonial Theory.” In The Decolonization
Reader. Edited by James D. Le Sueur. New York & London: Routledge.
Pp.10-22.
*Collins, Patricia. H.
1991 Black Feminist Thought. Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics
of Empowerment. New York & London: Routledge. [read Chapter 2.
Defining Black Feminist Thought.]
Spivak, Gayatri C.
1985 “Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography.” In Ranajit Guha
(ed.) Subaltern Studies IV (Delhi).
*1988 “Can the Subaltern Speak,” in Gary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg
(eds.) Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Urbana and
Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
六、成績考核(Evaluation)
1. 詳讀上課指定閱讀、參與討論，並對指派的閱讀作書面摘要與口頭報告。（30％）
2. 其中的學期報告。（10％）
3. 學期報告。（60％）
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