Exam topics for the exam in
AN32002BA01 British Society and Gender
– Introduction to Gender Studies
Spring 2012
Women’s History in England in the 19th and 20th centuries
The History of Feminism
Basic Terms and Issues in Gender Studies
Gendered Myths of Culture
Gender in Sciences
Femininity in Freudian Psychoanalysis
A Feminist Psychoanalysis: Nancy Chodorow
Language and Gender
Gender Matters at Work and/or Home
The Gendered Body
The Sexual Revolution of the 1960s
Masculinity Studies
The exam material will be based on the lecture course. The topics above should be
understood within the framework of the lecture course.
Required secondary readings for the exam
(for their availability and function see the syllabus):
1. Simone de Beauvoir, “Introduction” to The Second Sex
2. Shlain, Leonard. “Adam/Eve”
3. Keller, Evelyn Fox, “Gender and Science”
4. Sigmund Freud, “On Femininity”
5. Nancy Chodorow, “The Sexual Sociology of Adult Life”
—, “The Psychodynamics of the Family” and “Afterword”
6. Cameron, Deborah. “Making Changes—The Debate on Sexist Language”
7. Einhorn, Barbara. “New for Old?—Ideology, the Family and the Nation”
8. Bordo, Susan. “Reading the Slender Body”
9. Sunderland, Jane. “Gender in the EFL Classroom”
or: Okin, Susan Moller. “A nők a nyugati politikai gondolkodásban”;
AND
Susan Jeffords: “Amerika re-maszkulinizációja”
The latter two in: Miklós Hadas (ed..): Férfikutatások: Szöveggyűjtemény (in
Hungarian)
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Recommended readings in case you wish to further explore the
subject (these are also useful background readings for the
exam):
Altani, Cleopatra. “Primary School Teachers’ Explanations of Boys’ Disruptiveness in the
Classroom—A Gender-Specific Aspect of the Hidden Curriculum” Ed. Sara Mills.
Language and Gender—Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Harlow: Longman, 1995.
149–159.
Badinter, Elisabeth. A szerető anya—Az anyai érzés története a 17–20. században. Ford.
Szekeres András. Artemisz Könyvek. Debrecen: Csokonai, 1999.
Bal, Mieke. “Sexuality, Sin and Sorrow—The Emergence of Female Character (A Reading of
Genesis 1–3).” Ed. Susan Rubin Suleiman. The Female Body in Western Culture—
Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP., 1985. 317–338.
Benjamin, Jessica. The Bonds of Love—Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of
Domination. New York: Pantheon Books, 1988.
Bernheimer, Charles & Claire Cahane, eds. In Dora’s Case: Freud – Hysteria – Feminism.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. (Hardly
available in English. In Hungarian: A mese bűvölete és a bontakozó gyermeki lélek.
Ford. Kúnos László. Budapest: Gondolat, 1988. New edition: 2000.)
Black, Maria and Rosalind Coward. “Linguistic, Social and Sexual Relations—A Review of
Dale Spender’s Man Made Language. Ed. Deborah Cameron. A Feminist Critique of
Language—A Reader. London: Routledge, 1990. 111–135.
Bolen, Jean Shinoda. Goddesses in Everywoman—A New Psychology of Woman. (In
Hungarian: Bennünk élő istennők. Trans. Dr. Karczag Judit. N.pl.: Stúdium Effectíve,
1997.)
Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight—Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley: The
University of California Press, 1993.
Boskind-Lodahl. “Cinderella’s Stepsisters: A Feminist Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa and
Bulimia”. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 2.2 (1976): 343–356.
Cameron, Deborah. “Rethinking Language and Gender Studies—Some Issues for the 1990s”.
Ed. Sarah Mills. Language and Gender—Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Harlow:
Longman, 1995. 31–44.
—. Feminism and Linguistic Theory. Houndsmills: Macmillan, 1985.
Chambers, J. K. Sociolinguistic Theory. Oxford: Blackwells, 1995.
Chodorow, Nancy. The Reproduction of Mothering—Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of
Gender. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
Coates, Jennifer. Women, Men and Language. Harlow: Longman, 1993.
Davidoff, Leonore, Catherine Hall. Family Fortunes—Men and Women of the English Middle
Class 1780-1850. London, New York: Routledge, 2007.
de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. Trans. H. M. Parshley. Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1983. (In Hungarian: A második nem. Trans. Görög Lívia & Somló Vera. Budapest,
Gondolat, 1971.)
Dinnerstein, Dorothy. The Rocking of the Cradle and the Ruling of the World. London:
Virago, 1987.
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Donovan, Josephine. “The Silence is Broken”. Ed. Elaine Showalter. The New Feminist
Criticism—Essays on Women, Literature and Theory. London: Virago, 1986.
Dworkin, Andrea. Pornography—Men Possessing Women. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989.
Einhorn, Barbara. Cinderella Goes to Market—Citizenship, Gender and Women’s Movement
in East Central Europe. London: Verso, 1995.
Fishman, Pamela. “Conversational Insecurity”. Ed. Deborah Cameron. A Feminist Critique of
Language—A Reader. London: Routledge, 1990. 234–241.
Florent, Jill et. al. “On Balance—Guidelines for the Representation of Women and Men in
English Language Teaching Materials”. Ed. Jane Sunderland. Exploring Gender—
Questions and Implications for English Language Education. New York, London:
Prentice Hall, 1994. 112–120.
Freud, Sigmund. “On Femininity”. Sigmund Freud. 2. New Introductory Lectures. Transl.
James Strachey. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976. 145–69.
—. “Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria”. Case Histories I (‘Dora’ and ‘Little
Hans’). Trans. Alix & James Strachey. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977. 35–164.
Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965.
Gilbert, Sandra M. “What do Feminist Critics Want?” Ed. Elaine Showalter. The New
Feminist Criticism—Essays on Women, Literature and Theory. London: Virago,
1986.
Gilligan, Carol. In a Different Voice—Psychological Theory and Women’s Development.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1982. (University L)
Greer, Germaine. The Female Eunuch. London: Paladin, 1970.
H. Sas Judit. Nőies nők és férfias férfiak—A nőkkel és a férfiakkal kapcsolatos társadalmi
sztereotípiák élete, eredete és szocializációja. Budapest: Akadémiai, 1984.
Hadas
Miklós,
ed.
Férfikutatások:
Szöveggyűjtemény.
(online;
uploaded:
http://ieas.unideb.hu/index.php?p=487&l=en)
Jacobus, Mary, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sally Shuttleworth, eds. Body/Politics—Women and the
Discourses of Science. London: Routledge, 1990.
Kaplan, Cora. “Language and Gender”. Ed. Deborah Cameron. A Feminist Critique of
Language—A Reader. London: Routledge, 1990. 57–69.
Keller, Evelyn Fox. Reflections on Gender and Science. New Haven: Yale UP, 1985.
Kolbenschlag, Madonna. Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-Bye. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
(In Hungarian: Búcsúcsók Csipkerózsikának. Ford. Görömbei Réka et. al., Artemisz
Könyvek sorozat. Debrecen: Csokonai, 1999.)
Kristeva, Julia. “Stabat Mater”. Ed. Toril Moi. The Kristeva Reader. New York: Columbia
UP, 1986. 160–186.
—. “Women’s Time.” Ed. Toril Moi. The Kristeva Reader. New York: Columbia UP, 1986.
187–213.
Laing, R. D. The Divided Self—An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness. Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1969.
Lakoff, Robin. “Extracts From Language and Woman’s Place”. Ed. Deborah Cameron. A
Feminist Critique of Language—A Reader. London: Routledge, 1990. 221–233.
Lee, Alison, Nigel Hewlett and Moray Nairn. “Voice and Gender in Children”. Ed. Sarah
Mills. Language and Gender—Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Harlow: Longman,
1995. 195–204.
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Lévai Katalin. A nő szerint a világ. Budapest: Osiris, 2000.
MacSween, Morag. Anorexic Bodies—A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia
Nervosa. London: Routledge, 1993.
Matus, Jill L. Unstable Bodies—Victorian Representations of Sexuality and Maternity.
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—. “Representation of Patriarchy: Sexuality and Epistemology in Freud’s Dora”. Eds.
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1998.
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London: Routledge, 1989.
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Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China. London: Routledge, 1992.
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—, ed. Exploring Gender—Questions and Implications for English Language Education.
New York, London: Prentice Hall, 1994.
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