Gender Studies Practicum:
Nation, citizenship and gender
Leora Auslander
Spring, 1994
Wednesdays, 3:00-5:30
Office hours, Tuesdays 1:15-4:00 Social Sciences 222
Structure and requirements:
1) The syllabus as it stands (except for week 2) provides the bibliography for
designing each class session. Each of you will be required to participate in a
small group which will select readings and lead the first hour and a half of
discussion. All of the readings are on reserve or in the books recommended for
purchase. (You can of course make additions/substitutions to this list.)
It is important to note that this task does not just involve reducing the
offerings to a do-able volume, but making decisions about the focus of the
session. You will have to decide whether to focus on one "case" or to choose
instances of similar phenomena in a variety of times and spaces. You will have
to decide on how to balance (or not) empirical and theoretical material.
I will be available to meet with you after class two weeks before the
session you will be teaching and one week before you will hand out the reading
list to consult about reading selections and discussion strategies.
In the class session previous to yours, you will hand out a reading list.
You will then meet to decide what themes in the reading seem the most
important, figure out how to get discussion moving, if there's material you
actually want to "present" or if you want to do the whole session through
discussion. You will also need to decide if you want to use a system of a
"rotating chair," or if you're going to chair. The group will be entirely
responsible for the first hour and a half of discussion.
Following a break, the class will resume with a half-hour analysis of the
preceding discussion. The discussion leaders will discuss their impressions of
successes and failures and their reasons, the rest of class participants will
then do the same.
The last half hour of the class will be my opportunity to highlight both
intellectual and pedagogical issues that I felt important when I chose the topic
for that day.
2) You will be required to devise a syllabus for an undergraduate Gender
Studies course. You can sustain the theme of "Nation, Gender and Citizen" or
you can take a theme from one or several weeks, or you can write a syllabus with
a completely different emphasis. Each session's assignment should be
accompanied by a defense of the theme, the readings selected, and how it is
linked with the previous and following sessions. The syllabus should also
contain a discussion of pedagogical strategies. Is this a lecture course?
discussion? combination? What will the students write? Will they do all their
work alone? in pairs? in groups? Will there be a teaching assistant? What will
be his/her role? Will the course involve participation in a community project?
In assigning readings you must take into consideration cost of books and
availability, but assume that you are teaching the course in a
college/university with an adequate reserve room. You may choose to do this
assignment alone, with one other, or two other students. By the third week of
the term you should have decided with whom you are working (if anyone) and let
me know. The class meeting during week 8 (which I will have to miss) will be
devoted to your discussing your draft syllabi with each other. The final
syllabi are due in class the following week. The resulting syllabi will be
distributed and the task of doing cooperative work on them discussed.
Books available for purchase at the seminary (10 copies each):
Huizer, Gerrit and Bruce Mannheim, eds. The Politics of Anthropology:
From
Colonialism and Sexism toward a View from Below. The Hague: Mouton,
1979.
Margaret Strobel, European Women and the Second British Empire (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1991)
Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract, (Stanford: Stanford University Press,
1988)
Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution (Berkeley: Univ. of
Calif. Press, 1992)
Linda Gordon, ed. Women, the State and Welfare, ed. Linda Gordon (Madison:
Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1991)
Mary Ryan, Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990)
Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel, eds. Western Women and Imperialism:
Complicity and Resistance, (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1992)
Chandra Mohanty, Ann Russo and Lourdes Torres, eds. Third World Women and the
Politics of Feminism (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1991)
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Real and Imagined Women: Gender, culture and
postcolonialism (London: Routledge, 1993)
Kumari Jayawardena, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World (London: Zed,
1986)
Agulhon, Maurice. Marianne into Battle: Republican Imagery and Symbolism in
France, 1789-1880. (Cambridge: CUP, 1981).
Jo Fisher, Out of the Shadows: Women Resistance and Politics in South America
(London: Latin American Bureau, 1993)
Liz Stanley, ed. Feminist Praxis: Research, Theory, and Epistemology in
Feminist Sociology (London: Routledge, 1990)
Himani Bannerji, Linda Carty, Kari Dehli, Susan Heald and Kate McKenna,
Unsettling Relations: The University as a Site of Feminist Struggle
(Boston: South End Press, 1992)
Lauren Berlant, The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and
Everyday Life (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1991)
George Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality: Middle Class Morality and Sexual
Norms in Modern Europe (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985).
Claudia Koonz, Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi
Politics New York: St Martin's 1987.
Banks, Olive. Faces of Feminism: A study of feminism as a social movement
(Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1981), selections.
Ellen Carol Dubois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent
Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869 (Ithaca: Cornelle University
Press, 1978).
Anne Phillips, Engendering Democracy (University Park: Penn State Press,
1991)
George Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality: Middle Class Morality and Sexual
Norms in Modern Europe (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985).
Elizabeth V. Spelman, Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist
Thought (Boston: Beacon Press, 1988)
Ballhatchet, Kenneth. Race, Sex, and Class under the Raj: Imperial Attitudes
and Policies and Their Critics, 1793-1905. London: Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, 1980.
Joan Landes, Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution
(Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1988).
Readings on Pedagogy and Method:
Catherine R. Stimpson, "What Matter Mind: A Theory about the Practice of
Women's Studies," in her Where the Meanings Are (London: Routledge,
1990): 38-53.
Liz Stanley, ed. Feminist Praxis: Research, Theory, and Epistemology in
Feminist Sociology (London: Routledge, 1990)
Jean O'Barr and Mary Wyer, Engaging Feminisms: Studens Speak Up and Speak Out
(Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1992)
Susan L. Gabriel and Isaiah Smithson, Gender in the Classroom: Power and
Pedagogy; 41-59; 127-139.
Himani Bannerji, Linda Carty, Kari Dehli, Susan Heald and Kate McKenna,
Unsettling Relations: The University as a Site of Feminist Struggle
(Boston: South End Press, 1992)
Nancy Hewitt, "Sisterhood in International Perspective: Thoughts on Teaching
Comparative Women's History," Women's Studies Quarterly 1/2 (1988):
22-32.
Indrani Mitra and Madhu Mitra, "The Discourse of Liberal Feminism and Third
World Women's Texts: Some Issues of Pedagogy," College Literature 18
(October 1991): 55-63.
Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Joan Hartman and Ellen Messer-Davidow, (En)Gendering Knowledge: Feminists in
Academe
Zakia Pathak, "A Pedagogy for Postcolonial Feminists," in Judith Butler and
Joan Scott, eds. Feminists Theorize the Political, pp. 426-444.
March 30:
Introductory:
The Debate about Nation, State and Citizenship
April 6: Liberalism/Republicanism and Women:
Exclusion?
Necessary or Contingent
Carole Pateman, "The Fraternal Social Contract," in her The Disorder of Women
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989): 33-57.
______________, "Contract, the Individual and Slavery," in her The Sexual
Contract, (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1988) pp. 39-76.
______________, "Genesis, Fathers and the Political Liberty of Sons," The
Sexual Contract, pp. 77-115.
Joan Scott, "On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History, in her Gender and
the Politics of History, pp. 53-67.
Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution (Berkeley: Univ. of
Calif. Press, 1992), selections.
Additional Possibilities:
Merrick, Jeffrey. "Royal Bees: The Gender Politics of the Beehive in Early
Modern Europe," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 18 (1988): 7-37.
Shanley, Mary L. "Marriage Contract and Social Contract in Seventeenth-Century
English Political Thought," Western Political Quarterly 32, no. 1
(1979).
Yeatman, Anna. "Despotism and Civil Society: The Limits of Patriarchal
Citizenship." in Women's Views of the Political World of Men. Ed. Judith
Hicks Stiehm, pp. 151-176. Dobbs Ferry, NY Transnational, 1984.
Annas, J. "Mill and the Subjection of Women," Philosophy, vol. 52, no. 199
(January, 1977): 179-194.
Brennan, T. and Carol Pateman. "Mere Auxiliaries to the Commonwealth."
Political Studies, vol. ? (1979).
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. "Property and Patriarchy in Classical Bourgeois
Political Theory", Radical History Review, 4 nos 2-3, pp. 36-59.
April 13:
Were Men to the State as Women to the Nation?
Gendering the Nation
Agulhon, Maurice. Marianne into Battle: Republican Imagery and Symbolism in
France, 1789-1880. (Cambridge: CUP, 1981).
Lauren Berlant, The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and
Everyday Life (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1991)
Katie Trumpener, "National Character, Nationalist Plots: National Tale and
Historical Novel in the Age of Waverly, 1806-1830," ELH 60 (1993):
685-731.
Patricia Hilden, Women, Work, and Politics: Belgium, 1830-1914 (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1993)
Patricia Hilden, "The Rhetoric and Iconography of Reform: Women Coal Miners
in Belgium, 1840-1914," Historical Journal 34 2 (1991): 411-436.
Joanna de Groot, "'Sex' and 'Race': The Construction of Language and Image in
the Nineteenth Century," in Sexuality and Subordination, ed. Susan
Mendus and Jane Rendall (London and New York: Routledge, 1989), 89-128.
Nationalisms and Sexualities
George Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality: Middle Class Morality and Sexual
Norms in Modern Europe (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985).
George Sanchez, "'Go After the Women:' Americanization and the Mexican
Immigrant Woman, 1915-1929," in Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader
in US Women's History, eds. Ellen Carol Dubois and Vicki L. Ruiz (New
York: Routlege, 1990)
Stephanie McCurry, "The Two Faces of Republicanism: Gender and Proslavery
Politics in Antebellum South Carolina," Journal of American History 78
(March 1992): 1245-1264.
Cameron, Vivian. "Political Exposures: Sexuality and Caricature in the French
Revolution," Eroticism and the Body Politic, ed. Lynn Hunt (Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins U Press, 1991), 90-107.
The Gendering of the Welfare State:
Jane Jenson, "Representations of Gender: Policies to 'Protect' Women Workers
and Infants in France and in the United States before 1914," in Women,
the State and Welfare, ed. Linda Gordon (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin
Press, 1991), 152-177.
Barbara J. Nelson, "The Origins of the Two-Channel Welfare State: Workmen's
Compensation and Mother's Aid," Women, the State and Welfare, ed. Linda
Gordon, pp. 123-151.
Marilyn Lake, "A Revolution in the Family: The Challenge and Contradictions
of Maternal Citizenship in Australia," in Mothers of a New World:
Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States, Seth Koven and
Sonya Michel, eds. (New York and London: Routledge, 1993), 378-395.
Susan Pedersen, "Gender, Welfare and Citizenship in Britain during the Great
War," AHR 95:4 (October 1990): 983-1006.
Linda Gordon, "Black and White Visions of Welfare: Women's Welfare Activism,
1890-1945," Journal of American History 78 (September 1991): 559.
April 20:
Women's claims to citizenship and "nationality", 3:
Publicity and
Republican/national motherhood
I.
Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary "liberal" political cultures
England:
Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Applewhite, Harriet and Darline Levy, Women in the Age of Democratic
Revolution (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1990)
Anne Summers, Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses 1845-1914
(New York: Routledge, 1988)
Poovey, Mary. The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer. Ideology as Style in the
Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen, Chicago,
1984.
America:
Mary Ryan, Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990)
Applewhite, Harriet and Darline Levy, Women in the Age of Democratic
Revolution (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1990)
Linda Kerber, "The Paradox of Women's Citizenship in the Early Republic,"
American Historical Review 97, 2 (April 1992): 349-76.
Ruth Bloch, "The Gendered Meanings of Virtue in Revolutionary America," Signs,
13 (1987): 37-58.
Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary
America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982)
Mary Beth Norton, Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of
American Women, 1750-1800 (Boston: 1979)
Joan Hoff Wilson, "The Illusion of Change: Women and the American Rev
olution," in Alfred F. Young, ed. The American Revolution: Explorations
in the History of American Radicalism (De Kalb: Northern Illinois Univ.
Press, 1976), 383-445.
France:
Abray, Jane. "Feminism in the French Revolution," American Historical Review,
80 (February, 1975): 43-62.
Joan Scott, "'A Woman who has Only Paradoxes to Offer:' Olympe de Gouges
claims rights for Women," in Rebel Daughters: Women and the French
Revolution, ed. Sara Melzer and Leslie Rabine, pp. 102-120.
Joan Landes, Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution
(Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1988).
Karen Offen, "Depopulation, Nationalism and Feminism in Fin-de-SiŠcle France,"
AHR 89 (June 1984): 648-676.
Karen Offen, "Women's memory, women's history, women's political action: The
French Revolution in Retrospect, 1789-1889," Journal of Women's History
1 3 (1990)
Fraisse, Genevieve. Muse de la Raison ((Aix-en-Provence: Alin‚a, 1989).
Godineau, Dominique. Citoyennes Tricoteuses: Les femmes du peuple ... Paris
pendan la R‚volution francaise (Aix-en-Provence: Alin‚a, 1988).
Graham, Ruth. "Loaves and Liberty: Women in the French Revolution," in
Becoming Visible, eds. Bridenthal and Koonz.
Hufton, Olwen. "Women in Revolution, 1789-96." Past and Present, (1975).
_____________. Women in the French Revolution (1992)
Hunt, Lynn. "Hercules and the Radical Image in the French Revolution,"
Representations 2 (Spring, 1983), pp. 95-117.
Hunt, Lynn. "The Many Bodies of Marie Antoinette: Political Pornography and
the Problem of the Feminine in the French Revolution," Eroticism and
the Body Politic, ed. Lynn Hunt (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins U Press,
1991), 108-130.
Levy, Darlene and H. Applewhite, "Male responses to the Political Activism of
Women of the People in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1793," in Women and
the Structure of Society: Papers from the Fifth Berkshire Conference on
the History of Women, B. Harris and J. McNamara, eds. (1983).
Lytle, Scott.
"The Second Sex, September 1793," Journal of Modern History,
27 (1955), pp. 14-26.
Racz, Elizabeth. "The Women's Rights Movement in the French Revolution,"
Science and Society, 16 (1951-52), pp. 151-74.
Bidelman, Patrick. Pariahs Stand Up! The Founding of the Liberal Feminist
Movement in France, 1858-89, (Westport, Conn: Greenwood, 1982).
Bidelman, Patrick Kay "The Politics of French Feminism: L‚on Richer and the
Ligue Fransaise pour le Droit des Femmes, 1882-1891," Historical
Reflections, 3/1 (Summer 1976).
Hause, Stephen.
The Political Rights of French Women: Social Politics and
Women's Suffrage in the Third Republic, (1984).
The German Lands:
Katherine David, "Czech Feminists and Nationalism in the Late Habsburg
Empire," Journal of Women's History 3.2 (Fall 1991): 26-45.
Cornelie Usborne, The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany: Women's
Reproductive Rights and Duties (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 1992)
Evans, Richard. "German Social Democracy and Women's Suffrage 1891-1918,"
Journal of Contemporary History, 15 (1980), pp. 533-57.
Evans, Richard. The Feminist Movement in Germany, 1894-1933.
Hackett, Amy. "The German Women's Movement and Suffrage, 1890-1914: A Study
of National Feminism," in Robert Bezucha, ed. Modern European Social
History Lexignton MA, 1972.
Honeycutt, Karen.
"Socialism and Feminism in Imperial Germany," Signs, 5
(1979-80), pp. 30-41.
Thonnessen, W. The Emancipation of Women: The Rise and Decline of the Women's
Movement in German Social Democracy, 1863-1933.
II.
Authorarian Regimes:
Italy, Germany and Argentina
Claudia Koonz, Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi
Politics New York: St Martin's 1987.
Victoria DeGrazia, How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy 1922-1945
Marysa Navarro, "The Personal is Political: Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo,"
Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements, Susan
Eckstein, ed.
Mason, Tim. "Women in Nazi Germany", History Workshop, no. 1 (1976),
pp. 74-113 and no. 2 (1976), pp. 5-32.
April 27: European Women's claims to citizenship, 2:
exclusions?
Mirroring liberalism's
Anne Phillips, Engendering Democracy (University Park: Penn State Press,
1991)
Antoinette Burton, "The White Woman's Burden: British Feminists and 'The
Indian Woman,' 1865-1915." in Western Women and Imperialism:
Complicity and Resistance, eds. Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel,
(Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1992)
Davin, Anna. "Imperialism and Motherhood." History Workshop Journal, no. 5
(1978), 9-65.
Ramusack, Barbara. "Cultural Missionaries, Maternal Imperialists, Feminist
Allies: British Women Activists in India, 1865-1945." in Western Women
and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance,
Honeycutt, Karen. "Socialism and Feminism in Imperial Germany," Signs, 5
(1979-80), pp. 30-41.
Banks, Olive. Faces of Feminism: A study of feminism as a social movement
(Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1981), selections.
Ellen Carol Dubois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent
Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869 (Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 1978).
Mohanty, Chandra. "Under Western Eyes," Chandra Mohanty, Ann Russo and
Lourdes Torres, eds. Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
(Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1991), 51-80.
Deitz, M.G. "Context is all: Feminism and Theories of Citizenship," Daedelus
(1987) 4: 1-24.
Walkowitz, Judith. "Male Vice and Female Virtue: Feminism and the Politics
of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain," in Powers of Desire:
The Politics of Sexuality
Valerie Amos and Pratibha Parmar, "Challenging Imperial Feminism," Feminist
Review 17 (July 1984): 3-19.
Michele Barrett and Mary MacIntosch, "Ethnocentrism and Socialist-Feminist
Theory," Feminist Review 20 (Summer 1985): 23-47.
Hilda L. Smith, Reason's Disciples: Seventeenth-Century English Feminists
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982).
Elizabeth V. Spelman, Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist
Thought (Boston: Beacon Press, 1988)
Vron Ware, Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History (NY: Verso, 1992)
Picq, Francoise. "Bourgeois feminism in France: A theory developed by
socialist women before World War I." in Women in culture and politics J.
Friedlander, et al. eds. (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1986).
Sowerwine, Charles. Sisters or Citizens? Women and Socialism in France Since
1876. (1982).
May 4:
Challenges to White Euro/American Feminisms
Hazel Carby, "White Women Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of
Sisterhood," The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in '70s Britain
Hazel Carby, "Policing the Black Woman's Body in an Urban Context," Critical
Inquiry 18 (Summer, 1992): 738-735.
Hazel Carby, "'On the Threshold of Woman's Era: Lynching, Empire, and
Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory," in Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Ed. "Race,
Writing, and Difference (Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, 1986): 301-316.
Nancy Hewitt, Elsa Barkley Brown, and Iris Berger, "Symposium on Intersections
and Collision Courses: Women, Blacks and Workers Confront Gender, Race
and Class," Feminist Studies 18 no. 2 (Summer 1992): 283-326.
bell hooks, Yearning: race, gender and cultural politics (Boston: South End
Press, 1990)
Patricia Hill Collins, "The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought,"
Signs, (Summer 1989): 745-773.
Stanlie M. James and Abena P.A. Busia, Theorizing Black Feminisms: The
Visionary Pragmatism of Blck Women (1993)
Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by
Radical Women of Color (New York: Kitchen Table Women of Color Press,
1981).
Maria C. Lugones, and Elizabeth V. Spelman, "Have we got a Theory for You!
Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for 'the Woman's
Voice." Women's Studies International Forum 6,6 (1983): 573-580.
Caroline Ramazanoglu, et al, "Feedback: Feminism and Racism," Feminist Review
22 (February 1986): 82-105.
Cherrie Moraga, "From a Long Line of Vendidas: Chicanas and Feminism," in
Feminist Studies/Critical Studies, Teresa de Lauretis, ed.
Madhu Kishwar, "Why I do not call myself a feminist," Manushi: A Journal
about Women and Society 61 (1991): 2-7.
Barbara Smith, Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (New York: Kitchen
Table, Women of Color Press, 1983)
May 11:
Domesticating the Empire:
Gendering Colonialism
Pieter Judson, "Inventing Germans: Class, Nationality and Colonial Fantasy at
the Margins of the Hapsburg Monarchy," Social Analysis 33 (1993): 47-67.
Lora Wildenthal, "'She is the Victor': Bourgeois Women, Nationalist
Identitites and the Ideal of the Independent Woman Farmer in German
Southwest Africa," Social Analysis 33 (1993): 68-88.
Emily Apter, "Female Trouble in the Colonial Harem," Differences (Spring,
1992): 205-224.
Nancy Rose Hunt, "Domesticity and Colonialism in Belgian Africa:
Usumbura's Foyer Social, 1946-1960." Signs 15, no. 3 (1990),
447-74.
Sidonie Smith, "The Other Woman and the Racial Politics of Gender: Isak
Dinesen and Beryl Markham in Kenya." in
De/colonzing the Subject: The
Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography, Sidonie Smith and Julia
Watson, eds (University of Minnesota Press, 1992): 410-435.
Ann Stoler, "Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: The Politics of Race and
Sexual Morality in Colonial Asia," in Gender at the Crossroads: Fem
inist Anthropology in the Post-Modern Era, ed. Micaela di Leonardo
(Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 1991): 51-101.
Ann Stoler, "Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and
the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia," Comp
arative Studies in Society and History 34 (1992): 514-551.
Williamson, Judith. "Woman is an Island. Femininity and Colonialism," in
Tania Modelski ed. Studies in Entertainment (Indiana, 1988).
Ballhatchet, Kenneth. Race, Sex, and Class under the Raj: Imperial Attitudes
and Policies and Their Critics, 1793-1905. London: Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, 1980.
Nupur Chaudhuri, "Shawls, Jewelry, Curry and Rice in Victorian Britain," in
Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance, eds. Nupur
Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel, (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press,
1992): 231-246.
Jean and John Comaroff, "Homemade Hegemony," in their Ethnography and the
Historical Imagination (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992)
Partha Chatterjee, "Colonialism, Nationalism, and colonized women: the
contest in India," American ethnologist 16:4 (1989): 622-632.
Jane Haggis, "Gendering Colonialism or Colonising Gender? A Review of Recent
Women's Studies Approaches to White Women and the History of British
Colonialism," Women's Studies International Forum 13 (1990): 105-115.
Susan Pedersen, "National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts: The Sexual Politics of
Colonial Policy-making," The Journal of Modern History 63 (December
1991): 647-680.
Huizer, Gerrit and Bruce Mannheim, eds. The Politics of Anthropology: From
Colonialism and Sexism toward a View from Below. The Hague: Mouton,
1979.
Margaret Strobel, European Women and the Second British Empire (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1991)
Ramon A. Gutierrez. When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers went away: Marriage,
sexuality and power in New Mexico: 1500-1846 (Stanford: Stanford Univ.
Press, 1991)
Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes
May 18:
No New Reading:
Syllabus discussions
May 25:
Feminism and Post-colonial nation building
South Asia:
Mahasweta Devi, "Draupadi," trans. and foreword Gayatri Spivak in her In Other
Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (London: Routledge, 1988): 179-196.
Gita Rajain, "Subversive-Subaltern Identity: Indira Gandhi as the Speaking
Subject," De/colonzing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's
Autobiography, Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, eds (University of
Minnesota Press, 1992): 196-222.
Barbara Ramusack, "Catalysts or Helpers? British Feminists, Indian Women's
Rights and Indian Independence," in Gail Minault, ed. The Extended
Family: Women and Political Participation in India and Pakistan (Col
umbia, MO: South Asia Books, 1981): 109-150.
Middle East
Margot Badran, "Dual Liberation: Feminism and Nationalism in Egypt, 1870s
-1925," Feminist Issues (Spring 1988), 15-34.
Saddela Arebi, "Gender Anthropology in the Middle East: The Politics of
Muslim Women's Misrepresentation." American Journal of Islamic Social
Sciences vol. 8, no. 1 (1991).
Mary Layoun, "Telling Spaces: Palestinian Women and the Engendering of
National Narratives," in Nationalisms and Sexualities, Parker, Russo,
Sommer and Yaeger eds. (New York: Routledge, 1992), 407-423.
Mai Ghoussoub, "Feminism -- or the Eternal Masculine -- in the Arab World,"
New Left Review 161 (1987): 3-18.
Julie Peteet, Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Mov
ement (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990)
Yvonne Haddad, "Palestinian Women: Patterns of Legitimation and Domination,"
The Sociology of Palestinians Khalil Nakhleh and Eliah Zureik, (New
York: Macmillan, 1980)
Kandiyoti, Deniz, ed. Women, Islam and the State (Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1991)
M. Jacqui Alexander, "Redrafting Morality: The Postcolonial State and the
Sexual Offences Bill of Trinidad and Tobago," in Third World Women and
the Politics of Feminism, pp. 133-152.
Angela Gilliam, "Women's Equality and National Liberation," in Third World
Women and the Politics of Feminism, pp. 215-236.
Marnia Lazreg, "Feminism and Difference: The Perils of Writing as a Woman
on Women in Algeria." Feminist Studies 14 no. 1 (Spring 1988).
June 1: New Meanings of the Gendering of Citizenship and Nation in the Late
Twentieth Century
I.
Raced/Sexual/Gender Identity Politics in the Contemporary US
Joan Scott, "Experience," in Butler and Scott, eds. Feminists Theorize the
Political, 1992
Laura Lee Downs, "If 'Woman' is Just an Empty Category, Then Why I am Afraid
to Walk Alone at Night? Identity Politics Meets the Postmodern Subect,"
and response by Scott, Comparative Studies in Society and History 35:2
(April 1993)
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