COMPREHENSIVE EXAM IN GENDER—revised 2012
DAY 1 (readings required of all students)
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Bourdieu, Pierre. 2001. Masculine Domination. Stanford University Press.
Butler, Judith. 1990. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
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Butler, Judith. 2004. Undoing Gender. Routledge.
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Chodorow, Nancy. 1978. Part III of The Reproduction of Mothering. University of
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Collins, Patricia Hill. 2001. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the
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Collins, Patricia Hill. 2005. Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New
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Collins, Patricia Hill. 1999. Reflections on the Outsider Within. Journal of Career
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Connell, R.W., and James W. Messerschmidt. 2005. “Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking
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Enloe, Cynthia. 2000. Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of
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Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 2000. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of
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Ferguson, Ann Arnett. 2000. Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity.
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Ferguson, Roderick. 2003. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique.
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Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 1992. "From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in
the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor," Signs 18 (autumn): 1-43.
Goldin, Claudia. 1995. “The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic
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Gorman, Elizabeth H. 2005. "Gender Stereotypes, Same-Gender Preferences, and
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Hochschild, Arlie. 1989. The Second Shift. New York: Viking.
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Lorber, Judith. 1993. “Believing is seeing: Biology as ideology.” Gender & Society 7: 56881.
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Nelson, Jennifer. 2003. Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement. NYU
Press.
Nicholson, Linda, ed. 1990. “Introduction” to Feminism/Postmodernism. Routledge.
Orloff, Ann. 1993. “Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship.” American Sociological
Review
Pascoe, C.J. 2007. Dude, You’re a Fag. University of California Press.
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Ridgeway, Cecilia and Lynn Smith-Lovin. 1999. “The Gender System and Interaction.”
Annual Review of Sociology 25: 191–216.
Ridgeway, Cecilia and Shelley J. Correll . 2004. “Unpacking the Gender System: A
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Spivak, Gayatri. 1988. “Can the subaltern speak?” from Cary Nelson and Lawrence
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Springer, Kristen, Jeanne Mager Stellman, Rebecca Jordan-Young. 2011. “Beyond a
catalogue of differences: A theoretical frame and good practice guidelines for
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Thorne, Barrie. 1993. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. Rutgers Press.
Valocchi, Stephen. 2005. “Not yet queer enough: The lessons of queer theory for the
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Wright, Melissa. 2006. Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism.
Routledge.