Graduate Seminar EL6012 女性主義專題
Feminisms Interrogating Family
2007 Spring DING Naifei
How have family and marriage been written about and thought in feminist theories
and fiction from the 19th through the late 20th century? How have historic social
relations of persons and family to land, property, and money informed
individual-making narratives of romantic coupling?
How have modern institutions
- nuclear family, monogamous coupling, romantic love - evolved in fictional and
theoretical representation? We will follow an imagined trajectory of dialogue and
quarrel between literary, theoretical, critical and social science texts, toward possible
conditions for unmaking/reinventing the family amidst migrating tracks of dissident
sexualities and unbecoming bodies.
Students planning to take the class: please read Engels Chapter II (and begin reading
Pride and Prejudice) before class on March 7. The links to online texts in the
syllabus are for your reference. A xeroxed reader for Unit One will be available at
高冠 by Friday, March 2.
W1: February 28
Holiday - Homework: please prep Engels, chapter II
W2: March 7
Introduction
W3: March 14
Frederick Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State(1884),
edited by Eleonar Burke Leacock, International Publishers: 1972, Chapter II: The
Family, 94-146, Chapter IX: Barbarism and Civilization,217-237
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/index.htm
W4: March 21
Rachel Harrison and Frank Mort, “Patriarchal Aspects of Nineteenth-Century State
Formation: Property Relations, Marriage and Divorce, and Sexuality”in Philip
Corrigan, ed., Capitalism, State Formation and Marxist Theory, London: Quartet
Books (1980)
W5: March 28
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813), Oxford edition*
W6: April 4
Holiday
W7: April 11
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (1847), Norton edition*
First essay due
Recommended:
Jack Goody, “Class and Marriage” in Production and Reproduction: A Comparative
Study of the Domestic Domain, Cambridge University Press (1976), 99-114
D.A. Miller, Jane Austen or the Secret of Style (Princeton 2005)
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7620.html
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, You-Me Park (eds), Postcolonial Jane Austen, Routledge
(2000)
W8: April 18
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Norton edition*
Gayatri C. Spivak, “Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism” (1985) in
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, eds., The Post-Colonial Studies
Reader, London: Routledge, 1995, 269-272
W9: April 25
Gayle Rubin, “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex,” in
Rayna R. Reiter, Ed., Toward an Anthropology of Women (1975)
Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” (1980) in Blood,
Bread and Poetry (1986, 1994),
http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm
W10: May 2
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (1990)
Raymond T. Smith, "Hierarchy and the Dual Marriage System in West Indian
Society," in Jane Collier and Sylvia Yanagisako, ed., Gender and Kinship:Essays
Toward a Unified Analysis, Stanford University Press (1987)
W11: May 9
Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven (1996)*
Second essay due
Recommended:
Hortense J. Spillers, “Notes on an alternative model – neither/nor” (1986) in Elizabeth
Meese and Alice Parker, ed., The Difference Within: Feminism and Critical
Theory, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company 1989, 165-187
Bruce Robbins, “Soul-Making: Gayatri Spivak on Upward Mobility” in Cultural
Studies, 17:1 (2003), 16-26
W12: May 16
Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex” Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical
Theory of the Politics of Sexuality,” in H. Abelove, M. A. Barale, and D.
M. Halperin, (Editors), The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (1993), 3-44
W13: May 23
Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues (1993)
W14: May 30
Eric Michaels, Unbecoming (1997)
Simon Watney, “Sex, diversity and disease” and “Infectious desires” in Policing
Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media, University of Minnesota, 1987
W15: June 6
Lillian Ng, Silver Sister (1995) [黃貞才，＜銀姐＞，智庫：1999]
Arlie Russell Hochschild, “Love and Gold” in Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and
Sex Workers in the New Economy (2004), 15-30
Recommended:
“Mui Tsai through the Eyes of the Victim: Janet Lim’s Story of Bondage and Escape”
in Maria Jaschok and Suzanne Miers, eds., Women and Chinese Patriarchy:
Submission, Servitude and Escape, Zed Books (1994), 108-121
Rosemary Marangoly George, The Politics of Home: Postcolonial relocations and
twentieth-century fiction, University of California (1999), chapters 1 & 6
W16: June 13
Wrap-up
Third essay due
Requirements:
Attendance and participation (10%)
Three 7-10 page essays due the last day of each unit; no late papers (40%)
Oral presentation (20%)