SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER
SOC 5010/7010
FALL 2011
Dr. Heidi Gottfried
Office: 3241 Faculty Administration Building (FAB)
Office Hours: By appointment
Office Phone: 313-577-8828
Monday: 5:30-8:00
Location: 208 State Hall
Fall Semester 2011
READINGS
Course-pack available on-line (blackboard)
ASSIGNMENTS
Class Participation
Class Project
Final Exam
20%
30%
50%
Contact Info: The best way to contact me is by email: ag0921@wayne.edu. You can also
leave a message on my voice mail in the office. I respond to email quickly; please use this as
the main form of communication. If you do not get an email response from me within a few
days, then assume that I didn’t receive your email and send it again.
Required Reading: Readings are available on-line via Blackboard. Since sociology is a
growing, ever changing, discipline, the instructor reserves the right to assign additional
readings throughout the semester.
GRADING
Your final grade is a composite of 3 areas: participation (20 points), an exercise (30 points),
and a final exam (50 points).
Participation: Come to class prepared to engage in discussions and demonstrate your
understanding of the readings and concepts. Bring a copy of the readings to refer to in class.
Participation enables the creative exchange and development of ideas.
Exercise: Each student will prepare a written and oral presentation based on a selected
reading from the syllabus. A sign-up list of the readings will be circulated in the second week
of class.
The presentation should summarize the argument and themes addressed in the chosen
reading. This summary should not be an exhaustive reiteration of the text, but rather a concise
statement of the argument. Assume that everyone has read the text just maybe not as closely.
The oral presentation should not exceed 15 minutes, and should end by posing at least one
question for class discussion.
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The written summary, from 3 to 5 pages, should be distributed to the class and submitted for
a grade on the day of the oral presentation. Consult the syllabus for the date of the
presentation due when the reading is assigned.
Final Exam: The final exam will take place in class on December 12th. Questions will be
distributed on Nov. 14th. A study day is scheduled for Nov. 21st. This study day is optional,
but highly recommended. The exam will consist of prelim style questions, and will be graded
based on how well the answers cover the material.
THERE WILL BE NO LATE EXERCISES ACCEPTED WITHOUT PENALTY.
PRESENTATIONS WILL RECEIVE A 5 (FIVE) POINT PENALTY IF LATE, AND A 10
(TEN) POINT PENALTY IF MORE THAN ONE WEEK LATE.
COMMUNICATION
All course information will be broadcast via the Internet, posted on Blackboard. Each of you
have been assigned an email account by WSU and if you decide to use a different account be
sure you figure out how to forward any email to that alternative account. I will post any
study guides, notices, revisions on this syllabus, and other information on Blackboard. You
can learn about Blackboard at: http://computing.wayne.edu/blackboard/
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FEMINIST SOCIOLOGY
SOC 5010/7010
Professor Heidi Gottfried
College of Liberal Art and Sciences
Wayne State University
Heidi.Gottfried@Wayne.edu
(313) 577-8828
Sept. 12
Introduction to Feminist Sociology
Readings:
Jennifer Pierce, 2003. “Traveling from Feminism to Mainstream Sociology
and Back: One Woman’s Tale of Tenure and the Politics of Backlash.
Qualitative Sociology 30, 13: 369-396.
Rosemarie Tong, 2009.“Introduction: The Diversity of Feminist Thinking,” in
Feminist Thought, 3rd Edition. Westview.
Supplementary:
Christine Di Stefano. 1994. “Masculine Marx.” Feminist Interpretations and
Political Theory, edited by Mary Lyndon Shanley and Carole Pateman. Polity.
Susan Bordo., 1986. “The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought.” Signs 11:
439-56.
Sept. 19
Feminist Sociology in the 20th Century
Myra Marx Ferree, Shamus Rahman Khan and Shauna Morimoto, 2007.
“Assessing the Feminist Revolution: The Presence and Absence of Gender in
Theory and Practice.” Sociology in America: A History, edited by Craig
Calhoun. University of Chicago.
Barbara Laslett, 2007. “Feminist Sociology in the Twentieth-Century United
States: Life Stories in Historical Context, Sociology in America: A History,
edited by Craig Calhoun. University of Chicago.
Sylvia Walby, 2011. “Introduction,” and “Contesting Feminism.” The Future
of Feminism. Polity.
Jayati Lal, Kristin McGuire, Abigail Stewart, Magdalena Zaborowska, and
Justine Pas. 2010. “Recasting Global Feminisms: Toward a Comparative
Historical Approach to women’s Activism and Feminism Scholarship.”
Feminist Studies 36. 1:
Supplementary:
Wise, Sue and Stanley, Liz. (2003) Review Article: ‘Looking Back and
Looking Forward: Some Recent Feminist Sociology Review’, Sociological
Research (online), 8 (2003) www.socresonline.org.uk.
Dorothy Smith. 1974. “Women’s Perspective as a Radical Critique of
Sociology.” Sociological Inquiry 44.
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Sept. 26
Theorizing Gender
R.W. Connell. “The Question of Gender.” Gender. Polity
Stevi Jackson, 1998. “Theorising Gender and Sexuality.” Contemporary
Feminist Theories, edited by Stevi Jackson and Jackie Jones. New York
University Press.
Joan Acker, 2006. “Feminists Theorizing Class—Issues and Arguments,” and
“Thinking about Gendered and Racialized Class.” Class Questions, Feminist
Answers. Rowan and Littlefield.
Candace West and Susan Fenstermaker, 1995. “Doing Difference.” Gender &
Society 9, 8-37.
Candace West and Don Zimmerman, 2009. ”Accounting for Doing Gender.”
Gender & Society 23,
Judith Butler, 1988. “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution.”
Supplementary:
Joan Wallach Scott. 1986. “Gender: A Useful Category for Historical
Analysis.” American Historical Review (Dec.): 1053-1075.
V. Spike Peterson. 2005. “How (the meaning of) Gender Matters in Political
Economy.” New Political Economy 10, 4: 499-521.
Dorothy Smith, 2009. “Categories are not Enough.” Gender & Society 23,
Barbara Risman, 2009. “From Doing to Undoing: Gender as We Know It.”
Gender & Society 23,
James Messerschmidt, 2009. “’Doing Gender’: The Impact and Future of a
Salient Sociological Concept.” Gender & Society 23,
Erving Goffman, 1977. “The Arrangement Between the Sexes.” Theory and
Society 4, 3: 301-31.
Oct. 3
Sexuality and Masculinities
Raewyn Connell, 1995. “The Social Organization of Masculinity.”
Maculinities. University of California.
R.W. Connell and James Messerschmidt, 2005. “Hegemonic Masculinity:
Rethinking the Concept.” Gender & Society 19, 829
Patricia Yancey Martin. 2001. “Mobilizing Masculinities: Women's
Experiences of Men at Work.” Organization (November) 8, 4: 587-618
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Jeff Hearn and Michael Kimmel. 2006. “Changing Studies on Men and
Masculinities.” Handbook of Gender and Women Studies, Edited by Kathy
Davis, Mary Evans and Judith Lorber. Sage.
Supplementary:
Judith Butler, 2004. “Beside Onself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy.”
Undoing Gender. Routledge.
Hearn, Jeff and Parkin, Wendy. (2001) Gender, Sexuality and Violence in
Organizations. London, Sage Publications.
C.J. Pascoe. 2007. ‘Dude, You’re a Fag’: Masculinity and Sexuality in High
School.
Melanie Heath. 2009. “State of Our Unions: Marriage Promotion and the
Contested Power of Heterosexuality.” Gender & Society 23, 1: 27-48.
Winifred Poster. 2002. “Racialism, Sexuality, and Masculinity: Gendering
‘Global Ethnography’ of the Workplace.” Social Politics
Patricia Hill Collins, 2009. “The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood.”
Black Feminist Thought. Routledge.
Oct. 10
Black Feminist Thought
Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement (1977),” The Black
Feminist Reader, edited by Joy James and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.
Blackwell, 2000.
bell hooks, 2000. “Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory,” The Black
Feminist Reader, edited by Joy James and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.
Blackwell, 2000.
Angela Davis, 2000. “Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and
Liberation.” The Black Feminist Reader, edited by Joy James and T. Denean
Sharpley-Whiting. Blackwell, 2000.
Patricia Hill Collins. 2009. “Distinguishing Features of Black Feminist
Thought.” Black Feminist Thought. Routledge.
Supplementary:
Patricia Hill Collins, 2000. “The Social Construction of Black Feminist
Thought.” The Black Feminist Reader, edited by Joy James and T. Denean
Sharpley-Whiting. Blackwell, 2000.
Elizabeth Spelman. 1994. “Simone de Beauvoir and Women: Just Who Does
She Think “we” Is? Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory, edited by
Mary Lyndon Shanley and Carole Pateman. Polity.
Mignon R. Moore. 2011. Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships and
Motherhood among Black Women. University of California Press.
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Beverly Guy-Sheftall with Evelynn Hammonds. 2008. “Whither Black
Women’s Studies. Women’s Studies on the Edge, edited by Joan Wallach
Scott. Duke University Press.
Maxine Leeds Craig. 2002. Ain’t I a Beauty Queen? Black Women, Beauty,
and the Politics of Race. Oxford University Press.
Oct. 17
Intersectionality:
Kimberle Crenshaw. 2000. Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex:
A Black Feminist Critique of Anti-discrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory
and Antiracist Politics,” The Black Feminist Reader, edited by Joy James and
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. Blackwell, 2000.
Patricia Hill Collins, “Pushing the Boundaries or Business as Usual? Race,
Class and Gender Studies and Sociological Inquiry.” Sociology in America: A
History, edited by Craig Calhoun. University of Chicago, 2007.
Evelyn Nakano Glenn. 1999. “The Social Construction and Institutionalization
of Gender and Race: An Integrative Framework.” Revisioning Gender, edited
by Myra Marx Ferree, Judith Lorber, and Beth Hess. Sage.
Afsaneh Najmabadi. 2008. “Teaching and Research in Unavailable
Intersections. Women’s Studies on the Edge, edited by Joan Wallach Scott.
Duke University Press.
Oct. 24
Intersectionality: Debates
McCall, Leslie. (2005) “The complexity of intersectionality.” Signs: Journal
of Women in Culture and Society 30, 3, 1771-1800.
Jeff Hearn, 2011. “Neglected Intersectionalities in Studying Men: Age(ing),
Virtuality, Transnationality.” Framing Intersectionality: Debates on a MultiFaceted Concept in Gender Studies, edited by Helma Lutz, Maria Teresa
Herrera Vivar and Linda Supik. Ashgate
Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree, 2010. “Practicing Intersectionality in
Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and
Institutions in the Study of Inequalities.” Sociological Theory 28, 2: 129-49.
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. 2002. “Integrating Disability: Transforming
Feminist Theory,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal 14: 1-32.
Supplementary:
Kathy Davis, 2011. “Intersectionality as Buzzword: A Sociology of Science
Perspective on What Makes a Feminist Theory Successful.” Framing
Intersectionality: Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept in Gender Studies,
edited by Helma Lutz, Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar and Linda Supik. Ashgate
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Julie Bettie. 2000. “Women without Class: Chicas, Cholas, Trash and the
Presence/Absence of Class Identity. Sings 26: 1-36.
Oct. 31
Theories of the Body and Embodiment
Rose Weitz. 2003. “A History of Women’s Bodies” Politics of Women’s
Bodies, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press.
Judith Lorber and Patricia Yancy Martin. 2011. “The Socially Constructed
Body.” Illuminating Social Life: Classical and Contemporary Theory
Revisited, edited by Peter Kvisto. Pine Forge Press, 5th Edition.
Jennifer Reich, 2003. “Pregnant with Possibilities: Reflections on
Embodiment, Access, and Inclusion in Field Research.” Qualitative Sociology
26, 3 (Fall): 351-367.
Sara Mahmood. 2001. ”Feminist Theory, Embodiment and the Docile Agent:
Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival.” Cultural Anthropology
16: 2002-236.
Supplementary:
Butler, Judith. (1993) Bodies That Matter: On the Discussion of the Limits of
“Sex”. New York, Routledge.
Paula-Irene Villa, 2011. “Embodiment is Always More: Intersectionality,
Subjection and the Body. Framing Intersectionality: Debates on a MultiFaceted Concept in Gender Studies, edited by Helma Lutz, Maria Teresa
Herrera Vivar and Linda Supik. Ashgate
Grosz, Elizabeth. (1994) Volatile Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Feminism.
Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press.
Iris Marion Young, 2005. On Female Body Experience. Oxford University
Press.
Susan Bordo, 1993. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the
Body. University of California Press.
Karin Martin, 1998. “Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools.”
American Sociological Review 63: 494-511.
Kim Hale, 2002. “Feminism, Disability and Embodiment.” NWSA Journal 14:
vii-xiii.
Wendy Cealey Harrison. 2006. “The Shadow and the Substance: The
Sex/Gender Debate.” Handbook of Gender and Women Studies, Edited by
Kathy Davis, Mary Evans and Judith Lorber. Sage.
Nov. 7
Reading
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Nov. 14
Labor and Care
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. (1992) From servitude to service work: historical
continuities in the racial division of paid reproductive labor. Signs: Journal of
Women in Culture and Society 18, 1-43.
Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon. 1994. “A Genealogy of Dependency:
Tracing a Keyword of the US Welfare State.” Signs 19, 2: 309-336.
Lynne Haney and M. March. 2003. “Married Fathers and Caring Daddies:
Welfare Reform and the Discursive Politics of Paternity.” Social Problems 50:
461-481.
England, Paula, Budig, Michelle and Folbre, Nancy. (2002) Wages of virtue:
the relative pay of care work. Social Problems November, 49, 4, 455-473.
Patricia Hill Collins. 2009. “Black Women and Motherhood,” Black Feminist
Thought. Routledge.
Supplementary:
Heidi Gottfried, forthcoming. “Caring for People.” Gender, Work and
Economy. Polity.
Nancy Folbre, 1994. Who Pays for Kinds? Gender and the Structures of
Constraint. Routledge.
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. (2010) Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in
America. Harvard University Press.
Isaksen, Lise Widding, Sambasivan Uma Devi and Hochschild, Arlie Russell.
(2008) Global care crisis: a problem of capital, care chain, or commons?
American Behavioral Scientist 52, 405-424.
Rollins, Judith. (1985) Between Women. Philadelphia, Temple University
Press.
Romero, Mary. (1992) Maid in the USA. London, Routledge.
Nov. 21
In-Class Study Session for Exam
Nov. 28
Gender, State and Economy
Hartmann, Heidi, 1979. The unhappy marriage of Marxism and Feminism:
towards a more progressive union. Capital and Class 3, 2: 1-33.
Heidi Gottfried. Forthcoming. An Introduction to Gender in the Economy,
Society and Politics. Gender, Work and Economy. Polity.
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Orloff, Ann Shola. 1993. Gender and the social rights of citizenship: the
comparative analysis of gender relations and welfare states. American
Sociological Review 58, 3, 303-328.
Sylvia Walby. 2011. “Varieties of modernity: Do varieties of gender regime
map onto varieties of capitalism?” Presented to American Sociological
Association, Las Vegas, 20 August.
Joan Acker, 2011. Welfare States and Inequality Regimes.” Presented to
American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, 20 August.
Supplementary:
Walby, Sylvia. 2009. Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and
Contested Modernities. London, Sage.
Maria Charles and David Grusky. 2007. “Egalitarianism and Gender
Inequality.” The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings
in Face, Class, and Gender, edited by David Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi.
Westview Press.
Dec. 5
Gender, Organizations and Work
Heidi Gottfried, forthcoming, “Feminist Theories of Gender, Work and
Economy,” Gender, Work and Economy. Polity Press.
Acker, Joan. (1990) Hierarchies, jobs, bodies: a theory of gendered
organizations. Gender & Society 4, 2, 139-58.
Hochschild, Arlie Russell. (2003)”Exploring the Managed Heart,” and
Gender, Status, and Feeling.” The Managed Heart: Commercialization of
Human Feeling. Berkeley, University of California Press.
Steinberg, Ronnie, and Figurt, Deborah. (1999) Emotional labor since the
managed heart. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science 561: 8-26.
Jennifer Pierce, 2003. “’Racing for Innocence’: Whiteness, Corporate Culture,
and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action.” Qualitative Sociology 26, 3
(Fall): 53-70.
Supplementary:
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, 2001. Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning
and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence. Berkeley, University of California
Press.
Hochschild, Arlie Russell, 2003. ”Models of Emotion: From Darwin to
Goffman.” The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling.
Berkeley, University of California Press.
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Rosemary Crompton. “Gender and Work.” Handbook of Gender and Women
Studies, Edited by Kathy Davis, Mary Evans and Judith Lorber. Sage.
Reskin, Barbara and Padavic, Irene. (1994) Women and Men at Work.
Thousand Oaks, CA, Pine Forge.
Dec. 12
In-class Final Exam
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Feminisms: From Foucault, Habermas to Bourdieu
Moi, Tori. (1991) Appropriating Bourdieu: feminist theory and Pierre
Bourdieu’s sociology of culture. New Literary History 22, 1017-49.
McCall, Leslie. (1992) Does gender fit? Bourdieu, feminism, and conceptions of
social order. Theory and Society 21, 837-67.
Jana Sawiki. 1991. “Foucault and Feminism: Toward a Politics of Difference.”
Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory, edited by Mary Lyndon Shanley
and Carole Pateman. Polity.
Nancy Fraser. 1991. “What’s Critical about Critical Theory? The Case of
Habermas and Gender.” Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory, edited
by Mary Lyndon Shanley and Carole Pateman. Polity.
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality.
Global Feminisms/Post-Colonial Feminism
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. (2006) Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing
Theory, Practicing Solidarity. North Carolina, Duke University Press.
Qayum, Seemin and Ray, Raka. (2003) Grappling with modernity: India’s
respectable classes and the culture of domestic servitude. Ethnography 4, 4,
520-555.
Manisha Desai. 2006. “From Autonomy to Solidarities: Transnational
Feminist Strategies. Handbook of Gender and Women Studies, Edited by
Kathy Davis, Mary Evans and Judith Lorber. Sage.
Ann Stoler, 1997. “Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and
Sexual Morality in Twentieth Century Colonia Cultures,” Dangerous Liaisons:
Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Perspectives, edited by Anne McClintock,
Aamir Mufti and Ella Shohat. University of Minnesota Press.
Leela Gandhi, Postcolonialism and Feminism, Theorizing Feminisms, edited
by Elizabeth Hachett and Sally Haslanger. Oxford University Press.
Chow, Esther Ngan-Ling. (2003) Gender matters: studying globalization and
social change in the 21st century. International Sociology 18, 3, 443-460.
Moghadam,Valentine. (2006) Globalizing Women: International
Transnational Feminist Networks. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press.
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