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Feminism
Part 2, Paper 10: Political Philosophy
Lecturer: Dr. Clare Chambers
Faculty of Philosophy and Jesus College
www.clarechambers.com
This is an extensive reading list, designed to cover all the works discussed in the lectures and to
provide suggestions for further reading.
Asterisks indicate that the work is particularly important, stimulating, and/or pertinent to the
Part 2 Political Philosophy syllabus.
Introductory and general works
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Brownmiller, Susan, In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. New York, NY: Random House,
1999.
* Bryson, Valerie, Feminist Political Theory: An Introduction
Faludi, Susan, Backlash
* Okin, Susan Moller, Justice, Gender and the Family
Rhode, Deborah, Speaking of Sex: the denial of gender inequality
Squires, Judith, Gender in Political Theory
* Walter, Natasha, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism (Virago, 2010)
Whelan, Imelda, Modern Feminist Thought: From the Second Wave to ‘Post-Feminism’
Useful and interesting websites – more suggestions welcome
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The UK Equalities Office http://www.equalities.gov.uk
US Equal Rights Amendment http://www.equalrightsamendment.org
The US National Organisation for Women http://www.now.org/index.html
The UK Equality Act 2010: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2010/ukpga_20100015_en_1
OBJECT pressure group, and their “top shelf” campaign, at http://www.object.org.uk
Ms Magazine http://www.msmagazine.com
The Fawcett Society http://www.fawcettsoceity.org.uk
London Feminist Network http://www.ldnfeministnetwork.ik.com
Andrea Dworkin Online Library http://www.nostatusquo.com
The F-Word: Contemporary UK feminism http://www.thefword.org.uk
International Prostitutes Collective http://www.prostitutescollective.net
Gail Dines’ website, author of Pornland http://www.gaildines.com
Stop Porn Culture http://www.stoppurnculture.org
Refuge http://www.refuge.org.uk
Rape Crisis http://www.rapecrisis.org.uk
Feminist Theory Website http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/enin.html
Audio recordings from the Andrea Dworkin Commemorative Conference
http://social-justice.politics.ox.ac.uk/events/dworkin/
Novels relating to feminism and gender – more suggestions welcome
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Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid’s Tale – and most other Atwood novels
Dworkin, Andrea Mercy, Ice and Fire, First Love and the new woman’s broken heart
Eugenides, Jeffrey, Middlesex
French, Marilyn, The Women’s Room
Lessing, Doris, The Golden Notebook
Perkins Gilman, Charlotte, Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper
Woolf, Virginia, Orlando
Lecture 1: Concepts, method and aims
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* Bartlett, Katherine, “Feminist Legal Methods” in Harvard Law Review 103, no. 4 (1990).
Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble
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Fausto-Sterling, Anne, Sexing the Body
Gatens, Moira, “Power, bodies and difference” in Barrett and Phillips, Destabilizing
Difference
Helliwell, Christine, “It’s Only a Penis: Rape, Feminism and Difference” in Signs 25, no. 3
(2000)
Hirschmann, Nancy J., and Christine Di Stefano. Revisioning the Political: Feminist
Reconstructions of Traditional Concepts in Western Political Theory. Boulder, CO:
Westview Press, 1996.
* MacKinnon, Catharine, Towards a Feminist Theory of the State Part II: “Method”.
* Okin, Susan Moller, Justice, Gender and the Family chapters 1 and 8.
Rhode, Deborah, Speaking of Sex: the denial of gender inequality
Lecture 2: Feminism, liberalism and the law
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Berlin, Isaiah, “Two Concepts of Liberty” in his Four Essays on Liberty or in Miller, The
Liberty Reader or in Michael Sandel (ed.) Liberalism and its critics.
Bryson, Valerie, Feminist Political Theory: An Introduction
Fraser, Nancy, Justice Interruptus chapter 1: “From Redistribution to Recognition?”
Hirschmann, Nancy J. The Subject of Liberty: Towards a Feminist Theory of Freedom.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Hirschmann, Nancy J., The Subject of Liberty chapter 1
Kennedy, Helen, Eve Was Framed
MacKinnon, Catharine, Towards a Feminist Theory of the State chapter 10 or Feminism
Unmodified: Discourses of Life and Law chapter 8.
Mill, John Stuart, The Subjection of Women
On the ERA: Catharine MacKinnon, Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws chapter 1;
Radcliffe Richards, Janet, “Enquiries for liberators” in her The Sceptical Feminist.
Williams, Bernard, “The Idea of Equality” in P Laslett and WG Runciman, Philosophy,
Politics and Society Series II or in Pojman and Westmoreland, Equality: Selected Readings
Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Lecture 3: The family and the Ethics of Care
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Bubeck, Diemut, Care, Gender, and Justice. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
Delphy, Christine, and Diana Leonard, Familiar Exploitation: A New Analysis of Marriage
in Contemporary Western Societies
Dworkin, Andrea, Heartbreak
* Fraser, Nancy, Justice Interruptus chapter 2: “After the Family Wage”
* Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique
* Gilligan, Carol, In a Different Voice (or abridged version in Meyers, Feminist Social
Thought: A Reader)
* Held, Virginia, The Ethics of Care
* Hochschild, Arlie Russell, and Anne Machung. The Second Shift: Working Parents and
the Revolution at Home. London: Piatkus, 1990
* Meyers, Diana, Feminist Social Thought: A Reader Part 6: “Care and its critics”
Nussbaum, Martha, Sex and Social Justice chapter 2: “The feminist critique of liberalism”
Oakley, Ann. The Sociology of Housework. Oxford: Blackwell, 1985.
* Okin, Susan Moller, Justice, Gender and the Family chapters 2, 6 and7.
* Ruddick, Sarah, “Maternal Thinking” in Feminist Studies Vol. 6 (1980) or in Meyers,
Feminist Social Thought: A Reader
Sanchez, Laura, and Elizabeth Thomson. “Becoming Mothers and Fathers: Parenthood,
Gender, and the Division of Labor.” Gender and Society 11, no. 6 (1997).
Smith, Joan, Misogynies and Different for Girls
Tronto, Joan, Moral Boundaries
Lecture 4: Discrimination and sexual harassment
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* Anderson, Elizabeth, “Recent Thinking about Sexual Harassment: A Review Essay” in
Philosophy & Public Affairs Vol. 34 No. 3 (Summer 2006)
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Cornell, Drucilla, The Imaginary Domain: Abortion, Pornography and Sexual Harassment
* Crouch, Margaret A., Thinking about Sexual Harassment: A Guide for the Perplexed
Hill, Anita, Speaking Truth to Power
Houghton-James, Hazel, Sexual Harassment
Jacobs, Lesley A., Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The Theory and Practice of Egalitarian
Justice (CUP, 2004) Part IV: Gender
* Kymlicka, Will, Contemporary Political Philosophy chapter 7 (in first edition) or 9 (in
second edition): “Feminism” (particularly section 1: “Sexual Equality and Sexual
Discrimination”).
* MacKinnon, Catharine, Sexual Harassment of Working Women. Yale University Press,
1979.
MacKlem, Timothy, Beyond Comparison: Sex and Discrimination (CUP, 2003)
Phillips, Anne, ed. Feminism and Equality. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987.
Radcliffe Richards, Janet, “Sexual Justice” in her The Sceptical Feminist.
* Young, Iris Marion, Justice and the Politics of Difference chapter 7: “Affirmative Action
and the Myth of Merit”.
Lecture 5: Femininity, masculinity and the body
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Bartky, Sandra Lee, “Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power.” In
Feminist Social Thought: A Reader, edited by Diana Tietjens Meyers. London: Routledge,
1997.
Bordo, Susan, “Feminism, Foucault and the Politics of the Body.” In Up against Foucault,
edited by Caroline Ramazanoglu. London: Routledge, 1993.
* Bordo, Susan, The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private. New York:
Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2000.
* Bordo, Susan, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press, 2003.
Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble. London: Routledge, 1999. Particularly chapter 1: “Subjects
of Sex/Gender/Desire”
* Chambers, Clare, Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice. Penn State University
Press: 2008. Part 1
Davis, Kathy, Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery. London:
Routledge, 1995.
De Beauvoir, Simone, The Second Sex.
* Dworkin, Andrea, Woman Hating chapter 6.
Faludi, Susan, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Male
Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, chapter on Panopticism
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.
Foucault, Michel, The Will to Knowledge: The History of Sexuality: 1. Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1990.
Fraser, Nancy. “Foucault on Modern Power: Empirical Insights and Normative Confusions.”
In Michel Foucault (2): Critical Assessments, edited by Barry Smart. London: Routledge,
1995.
Gatens, Moira. “Power, bodies and difference.” In Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary
Feminist Debates, edited by Michele Barrett and Anne Phillips. Cambridge: Polity Press,
1992.
Greer, Germaine, The Female Eunuch. London: Flamingo, 1991.
* Jeffreys, Sheila, Beauty and Misogyny: harmful cultural practices in the West. London:
Routledge, 2005.
McNay, Lois. Foucault and Feminism. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992.
Vincent, Norah, Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man
* Walter, Natasha, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism (Virago, 2010)
Weitz, Rose (ed.), The Politics of Women’s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance and Behavior.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
* Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth. London: Vintage, 1990
* Young, Iris Marion, On Female Body Experience especially “Throwing Like A Girl”.
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Lecture 6: Pornography
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Adams, Carol, The Pornography of Meat
Assiter, Alison and Avedon Carol (ed.), Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to
Reclaim Feminism
Assiter, Alison, Pornography, Feminism and the Individual
Brown , Wendy, States of Injury (Princeton: Princeton UP,1995), ch 4
Cornell, Drucilla (ed.), Feminism and Pornography
Cornell, Drucilla, The Imaginary Domain: Abortion, Pornography and Sexual Harassment
* Dines, Gail, Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (Boston Press, 2010)
* Dworkin, Andrea, Pornography: Men Possessing Women
Dworkin, Andrea, Woman Hating Part Two: “The Pornography”
* Dworkin, Ronald, ‘Do we have a right to pornography?’, in his A Matter of Principle
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP,1985)
* Dworkin, Ronald, ‘Pornography and Hate’ and ‘MacKinnon’s Words’, in his Freedom’s
Law (OUP, 1996)
* Itzin, Catherine. (ed.) Pornography (OUP, 1992)
MacKinnon, Catharine and Andrea Dworkin, In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil
Rights Hearings
* MacKinnon, Catharine, Feminism Unmodified Part III: “Pornography”.
MacKinnon, Catharine, Only Words (Harper Collins, 1994)
Moorcock, Michael, “Working in the Ministry of Truth: Pornography and Censorship in
Contemporary Britain” in Itzin (ed.) Pornography.
Schlosser, Eric, Reefer Madness and other tales from the American underground chapter
3: “An Empire of the Obscene”.
Segal, Lynne, and Mary McIntosh, eds. Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography
Debate.
* Strossen, N., Defending Pornography: free speech, sex and the fight for women’s rights
(Abacus, 1996)
* Sunstein, Cass, “Neutrality in Constitutional Law (with special reference to pornography,
abortion, and surrogacy).” Columbia Law Review 92, no. 1 (1992).
* Walter, Natasha, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism (Virago, 2010)
* Williams, Bernard (ed.), Obscenity and Film Censorship: an abridgment of Williams
Report (CUP, 1981)
Wosnitzer, Robert et al, “Aggression and Sexual Behavior in Best-Selling Pornography: A
Content Analysis Update” available at
https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/hivstd/conference/2008/handouts/Pre_Sexuality.pdf
Lecture 7: Rape, violence and fear
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* Archard, D., Sexual Consent (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1998)
* Brownmiller, Susan. Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1977.
Buchwald, Emilie, Pamela Fletcher and Martha Roth (eds.), Transforming A Rape Culture.
Milkweed Editions, 2005.
* Dworkin, Andrea, Life and Death: Unapologetic writings in the undeclared war against
women.
Gordon, Margaret and Stephanie Riger, The Female Fear. New York: Macmillan, 1989.
Greer, Germaine, The Whole Woman chapter “Fear”.
Helliwell, Christine, “It’s Only a Penis: Rape, Feminism and Difference” in Signs 25, no. 3
(2000)
Horley, Sandra. The Charm Syndrome: Why Charming Men Can Make Dangerous Lovers.
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991.
* Kennedy, H., Eve was framed (Chatto and Windus, 1992), chapter 5
* Lees, S., Carnal Knowledge: Rape on Trial (Penguin Books, 1996)
* MacKinnon, C., Towards a Feminist Theory of the State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP,
1989) chapter 9
* MacKinnon, Catharine, Are Women Human? Parts 1 and 3.
McGregor, Joan, Is it Rape? On Acquaintance Rape and Taking Women’s Consent
Seriously. Ashgate, 2005.
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Smith, Joan, Misogynies chapter “M’Learned Friends”
* Tomaselli, S. & Porter (eds), Rape: an historical and social inquiry (Blackwell, 1989)
Travis, Cheryl Brown (ed.), Evolution, Gender and Rape.
Wertheimer, Alan, Consent to Sexual Relations
Lecture 8: Differences between women: race, culture and globalisation
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* Benhabib, Seyla, The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era
* Chambers, Clare, Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice. (Penn State University
Press, 2008) chapters 4 and 5.
Crenshaw, Kimberley Williams, “Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live
Crew” in Meyers (ed.), Feminist Social Thought: A Reader
Davis, Angela, Women, Race and Class
* Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Arlie Russell Hochschild, eds. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids,
and Sex Workers in the New Economy. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 2002.
* Fraser, Nancy, Justice Interruptus chapter 1: “From Redistribution to Recognition?
Dilemmas of Justice in a ‘Postsocialist’ Age”.
* hooks, bell, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. London: Pluto Press, 1983.
King, Deborah K., “Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black
Feminist Ideology” in Meyers (ed.), Feminist Social Thought: A Reader.
* Nussbaum, Martha, Sex and Social Justice and Women and Human Development
* Okin, Susan Molller (ed.), Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women?
Phillips, Anne, Multiculturalism without Culture (Princeton UP)
* Shachar, Ayelet. Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women’s Rights.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Spinner-Halev, Jeff. “Feminism, Multiculturalism, Oppression, and the State.” Ethics 112,
no. 1 (2001).
Winter, Bronwyn, Denise Thompson, and Sheila Jeffreys. “The UN Approach to Harmful
Traditional Practices.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 4, no. 1 (2002).
* Young, Iris Marion, Justice and the Politics of Difference.