|
|
Class
Schedule (Spring 2006)
Weekly
readings will be marked by where they can be found: bookstore (see
Course Book List); book reserve (see Course
Reserve List for complete listing by week), article reserve, office
for my office, or online for articles available for downloading from the
web. Note that most of the articles and excerpts are available in books
on reserve. Most book excerpts are available in one hard copy in library
folders. Please let me know as soon as possible if you have any trouble
obtaining the readings.
For paper guidelines and a summary of assignment due dates, click HERE.
List
of Weekly Discussants:
Part
I: GENDER AS AN (ASSUMED) ESSENCE IS ANATOMY OUR DESTINY?
Week
1
Week 2
Week
3
Week 4
Week 5
Part II: GENDER
AS A VERB: MAKING MEN, WOMEN AND THE REST OF US
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Part III: GENDER
(STILL!) MATTERS: THE EFFECTS OF GENDERED POWER
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Part
I: Gender
as an Assumed Essence: Is Anatomy Our Destiny?
Week
One: Introductory
Frameworks: Gender and Cultural Politics
- Tues. Jan 24
Introductions and goals of the course
Video Clip:
"Pat"
Week
One Film Assignment (7-8:30 pm, Wed. Jan 25, Bio 19): "The
Merchants of Cool", Frontline, 2001 (60 mins)
-
Thurs.
Jan 26 Cultural Politics
Mascia-Lees, Frances
and Nancy Johnson Black. "Ch. 1: The History of the Study of
Gender in Anthropology," and Ch. 2: "Analyzing Theories,"
Gender and Anthropology. Waveland Press, 2000. (19 pp.) (book reserve).
di Leonardo, Micaela and Roger Lancaster. "Introduction: Embodied
Meanings, Carnal Practices," in (GSR). (pp 1-5). (In bookstore
and on book reserve)
Jhally, Sut. "Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture,"
in Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez, (eds.) Gender, Race and Class in
Media. London: Sage, 1995. (book, ereserve).
(10 pp).
Slide Show: Print ads
Week Two: Nature/Culture/Power
Week Two Film assignment (7-9 pm, Sun. Jan 29, Psych 105): "Sex:
Unknown", Nova, 2001 (60 min)
- Jan. 31 Nature,
Culture and "Science"
Ortner, Sherry: "Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?"
and "So, Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?" in Making
Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
(27 pp.) (In bookstore, and on book reserve)
Jordonova, L.J. "Natural Facts: A Historical Perspective on Science
and Sexuality," in Carol P. MacCormack, Ed. Nature, Culture, Gender.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. (25 pp.) (On book, ereserve.)
- Feb. 2 Gender
and Biology
Wilson, Edward O. Ch. 6 "Sex", in On Human Nature. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1978. (27 pp.) (on book, ereserve).
Sperling, Susan. "Baboons with Briefcases vs. Langurs with Lipstick,"
(GSR). (10 pp). (In bookstore and on book reserve).
Lancaster, Roger. Ch. 6 "Sexual Selection," Ch. 7 "The
Selfish Gene, Ch. 15, "The Social Body," Ch. 16 "Practices
of Sex," Ch. 18 "The Biology of the Homosexual," in The
Trouble with Nature: Sex in science and Popular culture. California,
2003. (66 pp). (In bookstore and on book reserve).
Further
Reading | Related
Films in Reed Library | Links
Week Three: (Contested)
Femininities
Week
Three Film Assignment (7-9 pm, Sun. Feb. 5, Bio 19): "Barbie
Nation", 53 min
- Feb. 7 Constructing
Essential Womanhood: Maternity and the Domestic/Public Dichotomy
Lamphere, Louise. "The Domestic Sphere of Women and the Public
World of Men: The Strengths and Limitations of an Anthropological Dichotomy,"
Brettell, Caroline and Carolyn F. Sargent, (Eds.). Gender in Cross-Cultural
Perspective.London: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1997. (7 pg). (On book, ereserve).
(5 copies)
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy: "Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child
Death in Northeast Brazil" (GSR) (8 pg) (In bookstore and on book
reserve).
Lancaster, Roger. Ch. 14 "Selective Affinities," in The Trouble
with Nature: Sex in science and Popular culture. California, 2003. (23
pg). (In bookstore and on book reserve).
- Feb. 9 Alternative/Dangerous
Femininities
Duncan, Nancy. "Renegotiating Gender and Sexuality in Public and
Private Spaces," in Nancy Duncan, (Ed.), Bodyspace: Destabilizing
Geographies of Gender and Sexuality. New York: Routledge, 1996. (17
pp.) (On book, ereserve).
(4 copies)
Tsing, Anna. "Monster Stories: Women Charged with Perinatal Endangerment".
Faye Ginsburg and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, eds., Uncertain Terms: Negotiating
Gender in American Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990. (17 pp.) (On
book, ereserve).
(4 copies)
Zavella, Patricia. "'Playing with Fire' The Gendered Construction
of Chicana/Mexicana Sexuality," in (GSR). (13 pp.). (In bookstore
and on book reserve).
Further
Reading |
Related Films in Reed Library | Links
Top
Week
Four: (Contested) Masculinities
Week
Four Film Assignment (7-9 pm, Sun. Feb. 12, Bio 19), "Boyz N the
Hood", 1991, 112 min.
- Feb. 14 Constructing
Essential Manhood
Kimmel,
Michael: "Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence
in the Construction of Gender Identity," in Harry Brod and Michael
Kaufman, (Eds.), Theorizing Masculinities. London: Sage Publications,
1994. (20 pp). (on book reserve, ereserve).
Lancaster,
Roger. Ch. 10 "Homo Faber, Family Man," and Ch. 11 "T-Power,"
in The Trouble with Nature: Sex in science and Popular culture. California,
2003. (20 pg). (In bookstore and on book reserve).
Katz, Jackson. "Advertising and the Construction of Violent White
Masculinity," in Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez, (eds.) Gender, Race
and Class in Media. London: Sage, 1995. (7 pp). (On book, ereserve).
5 copies
- Feb. 16 Alternative/Dangerous
Masculinities
Gutmann, Matthew: "The Meanings of Macho: Changing Mexican Male
Identities" in Lamphere et al (Eds.), Situated Lives: Gender and
Culture in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge, 1997. (10 pg) (On book,
ereserve). (5 copies)
hooks, bell. "Ch. 6: Reconstructing Black Masculinity" Black
Looks: Race and Representation, 1992. (26 pp.) (On book, ereserve).
(5 copies)
Jackson, Peter. "Kathoey><Gay><Man: the Historical
Emergence of Gay Male Identity in Thailand," in Manderson and Jolly,
(Eds.), Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia
and the Pacific. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. (23 pp).
(On book, ereserve).
(5 copies)
Further
Reading |
Related Films in Reed Library | Links
Top
Week Five: (Contested) Families and
Kinship
Week
Five Film Assignment (7-9 pm, Sun. Feb. 19, Bio 19): "Small
Happiness" (58 min)
- Feb. 21 Constructing "Families" and "Kinship"
Mckinnon, Susan. "On Kinship and Marriage: A Critique of the Genetic
and Gender Calculus of Evolutionary Psychology," in McKinnon and
Silverman, eds., Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nuture. Chicago, 2005.
(bookstore and book reserve). (22 pg).
Obeler, Regina Smith, "Is the Female Husband a Man? Woman/Woman
Marriage among the Nandi of Kenya," Ethnology 19, 1980 (19 pg).
(ereserve).
Waltner, Ann. "Kinship Between the Lines: The Patriline, the Concubine
and the Adopted Son in Late Imperial China," in Maynes et al, eds.,
Gender, Kinship, Power. New York: Routledge, 1996. (9 pp). ). (On book,
ereserve)
- Feb. 23 Alternative/Dangerous
Families and Kinship
Weston, Kath. Families We Choose Ch.'s 1-3, Ch. 5, Ch. 8 (125 pp.) (In
bookstore and on book reserve.).
Further
Reading |
Related Films in Reed Library | Links
Top
II)
Gender as a Verb: Making Men, Women and the Rest of Us
Week
Six: Gender, Childhood and Socialization
Week
Six Film Assignment (7-9 pm, Sun. Feb. 26, Vollum 120): "Ma Vie En
Rose", 89 min
- Feb. 28 Gendering
Children
Foucault, Michel. "The Means of Correct Training," (from Discipline
and Punish), in Rabinow, ed. The Foucault Reader, 1984. (on book reserve)
(17 pp)
Thorne, Barrie. Ch. 1, 4, 5. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School.
Routledge, 1993. (50 pp). (In bookstore and on book reserve). Gender
Play ebook
Martin, Karin. "Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools,"
American Sociological Review 63: 494-511, August 1998. (16 pg). Online:
(JSTOR).
-
Mar
2 Alternative/Dangerous Children
Gould, Lois. "X: A Fabulous Child's Story," in Kesselman
et al, (Eds.), Women: Images and Realities, A Multicultural Anthology,
Mountain View: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1995. (5 pg) Available online:
http://users3.ev1.net/~rooftopyawp/x.html
Thorne, Barrie. Ch. 7, 8. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. Routledge,
1993. (45 pp). (In bookstore and on book reserve). Gender
Play ebook
Mac An Ghaill, Martin. "The Making of Black English Masculinities,"
in Harry Brod and Michael Kaufman, (Eds.), Theorizing Masculinities.
London: Sage Publications, 1994. (15 pp.) (on book reserve.)
Week Seven: Gender and Language
- Mar 7 Performing
Gender Through Language
Gal, Susan. "Between Speech and Silence:The Problematics of Research
on Language and Gender," in Micaela di Leonardo, ed., Gender at
the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern
Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. (20 pp.) (on book,
ereserve).
Kulick, Don. "Speaking as a Woman: Structure and Gender in Domestic
Arguments in a New Guinea Village," Cultural Anthropology 8(4),
Nov. 1993: 510-541.
Available online JSTOR.
- Mar 9 Language,
Gender and Power in Different Discourse Genres
Herring, Susan, Deborah Johnson and Tamra DiBenedetto. "This Discussion
is Going Too Far": Male Resistance to Female Participation on the
Internet," in Hall and Bulcholtz, (Eds.), Gender Articulated: Language
and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge, 1995. (25 pp.).
(In bookstore and on book reserve).
Moonwomon, Birch. "The Writing on the Wall: A Border Case of Race
and Gender," in Hall and Bulcholtz, (Eds.), Gender Articulated:
Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge, 1995.
(18 pp.). (In bookstore and on book reserve.)
Further
Reading |
Related Films in Reed Library | Links
Paper
One due Friday, March 10, 5 pm, my office.
Spring Break Mar. 11-19
Top
Week Eight: The
Bodily Performance of Gender
Week Eight Film
Assignment (7-9 pm, Sun. Mar 19, Bio 19): "You Don't Know Dick",
58 min
- Mar 21 Physically
Achieving/Subverting Gender
Butler, Judith. "Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions,"
in Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York:
Routledge, 1999. [NOTE: DO NOT READ THE 1990 EDITION, PAGE NUMBERS ARE
DIFFERENT] (11 pp.). (On book reserve).
Weston, Kath. "Do Clothes Make the Woman? Gender, Performance Theory,
and Lesbian Eroticism," Genders 17, Fall 1993. (17 pp). (ereserve).
Bordo, Susan: "Material Girl," in (GSR). (21 pp). (In bookstore
and on book reserve).
- Mar 23
"Trans" Sex/Gendering
Robertson, Jennifer. (Intro.,
chs. 2, 4).
Takarazuka: Sexual
Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1998.
(In bookstore and on book reserve).
- Mar 28 Achieving
Gendered Personhood in Rites of Passage
Herdt, Gilbert. "Fetish and Fantasy in Sambia Ritual," Rituals
of manhood : male initiation in Papua New Guinea / edited by Gilbert
H. Herdt ; with an introduction by Roger M. Keesing .Berkeley : University
of California Press, c1982. (on book reserve, ereserve).
Elliston, Deborah. "Erotic Anthropology: 'Ritualized Homosexuality'
in Melanesia and Beyond," in Robertson, Jennifer, ed. Same-sex
cultures and Sexualities: an Anthropological Reader. Blackwell, 2005.
(Bookstore and book reserve).
- Mar
3 Gender and Cosmology
Lila Abu-Lughod. "Ch. 1 Guest and Daughter" (first 24 pages)
and Ch. 4 "Modesty, Gender and Sexuality," (48 pages). Veiled
sentiments : honor and poetry in a Bedouin society . Berkeley : University
of California Press, 1986. (70 pp.) (on book reserve).
Lila Abu-Lughod. "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?" American
Anthropologist 104 (3): 783-790, Sept. 2002. (ereserve)
III)
Gender (Still!) Matters: The Effects of Gendered Power
Week Ten Gendering Subjects: Colonialism,
Nationalism and The State
- Apr. 4 Gendering
the Colonized
Mohanty, Chandra. "Under Western Eyes," Feminism Without
Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Duke, 2003. (25
pp.) (Bookstore, book reserve).
Stoler, Ann. "Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender, Race,
and Morality in Colonial Asia," in (GSR). (16 pp.). (In bookstore
and on book reserve).
Comaroff, Jean. "The Empire's Old Clothes," in Lamphere et
al (Eds.), Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life. New
York: Routledge, 1997. (16 pp.). (On book, ereserve).
- Apr.
6 Gendering National Subjects
Enloe, Cynthia. "Ch. 3: Nationalism and Masculinity," in Bananas,
Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics.
London: Pandora, 1989. (20 pg). (In bookstore and book reserve).
Heng, Geraldine and Janadas Devan. "State Fatherhood: The Politics
of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore," in (GSR). (9
pp.).(In bookstore and on book reserve).
Further
Reading |
Related Films in Reed Library | Links
Top
Week
Eleven: Sex, Gender and Violence
Week Eleven Film
Assignment (7-9 pm, Sun. Apr. 9, Vollum 120): "Wrestling
with Manhood", 60 min.
- Apr 11 Gendered
Violence at "Home"
Sanday, Peggy. "Introduction", Ch. 1-3 in Fraternity Gang
Rape: Sex, Brotherhood and Privilege on Campus, 1990 (89 pg) (on book
reserve).
Mason, Gail. "Introduction: Impetus" and Ch. 2 "Disorder",
The Spectacle of Violence: Homophobia, Gender and Knowledge. London:
New York: Routledge 2002. (32 pp) ( book reserve)
- Apr 13 Gendered
Violence in National/International Spheres
Heise, Lori. "Violence, Sexuality, and Women's Lives," in
(GSR) (18 pp.). (In bookstore and on book reserve)
Enloe, Cynthia. "The Militarisation of Prostitution," in Does
Khaki Become You? (22 pg). (On book, ereserve).
Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Laura. "'Wild Pigs and Dog Men': Rape and Domestic
Violence as 'Women's Issues' in Papua New Guinea," (GCCP) (12 pg).
(On book, ereserve.)
Further
Reading |
Related Films in Reed Library | Links
Week
Twelve: Gender, Work and Globalization
Week Twelve Film
Assignment (7-9 pm, Sun. Apr 16, Bio 19): "Maid's and Madams"
(54 min)
- Apr. 18 Transnational
Capitalism
Sassen, Saskia. "Toward a Feminist Analytics of the Global Economy,"
Globalization and its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People
and Money. NY: The New Press, 1998. (on Book reserve)
Lee, Ching Kwan. Chs. 1-3 and "Methodological Appendix," Gender
and the South China Miracle: 2 worlds of factory women. California,
1998 (In bookstore and on book reserve).
- Apr 20
Lee, Ching
Kwan. Skim Ch.s 4-5, Read Ch.s 6-8, Gender and the South China Miracle:
2 worlds of factory women. California, 1998 (In bookstore and on book
reserve).
Further
Reading |
Related Films in Reed Library | Links
Week
Thirteen: Gender, Work and Globalization: Selling Sex
- Apr. 25 Sex
Work
Enloe, Cynthia. "Ch. 2: On the Beach: Sexism and Tourism,"
in Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International
Politics. London: Pandora, 1989. (20 pg). (In bookstore, on book reserve).
Chapkis, Wendy. "Ch. 1 The Meaning of Sex" and pp. 58-66,
pp. 83-96, in Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor, New York:
Routledge, 1997. (on book reserve).
Day, Sophie. "What Counts as Rape? Physical Assault and Broken
Contracts: Contrasting Views of Rape Among London Sex Workers,"
in Penelope Harvey and Peter Gow, (eds.), Sex and Violence: Issues in
Representation and Experience. London: Routledge, 1994. (16 pp). (on
book reserve).
- Apr 27 Futures
and Alternatives?
Lancaster, Roger. Ch's 24-26, The Trouble with Nature: Sex in science
and Popular culture. California, 2003. (in bookstore, on book reserve).
Aguilar, Delia. Questionable claims: colonialism redux, feminist style,"
Race and Class.2000; 41 (3): 1-12. (ereserve).
Mohanty, Chandra. "Under Western Eyes Revisited." Feminism
Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Duke, 2003.
(in bookstore, on book reserve).
Further
Reading |
Related Films in Reed Library | Links
10-12
page Final Paper due, Monday, May 8, 5
pm, my office (Vollum 312)
|
