MALS 72200 Contemporary Feminist Theories
WSCP 81001 Feminist Texts & Theories
Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, CUNY Graduate Center
Prof. Kyoo Lee| Office Hours: Wed 5:30-6:30pm, GC 4103| klee@gc.cuny.edu 

I.INTRODUCTION: A Theoretical Question, What is Possible/Necessary?

01/30. First Day of Class: Opening

02/06. Whither Women’s Studies?
•Brown, Wendy. "The Impossibility of Women's Studies." 2008.
•Wiegman, Robyn. "Feminism, Institutionalism, and the Idiom of Failure." 2008.
•Guy-Sheftall, Beverly, with Evelyn M. Hammonds. "Whither Black Women’s Studies: interview." 2008.
•Shteir, Rachel. "Feminism Fizzles: Where is Betty Friedan When We Need Her?." 2013.
•Lee, Kyoo. "“(Un)naming the Third Sex after Beauvoir: Towards a Third Dimensional Feminism.” 2012.
Recommended: 
Rosin, Hanna, "The End of Men." 2010
Wiegman, Robyn. "The Possibility of Women's Studies." 2005.
Halberstam, Jack. "Going Gaga: Dissent, Refusal, and Feminism." 2012.

02/13. The Personal is Theoretical
•Flax, Jane. "Women Do Theory." 1986.
•Lugones, Maria, and Elizabeth Spelman "Have We Got a Theory for You! [...]'." 1983.
•Finke, Laurie. "The Rhetoric of Marginality: Why I Do Feminist Theory." 1986. (Jstor)
•Alcoff, Linda. "Cultural Feminism Versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory." 1988. (Jstor)
•Davis, Angela. "Difficult Dialogues (Transcript, 2009)." Keynote Speech at the 30th Annual Conference, NWSA, Atlanta, GA .
•Schulman, Michael. "Generation LGBTQIA." Fashion & Style, The New York Times. January 9, 2013
Recommended:
Christian, Barbara. "The Race for Theory." 1987.
Grosz, Elizabeth. "What Is Feminist Theory?" 1992.
Hanisch, Carol. "The Personal Is Political." 1969.
hooks, bell. "Theory as Liberatory Practice." 1991..
Walker, Alice. "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens." 1983.

02/27. Harilyn Rousso, Book Party/Talk
Don't Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back
Segal Theater, 6-8 pm (program begins at 6:30).


II.KNOWING AND UNKNOWING: EPISTEMOLOGY

03/06. (Un)Conscious
•Friedan, Betty. "The Problem That Has No Name." 1963
•Frye, Marilyn. "Oppression." 1983.
•MacKinnon, Catharine. "Consciousness Raising." 1989.
•Irigaray, Luce (1977). "Toward a Grammar of Enunciation for Hysterics and Obsessives." 1977
•Shteir, Rachel. "Feminism Fizzles: Where is Betty Friedan When We Need Her?." 2013.
Recommended:
Bartky, Sandra Lee. "Shame and Gender." 1990.
Irigaray, Luce (1977). "The Language of Man." 1977.
Jaggar, Alison M., and Paula S. Rothenberg. "Alternative Feminist Frameworks: The Roots of Oppression." 1978.
Lacan, Jacques (1973). "On Jouissance." 1973.
Lacan, Jacques (1973). "God and Woman's Jouissance." 1973.
Journal Entry on "(Un)conscious": Two Examples: 1 and 2

03/13. Knowledge/Reason/Standpoint
•Code, Lorraine. "Is the Sex of the Knower Epistemologically Significant?" (abridged version) 1991.
•Tuana, Nancy. "Coming to Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance." (Project Muse, Hypatia 19, no.1, 2004. pp.194-232)
•Collins, Patricia Hill. "Towards an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology." 1978.
•Haraway, Donna. "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective." 1988.
Recommended:
Alcoff, Linda, and Elizabeth Potter. "When Feminism Intersects Epistemology." 1993.
Code, Lorraine. "Women and Experts: The Power of Ideology." 1991.
Ferguson, Ann. "Does Reason Have a Gender?" 1993.
Jaggar, Alison M. . "Love and Knowledge: Emotions in Feminist Epistemology." 1989.
Hartsock, Nancy. "Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Revisited": Truth or Justice?" 1997.
Le Dœuff, Michèle (1998). "Cast-Offs." 1998.
Morrison, Toni. "What the Black Woman Thinks About Women's Lib." 1971.
Journal Entry on "Knowledge/Reason/Standpoint": Example

03/20. No Class/Research Day: Two Journals (with an optional 250 word abstract/paper proposal) Due: klee@gc.cuny.edu


III.BEING AND BECOMING: ONTOLOGY

04/03. Being/Beginning with Harilyn Rousso
Guest-seminar with Harilyn Rousso
•Rousso, Harilyn (2013). Don't Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back
•Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie (2011). Misfits: A Feminist Materialist Disability Concept

04/10 & 17. Becoming Embodied: Think Present/Pregnant
•de Beauvoir, Simon (1949). "Introduction. " The Second Sex. 1949
•Irigaray, Luce (1977). "This Sex Which Is Not One." 1977.
•Kristeva, Julia (1979). "Women's Time (Le Temps Des Femmes)." 1979. (Jstor, Signs, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 13, Jan 1981)
•Irigaray, Luce (1974). "Plato's Hystera." 1974.
•Young, Iris. "Pregnant Embodiment: Subjectivity and Alienation." 1984.
•Bordo, Susan. "Reading the Slender Body." 1993.
Recommended:
Butler, Judith. "Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual?." 2002.
Daly, Mary. "The Second Sex and the Seeds of Transcendence." 1968.
Gilligan, Carol. "Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle." 1982.
Wittig, Monique (1981). "One Is Not Born a Woman " 1981.
Wittig, Monique. "The Category of Sex." 1982.
Bordo, Susan. "The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity: A Feminist Appropriation of Foucault." 1989.
Chishom, Dianne. "Climbing Like a Girl: An Exemplary Adventure in Feminist Phenomenology." 2008.
Plato on "the Allegory of the Cave"
Young, Iris. "Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality." 1980.

04/17 & 24. Performing Difference: Inter, Trans
•Bono, Chaz. Interview: "Be-All (Video, 2011)," Chicago Bel-All Transgender Convention
•Dacumos, Nico, "Becoming the Man I Was" (Video, 2010), Mens' Story Project, UCSF
•Butler, Judith. Preface to Gender Trouble, 1999 (1990).
•Butler, Judith. "Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire." 1990.
•Halberstam, Jack Judith. "Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum." 1998.
Recommended:
Butler, Judith. "Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions"
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "Should There Be Only Two Sexes?" 2000.
Feinberg, Leslie. "To Be or Not to Be." 1996.
Firestone, Shulamith. "The Dialectic of Sex." 1970.
Pinker, Steven, and Elizabeth Spelke "The Science of Gender and Science: Pinker Vs. Spelke Debate (Video, 2005)." 2005.
Salamon, Gayle. Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality. 2011

04/22. Pre-scheduled Individual Conferences @ My Office, Rm 4103, 5-6pm
04/24. Pre-scheduled Individual Conferences @ My Office, Rm 4103, 4-6pm
04/30. Pre-scheduled Individual Conferences @ My Office, Rm 4103, 3-5pm
05/01. Pre-scheduled Individual Conferences @ My Office, Rm 4103, 4-830pm (No Class)

IV.DOING AND UNDOING: PRAXIS

05/08. What is to be Un/Done?| Speaking/Voice/Representation
•Rubin, Gayle. "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex." 1975.
•Rich, Adrienne. "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience." 1980.
•Pateman, Carole. "Feminism and the Marriage Contract." 1988.
•Butler, Judith. "Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Assignment and Allegories of Transsexuality." In Undoing Gender, 57-74. New York ; London: Routledge, 2004.
Recommended:
Fraser, Nancy. "Beyond the Master Subject Model: Reflections on Carole Pateman's Sexual Contract." 1993.
Hooks, Bell. Ain't I a Woman : Black Women and Feminism. 1981.
Millett, Kate. "Instances of Sexual Politics." 1968.
Rubin, Gayle. "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality." 1975.

Speaking/Voice/Representation
•Carby, Hazel. "White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood." (full text available on Google books) 1982.
•Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses." 1984.
•Spivak, Gayatri. "Can the Subaltern Speak?" 1988.
•Alcoff, Linda, "The Problem of Speaking for Others." 1991.
•Willett, Cynthia et al., The Seriously Erotic Politics of Feminist Laughter, 2012.
Recommended:
Anzaldúa, Gloria. "How to Tame a Wild Tongue." 1999.
Arisaka, Yoko. "Asian Women: Invisibility, Locations and Claims to Philosophy." 2000.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. "Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles." 2003.
Truth, Sojourner. ""Ain't I a Woman?"." 1851.

05/15. Gender Justice| The Political is Personal
•Williams, Wendy. "The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism." 1982.
•MacKinnon, Catharine A. "Toward Feminist Jurisprudence." 1989.
•Crenshaw, Kimberlé. "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics." 1989.
•Spade, Dean.  "Trans Law Reform Strategies, Co-Optation, and the Potential for Transformative Change." 2009
Recommended:
Ahmed, Sara. "Deconstruction and Law's Other: Towards a Feminist Theory of Embodied Legal Rights." 1995.
MacKinnon, Catharine. "The Roar on the Other Side of Silence." 1997.

The Political is Personal
•Lorde, Audre. "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House." 1979.
•Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." 1991.
•Cohen, Cathy. "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical. Potential of Queer Politics?" 1997.
•Butler, Judith. "The Question of Social Transformation." 2004.
Recommended:
Duggan, Lisa. "Making It Perfectly Queer." 1992.
Ehrenreich, Barbara. "Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women's Work." 2000.
hooks, bell. "Sisterhood: Political Solidarity among Women." 1984.
Kimmel, Michael. "Who's Afraid of Men Doing Feminism?" 1993.
Zia, Helen. "Violence in Our Communities: "Where Are the Asian Women?"." 1989.

05/22. Portfolio Due: All the Journals and a Final Paper: klee@gc.cuny.edu


V.BIBLIOGRAPHY (Incl. Further Recommended Readings)

  • Ahmed, Sara. "Deconstruction and Law's Other: Towards a Feminist Theory of Embodied Legal Rights." Social & Legal Studies 4, no. (March 1995) (1995): 55-73.
  • Alcoff, Linda. "Cultural Feminism Versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory." Signs 13, no. 3 (1988): 405-36.
  • ———. "The Problem of Speaking for Others." Cultural Critique 20, (1991): 5-32.
  • Alcoff, Linda, and Elizabeth Potter. "When Feminism Intersects Epistemology." In Feminist Epistemologies, 1-14. New York: Routledge, 1993.
  • Anzaldúa, Gloria. "How to Tame a Wild Tongue." In Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 75-86. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1999.
  • Arisaka, Yoko. "Asian Women: Invisibility, Locations and Claims to Philosophy." In Women of Color and Philosophy : A Critical Reader, edited by Naomi Zack, 209-34. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
  • Bartky, Sandra Lee. "Shame and Gender." In Femininity and Domination : Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression, 83-98. New York: Routledge, 1990.
  • Bordo, Susan. "The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity: A Feminist Appropriation of Foucault." In Gender/Body/Knowledge : Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, edited by Alison M. Jaggar and Susan Bordo, 13-33. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1989.
  • ———. "Reading the Slender Body." In Unbearable Weight : Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, 185-212. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
  • Brown, Wendy. "The Impossibility of Women's Studies." In Women's Studies on the Edge, edited by Joan Wallach Scott, 17-38. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
  • Butler, Judith. "Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions." In Gender Trouble : Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 163-80. New York: Routledge, 1990.
  • ———. "Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Assignment and Allegories of Transsexuality." In Undoing Gender, 57-74. New York ; London: Routledge, 2004.
  • ———. "Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual?" differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 13, no. 1 (2002): 14-44.
  • ———. "The Question of Social Transformation." In Undoing Gender, 204-31. New York ; London: Routledge, 2004.
  • ———. "Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire." In Gender Trouble : Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 3-44. New York: Routledge, 1990.
  • Carby, Hazel (1982). "White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood." In Black British Feminism : A Reader, edited by Heidi Safia Mirza, 45-53. London ; New York: Routledge, 1997.
  • Chishom, Dianne. "Climbing Like a Girl: An Exemplary Adventure in Feminist Phenomenology." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 23, no. 1 (2008): 9-40.
  • Christian, Barbara. "The Race for Theory." Cultural Critique 6 (1987): 51-63.
  • Code, Lorraine. "Is the Sex of the Knower Epistemologically Significant?" In What Can She Know? : Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge, 1-26. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
  • ———. "Women and Experts: The Power of Ideology." In What Can She Know? : Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge, 173-221. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
  • Cohen, Cathy. "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical. Potential of Queer Politics?" GLQ 3, (1997): 437-65.
  • Collins, Patricia Hill. "Towards an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology." In Feminist Frameworks : Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations between Women and Men, edited by Alison M. Jaggar and Paula S. Rothenberg. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978.
  • Crenshaw, Kimberlé. "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics." University of Chicago Legal Forum (1989): 139-67.
  • Daly, Mary. "The Second Sex and the Seeds of Transcendence." In The Church and the Second Sex, 220-37. New York,: Harper & Row, 1968.
  • Davis, Angela. "Difficult Dialogues (Video, 2009)." Keynote Speech at the 30th Annual Conference, NWSA, Atlanta, GA <http://www.nwsa.org/conference/video.php>.
  • de Beauvoir, Simone (1949) "Introduction " In The Second Sex. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.
  • de Lauretis, Teresa. "Upping the Anti (Sic) in Feminist Theory." In Conflicts in Feminism, edited by Marianne Hirsch and Evelyn Fox Keller, 255-70. New York: Routledge, 1990.
  • Duggan, Lisa. "Making It Perfectly Queer." Socialist Review 22, no. 1 (1992): 11-31.
  • Ehrenreich, Barbara. "Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women's Work." Harper's Magazine, April 2000, 2000.
  • Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "Should There Be Only Two Sexes?" In Sexing the Body : Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, 78-114. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000.
  • Feinberg, Leslie. "To Be or Not to Be." In Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, 101-8. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
  • Ferguson, Ann. "Does Reason Have a Gender?" In Radical Philosophy : Tradition, Counter-Tradition, Politics, edited by Roger S. Gottlieb, 21-47. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.
  • Finke, Laurie. "The Rhetoric of Marginality: Why I Do Feminist Theory." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 5, (1986): 251-72.
  • Firestone, Shulamith. "The Dialectic of Sex." In The Dialectic of Sex; the Case for Feminist Revolution, ii-22. New York,: Morrow, 1970.
  • Flax, Jane. "Women Do Theory." In Women and Values : Readings in Recent Feminist Philosophy, edited by Marilyn Pearsall, 2-7. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1986.
  • ———. "Women Do Theory." Quest 5, no. 1 (1979): 20-26.
  • Fraser, Nancy. "Beyond the Master Subject Model: Reflections on Carole Pateman's Sexual Contract." Social Text 37, (1993 ): 173-81.
  • Friedan, Betty. "The Problem That Has No Name." In The Feminine Mystique. New York,: Norton, 1963.
  • Frye, Marilyn. "Oppression." In The Politics of Reality : Essays in Feminist Theory, 1-16. Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing Press, 1983.
  • Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. "Misfits: A Feminist Materialist Disability Concept." Hypatia 26, (2011): 591-609
  • Gilligan, Carol. "Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle." In In a Different Voice : Psychological Theory and Women's Development, 5-23. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982.
  • Grosz, Elizabeth. "What Is Feminist Theory?" In Knowing Women : Feminism and Knowledge, edited by Helen Crowley and Susan Himmelweit, 355-69. Cambridge, England ; Cambridge, MA, USA: Polity Press in Association with the Open University, 1992.
  • Guy-Sheftall, Beverly, with Evelyn M. Hammonds. "Whither Black Women’s Studies: Interview." In Women's Studies on the Edge, edited by Joan Wallach Scott, 155-67. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
  • Halberstam, Judith. "Transgender Butch: Butch/Ftm Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum." In Female Masculinity, 141-74. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
  • Halberstam, Jack. "Going Gaga: Dissent, Refusal, and Feminism." In Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice, edited by Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni and Fanny Söderbäck, 183-194, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hanisch, Carol. "The Personal Is Political." (1969), http://www.carolhanisch.org/CHwritings/PIP.html.
  • Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." In Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature New York: Routledge, 1991.
  • ———. "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective." Feminist Studies 14, no. 3 (1988): 575-99.
  • Harding, Sandra G. "The Instability of the Analytic Categories of Feminist Theory." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 11, no. 4 (1986): 645-64.
  • ———. "Introduction: Is There a Feminist Method?" In Feminism and Methodology : Social Science Issues, edited by Sandra G. Harding, 1-14. Bloomington; Milton Keynes [Buckinghamshire]: Indiana University Press ; Open University Press, 1987.
  • Hartsock, Nancy. "Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Revisited": Truth or Justice?" Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 22, no. 2 (1997): 367-74.
  • ———. "The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Femininst Historical Materialism." In Discovering Reality : Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, edited by Sandra G. Harding and Merrill B. Hintikka, 283-310. Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston, MA: D. Reidel ; Sold and distributed in the USA and Canada by Kluwer Boston, 1983.
  • Hekman, Susan J. "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 22, no. 2 (1997): 341-66.
  • hooks, bell. Ain't I a Woman : Black Women and Feminism. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1981.
  • ———. "Sisterhood: Political Solidarity among Women." In Feminist Theory from Margin to Center, 43-67. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1984.
  • ———. "Theory as Liberatory Practice." Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 4, no. 1 (1991): 1-12.
  • Irigaray, Luce (1977). "The Language of Man." In To Speak Is Never Neutral, 227-36. New York: Routledge, 2002.
  • Irigaray, Luce (1974). "Plato's Hystera." In Speculum of the Other Woman, 243-56. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985.
  • Irigaray, Luce (1977). "This Sex Which Is Not One." In This Sex Which Is Not One, 23-33. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985.
  • ———. "Toward a Grammar of Enunciation for Hysterics and Obsessives." In To Speak Is Never Neutral, 43-54. New York: Routledge, 2002.
  • Jaggar, Alison M. . "Love and Knowledge: Emotions in Feminist Epistemology." In Gender/Body/Knowledge : Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, edited by Alison M. Jaggar and Susan Bordo, 145-71. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1989.
  • Jaggar, Alison M., and Paula S. Rothenberg. "Alternative Feminist Frameworks: The Roots of Oppression." In Feminist Frameworks : Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations between Women and Men, 79-85. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978.
  • Kimmel, Michael. "Who's Afraid of Men Doing Feminism?" In Men Doing Feminism, edited by Tom Digby, 57-68. New York: Routledge, 1993.
  • Kristeva, Julia. "Women's Time (Le Temps Des Femmes)." 33/44: Cahiers de recherche de sciences des textes et documents 5, (1979): 5-19.
  • Lacan, Jacques (1973). "God and Woman's Jouissance." In On Feminine Sexuality : The Limits of Love and Knowledge (the Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book Xx), 64-77. New York: Norton, 1998.
  • ———. "On Jouissance." In On Feminine Sexuality : The Limits of Love and Knowledge (the Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book Xx), 1-13. New York: Norton, 1998.
  • Le Dœuff, Michèle (1998). "Cast-Offs." In The Sex of Knowing, 1-68. New York ; London: Routledge, 2003.
  • Lee, Kyoo (2012). "(Un)naming the Third Sex after Beauvoir: Towards a Third Dimensional Feminism." In Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice, edited by Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni and Fanny Söderbäck, 195-207, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lorde, Audre. "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House." "The Personal and the Political Panel," Second Sex Conference, New York, September 29, 1979.
  • Lugones, Maria, and Elizabeth Spelman "Have We Got a Theory for You! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for 'the Woman's Voice'." Women's Studies International Forum 6, no. 6 (1983): 573-81.
  • MacKinnon, Catharine. "Consciousness Raising." In Towards a Feminist Theory of the State, 83-105. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.
  • ———. "The Roar on the Other Side of Silence." In In Harm's Way : The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings, edited by Catharine A. MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin, 3-38. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
  • MacKinnon, Catharine A. "Toward Feminist Jurisprudence." In Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, 237-50. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.
  • Millett, Kate. "Instances of Sexual Politics." In Sexual Politics, 3-22. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1968.
  • Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. "Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 28, no. 2 (2003): 499-535.
  • ———. "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses." Boundary 2 12, no. 3 (1984): 333-58.
  • Morrison, Toni. "What the Black Woman Thinks About Women's Lib." The New York Times Magazine, August 22, 1971.
  • Moya, Paula. "Chicana Feminism and Postmodernist Theory." Signs 26, no. 2 (2001): 441-84.
  • Pateman, Carole. "Feminism and the Marriage Contract." In The Sexual Contract, 154-88. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1988.
  • Pinker, Steven, and Elizabeth Spelke "The Science of Gender and Science: Pinker Vs. Spelke Debate (Video, 2005)."  <http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/debate05_index.html>.
  • Rich, Adrienne. "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 5, no. 4 (1980): 1-32.
  • Rubin, Gayle. "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality." In Pleasure and Danger, edited by Carole Vance. London: Routledge & Kegan, Paul, 1975.
  • Rosin, Hanna. "The End of Men." The Atlantic, July/August 2010.
  • ———. "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex." In Toward an Anthropology of Women, edited by Rayna Reiter, 157-210. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975.
  • Rousso, Harilyn. Don't Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talk Back. Philadelphia, PA: Temple Uniersity Press, 2013.
  • Salamon, Gayle. Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality. New York, NY: Columbia University, 2011.
  • Scott, Joan W. "Deconstructing Equality Versus Difference, or, the Uses of Poststructuralist. Theory for Feminism." Feminist Studies 14, no. 1 (1988): 33-49.
  • Scott, Joan Wallach. Women's Studies on the Edge. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
  • Spade, Dean. "Trans Law Reform Strategies, Co-Optation, and the Potential for Transformative Change." Women's Rights Law Report 30, no.2 (2009): 288-314.
  • Spivak, Gayatri. "Can the Subaltern Speak?" In Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, edited by Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, 271-313. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
  • Truth, Sojourner. ""Ain't I a Woman?"." 1851.
  • Tuana, Nancy. "Coming to Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 19, no. 1 (2004): 194-232.
  • Walker, Alice. "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens." In In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens : Womanist Prose, 231-43. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.
  • Wiegman, Robyn. "Feminism, Institutionalism, and the Idiom of Failure." In Women's Studies on the Edge, edited by Joan Wallach Scott, 39-66. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
  • ———. "The Possibility of Women's Studies." In Women's Studies for the Future : Foundations, Interrogations, Politics, edited by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Agatha Beins, 40-60. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
  • Williams, Wendy. "The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism." Women's Rights Law Reporter 7, no. (Spring 1982) (1982): 175-200.
  • Willett, Cynthia, Julie Willett, and Yael Sherman, "The Seriously Erotic Politics of Feminist Laughter." Social Research 79, No.1 (Spring 2012): 217-246.
  • Wittig, Monique. "The Category of Sex." Gender Issues 2, no. 2 (1982): 63-8.
  • Wittig, Monique (1981). "One Is Not Born a Woman " In The Straight Mind and Other Essays, 9-20. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992.
  • Young, Iris. "Pregnant Embodiment: Subjectivity and Alienation." Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 9, no. 1 (1984): 45-62.
  • ———. "Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality." Human Studies 3, no. 1 (1980): 137-56.
  • Zia, Helen. "Violence in Our Communities: "Where Are the Asian Women?"." In Making Waves : An Anthology of Writings by and About Asian American Women, edited by Asian Women United of California., 207-14. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

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