| Background and Introductory Concepts |
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 Frye, Marilyn. "Oppression." In Feminist Frontiers. 6th ed. Edited by Laurel Richardson, Verta Taylor, and Nancy Whittier. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 9780072824230.
Young, Iris M. "Five Faces of Oppression." In TF. pp. 3-16. |
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Haslanger, Sally. "Gender and Social Construction: Who? What? When? Where? How?" In TF. pp. 16-23.
Kadi, Joanna. "Stupidity 'Deconstructed'." In TF. pp. 40-50.
Wendell, Susan. "The Social Construction of Disability." In TF. pp. 23-30. |
| 4 |
Lorde, Audre. "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House." In Feminist Frontiers. 6th ed. Edited by Laurel Richardson, Verta Taylor, and Nancy Whittier. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 9780072824230.
Grillo, Trina. "Anti-Essentialism and Intersectionality: Tools to Dismantle the Master's House." In TF. pp. 30-40.
Collins, Patricia Hill. "The Politics of Black Feminist Thought." In TF. pp. 51-61. |
| 5 |
Narayan, Uma. "Cross-Cultural Connections, Border-Crossings, and 'Death by Culture'." In TF. pp. 62-78.
Alcoff, Linda. "The Problem of Speaking for Others." In TF. pp. 78-92.
Christian, Barbara. "The Race for Theory." In TF. pp. 405-412. |
| Humanist Feminism |
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Mill, John Stuart. Chapter 1 of The Subjugation of Women. In TF. pp. 97-112.
Truth, Sojourner. "Ar'n't I a Woman?" In TF. p. 113. |
| 7 |
de Beauvoir, Simone. Introduction of The Second Sex. In TF. pp. 114-124.
Nussbaum, Martha. "Human Capabilities, Female Human Beings." In TF. pp. 124-140.
Sen, Amartya. "More than 100 Million Women Are Missing." In TF. pp. 150-159. |
| 8 |
Schecter, Susan. "Social Change on Behalf of Battered Women: Reforming the Criminal Justice System." In TF. pp. 140-150.
Crenshaw, Kimberlé. "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color." In TF. pp. 159-173. |
| Gynocentric Feminism |
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Ruddick, Sara. "Notes Toward a Feminist Maternal Peace Politics." In TF. pp. 225-237.
Young, Iris M. "Humanism, Gynocentrism, and Feminist Politics." In TF. pp. 174-187.
Guest Lecture: Melzer, Patricia. "Feminist Debates on Political Violence: The Case of the German RAF Women in the 1970s." Guest lecture presented in Feminist Political Thought, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, March 9, 2006. |
| 10 |
Addams, Jane. "Women and Public Housekeeping." In TF. pp. 187-188.
Lorde, Audre. "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power." In TF. pp. 188-192.
Allen, Paula Gunn. "Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism." In TF. pp. 192-200. |
| 11 |
Gilligan, Carol. "Moral Orientation and Moral Development." In TF. pp. 200-210.
Film: Heckel, Sally. A Jury of Her Peers. 1980. |
| 12 |
Christ, Carol P. "Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections." In TF. pp. 211-219.
Walker, Alice. "The Only Reason You Want to Go to Heaven Is That You Have Been Driven Out of Your Mind (Off Your Land and Out of Your Lover's Arms)." In TF. pp. 220-224.
Shiva, Vandana. "Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation." In TF. pp. 238-243. |
| Radical Feminism |
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Solanas, Valerie. S.C.U.M. Manifesto. New York, NY: Olympia Press, 1968.
Firestone, Shulamith. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. ISBN: 9780374527877. |
| Dominance Feminism |
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MacKinnon, Catharine. "Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination." In TF. pp. 244-255.
Goldman, Emma. "Woman Suffrage." In TF. pp. 271-276.
Lorde, Audre. "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference." In TF. pp. 292-297. |
| 15 |
MacKinnon, Catharine. "Desire and Power," and "Sex and Violence: A Perspective." In TF. pp. 256-271.
Bartky, Sandra Lee. "Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power." In TF. pp. 277-292. |
| 16 |
Stoltenberg, John. "Confronting Pornography as a Civil-Rights Issue." In TF. pp. 298-310.
Duggan, Lisa, Nan D. Hunter, and Carole S. Vance. "False Promises: Feminist Anti-Pornography Legislation." In TF. pp. 311-324. |
| 17 |
Frye, Marilyn. "Willful Virgin or Do You Have to Be a Lesbian to Be a Feminist?" In TF. pp. 325-332.
hooks, bell. "Seduced by Violence No More." In TF. pp. 333-335. |
| Postmodern Feminism |
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Fraser, Nancy, and Linda J. Nicholson. "Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and Postmodernism." In TF. pp. 340-352.
Butler, Judith. Excerpt from Gender Trouble. In TF. pp. 353-363. |
| 19 |
hooks, bell. "Postmodern Blackness." In TF. pp. 363-368.
Marcus, Sharon. "Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention." In TF. pp. 386-381. |
| 20 |
Bornstein, Kate. "Send in the Clowns." In TF. pp. 382-384.
Bordo, Susan. "Material Girl: The Effacements of Postmodern Culture." In TF. pp. 385-404. |
| Identity Politics |
| 21 |
Combahee River Collective. "A Black Feminist Statement." In TF. pp. 412-418.
Matsuda, Mari. "On Identity Politics." In TF. pp. 418-421. |
| Intersections: Multicultural, Postcolonial, Environmental, Socialist, and Sexual Politics |
| 22 |
Anzaldua, Gloria. "La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness." In TF. pp. 422-430.
Davis, Angela. "Mama's Got the Blues: Rivals, Girlfriends, and Advisors." In TF. pp. 431-444.
Roberts, Dorothy E. "Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy." In TF. pp. 445-456. |
| 23 |
Fraser, Nancy. "Multiculturalism, Antiessentialism, and Radical Democracy: A Genealogy of the Current Impasse in Feminist Theory." In TF. pp. 459-469.
Gandhi, Leela. "Postcolonialism and Feminism." In TF. pp. 470-481. |
| 24 |
Young, Iris M. "Socialist Feminism and the Limits of Dual Systems Theory." In TF. pp. 490-501.
Kirk, Gwen. "Standing on Solid Ground: A Materialist Ecological Feminism." In TF. pp. 501-520. |
| 25 |
Feinberg, Leslie. "Walking Our Talk." In TF. pp. 521-526.
Rubin, Gayle S. "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality." In TF. pp. 527-540.
Hammonds, Evelynn. "Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality." In TF. pp. 552-564. |