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[Gender and Science Reader]= Lederman, Muriel, and Ingrid Bartsch, eds. The Gender and Science Reader. New York, NY: Routledge, 2000, pp. 68-81. ISBN: 9780415213585.

[Third Wave]= Gillis, Stacy, Gillian Howe, and Rebecca Mumford. Third Wave Feminism: Expanded. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. ISBN: 9780230521742.

[Feminist Approaches]= Hesse-Biber, Sharlene, Christina Gilmartin, and Robin Lydenberg, eds. Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology: An Interdisciplinary Reader. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780195125221.

[Theorizing Feminism]= Hermann, Anne, and Abigail Stewart, eds. Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences. 1st ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780813367880.

[Feminist Theory Reader]= Mccann, Carole, and Seung-kyng Kim. Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge, 2009. ISBN: 9780415994774.

Course readings.
SES #	TOPICS	READINGS	KEY DATES
Methods
1	Introduction: questions of interdisciplinarity	Harding, Sandra. "Is there a Feminist Method?" In Feminism and Methodology. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988, pp. 1-14. ISBN: 9780253204448. DeVault, Marjorie. "From the Seminar Room: Practical Advice for Researchers." In Liberating Method: Feminism and Social Research. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1999, pp. 195-231. ISBN: 9781566396981. Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses." Feminist Review 30 (Autumn 1988): 61-88. Brooks, Abigail, and Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. "An Invitation to Feminist Research." In Feminist Research Practice. Edited by Sharlene Janice Nagy Hesse-Biber and Patricia Lina Leavy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006, pp. 1-26. ISBN: 9780761928928.
2	Questions and strategies: the social sciences	Acker, Joan, Kate Barry, and Johanna Esseveld. "Objectivity and Truth. Problems in Doing Feminist Research." In Beyond Methodology: Feminist Scholarship as Lived Research. Edited by Mary Margaret Fonow and Judith A. Cook. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991, pp. 423-435. ISBN: 9780253206299. Fine, Michelle, Lois Weis, Susan Weseen, and Loonmun Wong. "For Whom? Qualitative Research, Representations, and Social Responsibilities." In The Handbook of Qualitative Research. Edited by Norman K. Denzin and Dr. Yvonna Lincoln. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005, pp. 107-131. ISBN: 9780761927570. Hill Collins, Patricia. "Learning from the Outsider Within." In [Feminist Approaches], pp. 135-178. Narayan, Uma. "The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Non-Western Feminist." In [Feminist Theory Reader], pp. 308-317.
3	Questions and strategies: the humanities	Scott, Joan. "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis." In Gender and the Politics of History. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1999, pp. 28-50. ISBN: 9780231118576. Showalter, Elaine. "Female Tradition." In A Literature of Their Own. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998, pp. 3-37. ISBN: 9780691004761. Culler, Jonathan. "Reading as a Woman." In On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007, pp. 43-63. ISBN: 9780801474057. Silverman, Kaja. "The Dominant Fiction." In Male Subjectivity at the Margins. New York, NY: Routledge, 1992, pp. 15-51. ISBN: 9780415904193. Spivak, Gayatri. "Three Women's Texts and A Critique of Imperialism." In Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Edited by Reina Lewis. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 306-323. ISBN: 9780415942744. Marcus, Sharon. "Introduction: Female Relations." In Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007, pp. 1-22. ISBN: 9780691128351.
4	Questions and strategies: the sciences	Merchant, Carolyn. "Dominion Over Nature." In [Gender and Science Reader], pp. 68-81. Bordo, Susan. "The Flight to Objectivity." In [Gender and Science Reader], pp. 82-97. Haraway, Donna. "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective." In [Gender and Science Reader], pp. 169-188. Shiva, Vandana. "Democratizing Biology: Reinventing Biology from a Feminist, Ecological and Third World Perspective." In [Gender and Science Reader], pp. 447-465. Scheibinger, Londa. "Creating Sustainable Science." In [Gender and Science Reader], pp. 466-482. Wilson, Elizabeth A. "Somatic Compliance—Feminism, Biology, and Science." Australian Feminist Studies 14, no. 29 (1999): 7-19. Daniel, Ellen. Every Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies for Successful Women Scientists. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780300510843. For reference National Academies of Science and Engineering, Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering.
5	Poststructuralist questions	Scott, Joan. "Deconstructing Equality Versus Difference; or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism." In [Theorizing Feminism], pp. 358-371. Alcoff, Linda. "Cultural Feminism Versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory." In The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory. Edited by Linda Nicholson. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 330-355. ISBN: 9780415917612. Orr, Mary. "Kristeva and The Trans-missions of the Intertext." In [Third Wave.] Stone, Alison. "On the Genealogy of Women: A Defense of Anti-Essentialism." In [Third Wave.]
6	Questions of narrations and experience	Weiler, Kathleen. "Reflections on Writing a History of Women Teachers." Harvard Educational Review 67, no. 4 (Winter 1997): 635-657. Lal, Jayati. "Situating Locations: The Politics of Self, Identity, and 'Other' in Living and Writing the Text." In [Feminist Approaches.] Scott, Joan. "The Evidence of Experience." In [Feminist Approaches.] Fox Keller, Evelyn. "From Working Scientist to Feminist Critic." In [Gender and Science Reader.]
Bodies/Cultures
7	Interrogating representation and the body	Williamson, Judith. "Woman is an Island." In [Theorizing Feminism], pp. 383-400. Butler, Judith. "Imitation and Gender Insubordination." In The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory. Edited by Linda Nicholson. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 300-316. ISBN: 9780415917612. Stryker, Susan. "Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question." In [Third Wave.] Halberstam, Judith. "Mackdaddy, Superfly, Rapper: Gender, Race and Masculinity in the Drag King Scene." Social Text 52/53 (Fall/Winter 1997): 53-79. Sterling, Anne Fausto. "The 5 Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough." The Science (March/April 1993): 20-24.	Paper proposals due
8	Questions about production and reproduction: "first world," "third world"	Martin, Emily. "The Egg and the Sperm." In [Feminist Approaches], pp. 15-28. Petchesky, Rosalind. "Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction." In [Theorizing Feminism], pp. 401-423. Rapp, Rayna. "The Power of 'Positive' Diagnoses." In [Feminist Approaches.] Harcourt, Wendy. "Body Politics." In Feminist Post-Development Though: Rethinking Modernity, Post-Colonialism and Representation. Edited by Kriemild Saunders. London, UK: Zed Books Ltd, 2003, pp. 283-298. ISBN: 9781856499477. Wangari, Esther. "Reproductive Technologies." In Feminist Post-Development Though: Rethinking Modernity, Post-Colonialism and Representation. Edited by Kriemild Saunders. London, UK: Zed Books Ltd, 2003, pp. 299-312. ISBN: 9781856499477.
9	Questioning identities, racial and otherwise	Collins, Patricia Hill. "The Politics of Black Feminist Thought." In [Feminist Theory Reader], pp. 318-333. Mullings, Leith. "Images, Ideology and Women of Color." In [Theorizing Feminism], pp. 265-283. Maher, Frances, and Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault. "Learning in the Dark: How Assumptions of Whiteness Shape Classroom Knowledge." Harvard Educational Review 67, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 321-349. Anzaldua, Gloria. "La Concienca de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness." In [Feminist Theory Reader], pp. 179-187. Kaminsky, Amy. "Gender, Race, Raza." In [Theorizing Feminism], pp. 295-313.
10	Questions of globalization and globalized women: middle east	Helie-Lucas, Marie-Aimee. "The Preferential Symbol for Islamic Identity: Women in Muslim Personal Laws." In [Feminist Theory Reader], pp. 188-196. Macleod, Arlene. "Hegemonic Relations and Gender Resistance: The New Veiling as Accommodating Protest in Cairo." In [Theorizing Feminism], pp. 387-412. Valassopoulos, Anastasia. "'Also I Wanted So Much to Leave for the West:' Postcolonial Feminism Rides the Third Wave." In [Third Wave.] Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. New York, NY: Pantheon, 2000. ISBN: 9780375714573.
11	Questions about globalized capital and globalized women	Mohanty, Chandra. "Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts." In [Feminist Approaches], pp. 362-388. Lazreg, Marnia. "Development: Feminist Theory's Cul de Sac." In Feminist Post-Development Though: Rethinking Modernity, Post-Colonialism and Representation. Edited by Kriemild Saunders. London, UK: Zed Books Ltd, 2003, pp. 123-145. ISBN: 9781856499477. Chakraborty, Mridula Nath. "Wa(i)ving It All Away: Subject Formation and Knowledge Formation in Feminisms of Colour." In [Third Wave.] Woodhull, Winifred. "Global Feminisms, Transnational Political Economies, Third World Cultural Production." In [Third Wave.] Lahiri, Jhumpa. Unaccustomed Earth: Stories. New York, NY: Vintage, 2009. ISBN: 9780307278258.
12	Challenges and questions from the third wave	Heywood, Leslie, and Jennifer Drake. "'It's All About the Benjamins:' Economic Determinants of Third Wave Feminism in the United States." In [Third Wave.] Garrison, Ednie Kaeh. "Contests for the Meaning of Third Wave Feminism: Feminism and Popular Consciousness." In [Third Wave.] Howie, Gillian, and Ashley Tauchert. "Feminist Dissonance: the Logic of Late Feminism." In [Third Wave.] Mumford, Rebecca. "'Wake Up and Smell the Lip-Gloss:' Gender, Generation and the (A)politics of Girl Power." In [Third Wave.]
13	One more question: what is to be done?	Hartmann, Heidi, and Roberta Spalter-Roth. "Small Happiness: The Feminist Struggle to Integrate Social Research and Social Activism." In [Feminist Approaches], pp. 333-347. Petchesky, Rosalind. "Introduction." In Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women's Perspectives Across Countries and Cultures. London, UK: Zed Books, 1998, pp. 1-30. ISBN: 9781856495363. Patton, Cindy. "From Nation to Family." In [Feminist Approaches], pp. 348-361. Sanders, Lise Shapiro. "'Feminists Love a Utopia:' Collaboration, Conflict and the Futures of Feminism." In [Third Wave.] Moore, Niamh. "Imagining Feminist Futures: The Third Wave, Postfeminism and Eco/feminism." In [Third Wave.] Web site exploration: "Carnival of Feminists"
14	Presentations of final research papers		Final papers due

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