GEN/PHI 333. Theories of Gender & Sexuality
Prof. Kyoo Lee, 524 West 59th St. Rm 8.63.15, Dept. of Philosophy, John Jay College, CUNY
Office Hours: By Appointment (Before or After Class)
Some Classical/Contemporary Texts You're
Strongly
Encouraged to
Read Cover to Cover and
Write About As Main Part of Your Research Paper.
An Extra Credit of Up to 5 Points Applicable.
John Jay Library has copies.
@ Linda Alcoff. Visible Identities : race, gender, and the self
@ Simone de Beauovir. The Second Sex
@ Judith Butler. Gender Trouble
@ Nancy Chodorow. Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities:
Freud and Beyond@ Patricia Hill Collins. Black Feminist Thought:
knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment @ Ann Cudd and Nancy Holmstrom, Capitalism, For and Against: A Feminist Debate
@ Michel Foucault. The History of Sexuality
@ Marilyn French, From Eve to Dawn : a history of women
Vol.2: The Masculine Mystique@ Sander Gilman. Freud, Race and Gender
@ bell hooks. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
@ Michael Kimmel. Men's Lives
@ Martha Nussbaum. From Disgust to Humanity : Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law
@ Kelly Oliver. Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media
@ Alan Soble, The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings
@ Alice Walker. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
I. INTRODUCTION: Some Theoretical Questions
INTRODUCTION: Some Theoretical Questions 02/02 Orientation
02/09 Starting with Something (not so?) Transparent (Drama Series, 2014)
Chanter. "Introduction: The Challenge of Transgendered Identity: The End of Gender As We Know It?" Gender: Key Concepts
Supplementary Reading: Butler on "a Man Who Lived in Maine ... and He Walked Down ..." (Youtube Clip)
Supplementary Reading: Kidd. Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale
Supplementary Reading: Oz. The Stepford Wives (Youtube Clip)
Supplementary Reading: Simmons. Transgeneration (Youtube Clip)
Supplementary Reading: Stewart, Toemageddon 2011: This Little Piggy Went to Hell. (Video Clip)
Supplementary Reading: Stockton. The Queer Child, or Growing Up Sideways in the Twentieth Century
02/18. Introduction: Sex, Gender, Identity, Sexuality
Fausto-Sterling, "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough"
Corbett and O'Connell. Ken Corbett And Mark O'Connell Discuss Gender, Bullying And More
Supplementary Reading: Chanter. The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference
Supplementary Reading: Chodorow, "Gender as a Personal and Cultural Construction."
Supplementary Reading: Foucault. "What is called "punishing"?"
Supplementary Reading: Jacobsen, "My Sexual Regulation? Family Values and Social Movements,"
II.GENDERED/SEXED/SEXUALIZED: "PERSONAL" ISSUES
GENDERED/SEXED/SEXUALIZED: "PERSONAL" ISSUES 02/23. The Personal is Theoretical?
Chanter. "Chapter 1: Formative Moments and Concepts in the History of Feminism." Gender: Key Concepts
Friedan. "The Problem That Has No Name."
Flax. "Women Do Theory."
Frye. "Oppression."
Lugones and Spelman."Have We Got a Theory for You! [...]'"
Kimmel. "Who's Afraid of Men Doing Feminism?"
Supplementary Reading: Canner, Orgasm, Inc (film)
Supplementary Reading: Lugones. "Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and Loving Perception"
Supplementary Reading: The New School, Conference on The Body and the State: How the State Controls and Protects the Body (Conference)
03/02. The Theoretical is Scientific? The Science of Gender and Science: Pinker vs. Spelke Debate
Pinker and Spelke. A Debate on "The Science of Gender and Science." Script
Fausto-Sterling. "the Five Sexes"
Foucault. "Scientia Sexualis." The History of Sexuality (summary: do read the whole book, three volumes, if further interested.)
Alcoff. "Epistemologies of Ignorance: Three Types"
Supplementary Reading: Bordo. "What is a Phallus?." The Male Body
Supplementary Reading: Freud. "Female Sexuality"
Supplementary Reading: Freud. "Some Psychical Consequences of Anatomical Differences"
Supplementary: Reading: Hale. "Are Lesbians Women?"
Supplementary Reading: (on) Lacan. "Symbolic, Real, Imaginary"
03/09 Personal, Theoretical, Differential ...
Collins. "Towards an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology."
Haraway. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century."
Smith. "'Queer Theory' Is Entering The Literary Mainstream" (NYTimes, 1998)
Supplementary Reading: Butler and Talyor. From Examined Life (Video, 2008)
III.GENDERED/SEXED/SEXUALIZED EXISTENCE
GENDERED/SEXED/SEXUALIZED EXISTENCE03/16 Coming to Be (Identified as/Disciplined into) X
Chanter. "Ch3: Disciplining, Controlling and Normalizing Female sexuality with Foucault and Feminist Friends." Gender: Key Concepts
de Beauvoir. "Introduction. " The Second Sex.
Wittig. "One Is Not Born a Woman"
Foucault. "Docile Bodies"
03/23 Cannot/Desire/Need to Be X
Butler. "Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire"
Spade. "Documenting Gender"
Supplementary Reading: Butler. "Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Assignment and Allegories of Transsexuality."
03/30 A Mid-term Individual Conference: Prescheduled visit to Dr. Lee's Writing Clinic, Rm 8.63.15
III.GENDERED/SEXED/SEXUALIZED ACT
GENDERED/SEXED/SEXUALIZED ACT04/13 Marrying, For Instance
Pateman."Feminism and the Marriage Contract."
Chanter. "Ch2: Feminism and Marxism: The Usefulness and the Limitations of Parallel Models." Gender: Key Concepts
04/20 Performing One's Gender
Supplementary Reading: Butler on "a Man Who Lived in Maine ... and He Walked Down ..." (Youtube Clip)
Supplementary Reading: Simmons. Transgeneration (Youtube Clip)
Supplementary Reading: Stewart, Toemageddon 2011: This Little Piggy Went to Hell. (Video Clip)
IV.YOUR THEORY?
YOUR THEORY? 04/27 No Class: Writing Day
05/04 Student Presentations I
05/11 Student Presentations II
05/22 Writing Submission Due by 11:59pm
Class ID: 9468029
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