International Women's Voices

Required Readings

Rifaat, Alifa. Distant View of the Minaret. New York: Quartet Books, 1983.

Supplementary Readings

Allende, Isabel. “Pinochet Without Hatred.” The New York Times (January 17, 1999): 25-27.

Garibay, Ricardo. “Pablo Neruda’s Funeral.” New York: Entelechy Press Corp., 1973. (transcript of recording of funeral)

Distant View of the Minaret. (cont.)

Crossette, Barbara. “Testing the Limits of Tolerance as Cultures Mix: Does Freedom Mean Accepting Rituals that Repel the West?” The New York Times (March 6, 1999): A15, and A17.

Inda, Jules. “Behind the Veil Debate.” Utne Reader (March/April 1992): 23-24.

Lerner, George. “To Us, Women’s Liberation is the Unveiling of the Mind.” The Progressive (April 1992): 32-35.

Thompson, Ginger. “No U.S. Asylum for a Woman Threatened with Genital Cutting.” The New York Times (April 25, 1999): 27-28.

El Saadawi, Nawal. Woman at Point Zero. New Jersey: Zed Books, 1983.

Woman at Point Zero

Ba, Mariama. So Long a Letter . Oxford: Heinemann, 1989.

Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Dallal, Jenine Abboushi. “The Perils of Occidentalism: How Arab Novelists are Driven to Write for Western Readers.” The Islamic World (April 24, 1998): 8-9.

Gocek, Fatma Muge, and Shiva Balaghi, eds. Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East . New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Esonwanne, Uzo. “Enlightenment Epistemology and ‘Aesthetic Cognition’: Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter .” The Politics of (M)Othering: Womanhood, Identity, and Resistance in African Literature . pp. 82-100.

Nnaemeka, Obioma. “Urban Spaces, Women’s Places: Polygamy as Sign in Mariama Bâ’s Novels.” The Politics of (M)Othering: Womanhood, Identity, and Resistance in African Literature . pp. 162-191.

Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions. London: Women’s Press, 2001.

Nervous Conditions . (cont.)

Basu, Biman. “Trapped and Troping: Allegries of the Transnational Intellectual in Tsitsi Dangaremba’s Nervous Conditions." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 28, no. 3 (July 1997): 7-24.

Gorle, Gilian. “Fighting the Good Fight: What Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions Says About Language and Power.” Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions: Language and Power . pp. 179, and 192.

Moyana, Rosemary. “Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions : an Attempt in the Feminist Tradition.” Zambezia . 1994, XXI (1), pp. 23-42.

Nair, Supriya. “Melancholic Women: The Intellectual Hysteric(s) in Nervous Conditions .” Research in African Literatures . pp. 130-139.

Uwakweh, Pauline A. “Debunking Patriarchy: The Liberational Quality of Voicing in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions .” Research in African Literatures . pp. 75-84.

Altman, David. “For Chinese Women’s Ears Only.” The Christian Science Monitor . 11 Oct. 1995.

Barlow, Tani E., ed. Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism . Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.

Book Reviews: “The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices.” The New Yorker , Publisher’s Weekly, and Kirkus Review.

Chinese History: Time line: 1921- present.

Dai, Jinhua, and Mayfair Yang. “A Conversation with Huang Shuqing.” Positions . Durham: Duke University Press, 1995, pp. 790-805.

Liu, Kang, and Tang Xiobing, eds. Politics, Ideology and Literary Discourse in Modern China . Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.

Liu, Lydia. “The Female Body and Nationalist Discourse: The Field of Life and Death Revistied.” In Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices . Edited by Inderpal Grewal, and Caren Kaplan. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, pp. 37-62.

Confucius. The Analects. (Selections)

Teng, Jinhua Emma. “The Construction of the ‘Traditional Chinese Woman’ in the Western Academy: A Critical Review.” Signs (Autumn, 1996): 115-151.

Wolf, Margery, and Roxanne Witke, eds. Women in Chinese Society . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975.

Yang, Gladys. “A New Woman Writer Chen Rong and Her Story ‘At Middle Age.’” In Chinese Literature . Vol. 10. Beijing, China, 1980.

Yang, Gladys. “A New Woman Writer Chen Rong and Her Story ‘At Middle Age’.” In Chinese Literature 10, 1980. Beijing, China.

Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2003.

To Live . Directed by Zhang Yimou.

Woman, Demon, Human . Directed by Huang Shuqing.

Oryx and Crake

Oryx and Crake. _(cont.)

Oryx and Crake . (cont.)

Xinran. The Good Women of China. New York: Pantheon Books, 2002.

The Good Women of China

The Good Women of China .(cont.)

Allende, Isabel. House of the Spirits . New York: Bantam Books, 1986.

House of the Spirits

House of the Spirits . (cont.)

Yoshimoto, Banana. Kitchen. New York: Grove Press, 1993.

“Review of Kitchen .” Studies in Short Fiction (1993): 614-615.

Gelb, Joyce, and Marian Lief Palley, eds. Women of Japan and Korea: Continuity and Change . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.

Fujimura-Fanselow, Kumiko, and Atsuko Kameda, eds. Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future . New York: City University of New York Feminist Press, 1995.

Garrison, Deborah. “Day-O!” New Yorker 68 (January 25, 1993): 109.

Iwao, Sumiko. The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Kristof, Nicholas D. “In Japan, Brutal Comics for Women.” The New York Times (November 5, 1995): 1, and 6.

Kusaka, Kimindo. “Do Japanese women Want Total Equality?” Economic Eye (June, 1984): 19-21.

Strauss, Neil. “A Japanese TV Show That Pairs Beauty and Pain.” The New York Times (July 14, 1998): 2. Section E.

Tolbert, Kathryn. “Career or Motherhood: Harsh Choice in Japan.” International Herald Tribune (Aug. 15, 2000.)

Yoshimoto, Banana. “Moonlight Shadows.” In Kitchen. New York: Grove Press, 1993.