WGS.170
Identity and Difference
Spring 2010
Topics
- Introduction to Course
- Studying Identity and Difference: Concepts
- Analytic Perspectives: Bodies
- Analytic Perspectives: What is “Identity?” “Difference?”
- Analytic Perspectives: Deviance
- Deviance and Stigma: The Outer Limits of Identity
- Sexuality
- Gender
- Religion; Social Class
- Ethnicity
- Race
- Race, Gender, Ethnicity I
- Race, Gender, Ethnicity II
Readings
- Bourgois, Philippe. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780521017114.
- Pascoe, C. J. Dude , You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780520252301.
- Rhodes, Lorna A. Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780520240766.
- [RCG] = Andersen, Margaret L., and Patricia Hill Collins. Race, Class and Gender . 4th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000. ISBN: 9780534568924.
- [Legacies] = Bogarad, Carley Rees, Lynne Crockett, and Jan Zlotnik Schmidt. Legacies: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction . Boston, MA: Wadsworth, 2008. ISBN: 9781428206298.
- Bourgois, Philippe. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780521017114.
- [SocLit] = Coser, Lewis. Sociology Through Literature . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972. ISBN: 9780138215385.
- [SCRE] = Ferrante, Joan, and Prince Browne, Jr. The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2001. ISBN: 9780130283238.
- [Body] = Lock, Margaret, and Judith Farquhar. Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780822338451.
- [RES] = Nagel, Joane. Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780195127478.
- Pascoe, C. J. Dude , You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780520252301.
- Rhodes, Lorna A. Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780520240766.
- [CDUS] = Susser, Ida, and Thomas C. Patterson. Cultural Diversity in the United States: A Critical Reader . Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001. ISBN: 9780631222132.
- Davis, Natalie Zemon. “Boundaries and the Sense of Self in Sixteenth-Century France.” In Heller, Thomas C., Morton Sosna, and David E. Wellbery. Reconstructing Individualism: Autonomy, Individuality, and the Self in Western Thought . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780804712910.
- Mead, George Herbert. “The Self, the I, and the Me.” In Lemert, Charles. Social Theory: The Multicultural & Classic Readings . Boulder, CO: Westview, 2009. ISBN: 9780813343921.
- Gordon, Linda. “Social Purity and Eugenics.” Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America . New York, NY: Penguin, 1990. ISBN: 9780140131277.
- Gould, Stephen J. “Measuring Bodies.” The Mismeasure of Man . New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996. ISBN: 9780393314250.
- Kondo, Dorinne. “On Being a Conceptual Anomaly.” Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago, 1990. ISBN: 9780226450445.
- Pascoe, Peggy. “Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of ‘Race’ in 20th-Century America.” In Ruiz, Vicki, and Ellen Carol DuBois. Unequal Sisters: An Inclusive Reader in US Women’s History. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415958417.
- [Legacies] Díaz, Junot. “Fiesta 1980.” Originally in Díaz, Junot. Drown . New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 1996. ISBN: 9781573220415.
- Durkheim, Emile. “The Normal and the Pathological.” In Clarke, Edward J., and Delos H. Kelly. Deviant Behavior . New York, NY: Worth Publishers, 2008. ISBN: 9781429205184.
- Rudnick, Paul. “Don’t Ask Me.” New Yorker , March 22, 2010.
- Laqueur, Thomas. “Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology.” In Lancaster, Roger N., & Micaela di Leonardo. The Gender Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy . New York, NY: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415910057.
- Willis, Paul. “Masculinity and Factory Labor.” Originally in Clarke, John, et al. Working-Class Culture: Studies in History and Theory . London, England: Hutchinson, 1979. ISBN: 9780312889784. In Alexander, Steven, and Jeffrey Seidman. Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780521359399.
- Cohn, Carol. “Wars, Wimps, and Women: Talking Gender and Thinking War.” In Kimmel, Michael S. The Gendered Society Reader . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780199733712.
- Lucal, Betsy. “What it Means to be Gendered Me: Life on the Boundaries of a Dichotomous Gender System.” Gender and Society 13 (1999): 781-797.
- Kramer, Heinrich, and James Sprenger. “Part I, Question V,” “Part I, Question XI,” “Part II, Question I, Chapter III.” The Malleus Maleficarum , 1486.
- Stolke, Verena. “Invaded Women.” In Hendricks, Margo, and Patricia Parker. Women, “Race” and Writing in the Early Modern Period . New York, NY: Routledge, 1994. ISBN: 9780415077781.
- Kapsalis, Terri. “Mastering the Female Pelvis: Race and the Tools of Reproduction.” Public Privates: Performing Gynaecology from Both Ends of the Speculum . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780822319214.
- Bordo, Susan. “Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture.” In Counihan, Carole, and Penny Van Esterik. Food and Culture: A Reader . New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. ISBN: 9780415977777.
- Tsing, Anna. “Monster Stories: Women Charged with Perinatal Endangerment.” In Ginsburg, Faye, and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture . Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780807046135.
- Kendall, Lori. “‘Oh No! I’m a Nerd!’: Hegemonic Masculinity on an Online Forum.” Gender and Society 14 (2000): 256-274.
- Pyke, Karen D., and Denise L. Johnson. “Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: ‘Doing’ Gender Across Cultural Worlds.” Gender and Society 17 (2003): 33-53.
- Jacobson, Shari. “Modernity, Conservative Religious Movements and the Female Subject: Newly Ultraorthodox Sephardi Women in Buenos Aires.” American Anthropologist 108 (2006): 336-346.
- Rouse, Carolyn, and Janet Hoskins. “Purity, Soul Food, and Sunni Islam: Explorations at the Intersection of Consumption and Resistance.” Cultural Anthropology 19 (2004): 226-249.
- [SocLit] Orwell, George. “The Pecking Order of a Restaurant,” 1933. “The Lower Classes Smell,” 1937.
- [SocLit] Orwell, George. “Shooting an Elephant,” 1945.
- Malamud, Bernard. “The Jewbird.” In Cassill, R. V. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction . 1st ed. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1978. ISBN: 9780393090727.
- [RCG] Takaki, Ronald T. “A Different Mirror.” Originally in Takaki, Ronald R. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America . Boston, MA: Back Bay Books, 2008. ISBN: 9780316022361.
- [RCG] Moraga, Cherríe. “La Güera.” Originally in Moraga, Cherríe, and Gloria Anzaldúa. This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color . New York, NY: Kitchen Table Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780913175187.
- Zia, Helen. “Gangsters, Gooks, Geishas and Geeks.” In Schaefer, Richard T. Racial and Ethnic Groups . 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004. ISBN: 9780130418692.
- Omi, Michael, and Howard Winant. “Racial Formation.” Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s . New York, NY: Routledge, 1994. ISBN: 9780415908641.
- Smedley, Audrey. “‘Race’ and the Construction of Human Identity.” American Anthropologist 100 (1999): 690-702.
- Pollock, Mica. “Race Bending: ‘Mixed’ Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California.” Anthropology & Education Quarterly 35 (2004): 30-52.
- Rotimi, Charles N. “Genetic Ancestry Tracing and the African Identity: A Double-Edged Sword?” Developing World Bioethics 3 (2003): 151-158.
- Cole, Johnnetta Betsch, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall. “Collisions: Black Liberation Versus Women’s Liberation.” Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities . New York, NY: Ballantine, 2003. ISBN: 9780345454133.
- [RCG] Williams, Patricia. “Of Race and Risk.” (Also in Schaefer, Racial and Ethnic Groups .)
- Lei, Joy L. “(Un)necessary Toughness? Those ‘Loud Black Girls’ and Those Quiet Asian Boys.’” Anthropology & Education Quarterly 34 (2003): 158-181.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
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- MIT OCW readings ↗
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