Feminist and Queer Methods of Inquiry

[Bechdel] = Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic . Mariner Books, 2007. ISBN: 9780618871711.

[Davis] = Davis, Angela Y. Are Prisons Obsolete ? Seven Stories Press, 2003. ISBN: 9781583225813.

[Lahiri] = Lahiri, Jhumpa. Unaccustomed Earth . Vintage Books, 2009. ISBN: 9780307278258.

[Lederman] = Lederman, Muriel, and Ingrid Bartsch, eds. The Gender and Science Reader . Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 9780415213585.

[Stryker] = Stryker, Susan. Transgender History . Seal Press, 2008. ISBN: 9781580052245.

[Levi] = Levi, Robin, and Ayelet Waldman, eds. Inside this Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons . McSweeney’s Books, 2011. ISBN: 9781936365500.

Eisenstein, Zillah R. “The Problem of Theorizing Feminism.” In Contemporary Feminist Theory: A Text / Reader. Edited by Mary F. Rogers. McGraw-Hill, 1997, pp. 484–90. ISBN: 9780070540026.

Hartsock, Nancy C. M. “The Feminist Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism.” In Contemporary Feminist Theory: A Text / Reader. Edited by Mary F. Rogers. McGraw-Hill Humanities, 1997, pp. 258–72. ISBN: 9780070540026.

Collins, Patricia Hill. “Learning from the Outsider Within.” Chapter 7 in Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology: An Interdisciplinary Reader. Edited by Sharlene Hesse-Buber, Christina Gilmartin, and Robin Lydenberg. Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 135–78. ISBN: 9780195125221.

Narayan, Uma. “The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Non-Western Feminist.” Chapter 36 in Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives. 3rd ed. Edited by Carole McGann and Seung-Kyung Kim. Routledge, 2013. ISBN: 9780415521024.

Stryker, Susan. “(De) Subjugated Knowledges: An Introduction to Transgender Studies.” In The Transgender Studies Reader. Edited by Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle. Routledge, 2006, pp. 1–18. ISBN: 9780415947091.

Rich, Adrienne. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” In Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985. W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. ISBN: 9780393311624.

Scott, Joan Wallach “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis.” Chapter 2 in Gender and the Politics of History. Revised edition. Columbia University Press, 1999, pp. 28–50. ISBN: 9780231118576.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism.” Chapter 3.4 in Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Edited by Reina Lewis and Sara Mills . Routledge, 2003, pp. 306–23. ISBN: 9780415942751.

[Lederman] “Dominion Over Nature.” Chapter 8, pp. 68–81.

[Lederman] “Selections from “The Flight to Objectivity.” Chapter 8, pp. 82–97.

[Lederman] “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Chapter 15, pp. 169–88.

[Lederman] “Democratizing Biology: Reinventing Biology from a Feminist, Ecological, and Third World Perspective.” Chapter 33, pp. 447–65.

[Lederman] “Creating Sustainable Science.” Chapter 34, pp. 466–82.

For reference:

National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering . National Academies Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780309100427.

[Lederman] “From Working Scientist to Feminist Critic.” Chapter 7, pp. 59–63.

Scott, Joan. “The Evidence of Experience.” Chapter 4 in Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology: An Interdisciplinary Reader. Edited by Sharlene Hesse-Buber, Christina Gilmartin, and Robin Lydenberg. Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 79–99. ISBN: 9780195125221.

Scott, Joan W. “Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: or, The Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism.” Chapter 12 in Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences . 2nd ed. Edited by Anne C. Hermann and Abigail J. Stewart. Westview Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780813367880.

Butler, Judith. Excerpt from Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” . Routledge Classics, 2011. ISBN: 9780415610155.

Coontz, Stephanie. “Reconceptualizing Family History.” Chapter 1 in The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families, 1600-1900 . Verso, 1988. ISBN: 9780860919070.

———. “Results and Prospects: Toward the Twentieth-century Family.” Chapter 9 in The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families, 1600-1900 . Verso, 1988. ISBN: 9780860919070.

Roy, Modhumita. “Foreign Babies / Indian Make: Outsourcing Reproduction in the Age of Globalization.” Chapter 3 in Locating Cultural Change: Theory, Method, Process . Edited by Partha Pratim Basu and Ipshita Chanda. Sage Publications, 2011. ISBN: 9788132105763.

Ragoné, Helena. “Of Likeness and Difference: How Race Is being Transfigured by Gestational Surrogacy.” Chapter 2 in Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism . Edited by Helena Ragoné and France Winddance Twine. Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 9780415921107.

Ault, Amber, and Eve Sandberg. “Our Politics, Their Consequences: Zambian Women’s Lives under Structural Adjustment.” In An Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World . 2nd ed. Edited by Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan. McGraw-Hill, 2005. ISBN: 9780072887181.

Enloe, Cynthia. “Tracking the Militarized Global Sneaker.” Chapter 2 in Globalism and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link . Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. ISBN: 9780742541122.

Haug, Frigga. “The Hoechst Chemical Company and Boredom with the Economy.” Chapter 14 in Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women’s Lives . Edited by Rosemary Hennessy and Chrys Ingraham. Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415916349.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Planetarity.” Chapter 3 in Death of a Discipline . Columbia University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780231129459.

WEEK #: 12 · TOPICS: Globalized Capital and Globalized Women II · READINGS: [Lahiri]

Spalter-Roth, Roberta, and Heidi Hartmann. “Small Happinesses: The Feminist Struggle to Integrate Social Research and Social Activism.” Chapter 15 in Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology: An Interdisciplinary Reader . Edited by Sharlene Hesse-Buber, Christina Gilmartin, and Robin Lydenberg. Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 333–47. ISBN: 9780195125221.

Sanders, Lise Shapiro. “Feminists Love a Utopia: Collaboration, Conflict and the Futures of Feminism.” Chapter 1 in Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration . 2nd ed. Edited by Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, and Rebecca Munford. Palgrave McMillan, 2007. ISBN: 9780230521742.

Moore, Niamh. “Imagining Feminist Futures: The Third Wave, Postfeminism and Eco/feminism.” Chapter 10 in Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration . 2nd ed. Edited by Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, and Rebecca Munford. Palgrave McMillan, 2007. ISBN: 9780230521742.