Syllabus/achievement requirements

Alcoff, Linda i Hackett Elizabeth and Sally Haslanger (eds.): Theorizing Feminisms: A Reader , 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press. "The Problem of Speaking for Others", pp. 78-91.

Beauvoir, Simone de: The Second Sex , 1979. London: Vintage. Book 1 Part II, chapters 4-5, pp. 128-169.

Bebel, August: Women and Socialism, 1910 , (1879). "Women in the Future", Chapter XXVIII , 6 pages. http://www.marxists.org/archive/bebel/1879/woman-socialism/index.htm.

Braidotti, Rosi: Metamorphoses: towards a materialist theory of becoming , 2002. Cambridge: Polity. 212-263 (51 pages).

Bennett, Judith: History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism , 2006. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 20-53.

Butler, Judith in Butler and Scott (ed.): Feminists Theorize the Political , pp. 3-21. 19 pages .

Butler, Judith In Benhabib, Butler, Cornell and Fraser: Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange. Thinking Gender, 1995. London, New York: Routledge. pp. 127-143 (in this volume “Contingent foundations” is reprinted). 18 pages .

Butler, Judith: Yale French Studies 72, 1986. "Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex", pp. 35-49. 15 pages.

Daly, Mary, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism , 1978. Boston: Bea- con Press. pp. 73-105.

Davis, Sue: The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Rights and the American Political Tradition, 2008. New York and London: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS. chapters 8-10. Selection of 25 pages.

Fell, Margaret: Woman’s Speaking Justified , 12 pages. http://www.qhpress.org/texts/fell.html.

Genz, Stèphanie: Feminist Theory vol. 7, 2006. "Third Way/ve. The politics of postfeminsm", (333-353) 21 pages.

Gournay, Marie Le Jars de: Of the Equality of Men and Women, 2002. Chicago: Chicago University Press. pp. 75-95.

Haslanger, Sally in Hackett, Elizabeth and Sally Haslanger (eds.): Theorizing Feminisms: A Reader , 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press. "Gender and Social Construction: Who? What? When? Where? How?", pp. 16-23.

Irigaray, Luce: Ethics of secual difference , "Diotimas speech", pp. 20-33.

Irigaray, Luce: Speculum, "Any theory of the subject" , pp. 133-146 .

Kelly, Joan in: Signs: Journal of Women and Culture and Society, vol. 8, no. 1, 1982. ”Early Feminist Theory and the Querelle des Femmes, 1400-1789”, p. 65-109. 44 pages.

Kristeva, Julia: Tales of Love, 1987. New York: Colombia University Press. "Stabat Mater", pp. 234-263. 30 pages.

Lourde, Audre: An Open Letter to Mary Daly, 1984. Berkeley: Crossing Press. pp. 66-71. 6 pages.

Luxemburg, Rosa: "Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle", 1912. Speech: May 12, 1912 (at the Second Social Democratic Women’s Rally, Stuttgart, Germany).? From the German Ausgew?hlte Reden und Schriften, 2 (Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1951, pp.433-41).?. http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/ .

Mitchell, Juliet : Women: The Longest Revolution. Essays in Feminism, Literature and Psychoanalysis, (1966) 1984 . London: Virago Press. “Women: The Longest Revolution”, pp 17-54 (37 pages).

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade: Feminist Review 30 , 1988. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses”, pp. 61-88 (28 pages).

Moi, Toril in Michael Payne and John Schad (ed.) : Life.after.theory, 2003. London: Continuum. "Feminist Theory after Theory: Toril Moi", pp 133-167 (35 pages).

Nussbaum, Martha C: Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Vol. 74, No. 2 , 2000. "The future of feminist liberalism", pp. 47-79, (33 pages). http://www.jstor.org/stable/3219683.

Pizan, C. de: L’épitre au Dieu d’amours, 2004. Selection of 10 pages. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12812/12812-8.txt.

Rich, Adrienne in: College English 34 (1), 1972. “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision.” 18-30. 13 pages.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky in: Epistemology of the Closet, 1991. New York: Harvester. "Introduction: Axiomatic", pp. 1-65 (selection of 40 pages).

Scott, Joan W: Only Paradoxes to Offer: Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man , 1997. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. pp. 1-18 (“Rereading the History of Feminism”) and 161-176 (“Citizens but Not Individuals: The Vote and After).

Spivak, Gayatri C. in Landry, D. and G. Macklean (eds.): The Spivak Reader , 1995. London: Routledge. “Feminism and Critical Theory”, pp. 53-74.

Sta?l, Germaine de in Vivian Folkenflik ed.: Major Writings of Germaine de Sta?l, 1987. New York: Columbia University. pp. 294-296. (3 pages)..

*Walters, Margaret : Feminism: A very short Introduction , 2005. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN:?2005. 141 pgaes.

Webb, Mark Owen Superson, Anita and Ann Cudd (eds.): Theorizing Backlash: Philosophical Reflections on the Resistance to Feminism , 2002. ham: Rowman & Littlefield. "Feminist Epistemology as Whipping-Girl", pp. 49-65. 17 pages.

Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Chapter II. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed, pp 88-106. In the compendium or online: Introduction ("after considering the historic page.....") and chapter 2: The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed.. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3420.

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