ISSWS Reading List

The reading selections will be available at the Bergen Community College Library shortly.

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Session 1 - History of Women’s Movement in America  - Oct. 20, 2005

1. Freedman, Estelle B. No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women.

2. Scott, Joan. "Gender: a Useful Category of Historical Analysis."

3. “Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls.”

4. Ellen Carol DuBois, "Outgrowing the Compact of the Fathers:  Equal Rights, Woman Suffrage, and the United States Constitution, 1820-1878," in Journal of American History 74:3 (December, 1987): 836-862.
5. Gail Bederman, "Civilization, the Decline of Middle-Class Manliness, and Ida B. Wells's Anti-Lynching Campaign (1892-1894)." Radical History Review 52, (Winter 1992). 

Session 2 – Feminist Theory Past and Future - Nov. 10, 2005

1. Ruth, Sheila. Issues in Feminism: An Introduction to Women's Studies.

2. Chodorov, Nancy. The Reproduction of Mothering.

3. Sophocles. Antigone.

4. Butler, Judith, "Promiscuous Obedience" in Antigone's Claim. Kinship between Life and Death (NY: Columbia U, 2000) 57-82.

Session 3 – Feminist Theory/Feminist Practice - Dec. 1, 2005

1. Satrapi, Marjanne Persepolis.*

2. Miller, Nancy But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives.

3. Woolf, Virginia Moments of Being.

4. Benstock, Shari "Authorizing the Autobiographical."

5. Heilbrun, Carolyn. Writing a Woman's Life.

6. Irigaray, Luce "And the One Doesn't Stir Without the Other.” Trans. Helene Vivienne Wenzel. Signs 7 (1981): 60-67.

Session 4 – Black Feminist Generations - Feb. 9, 2006

1. Williams, Patricia Seeing a Color-Blind Future : The Paradox of Race.

2. bell hooks. Feminism is for Everybody.

3. Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mother’s Garden.

4. DuCille, Ann. Skin Trade.

5. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

6. Hull, Gloria All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are 
Brave: Black Women’s Studies.

Session 5 – Feminist Art and Theories - March 9, 2006

1. Schor, Mira “Backlash and Appropriations”  The Power of Feminist Art Eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard (Harry Abrams Inc.: New York, 1992).

2. Shor, "The ism That Dare Not Speak Its Name," M/E/A/N/I/N/G/S.

3. Wolff, Janet Women's Knowledge and Women's Art,  Feminine Sentences, Essay on Women and Culture.

4. Klinger, Linda S. "Where's the Artist-Feminist Practice and Feminist Theories of Authorship."

Session 6 – Borderlands/Intersections in Women’s Studies - April 6, 2006

1. Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands.

2. Fiol-Matta, Liza. "Beyond Survival: A Politics/Poetics of Puerto Rican Consciousness." In Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Duke) and reprinted in Word: On Being a (Woman)Writer (Feminist Press).

3. Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne. “Chicana Literature from a Chicana Feminist Perspective.” Feminisms. Ed.Warhol and Herndl. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1991: 732-737.

4. Ling, Amy. “I’m Here.” Feminisms. 738-745.

5. Allen, Paula Gunn. “Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale.” Feminisms. 713-731.

Session 7 – Post-seminar Workshop w/Sarah Markgraf - May 18, 2006

1. Fiol-Matta, Liza ed. Curriculum Transformation in Community Colleges (WSQ, Fall/Winter 1996).