Exam Field List: Feminist and Gender Theory

Multi-Author Collections

Alaimo, Stacy, and Susan J. Hekman. Material Feminisms. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008.

• “Constructing the Ballast: An Ontology for Feminism” by Susan Hekman
• “Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter” by Karen Barad
• “Viscous Porosity: Witnessing Katrina” by Nancy Tuana
• “Trans-Corporeal Feminisms and the Ethical Space of Nature” by Stacy Alaimo

Davis, Lennard J. The Disability Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 1997.

• “Constructing Normalcy: The Bell Curve, the Novel, and the Invention of the Disabled Body in the Nineteenth Century” by Lennard Davis
• “Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability” by Susan Wendell
• “Feminist Theory, the Body, and the Disabled Figure” by Rosemarie Garland Thomson

Gardiner, Judith Kegan. Masculinity Studies & Feminist Theory: New Directions. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

• “Introduction” by Judith Kegan Gardiner
• “Unmaking: Men and Masculinity in Feminist Theory” by Robyn Wiegman
• “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Men, Women, and Masculinity” by Judith Halberstam

Grewal, Inderpal, and Caren Kaplan. “Introduction.” Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

Halberstam, Judith. Posthuman Bodies. Bloomington [u.a.]: Indiana Univ. Press, 1995.

• “Introduction: Posthuman Bodies” by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston
• “The End of the World of White Men” by Kathy Acker
• “Class and Its Close Relations: Identities among Women, Servants, and Machines” by Alexandra Chasin
• “Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism Be Posthuman?” by Paula Rabinowitz
• “Reproducing the Posthuman Body: Ectogenetic Fetus, Surrogate Mother, Pregnant Man” by Susan M. Squier
• “The Seductive Power of Science in the Making of Deviant Subjectivity” by Jennifer Terry

Kaplan, Caren, Norma Alarcón, and Minoo Moallem. Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999.

• “Introduction: Between Women and Nation” by Norma Alarcón, Caren Kaplan, and Minoo Moallem
• “Bloody Metaphors and Other Allegories of the Ordinary” by Elspeth Probyn
• “Relational Positionalities of Nationalisms, Racisms, and Feminisms” by Daiva K. Stasiulis
• “Fabricating Masculinity: Gender, Race, and Nation in a Transnational Frame” by Dorinne Kondo
• “Transnationalism, Feminism, and Fundamentalism” by Minoo Moallem

Lewis, Reina, and Sara Mills. Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. New York: Routledge, 2003.

• “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
• “Diaspora, Border, and Transnational Identities” by Avtar Brah
• “Where Have All the Natives Gone” by Rey Chow
• “’Imperial Leather: Race, Cross-Dressing and the Cult of Domesticity’” by Anne McClintock

McCann, Carole Ruth, and Seung-Kyung Kim. Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2003.

• “The Preferential Symbol for Islamic Identity: Women in Muslim Personal Laws” by Marie-Aimée Helie-Lucas
• “Funny Boys and Girls: Notes on a Queer South Asian Planet” by Gayatri Gopinath
• “Going Home: Enacting Justice in Queer Asian America” by Karin Aguilar-San Juan
• “The Feminist Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism” by Nancy C. M. Hartsock
• “The Politics of Black Feminist Thought” by Patricia Hill Collins
• “Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory” by Cheshire Calhoun
• “Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism” by Mazine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill
• “Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception” by Lata Mani
• “Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism” by Joan W. Scott
• “A Take of Two Feminsms: Power and Victimization in Contemporary Feminist Debate” by Carolyn Sorisio

Moraga, Cherríe, and Gloria Anzaldúa. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. New York: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1983.

Stryker, Susan, and Stephen Whittle. The Transgender Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 2006.

• “(De)Subjugated Knowledges: An Introduction to Transgender Studies” by Susan Stryker
• “Toward a Theory of Gender” by Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna
• “Where Did We Go Wrong?: Feminism and Trans Theory—Two Teams on the Same Side?” by Stephen Whittle
• “Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come” by Leslie Feinberg
• “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto” by Sandy Stone
• “My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” by Susan Stryker
• “Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transubstantiation of Sex” by Jay Prosser
• “Mutilating Gender” by Dean Spade
• “Of Catamites and Kings: Reflections on Butch, Gender, and Boundaries” by Gayle Rubin
• “Queering the Binaries: Transsituated Identities, Bodies, and Sexualities” by Jason Cromwell
• “Transgender Theory and Embodiment: The Risk of Racial Marginalization” by Katrina Roen
• “Transgendering the Politics of Recognition” by Richard Juang

Warhol, Robyn R., and Diane Price Herndl. Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

• “Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship” by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
• “Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism” by Annette Kolodny
• “Recycling: Race, Gender, and the Practice of Theory” by Deborah E. McDowell
• “The ‘Wild Zone’ Thesis as Gloss in Chicana Literary Study” by Cordelia Chávez Candelaria
• “The Madwoman and Her Languages: Why I Don’t Do Feminist Literary Theory” by Nina Baym
• “Feminist Politics: What’s Home Got to Do with It?” by Biddy Martin and Chandra Talpade Mohanty
• “Upping the Anti (sic) in Feminist Theory” by Teresa de Lauretis
• “The Laugh of the Medusa” by Hélene Cixous
• “This Sex Which Is Not One” from This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray
• “Writing the Body: Toward an Understanding of l’Ecriture feminine” by Ann Rosalind Jones
• “Introduction” from Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
• “Introduction: On the Politics of Literature” by Judith Fetterley
• “Women’s Time” by Julia Kristeva
• “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism” by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Single-Author Works

Alcoff, Linda. Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self. Studies in feminist philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute books, 1987.

Berlant, Lauren Gail. “The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Notes on Diva Citizenship.” The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship. Series Q. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.

Bornstein, Kate, and Kate Bornstein. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Butler, Judith P. Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge, 2004.

• “Introduction: Acting in Concert” (Chapter 1)
• “Gender Regulations” (Chapter 2)
• “Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality” (Chapter 3)
• “Undiagnosing Gender” (Chapter 4)
• “The End of Sexual Difference?” (Chapter 9)
• “The Question of Social Transformation” (Chapter 10)

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.

Thinking gender. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Brown, Wendy. States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Connell, R. W. Masculinities. St. Leonards, Vic: Allen & Unwin, 1995.

• “Introduction”
• “The Science of Masculinity” (Chapter 1)
• “Men’s Bodies” (Chapter 2)
• “The Social Organization of Masculinity” (Chapter 3)
• “The History of Masculinity” (Chapter 9)
• “Masculinity Politics” (Chapter 10)

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality Vol. 1. New York: Vintage Books, 1984.

Gubar, Susan. “What Ails Feminist Criticism?” Critical Inquiry. 24. 4 (1998): 878-902.

Haraway, Donna Jeanne. The Haraway Reader. New York: Routledge, 2003.

• “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s” (Chapter 1)
• “Ecce Homo, Ain’t (Ar’n’t) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others: The Human in a Post-Humanist Landscape” (Chapter 2)
• “The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others” (Chapter 3)
• “Morphing in the Order: Flexible Strategies, Feminist Science Studies, and Primate Revisions” (Chapter 6)
• “Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium” (Chapter 7)
• “Race: Universal Donors in a Vampire Culture.  It’s All in the Family: Biological Kinship Categories in the Twentieth-Century United States” (Chapter 8 )
• “Cyborgs to Companion Species: Reconfiguring Kinship in Technoscience” (Chapter 9)
• “Cyborgs, Coyotes, and Dogs: A Kinship of Feminist Figurations” and “There Are Always more Things Going on Than You Thought! Methodologies as Thinking Technologies: An interview with Donna Haraway” (Chapter 10)

hooks, bell. Feminist Theory from Margin to Center. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1984.

• “Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory” (Chapter 1)
• “Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression” (Chapter 2)
• “The Significance of Feminist Movement” (Chapter 3)
• “Sisterhood: Political Solidarity Among Women” (Chapter 4)
• “Men: Comrades in Struggle” (Chapter 5)
• “Feminist Revolution: Development Through Struggle” (Chapter 12)

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003.

Samuels, E. (2002, Fall). Critical divides: Judith Butler’s body theory and the question of disability. In K. Q. Hall (Ed.), Feminist Disability Studies [Special issue]. NWSA Journal, 14(3), 58-76.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Tendencies. “Introduction.” Series Q. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.

Wittig, Monique. The Straight Mind and Other Essays. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.