Reading List 10: Theories of Genders and Sexualities
Faculty Committee
Bernadette Andrea, Maurizia Boscagli, Julie Carlson, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Glyn Salton-Cox, Daniel Reeve
Reading List
- Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, “Female Sexuality”, “Femininity”, “On Narcissism” (1905)
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, vol. 1: Facts and Myths (1949)
- Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto (1967)
- Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Manifesto for Maintenance Art (1969)
- Luce Irigaray, “Any Theory of the Subject Has Always Been Appropriated by the Masculine” from Speculum of the Other Woman (1974)
- Jacques Lacan, Seminar XX: On Feminine Sexuality, “The Mirror Stage” (1975)
- Gayle Rubin, “The Traffic in Women” (1975)
- Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, vol. 1 (1976)
- Luce Irigaray, “Women on the Market” and “This Sex Which is Not One” from This Sex Which is Not One (1977)
- Julia Kristeva, “Stabat Mater” (1977)
- Monique Wittig, “The Straight Mind” (1978)
- Julia Kristeva, “Women’s Time” (1979)
- Julia Kristeva, “Approaching Abjection” from Powers of Horror (1980)
- Michele Barrett, Women’s Oppression Today (1980), chapters 1 and 2
- Angela Davis, “The Legacy of Slavery: Standards for a New Womanhood” (1981)
- Hazel Carby, “White Women Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood” (1982)
- Maria Lugones and Eilzabeth Spelman, “Have We Got a Theory for You! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for a ‘Woman’s Voice'” (1983)
- Cherríe Moraga, “From a Long Line of Vendidas” from Loving in the War Years (1983)
- Chandra Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourse” (1984)
- Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex” (1984)
- Donna Haraway, “The Cyborg Manifesto” (1985)
- Gayatri Chakavorty Spivak, “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism” (1985)
- Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands (1987),part 1
- Leo Bersani, “Is the Rectum a Grave?” (1987)
- Douglas Crimp, “AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism” (1987)
- Teresa de Lauretis, “The Technology of Gender” (1987)
- Julia Kristeva, “Psychoanalysis —A Counterdepressant”, from Black Sun (1987)
- Hortense Spillers, “Momma’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe” (1987)
- Gayatri Chakavorty Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (1988)
- Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” (1989)
- Trihn T. Minh-ha, Woman, Native, Other (1989), introduction
- Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (1990)
- Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights (1991), chapter 12
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Epistemology of the Closet (1990), introduction
- Chela Sandoval, “US Third World Feminism” (1991)
- Linda Singer, Erotic Welfare (1992), chapter 2
- Eve Kosofsky Sedwick, “Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl” from Tendencies (1993)
- Rosemary Hennessy, Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (1993), chapter 1
- Gayatri Chakavorty Spivak, Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), chapters 4 and 7
- Michael Warner, Fear of a Queer Planet (1993), introduction
- Judith Butler, “Against Proper Objects” (1994)
- Lee Edelman, “Homographesis” and “Tearooms and Sympathy” from Homographesis (1994)
- Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (1994)
- Leo Bersani, Homos (1996), prologue, chapters 1 and 2
- Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power (1997), chapters 5 and 6
- Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, “Sex in Public” (1998)
- Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity (1998), chapters 4 and 5
- Jose Esteban Muñoz, “Performing Disidentifications” from Disidentifications (1999)
- Paula Treichler, “AIDS: Homophobia and Biomedical Discourse” (1999)
- Joseph Massad, “Reorienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World” (2002)
- Sylvia Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom” (2003)
- Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004), introduction
- Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch (2004), introduction and chapter 2
- Roderick Ferguson, Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2004)
- Heather Love, “Emotional Rescue: The Demands of Queer History” from Feeling Backward (2004)
- Bracha Ettinger, The Matrixial Borderspace (2005), chapter 1
- Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology, chapter 1 (2006)
- Robert McRuer, Crip Theory (2006), introduction
- David Halperin, What do Gay Men Want? (2007)
- Jasbir Puar, Terrorist Assemblages (2007), chapter 1
- Julia Serano, Whipping Girl (2007), chapters 7, 8, and 20
- Paul Preciado, Testo Junkie (2008), chapters 2, 4 & 6
- Kevin Floyd, The Reification of Desire (2009), introduction
- Jose Esteban Muñoz, “Cruising Utopia (2009), introduction and chapters 1 and 6
- Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds (2010), introduction
- Mel Y. Chen, “Language and Mattering Humans” from Animacies (2012)
- Carolyn Dinshaw, How Soon is Now? (2012), introduction
- Alexander Weheliye, Habeas Viscus (2014), introduction and chapter 1
- Jacqueline Rose, Women in Dark Times (2014), part 1
- Dana Luciano and Mel Y. Chen, “Has the Queer Ever Been Human?” (2015)
- Lisa Baraitser, Enduring Time (2017), introduction, chapters 2 and 3
- Andrea Long Chu, “On Liking Women” (2018)
- Françoise Vergès, “Capitalocene: Waste, Race, and Gender” (2019)
Last updated 2/2/2020