Required reading:
Book that has to be purchased
*Walters, Margaret: Feminism: A very short Introduction, 2005. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. 141 p. (you can either get it at the library; buy it in the bookshop Akademika, Blindern, or on web: amazon.com and AbeBooks.com
Compendium
The articles in the syllabus are gathered in compendiums which you can buy in the bookshop, in the basement of Akademika/Kopiutsalget, Blindern. Titles with links may be downloaded via your University of Oslo server.
You can buy the compendium in the Kopiutsalget, in the basement of Akademika at Blindern. To access the links, you must be logged in to the University of Oslo's server.
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, 2010 (1979). London: Vintage Books. Part II, chapters 4-5, pp. 107-159.
Bebel, August: Women and Socialism, 1910, (1879). "Women in the Future", Chapter XXVIII , 6 pages. link.
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: Contigent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of "Postmodernism". In Benhabib, Butler, Cornell and Fraser: Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange. Thinking Gender, 1995. London, New York: Routledge. Chapter 2 pp. 35-57. 18 pages.
Butler, Judith. For a careful reading: In Benhabib, Butler, Cornell and Fraser: Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange. Thinking Gender, 1995. London, New York: Routledge . Chapter 6, pp. 127-14, 18 pages.
Butler, Judith: Yale French Studies 72, 1986. "Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex", pp. 35-49. 15 pages. link (pdf).
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 34 pages.
Fell, Margaret: Woman’s Speaking Justified, 12 pages. link.
Genz, Stèphanie: Feminist Theory vol. 7, 2006. "Third Way/ve. The politics of postfeminsm", (333-353) 21 pages. link (pdf).
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 .
Jaggar, Allison M. Feminist studies in: Just Methods, 2008. Paradigm Publishers . pp. 191-198.
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. link (pdf).
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)?. link.
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). link.
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). link.
Rich, Adrienne in: College English 34 (1), 1972. “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision.” 18-30. 13 pages. link (pdf).
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 pages.
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.....") . link.