Book:
*Walters, Margaret. 2005. Feminism: A very short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (141 p) (you can either get it at the library or buy it in the bookshop Akademika, Blindern).
Compendium
Articles in the syllabus without a link or an x are gathered in compendia which you can buy in the bookshop, in the basement of Akademika/Kopiutsalget, Blindern.
Links
To get access to the articles with link, you must be logged on to the server of the University of Oslo. Titles marked x will be available via Casvas or handout.
First lecture: Why feminist theory? What is feminist theory?
Lorde, Audre. 1984. Excerpt: ?The Master’s tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House?, in Sister Outsider. Berkeley: Crossing Press (3 p)
hooks, bell. 1992. ?Theory as Liberatory Practice?, in The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 4(1): 1-12 (11 p)
Harding, Sandra. 1987. ?From the Woman Question in Science to the Science question in Feminism? & ?Gender and Science: Two Problematic Concepts?, in The Science Question in Feminism. Ithacha/London: Cornell University Press. pp. 15-58 (43 p)
Sandford, Stella. 2015. ?Contradiction of Terms: Feminist Theory, Philosophy and Transdisciplinarity?, in Theory, Culture & Society 32(5-6): 159-182 (20 p)
Hemmings, Clare. 2005. ?Telling feminist stories?, in Feminist Theory 6(2): 115-139 (24 p)
Recommended reading:
*Walters, Margaret. 2005. Feminism: A very short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (141 p)
Lecture 2: Historicizing feminism
Bennett, Judith. 2006. Excerpt: “Ch 3 Who’s Afraid of the Distant Past?”, in History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 30-53 (23 p)
Pettersen, Tove. 2017. ?Texts Less Travelled: The Case of Women Philosophers?, in I. H. Lo?pes et al. Gender and Translation: Understanding Agents in Transnational Reception. York University, Vita Traductiva, Collection in Translation Studies 2017, pp. 153-178 (25 p)
Kelly, Joan. 1982. ?Early Feminist Theory and the Querelle des Femmes, 1400-1789?, in Signs: Journal of Women and Culture and Society 8(1): 65-109 (44 p)
Sophia. 1739. Woman not Inferior to Man: or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men. London: Printed for John Hawkins, at the Falcon in St. Paul's Church-Yard. (p 20)
Gournay, Marie Le Jars de. 2002. Excerpt: “The Equality of Men and Women”, in Apology for the woman writing: and other works. Chicago: Chicago University Press. pp. 75-95 (20 p)
Lecture 3: Becoming Woman
Wollstonecraft, Mary. 1792. Excerpt: “Chap. IV: Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes?, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. pp. 36-52 (20 p)
Beauvoir, Simone de. 2010 (1979). Excerpt: ?Vol. 2, Part I, Chapter 2: The Girl? and ?Chapter 4: The Lesbian?, in The Second Sex. London: Vintage Books. pp. 395-439, 479-499 (64 p)
Haslanger, Sally. 2006. “Gender and Social Construction: Who? What? When? Where? How?”, in E. Hackett & S. Haslanger (eds). Theorizing Feminisms: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 16-23 (7 p)
Wittig, Monique. 2003. “One is not born a woman”, in C. Mccann & K. Seung-Kyung (eds). Feminist Theory Reader. Local and global perspectives, eds.. New York: Routledge. pp. 249-254 (5 p).
Lecture 4: Psychoanalysis and Radical feminism
Irigaray, Luce. 1997. Excerpts: ?Equal or Different? and ?Sexual Difference?, in M. Whitford (ed). The Irigaray Reader. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 30-33, 165-176 (9 p)
Kristeva, Julia. 1992. ?Approching Abjection?, in Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 1-31 (31 p)
Firestone, Shulamith. 1970. Excerpt: ?Conclution: The Ultimate Revolution?, in The Dialectic of Sex. The Case for Feminist Revolution. A Bantam Book. pp. 205- 242 (37 p)
Daly, Mary. 1978. Excerpt: ?Disemberment by Christian and Postchristian Myth?, in Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Boston: Beacon Press. pp. 73-105 (32 p)
Lorde, Audre. 1984. Excerpt: “An Open Letter to Mary Daly”, in Sister Outsider. Berkeley: Crossing Press. pp. 66-71 (6 p)
Lecture 5: Marxism, Liberalism and Intersectionality
Bebel, August. 1910 (1879). Excerpt: "Women in the Future", in Women and Socialism. (6 p)
Luxemburg, Rosa. 1912. “Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle”, in D. Howard (ed). Selected Political Writings. (6 p)
Mitchell, Juliet. 1984 (1966). Excerpt: “Women: The Longest Revolution”, in Women: The Longest Revolution. Essays in Feminism, Literature and Psychoanalysis. London: Virago Press. pp. 17-54 (37 p)
Mill, John Stuart. 2017 (1869). Excerpt: ?Chapter 1: The question can be raised?, in The Subjection of Women. pp. 1-15 (15 p)
Nussbaum, Martha C. 2000. ?The Future of Feminist Liberalism?, in Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 74(2): 47-79 (33 p)
Truth, Sojourner. 1851. “Aint I a Woman?” Speech at the?Women's Convention, Akron, Ohio (1 p)
Recommended reading:
Crenshaw, Kimberlee. 1989. ?Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics?, in The University of Chicago Legal Forum 140(1): 139–167 (28 p)
Lecture 6: Care-based feminism
Held, Virginia. 2010. ?Can the Ethics of Care Handle Violence??, in Ethics and Social Welfare 4, 115-129 (14 p)
Kittay, Feder Eva. 2009. ?The Moral Harm of Migrant Carework: Realizing a Global Right to Care?, in Philosophical Topics 37(2): 53-73 (20 p)
Miller, Sarah Clark. 2010. ?Cosmopolitan Care?, in Ethics and Social Welfare 4(2): 145-157 (12 p)
Pettersen, Tove. 2008. Excerpts: ?The Perspective of Care? and ?Gender Issues and Criticism?, in Comprehending Care: Problems and Possibilities in The Ethics of Care. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 1-29 (28 p)
Pettersen, Tove. 2011. ?Conceptions of Care. Altruism, Feminism and Mature Care?, in Hypatia 27(2): 366–389 (23 p)
Lecture 7: Postcolonial feminism
Alcoff, Linda. 1991. ?The Problem of Speaking for Others?, in Cultural Critique 20, 5–32 (28 p)
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 1988. ?Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses?, in Feminist review 30, 61-88 (27 p)
Spivak, Gayatri C. 1988. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”, in C. Nelson & L. Grossberg (eds). Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Basingstone: Macmillan Education. pp. 271-313 (42 p)
Mercer, Kobena. 1987. ?Black Hair/Style Politics?, in New Formations 3, 33-54 (22 p)
Recommended reading:
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 2003. ?Under Western Eyes? Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles?, in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28(2): 499–535 (35 p)
Lecture 8: Sexualities and queer theory
Butler, Judith. 2002 (1990). Excerpt: ?Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire?, in Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York/London: Routledge. pp. 3-44 (41 p)
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 1991. Excerpt: “Introduction: Axiomatic”, in Epistemology of the Closet. New York: Harvester. pp. 1-65 (40 p)
Stone, Sandy. 1991. “The empire strikes back: a posttranssexual manifesto”, in J. Epstein & K. Straub (eds). Body Guards. New York: Routledge. (17 p)
Halberstam, Judith. 2010. ?The Pregnant Man?, in Velvet Light Trap 65, 77 (1 p)
Ingraham, Chrys. 2002. “Heterosexuality: It’s Just Not Natural!”, in D. Richardson & S. Seidman (eds). Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies. London: Sage Publication Ltd. pp. 73-82 (9 p)
Lecture 9: Ecofeminism
Plumwood, Val. 1993. Excerpts: ?Feminism and ecofeminism? and ?Dualism: the logic of colonisation?, in Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. New York: Routledge. pp. 19-68 (49 p)
Warren, Karen. 2000. Excerpt: ?Quilting Ecofeminist Philosophy. A Western Perspective on What Ecofeminist Philosophy Is?, in Ecofeminist Philosophy: A Western Perspective on what it is and why it Matters. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 43-71 (28 p)
Donovan, Josephine. 2007 (1990). “Animal Rights and Feminist theory”, in J. Donovan & C. K. Adams (eds). The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics. Columbia University Press. pp. 58–76 (18 p)
Robinson, Fiona. 2011. Excerpt: “Gender, Care, and the Ethics of Environmental Security”, in The Ethics of Care. A Feminist Approach to Human Security. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. pp. 143-160 (17 p)
Lecture 10: Postfeminism? Where are we now?
Ahmed, Sara. 2010. ?Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)?, in The Scholar and Feminist Online 8(3) (11 p)
Showden, Carisa R. 2009. ?What's Political about the New Feminisms??, in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 30(2): 166-198 (33 p)
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. 2014. We Should All Be Feminists. New York: Vintage Books (8 p)