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1 Feminism Part 2, Paper 10: Political Philosophy Lecturer: Dr. Clare Chambers Faculty of Philosophy www.clarechambers.com This is an extensive reading list, designed to: • Provide details for all the works discussed in the lectures, not all of which are feminist, and • Provide suggestions for further reading for those who want to develop their interest in feminism, whether for supervision essays, Tripos examinations, extended essays and dissertations, or personal interest. Asterisks indicate that the work is particularly important, stimulating, or pertinent to the Part 2 Political Philosophy syllabus. Introductory and general works • • • • • • • • • • • •
Banyard, Kat, The Equality Illusion: The Truth About Women & Men Today (Faber & Faber 2011) Brownmiller, Susan, In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (Random House, 1999) * Bryson, Valerie, Feminist Political Theory: An Introduction * Chambers, Clare, “Gender” in Catriona McKinnon (ed.) Issues in Political Theory (Oxford University Press, 2008; 2nd ed. 2011; 3rd ed. forthcoming). * Chambers, Clare, “Feminism” in Michael Freeden, Lyman Tower Sargent and Marc Stears (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies (Oxford University Press, 2013). Faludi, Susan, Backlash * Fine, Cordelia, Delusions of Gender * Okin, Susan Moller, Justice, Gender and the Family Rhode, Deborah, Speaking of Sex: the denial of gender inequality Squires, Judith, Gender in Political Theory * Walter, Natasha, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism (Virago, 2010) Whelan, Imelda, Modern Feminist Thought: From the Second Wave to ‘Post-Feminism’
Lecture 1: Concepts, method and aims • • • • • • •
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* Bartlett, Katherine, “Feminist Legal Methods” in Harvard Law Review 103, no. 4 (1990). Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble * Fausto-Sterling, Anne, Sexing the Body (Basic Books, 2000) and Myths of Gender. * Fine, Cordelia, Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences (Icon, 2010) Gatens, Moira, “Power, bodies and difference” in Barrett and Phillips, Destabilizing Difference Helliwell, Christine, “It’s Only a Penis: Rape, Feminism and Difference” in Signs 25, no. 3 (2000) Hirschmann, Nancy J., and Christine Di Stefano. Revisioning the Political: Feminist Reconstructions of Traditional Concepts in Western Political Theory. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. Krause, Sharon R. “Contested Questions, Current Trajectories: Feminism in Political Theory Today” in Politics & Gender Vol. 7 No. 1 (2011). Available at http://tinyurl.com/74stktv * MacKinnon, Catharine, Towards a Feminist Theory of the State Part II: “Method”. Martínez-Patiño, María José, “Personal Account: A woman tried and tested” in Lancet (2005) http://www.aissg.org/PDFs/Patino-Tried-Tested-Lancet-2005.pdf * Okin, Susan Moller, Justice, Gender and the Family chapters 1 and 8.
2 Lecture 2: Feminism, liberalism and the law
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Abbey, Ruth, The Return of Feminist Liberalism (Acumen, 2011) Berlin, Isaiah, “Two Concepts of Liberty” in his Four Essays on Liberty or in Miller, The Liberty Reader or in Michael Sandel (ed.) Liberalism and its critics. Bryson, Valerie, Feminist Political Theory: An Introduction * Fraser, Nancy, Justice Interruptus chapter 1: “From Redistribution to Recognition?” Hirschmann, Nancy J. The Subject of Liberty: Towards a Feminist Theory of Freedom. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003 (especially chapter 1). Kennedy, Helen, Eve Was Framed * MacKinnon, Catharine, Towards a Feminist Theory of the State chapter 10 or Feminism Unmodified: Discourses of Life and Law chapter 8. Mill, John Stuart, The Subjection of Women MacKinnon, Catharine, Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws chapter 1 (on the Equal Rights Amendment) Radcliffe Richards, Janet, “Enquiries for liberators” in her The Sceptical Feminist. Williams, Bernard, “The Idea of Equality” in P Laslett and WG Runciman, Philosophy, Politics and Society Series II or in Pojman and Westmoreland, Equality: Selected Readings Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Lecture 3: The family and the Ethics of Care
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Bubeck, Diemut, Care, Gender, and Justice. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Delphy, Christine, and Diana Leonard, Familiar Exploitation: A New Analysis of Marriage in Contemporary Western Societies Dworkin, Andrea, Heartbreak * Fraser, Nancy, Justice Interruptus chapter 2: “After the Family Wage” * Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique * Gilligan, Carol, In a Different Voice (or abridged version in Meyers, Feminist Social Thought: A Reader) * Held, Virginia, The Ethics of Care * Hochschild, Arlie Russell, and Anne Machung. The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. London: Piatkus, 1990 * Meyers, Diana, Feminist Social Thought: A Reader Part 6: “Care and its critics” Nussbaum, Martha, Sex and Social Justice chapter 2: “The feminist critique of liberalism” Oakley, Ann. The Sociology of Housework. Oxford: Blackwell, 1985. * Okin, Susan Moller, Justice, Gender and the Family chapters 2, 6 and7. * Ruddick, Sarah, “Maternal Thinking” in Feminist Studies Vol. 6 (1980) or in Meyers, Feminist Social Thought: A Reader Sanchez, Laura, and Elizabeth Thomson. “Becoming Mothers and Fathers: Parenthood, Gender, and the Division of Labor.” Gender and Society 11, no. 6 (1997). Smith, Joan, Misogynies and Different for Girls Tronto, Joan, Moral Boundaries
Lecture 4: Femininity, masculinity and the body • • • • •
Bartky, Sandra Lee, “Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power.” In Feminist Social Thought: A Reader, edited by Diana Tietjens Meyers. London: Routledge, 1997. Blackledge, Catherine, The Story of V: Opening Pandora’s Box. Phoenix, 2003. Bordo, Susan, “Feminism, Foucault and the Politics of the Body.” In Up against Foucault, edited by Caroline Ramazanoglu. London: Routledge, 1993. Bordo, Susan, The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2000. * Bordo, Susan, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
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Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble. London: Routledge, 1999. Particularly chapter 1: “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire” Butler, Judith, Bodies That Matter * Chambers, Clare, Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice. Penn State University Press: 2008. Part 1 Davis, Kathy, Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery. London: Routledge, 1995. De Beauvoir, Simone, The Second Sex. * Dworkin, Andrea, Woman Hating chapter 6. Faludi, Susan, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Male Fausto-Sterling, Anne, Sexing the Body. Basic Books, 2000, and Myths of Gender. * Fine, Cordelia, Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences (Icon, 2010) Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, chapter on Panopticism Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. Foucault, Michel, The Will to Knowledge: The History of Sexuality: 1. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990. Fraser, Nancy. “Foucault on Modern Power: Empirical Insights and Normative Confusions.” In Michel Foucault (2): Critical Assessments, edited by Barry Smart. London: Routledge, 1995. Gatens, Moira. “Power, bodies and difference.” In Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates, edited by Michele Barrett and Anne Phillips. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992. Greer, Germaine, The Female Eunuch. London: Flamingo, 1991. * Jeffreys, Sheila, Beauty and Misogyny: harmful cultural practices in the West. London: Routledge, 2005. MacKinnon, Catharine, Towards a Feminist Theory of the State chapter 6 “Sexuality” McNay, Lois. Foucault and Feminism. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992. Martha Nussbaum, “The Professor of Parody” (critique of the work of Judith Butler), available on-line at http://www.akad.se/Nussbaum.pdf Vincent, Norah, Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man * Walter, Natasha, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism (Virago, 2010) Weitz, Rose (ed.), The Politics of Women’s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance and Behavior. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. * Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth. London: Vintage, 1990 * Young, Iris Marion, On Female Body Experience especially “Throwing Like A Girl”.
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Adams, Carol, The Pornography of Meat Assiter, Alison and Avedon Carol (ed.), Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to Reclaim Feminism Assiter, Alison, Pornography, Feminism and the Individual Brown , Wendy, States of Injury (Princeton: Princeton UP,1995), ch 4 Cornell, Drucilla (ed.), Feminism and Pornography Cornell, Drucilla, The Imaginary Domain: Abortion, Pornography and Sexual Harassment * Dines, Gail, Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (Boston Press, 2010) * Dworkin, Andrea, Pornography: Men Possessing Women *Dworkin, Andrea, “Pornography is a Civil Rights Issue”. From her Letters From a War Zone, and available at http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/WarZoneChaptIVF1.html Dworkin, Andrea, Woman Hating Part Two: “The Pornography” * Dworkin, Ronald, ‘Do we have a right to pornography?’, in his A Matter of Principle (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP,1985) * Dworkin, Ronald, ‘Pornography and Hate’ and ‘MacKinnon’s Words’, in his Freedom’s Law (OUP, 1996) Ferguson, Ann, “Sex War: The Debate between Radical and Libertarian Feminists” in Signs Vol. 10 No. 1 (1984). Available at www.jstor.org/stable/3174240
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* Itzin, Catherine. (ed.) Pornography (OUP, 1992) * Langton, Rae, “Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts” in Philosophy & Public Affairs Vol. 22 No. 4 (Autumn 1993), or in her Sexual Solipsism (OUP, 2009) MacKinnon, Catharine and Andrea Dworkin, In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings * MacKinnon, Catharine, Feminism Unmodified Part III: “Pornography”. * MacKinnon, Catharine, Only Words (Harper Collins, 1994) Moorcock, Michael, “Working in the Ministry of Truth: Pornography and Censorship in Contemporary Britain” in Itzin (ed.) Pornography. Schlosser, Eric, Reefer Madness and other tales from the American underground chapter 3: “An Empire of the Obscene”. Segal, Lynne, and Mary McIntosh, eds. Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate. * Strossen, N., Defending Pornography: free speech, sex and the fight for women’s rights (Abacus, 1996) * Sunstein, Cass, “Neutrality in Constitutional Law (with special reference to pornography, abortion, and surrogacy).” Columbia Law Review 92, no. 1 (1992). * Walter, Natasha, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism (Virago, 2010) * Williams, Bernard (ed.), Obscenity and Film Censorship: an abridgment of Williams Report (CUP, 1981) Wosnitzer, Robert et al, “Aggression and Sexual Behavior in Best-Selling Pornography: A Content Analysis Update” available at https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/hivstd/conference/2008/handouts/Pre_Sexuality.pdf
Lecture 6: Rape, violence and fear
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* Archard, D., Sexual Consent (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1998) * Brownmiller, Susan. Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977. Buchwald, Emilie, Pamela Fletcher and Martha Roth (eds.), Transforming A Rape Culture. Milkweed Editions, 2005. * Dworkin, Andrea, Life and Death: Unapologetic writings in the undeclared war against women. Gordon, Margaret and Stephanie Riger, The Female Fear. New York: Macmillan, 1989. Greer, Germaine, The Whole Woman chapter “Fear”. Helliwell, Christine, “It’s Only a Penis: Rape, Feminism and Difference” in Signs 25, no. 3 (2000) Horley, Sandra. The Charm Syndrome: Why Charming Men Can Make Dangerous Lovers. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991. * Kennedy, H., Eve was framed (Chatto and Windus, 1992), chapter 5 * Lees, S., Carnal Knowledge: Rape on Trial (Penguin Books, 1996) * MacKinnon, C., Towards a Feminist Theory of the State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1989) chapter 9 * MacKinnon, Catharine, Are Women Human? Parts 1 and 3. McGregor, Joan, Is it Rape? On Acquaintance Rape and Taking Women’s Consent Seriously. Ashgate, 2005. Smith, Joan, Misogynies chapter “M’Learned Friends” * Tomaselli, S. & Porter (eds), Rape: an historical and social inquiry (Blackwell, 1989) Travis, Cheryl Brown (ed.), Evolution, Gender and Rape. Wertheimer, Alan, Consent to Sexual Relations
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Andrea Dworkin: • online library http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/index.html • video and audio library http://andreadworkin.com/audio/ • memorial http://www.andreadworkin.net/memorial/ Feminist Philosophers blog http://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/ Feminist Theory Website http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/enin.html Gail Dines’ website, author of Pornland http://www.gaildines.com International Prostitutes Collective http://www.prostitutescollective.net London Feminist Network http://londonfeministnetwork.org.uk Looks Philosophical: This is what a philosopher looks like http://looksphilosophical.tumblr.com Mamamia blog: celebrity images before and after photoshopping. http://www.mamamia.com.au/style/18-celebrity-photoshop-before-and-after-images/ Ms Magazine http://www.msmagazine.com OBJECT pressure group, and their “top shelf” campaign, at http://www.object.org.uk Rape Crisis http://www.rapecrisis.org.uk Refuge http://www.refuge.org.uk Stop Porn Culture http://www.stoppornculture.org The F-Word: Contemporary UK feminism http://www.thefword.org.uk The Fawcett Society http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk The Guardian is full of interesting articles on gender and feminism. See http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/women UK Government Equalities Office https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-equalities-office UK Equality Act 2010: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2010/ukpga_20100015_en_1 UK Feminista: http://www.ukfeminista.org.uk US Equal Rights Amendment http://www.equalrightsamendment.org US National Organisation for Women http://www.now.org/index.html
Novels relating to feminism and gender – more suggestions welcome Almost all novels tell you something interesting about gender. Those listed here focus explicitly on the topic. • • • • • • • • •
Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid’s Tale – and most other Atwood novels Dworkin, Andrea Mercy, Ice and Fire, First Love and the new woman’s broken heart Eugenides, Jeffrey, Middlesex Faber, Michel, The Crimson Petal and the White French, Marilyn, The Women’s Room Lessing, Doris, The Golden Notebook Perkins Gilman, Charlotte, Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper Sebold, Alice, Lucky Woolf, Virginia, Orlando
