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Gender & Sexuality ANT139BN

People of the Middle East
ANT142

Research Design and Methods in Social Anthropology
ANT206

Gender, Identity, and Selfhood
ANT229

Gender in the Arab World
WMS184

GENDER AND SEXUALITY
ANT139BN

Syllabus Reader Assignments

Syllabus
June 26

  • Sex, Gender & Sexuality: Through the Looking Glass
    a. Theory as Lens
    b. Introduction to Feminist Schools of thought
    c. Structure of Course Requirements
June 27
  • Functionalism
    Pastoral Case: Lila Abu-Lughod In: Veiled Sentiments
June 28
  • Feminist Ecology and Ecofeminism
    Foragers case: Pat Draper "!Kung women: Contrasts in Sexual Egalitarianism and Sedentary Contexts." In Reiter.
  • Film "!Nai. The Story of a !Kung Woman"

July 3-5

  • Structualism
      Sherry B. Ortner. "Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture." In: Rosaldo & Lamphere. Required
    Horticultural Case:
      Marilyn Strathern. "No Nature, No Culture: The Hagen Case." In: MacCormack & Strathern. Required

      Film "Kypseli. Women and Men Apart"
July 10-11
  • Feminist Psychoanalysis
  • Nancy Chodorow. "Gender, Relation, and Difference in Psychoanalytic Perspective." In Eisenstein & Jardine. R
  • Horticultural case: Gilbert Hrdt. "Sambia Nosebleeding" In Stigler. R
  • Deborah Elliston. "Erotic Anthropology: 'Ritualized Homosexuality' in Melanesia and Beyond." American Ethnologist. 1995:22:4:848-867.
July 17-18
  • Marxist Feminism/ Political Economy
  • Karen Sacks. "Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race and Gender." American Ethnologist. 1989:16:3. R
  • Harriet Whitehead. "The Bow and the Burden Strap: A New Look at Institutionalized Homosexuality in Native North America" In Ortner. R
  • Film: “Salt of the Earth” (completed on July 19)
July 19
  • Feminist Structuralism / Psychoanalysis / Marxism
  • Gayle Rubin.  The Traffic in Women" In Reiter. R

July 24
  • Feminist Multiculturalism
  • Barbara Christian. "The Race for Theory." In Anzaldua. R.
  • Angie Chabram-Dernersesian. “I Throw Punches for My Race, but I don’t Want to Be a Man: Writing Us – Chica-nos (Girl, Us) / Chicanas – into the Movement Script”. In Grossberg. R.
  • Sandra Harding. “Thinking from the Perspective of Lesbian Lives.” In Hermann & Stewart. R.
July 25

  • Bill Ashcroft et.al, “Introduction”.  In Ashcroft.  R
    Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” In Mohanty et.a. .    R.

 July 26
  • Trinh T. Min-ha “Grandma’s Story” In Trinh. R.
  • Film: “Reassemblage” by Trinh T. Min-ha (40min)
July 31- Aug 1
  • Aihwa Ong. “Colonialism and Modernity: Feminist Re-presentations of Women in Non-Western Societies” In Hermann & Stewart. R.
  • Lara Deeb. An Enchanted Modern. Gender and Public Piety in Shi’i Lebanon
August 2
  • FINAL EXAM

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