WMS 201 Suad Joseph
Winter 2006 220 Young Hall, UC Davis
SPECIAL TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND RESEARCH
READING JUDITH BUTLER
Required Reading:
Books on 2 hour reserve in Shields Library (do NOT take out for more than 2 hours) AND
In UC Davis Book Store:
ALL BY JUDITH BUTLER
1987 Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France. New York: Columbia U. Press.
1990 Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge
1993 Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex”. New York: Routledge
1997 Excitable Speech. A Politics of the Performative. New York: Routledge
1997 The Psychic Life of Power. New York: Routledge
2000 Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death. New York: Columbia U. Press.
2004 Precarious Life. The Powers of Mourning and Violence. New York: Verso
2005 Giving An Account of Oneself. New York: Fordham U. Press
Jan 5 Introduction & Seminar Organization
Jan 12 Subjects of Desire
Jan 19 Gender Trouble
Jan 26 Bodies That Matter
Feb 2 Excitable Speech
Feb 9 The Psychic Life of Power
Feb 16 Antigone’s Claim
Feb 23 1-4 pm Conversation with Judith Butler (Lunch provided)
5:30-6:30 Reception for Judith Butler (All following events in ARC Ballroom A)
6:30-7:30 Feminist Theory Seminar Dinner with Judith Butler
7:30-9:00 Judith Butler
Maxine Elliot Professor, Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
“Transgender and the Spirit of Revolt: Psychoanalysis Reconsidered”
Mar 2 Precarious Life
Mar 9 Giving an Account of Oneself