Rhetorics of United States Feminisms

Rhetoric 10:199

The following are broad and overlapping categories that can guide the class. The histories and anthologies are on reserve at the library. You should begin looking at the texts and meet with me to let me know which week(s) you will present and which texts you have chosen. You are not limited to the texts I have listed, in most cases they serve as a guide. I have listed suggestions for the first three weeks of histories, please choose a week and a history and let me know soon which one you will present.

September 4: What is Feminism? (Re) Reading the Second Wave

Mitchell, Juliet and Ann Oakley, eds. What is Feminism: A Re- examination. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. Read:

Introduction, Juliet Mitchell and Ann Oakley

"What is Feminism?" Rosalind Delmar

"Reflections of Twenty Years of Feminism," Juliet Mitchell

"Feminist Theory and Feminist Movements: The Past Before Us," Nancy Cott

Braidotti, Rosi. "Towards a Philosophical Reading of Feminist Ideas." Patterns of Dissonance. New York: Routledge, 1991. 147-173.

Riley, Denise.Am I That Name: Feminism and the Category of `Women' in History. Minneapolis: University of Minessota, 1988. From this book, read: "Does a Sex have a History?" 1-17; "Bodies, Identities, Feminisms," 96-114.

Sarachild, Kathie. "The Power of History." Feminist Revolution. Eds. Redstockings, 1975. 13-43.

Higgenbotham, Eveyln Brooks. "African American's History and the Metalanguage of Race." Signs (Winter 1992): 251-274.

September 11: Women Breaking Away From the Left(s)

Amatniek, Kathie. "Funeral Oration for Traditional Womanhood." Voices From Women's Liberation. New York: Signet. 138-142.

Piercy, Marge. "Grand Coolie Damn." Sisterhood is Powerful. Ed., Robin Morgan. New York: Random House, 1970. 473-493.

Morgan, Robin. "Goodbye to All That." Going To Far: The Personal Chronicles of a Feminist. New York: Vintage Books, 1968.121-130.

La Rue, Linda. "The Black Movement and Women's Liberation." Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought. Ed., Beverly Guy- Sheftall, 1995. 163-173.

Longauex y Vasquez, Enriqueta. "The Mexican-American Woman." Sisterhood is Powerful. New York: Random House, 1970. 426-432.

Weisstein, Naomi. "Woman as Nigger." Voices From Women's Liberation. New York: Signet. 296-303.

Bloom, Alexander and Wini Breines, Eds. "Takin' It to the streets": A Sixties Reader.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Read:

Amy Uyematsu, "The Emergence of Yellow Power." 190-192.

Frances Beal, "Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female." 525-530.

Abbey Lincoln, "To Whom Will She Cry Rape?" 530-533.

The Regents of University of CA, Asian Women as Leaders. 550-557.

History: Sara Evans, Personal Politics

September 18: Feminist "Classics" and the Women's Movement

Echols, Alice. Daring to Be Bad. Minneapolis: Regents of University of Minnesota, 1991. Read: Introduction, chapters 1, 2

de Beauvior, Simone. The Second Sex. H.M. Parshley. New York: Pantheon Books, 1953. Introduction, chapter 3 & 6

Friedan, Betty. "The Problem that Has No Name." The Feminine Mystique. New York: Dell Books, 1963. Preface

Eisenstein, Zillah. " Friedan's Liberal 'Feminist Mystique' and the Changing Politics of NOW." The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1981 177-200.

hooks, bell. "Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory." Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Boston: South End Press, 1984. 1-15.

Millet, Kate. Sexual Politics. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1969. Ch. 2

September 25: Articulating Oppressions and Transnationalism in the Womens Movement

Burris, Barbara. "Fourth World Manifesto." Radical Feminism. Eds. Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, Anita Rapone. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1973. 322-357.

King, Deborah. "Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology." Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought. Ed. Beverly Guy-Sheftall. New York: The New Press, 1995. 294-317

Sandoval, Chela. "U.S. Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World." Genders 10 Spring 1991: 1-24.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. "Under Western Eyes." Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Eds. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. 51-80.

Johnson-Odin, Cheryl. "Common Themes, Different Conexts." Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Eds. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. 314-327.

Friedman, Susan Stanford. "Beyond White and Other: Relationality and Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse." Signs (Autumn 1995): 1-49.

History: Castro American Feminism

October 2: Radical Feminism: Entering the Public Sphere

Echols, Chapters 3, 4

Solanas, Valerie. The SCUM Manifesto.

Lyon, Janet. "Transforming Manifestoes: A Second Wave Problematic." The Yale Journal of Criticism 5.1 (1991): 101-127.

Joreen, "The Bitch Manifesto." Radical Feminism. Eds. Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, Anita Rapone. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1973. 50-59.

Russo, Ann. "We Cannot Live Without Our Lives." Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Eds. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. 297-313.

History: Castro, American Feminism

October 9: The Uses of History and Historical Analysis in the WLM

Firestone, Shulamith. The Dialectic of Sex. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1971. Read: Ch. 1, 2, 3, 5, 9,10

History: Yates: What Women Want

October 16 The Politics of Sexuality and the Body

Echols, Chapter 5, 6

Greer, Germaine. "Revolution." The Female Eunuch. London: Granada Publishing, 1970. 313-329.

Radicalesbians, "Woman Identified Woman." Radical Feminism. Eds. Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, Anita Rapone. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1973. 240-245.

Koedt, Anne. "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm." Radical Feminism. Eds. Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, Anita Rapone. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1973. 198-207.

Johnston, Jill. "The Myth of the Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm." Lesbian Nation. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973. 164-174.

Our Bodies Ourselves. 1st Edition. "Sexuality." 1971. 164-197.

Anne Koedt, " Lesbianism and Feminism." Radical Feminism. Eds. Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, Anita Rapone. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1973. 246-258.

Densmore, Dana. "Independence From the Sexual Revolution." Radical Feminism. Eds. Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, Anita Rapone. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1973. 107-118.

October 23: The Fantasy of Female Only Space

Atkinson, Ti-Grace. Amazon Odyssey. New York: Links Books, 1974.

October 30: The Figure of the Lesbian in the Women's Liberation Movement

King, Katie. "Lesbianism as Feminism's Magical Sign." Theory in its Feminist Travels. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. 124-137.

Ware, Cellestine. Woman Power. New York: Tower Publications, 1970.

Abbott, Sidney and Barbara Love. Saphpo Was a Right on Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism. New York: Day Books, 1972. Ch. 5, 6

November 6: Literature, Song, and Poetry as Revolutionary Forms

Brown, Rita Mae. Ruby Fruit Jungle. New York: Daughters Publishing Co., 1973.

King, Katie. "The Politics of the Oral and the Written. Theory in its Feminist Travels. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. 92-123.

Hogeland, Lisa Maria. "Sexuality in the Consciousness-Raising Novel of the 1970s" 601- 632. "Men Can't Be That Bad": Realism and Feminist Fiction in the 1970s 287-305

Olson, Tillie. "Silences in Literature" 1962 and "One out of Twelve: Writers Who are Women in Our Century" (1971) 5-46

Kay Lindsey; "Poem" bw

Audre Lorde "Naturally" and "What about the Children" bw

Elenore Holmes Norton, For Sadie and Maude

November 13: Feminism in the Media

Embre, Alice. "Media Images I: Madison Avenue Brainwashing--The Facts." Sisterhood is Powerful. Ed, Robin Morgan. NY: Vintage Books, 1970. 194-212.

Florika. "Media Images 2: Body Odor and Social Order." Sisterhood is Powerful. Ed, Robin Morgan. NY: Vintage Books, 1970. 194-219.

Douglas, Susan. Where the Girls Are. NY: Times Books, 1994. Chapters 6 & 7

Lear, Martha Weinman. "What do these women want? The Second Feminist Wave." New York Times Magazine Mar. 10 1968: 24-25, 50-62.

Davidson, Sara. "An Oppressed 'Majority' Demands Its Rights." Life Dec. 12 1969: 67-78.

Davidson The New feminism Esquire

"The New Feminists: Revolt Against 'Sexism.' Time Nov. 21 1969: 53-56.

Women's Lib: The war on "Sexism" Helen Budar (1970)

Woman's Place

November 20: The Politics of Anthology and Feminist Publishing

McDermott, Patrice. 1994. Politics and Scholarship: Feminist Academic Journals and the Production of Knowledge. " Feminist Publishing and the Underground Press" 17-41 "A Cultural Approach to Feminist Academic Journals"

King, Katie. Theory in its Feminist Travels. Read: "First a Story: What is an Object?" Xv-xvi; What Counts As Theory" 1-54; "Writing Conversations in Feminist Theory"55-91.

November 27: No Class--University Holiday

December 4: Feminist Scholarship: Reassessing the Second Wave

Scott, Joan. "Gender: A Useful Category for Historical Analysis." Gender and the Politics of History. NY: Columbia University Press, 1988. 28-50.

Elam, Diane and Robyn Wiegman. Eds. 1995 Feminism Beside Itself. Routledge: New York. "Contingencies," Diane Elam and Robyn Wiegman; "Making History: Reflections on Feminism, Narrative, and Desire, Susan Stanford Friedman; "How to Satisfy a Woman Every Time..." Judith Roof; "Transferences: Black Feminist Discourse: The "Practice of Theory" Deborah McDowell; "In the Name of Feminism," Valerie Wagner.

Also be prepared to discuss readings form September 4 and Friedman, Susan Stanford. "Beyond White and Other: Relationality and Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse." Signs (Autumn 1995) 1-49.

December 11 Presentations of Final Projects