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[[Post-Structuralism]] [[Foucault]] [[References]] [[Feminism]] [[Gender]]
[[History of Gender and Sexuality Syllabi]]
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# Post-Structuralist Feminism
**Ferguson 2012, WST692꞉ History of Feminist Theory**
- _Readings:_
- Butler “Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory, and Psychoanalytic Discourse” Butler “Imitation and Gender Subordination”, in Nicholson text.
- Weedon _Feminist Practice & Poststructuralist Theory,_ ch. 2
- Fausto-Sterling “Should there be only two sexes?” _Sexing the Body_, ch. 4.
- _Optional:_
- Alsop et al, _Theorizing Gender,“_Judith Butler: the Queen of Queer_”,_ ch. 4 Butler “Melancholy Gender”
- Alcoff “Cultural Feminism vs. Poststructuralism” in Nicholson text
- Stone “A Posttranssexual Manifesto” in Conboy et al _Writing the Body_
- Minter “Do Transsexuals Dream of Gay Rights?”
**Hagemann 2018, HIST730꞉ Feminist and Gender Theory for Historians**
- Judith Butler, _Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity_ (New York: Routledge, 1990), 3-44.
- Mary Poovey, “Feminism and Deconstruction,” _Feminist Studies_ 15., no. 1 (1988): 51-65.
**Haslanger 2023 Feminist Thought Syllabus**
- Dean Spade, (2006). “Mutilating Gender.”
#### Foucault
**Ferguson 2012, WST692꞉ History of Feminist Theory**
- Foucault Interview on History of Sexuality from Gordon, ed. _Power/Knowledge_
- Foucault Interview on Body/Power from Gordon, ed. Ibid. Foucault “Heterotopias”
- Foucault _History of Sexuality_, read whole book.
- Bartky “Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power”
- Feder _Family Bonds_, ch. 4 “Of Monkeys and Men”, ch 5 “Thinking Gender, Thinking Race”
- Alcoff “Feminist Politics and Foucault: the Limits to a Collaboration”
- _Optional:_
- Angell “Epidemic of Mental Illness” (reviews and letters in the New York Review of Books critiquing psychiatry and the drug industry), [on the U Drive]
- Braidotti _Nomadic Subjects_, ch 6 (on Foucault and Irigaray)
- Alsop et al, _Theorizing Gender_ ch. 3, pp. 79-93.
**Hagemann 2018, HIST730꞉ Feminist and Gender Theory for Historians**
- Michel Foucault, _The History of Sexuality_. New Vintage Books, 1988 (First French edn., 1976), vol. 1: Part I: “We ‘other’ Victorians," 1-14, and Part II: "The Repressive Hypothesis," 15-50.
**Mercer 2019, PHIL211꞉ Philosophy and Feminism**
- Foucault, _Discipline and Punish_, Part Three, Chapter 3, “Panopticism” (Courseworks)
**Zerilli 2018, Advanced Theories of Gender and Sexuality Syllabus**
- Michel Foucault, “The Ethics of the Concern for the Self as a Practice of Freedom,” _Essential Works of Foucault_, vol. I (New York: The New Press, 1997), 281-301.
- Ella Myers, “Resisting Foucauldian Ethics: Associative Politics and the Limits of the Care of the Self,” _Contemporary Political Theory_ vol. 7, no. 2 (May 2008), 125-146.
- Michel Foucault, “The Social Triumph of the Sexual Will” and “Sex, Power, and the Politics of Identity,” in _Essential Works of Foucault_, vol. I (New York: The New Press, 1998), 157- 173.
- Michael Foucault, “Governmentality,” in _The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality_, eds. Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 87-104
- Colin Gordon, “Governmental Rationality: An Introduction,” in _The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality_, eds. Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 1-52.
- Birgit Sauer and Otto Penz, “Affective Governmentality: A Feminist Perspective,” in _Gender, Governance and Feminist Analysis: Missing in Action?_ eds. Christine Hudson, Malin Rönnblom, and Katherine Teghtsoonian (New York: Routledge, 2017), 39-58.
**Other**
- Foucault, Michel: “We ‘Other Victorians’”
- Foucault, Michel: “The Repressive Hypothesis”
- Foucault, Michel: “Panopticism”