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Week 7
Readings
from Wesley Longhofer and Daniel Winchester. 2019. Social Theory re-wired (2nd edition). Pine Forge Press:
- Simone de Beauvoir (367-77, The second sex’)
- Patricia Hill Collins (425-44, ‘Black feminist thought’)
- Dorothy Smith (418-23, ‘The conceptual practices of power’)
- Judith Butler (501-511, ‘Gender trouble’)
- Chandra Talpade Mohanty. 2011. Under Western eyes: Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses. Pp 83-88 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Wiegersma and Nisonoff (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader (2nd edition). London: Zed Books. In Canvas.
- Rachelle Hampton. 2019. The black feminists who saw the alt-right threat coming. Apr 23, Slate.
Supplemental
- Collins, Black feminist thought (interactive reading)
- Butler, Gender trouble (interactive reading)
- Masha Gessen. 2021. The movement to exclude trans girls from sports. March 27, New Yorker Magazine.
- Privilege systems (based on Allan Johnson’s work)
Video
- Killing Us Softly 3 excerpt
- Ram Trucks. 2013. Farmer. Feb 3, Ram Trucks (Super Bowl ad)
- The Guardian. 2016. All you need to know about FGM. Feb 6, End FGM (accessed on youtube).
- KRWGnews. 2014. Traditional African communities say female genital mutilation an essential cultural passage. Nov 28, KRWGnews (accessed on youtube).