V3112y Feminist Texts II: Beauvoir to the Present.
M. Hirsch
Call#23324
W 2:10-4pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
4pts. This seminar explores some of the key debates in the history
of feminist thought from 1945 to the present. Through close readings of
foundational feminist writings we will focus on how late twentieth
century feminisms negotiate differences of race, class, ethnicity and
sexuality. Readings will concentrate on United States feminist
movements, in dialogue with Western European and global feminisms.
Readings will include works by Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Kate
Millett, Shulamith Firestone, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Robin Morgan,
Juliet Mitchell, Catherine McKinnon, Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray,
Julia Kristeva, Assia Djebar, Uma Narayan, Eve Kosofsky Sedwick, Judith
Butler, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Permission of instructor required. Enrollment
limited to 20 students.
V3521y Senior Seminar I.
E. Povinelli
Call#63442
T 2:10-4pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
4pts. Seminar for the preparation of the senior thesis for
Columbia’s Women’s and Gender Studies majors. Individual research in
Women’s and Gender Studies conducted in consultation with the
instructor.
V3813 Colloquium on Feminist Inquiry.
E. Baker
Call#25280
M 10-11:50am, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
4pts. Prerequisites: V1001 and the instructor’s permission.
Prerequisites: V1001 and the instructor’s permission. Survey of
research methods from the social sciences and interpretive models from
the humanities, inviting students to examine the tension between the
production and interpretation of data. Students receive firsthand
experience practicing various research methods and interpretive
strategies, while considering larger questions about how we know what
we know.
G4000 Genealogies of Feminism: Politics in the Wake of the Human.
S. Hartman and N. Tadiar
Call#73453
T 10-11:50am, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
3pts. This course examines the formation of the human in the discourses of modernity. The discourse of man, according to Aimé Césaire, has generated a great heap of corpses and established a hierarchy of life in which the well-being of Man is based on the sacrifice of his subordinates and the creation of disposable persons. By looking at political and juridical conceptions of the human in documents like the 1789 French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, Dred Scott vs. Sandford, the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights, and The Congress of Racial Equality’s We Charge Genocide, we will trace the discourse of the human from the Age of Revolution to anti-colonial movements to feminist struggles to establish women’s rights as human rights in international law. The course will also examine contemporary theories of the human and the post-human, conceptions of life and sociality beyond the discourse of man, as well as the practices of freedom intent upon re-describing the human and engendering new terms of order. Lastly, we will consider the ways in which anti-racist, anti-colonial, and feminist movements have tried to unsettle the discourse of Man while remaining yoked by it.
The course reading will focus on issues of slavery, coloniality, and disposable life in interrogating the question of the human and attending to the excluded figures and forms of abject existence considered external to or outside of the embrace of Man.
Required Texts: Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer, Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello, Veena Das, Life and Words, Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, Katherine Hayles, How We Became Post-Human, George Jackson, Soledad Brother, Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother, Catherine MacKinnon, Are Women Human?, Saba Mahmood, The Politics of Piety, Achille Mbembe, The Postcolony, Fred Moten, In the Break, Yambo Ologuem, Bound to Violence, Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death.
In addition to these books we will read essays by Sylvia Wynter, Hortense Spillers, Patricia Sellers, Bruno Latour, Joy James, Sharon Holland, Michel Foucault, Samera Esmeir, Colin Joan Dayan, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Judith Butler, Alan Badiou, and Theodor Adorno. This graduate
seminar fulfills one of the requirements of the Graduate Certificate in
Feminist Studies.
W4300 Advanced Topics in Women's and Gender Studies: Feminisms in China.
D. Ko
Section 004
Call#01536
R 2:10-4pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
These seminars are directed toward students with previous work in feminist scholarship but are open to all majors.
Feminism is integral to the quest for modernity in China, despite
nationalistic disavowals. This seminar examines the historical and
philosophical aspects of the entangled relationship between feminisms
in China and Euro-America. Our goal is to use Chinese theories of body,
gender, and sexuality to challenge and enrich Euro-American
definitions.
W4485 Gender and Development in South Asia
S. Jassal
Call#
81098
M 2:10-4pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
The course focuses on the gendered nature and impact of development
to understand the assumptions and socio-political consequences of the
‘ideology’ of development and the ambivalent effects of its strategies.
Successor ideologies such as structural adjustment and globalization
are also reviewed. The institutionalization of gender inequalities and
the role of states in reproducing them is a theme that runs through the
course. Major landmarks in India’s development project over the past 60
years are reviewed to interrogate development paradigms that empowered,
privileged and legitimized the state and negotiated a consensual
program for planned development. The reasons for the continuing
marginalization of women and the nature of disadvantages they face in
the structuring of labor markets is investigated. Women’s responses to
inequities and efforts to promote social justice are evidence of
women’s agency, but the course examines some visible paradoxes of
development--increasing violence against women and steadily falling sex
ratios.
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