The Sociology of GenderSociology 305, Spring 2005
Office Hours: Tuesday 2:30-4.30pm or by appointment Course Description: This seminar focuses on the social production and reproduction of gender relationships across a range of institutional, interactional, intellectual, and cultural contexts. The syllabus includes selections from major social theories of gender as well as several exemplary empirical studies. This is a heavy reading course and class participation weighs heavily in final assessment. Course requirements and grading: Read the assigned material, participate in class discussions/debates.………….20% Readings: Films will be screened in class.
W1 Introduction 2/1 Connell “Introduction: Some Facts in the Case” 1-20; “Gender as a Structure of Social Practice” 67-86 W2 Gender as social relation and moral category: some early thinking 2/8 Rubin “The Traffic in Women” 157-210; Rich “Compulsory heterosexuality and Lesbian existence” 631-60; hooks “Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory” 1-15 W3 More thinking about moral categories, social identities & cultural geographies 2/15 Garfinkel
“Agnes” 116-140, 164-167, 180-185. “Am I a Woman or a Man” 78-208; “You
don’t know dick”. Morgan and Towle “Romancing the Transgender Native”,
469-497. Moreno and Goodwin. 1998. “Am I A Woman or A Man?” 2/22 “Juggling Gender”; Butler. “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution”; Bordo “The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity” 309-326. Recommended: Scott “The Evidence of Experience”, 773-797; Henley, Hamilton and Thorne. “Womanspeak and Manspeak” 145-152. W5 Intersecting categories, full immersion hierarchies: race, class, gender 3/1 Kimberlé Crenshaw “Mapping the Margins”; Marable “The Black Male: Searching Beyond Stereotypes” 18-24; Bourgois “In Search of Masculinity”, 42-55. Espiritu “All Men Are Not Created Equal; Asian Men in U.S. History” 35-44; Zinn, “Chicano Men and Masculinity”, 17-23. W6 In the academy: difference, discipline, feminism, gender 3/8 Howe “The Proper Study of Womankind: Women’s Studies”; Stacey “Is academic feminism an oxymoron? 1189-1194; Klein, “The Critique of Limitation” 71-74, “The Disciplinary Paradox” 95-117; Recommended: Messer-Davidow “Disciplining Feminism” 1-48.
W7 Labor, gender, work, family, state 3/22 Kimmel “The Gendered Family” 117-158; “Segregation” 188-193; Flanagan “How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement” 109-128; Chang. "Undocumented Latinas" 311-319; Dill "Our Mother's Grief: Racial-Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families" 270-292; Murdock. “Comparative Data on the Division of Labor by Sex”, 551-553. W8 Labor, gender, work, family, state, continued 3/29 “Rosie the Riveter”; Amott, Teresa. "Shortchanged: Restructuring Women's Work" 238-247; Albeda and Tilly "It's a Family Affair: Women, Poverty, and Welfare" 368-371; Adams and Padamsee. "Signs and Regimes: Rereading: Feminist Work on Welfare States"1-23. Recommended: May, M. “The Historical Problem of the Family Wage" 275-291; The State, Gender and Sexual Politics 507-544. W9 The Polity and Power: gender, law and the nation-state 4/5 Pateman, C. “Contracting In” 1-8; Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government 269- 71; Roe v. Wade 314 Federal Supplement 1217 (1970) Recommended: Fraser “Beyond the Master-Subject Model” 173-181; W10 The Polity and Power: gender, law and the nation-state 4/12 Seidman “ From Outsider to Citizen” 123-196; Seidman “From the Polluted Homosexual to the Normal Gay”123-161; Meeks, “Marriage, the Family, and Sexual Politics: Contested Images of Normal Intimacy” (manuscript) W11 Gender and Power: war, peace and institutionalized rape 4/19 Herman “The
Rape Culture” 38-46; Sanday “Rape-prone versus rape-free campus cultures”
58-70; Seifert. “War and Rape: A Preliminary Analysis”
54-72; Copelon, “Surfacing Gender” 197-218. 4/26 Cohn. “Sex
and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals” 107- 138;
“Wars Wimps and Women: Talking Gender and Thinking War” 397-
409; Conk. “Accuracy, efficiency, and bias: The interpretation of women’s work
in the U.S. Census of Occupations, 1890-1940" 65-72. “The
date-rape backlash” Martin “Science and Women’s Bodies”, 69-82. |