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    Bibliography of Required Readings: 
    The articles listed below are available in the Course Reader. 

    Barad, Karen. “A Feminist Approach to Teaching Quantum Physics.” in Teaching the Majority: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Schience, Mathematics, and Enginnering. ed. Sue V. Rosser. New York: Athene Series, Teacher’s College Press, 1995. 

    Beauvoir, Simone De. “‘Introduction’ to The Second Sex.” in The Second Wave: A  Reader in Feminist Theory.  ed. Linda Nicholson.  New York: Routledge., 1997. 11-18. 

    “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.” The Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention of 1848.  in Women Images and Realities: A Multicultrual Anthology. Eds. Amy Kesselman, Lily D. McNair and Nancy Schneidewind. Mountain View: Mayfield, 1995. 397-399. 

    Dunne, John Gregory. “The Humboldt Murders” New Yorker (January 13, 1997): 44-62. 

    Garcia, Alma M. “The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse.” in Women Images and Realities: A Multicultrual Anthology. Mountain View: Mayfield, 1995. 406-416. 

    Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. “Shifting Contexts: Lessons from Integrating Black, Gender, and African Diaspora Studies.” Women Studies Quarterly   26:3&4 (Fall/Winter 1998): 17-24. 

    hooks, bell. “Talking Back,” in Talking Back thinking feminist, thinking black. Boston: South End, 1989. 5-9. 

    Hubbard, Ruth. “Constructs of Race Difference.” Profitable Promises: Essays on Women, Science and Health. Monroe: Common Courage, 1995. 179-186. . 

    Hubbard, Ruth. “Gender Ideology and the Biology of Sex Differences” Profitable Promises: Essays on Women, Science and Health. Monroe, Maine:Common Courage, 1995. 163-178. 

    Keller, Evelyn Fox. “Feminism and Science” Feminism and Science. eds. Keller and Helen E. Longino. Oxford:Oxford UP, 1996. 28-40. 

    Lim, Shirley Geok-lin., “The Center Can(not) Hold: U.S. Women’s Studies and 
    Global Feminism.” Women Studies Quarterly  26:3&4  (Fall/Winter 1998) : 30-39. 

    Lorde, Audre. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.” Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde. Trumansburg: Crossing, 1984. 110-113. 

    Lorde, Audre. “Age, Race, Class, andSex: Women Redefining Difference.” in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde. Trumansburg: Crossing, 1984. 114-123. 

    Martin, Biddy. “Introduction,” in Feminity Played Straight: The Significance of Being  Lesbian. New York: Routledge, 1996. 1-29, 225-227. 

    Martin, Emily. The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987. 3-53. 

    Mies, Maria. “Towards a methodology for feminist research.” in Theories of Women’s Studies.  eds. Gloria Bowles and Renate Duelli Klein. London: Routledge &Kegan Pau, 1983. 117-139. 

    Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.” in Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. eds. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, Lourdes Torres. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991. 51-80. 

    Morgan, Lynn M. “When Does Life Begin? A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Personhood of Fetuses and Young Children.” Talking About People: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Anthropology.  eds. William A Haviland and Robert J. Gordon, eds. Mountain View: Mayfield, 1993. 28-38. 

    Newman, Penny. “Killing Legally with Toxic Waste:  Women and the Environment in the United States.” in Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide.  ed. Vandana Shiva. Philadelphia: New Society, 1994. 43-59. 

    Petchesky, Rosaline Pollack. “Morality and Personhood. A Feminist Perspective.” in The Politics of Women’s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior.  ed. Rose Weitz. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. 253-269. 

    Rao Arati, “The Politics of Gender and Culture In International Human Rights Discourse,” in Women’s Rights Human Rights: International Femnist Perspectives.  eds. Julie Peters and Andrea WolperNew York: Routledge. 1995. 167-175. 

    Rich, Adrienne. “Claiming an Education,” in Lies Secrets and Silences. Selected Prose 1966-1978.  New York: W.W. Norton., 1979. 231-235. 

    Rich, Adrienne. “Towards a Woman Centered University.” in Lies Secrets and Silences. Selected Prose 1966-1978.  New York: W.W. Norton., 1979. 125-155. 

    Schirmer, Jennifer. “The Claiming of Space and the Body Politic within National-Security States: The Plaza de Mayo Madres and the Greenham Common Women.” in Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace.  ed. Jonathan Boyarin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. 185-220. 

    Shiva, Vandana. “Women, Ecology and Health: Rebuilding Connections.” in Close to Home: Women Resconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide.  Philadelphia: New Society, 1994, 1-9. 

    Toubia, Nahid. “Female Genital Mutilation” in Women’s Rights Human Rights: International Femnist Perspectives. New York: Routledge. 1995. 224-237. 

    Tribble, Phyllis. “Eve and Adam: Genesis 2-3 Reread.” in Womanspirit  Rising   eds. Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow. New York: Harpur, 1979. 74-83. 

    Watkins, Bari. “Feminism: a last chance for the humanities?” Theories of Women’s Studies.  eds. Gloria Bowles and Renate Duelli Klein. London: Routledge &Kegan Pau, 1983., 79-87. 

    Women and Science. Special Section in Science  260 (16. April, 1993): 384-432. 
     

    Books: 
    Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, The Yellow Wallpaper 
    Morales, Rosari. Getting Home Alive 
    Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. 

    Films: (on reserve at Williston Library) 
    Citizen Ruth (1996) 
    Femme aux yeux overts (1994) 
    Khush (1991) 
    Las Madres de la Plazo de Mayo (1985) 
    One Woman, One Vote (1995) 
    The Body Beautiful (1991) 
    Toxic Racism (1994) 
     

     

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