Readings for today:
- Judith Butler, Preface to Gender Trouble (1999).
- Angela McRobbie, “Post-feminism and Popular Culture,” Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 4, Issue 3, November 2004, pp. 255-264.
- Guide: Judith Butler on gender & sex by Dean Felluga
- Guide: Judith Butler on performativity by Dean Felluga
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- Robin DG Kelley, "This Battlefield Called Life: Black Feminist Dreams," in Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, pp. 135-156.
- Adrienne Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," Signs, Vol. 5, No. 4, Women: Sex and Sexuality. (Summer, 1980), pp. 631-660.
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Introduction," From Between Men, 1985.
- Chandra Talpade Mohanty, excerpt from "Under Western Eyes:Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses,"
- Anne Balsamo, "Feminism and Cultural Studies," The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 24, No. 1, (Spring, 1991), pp. 50-73.
- Judith Lorber, “'Night to his Day': The Social Construction of Gender," excerpts from Paradoxes of Gender.
- Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore, “Gay Shame: From Queer Autonomous Space to Direct Action Extravaganza."
- R. Anthony Slagle, "Queer Criticism and Sexual Normativity: The Case of Pee-wee Herman," Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 45, No. 2/3/4, 2003, pp. 129-146.
- Stephen Maddison (2000) Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters: Gender Dissent and Heterosocial Bonds in Gay Culture, Macmillan & St. Martin’s Press (chapter 2) [available online at http://www.opengender.org.uk/node/108 ]
- Paula Graham (2002) ‘Buffy Wars: The Next Generation’ Rhizomes issue 4, http://www.rhizomes.net/issue4/graham.html
