511 Spring 2019 Reading list Plus

Provisional list of possibilities from which to divvy up/choose a substantial article or chapter for the Summary assignment (see further below list of readings already scheduled for discussion, and as you let me know your first choice of piece to summarize, I'll note that on the list):

Hall, Donald E. Reading Sexualities: Hermeneutic theory and the future of queer studies. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. Hall, Donald E. Reading Sexualities: Hermeneutic theory and the future of queer studies. London and New York: Routledge, 2009.--select a chapter: [Introduction & Bibliography, 1 Sexual hermeneutics, 2 Desirably queer futures, 3 Transcending the self, 4 Global conversations, 5 Radical sexuality and ethical responsibility, Conclusion: How sex changes]

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1990. [includes important ‘Introduction: Axiomatic” pp. 1-66, and Ch. 4 ‘The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic’ pp. 182-212.]

De Lauretis, Teresa. “Queer Texts, Bad Habits, and the Issue of a Future.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 2011, pp. 243–263.

Steven: Weiner, Joshua J., and Damon Young. “Queer Bonds.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 2011, pp. 223–241.
Butler, Judith. “Remarks on “Queer Bonds”” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 2011, pp. 381–387.

Carlson, ÅSa. “Sex, Biological Functions and Social Norms: A Simple Constructivist Theory of Sex.” NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, vol. 24, no. 1, 2016, pp. 18–29.

Gilbert, Miqqi Alicia. “Defeating Bigenderism: Changing Gender Assumptions in the Twenty‐First Century.” Hypatia, vol. 24, no. 3, 2009, pp. 93–112.

Gunnarsson, Lena. “A Defence of the Category 'Women'.” Feminist Theory, vol. 12, no. 1, 2011, pp. 23–37.

Hird, Myra J. “Feminist Matters: New Materialist Considerations of Sexual Difference.” Feminist Theory, vol. 5, no. 2, 2004, pp. 223–232.

Rodríguez, Juana María. “Queer Sociality and Other Sexual Fantasies.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 2011, pp. 331–348.

Rubin, Gayle. “The Traffic in Women.” Literary Theory: An Anthology. Second edition. Eds. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. 770-794. [concise/condensed version]

Rubin, Gayle S. “Thinking Sex: Notes for a radical theory of sexuality.” Culture, society, and sexuality: a reader. Eds. Richard Parker and Peter Aggleton. London: UCL P, 1999. 143-178.

Hogan, Patrick Colm. Sexual Identities: A Cognitive Literary Study. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2018. Hogan, Patrick Colm. Sexual Identities: A Cognitive Literary Study. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2018.
Courtney: Chapter 2 What is Sexuality? Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Irons10's “Boyfriends Can Be
Fattening”
Chapter 3 What is Gender? Cao's Story of the Stone and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Chapter 4 Sexuality and Regulatory Regimes: Jayánta's A Lot of Noise About Tradition and Banks's Lost Memory of Skin
Chapter 5 Gender and Regulatory Regimes: Tagore's Stories and Woolf's Orlando
Chapter 6 What is Sex? Vyasa's Mah and Binnie's Nevada
Afterword: The Commitment to Identity

Nicholas, Lucy. Queer Post-Gender Ethics: The Shape of Selves to Come. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 2. [30-59] Diagnosing and Transcending Sexual Difference -- 'Explanatory -- diagnostic analysis' -- The limits of the sex/gender divide -- The alternative 'diagnosis': the sex/gender/desire continuum -- The nature of sex: beyond sexual dimorphism and beyond the cultural vs. the material -- Reconstruction: the malleability of matter -- The intersubjectivity of sexual difference: cultural genitals -- Refining the problem and the aim: doing and un-doing difference -- Opposition(s) and hierarchy(s): the symbolic violence of gender -- 'Anticipatory-utopian critique': transcending sexual difference -- Conclusion: the task ahead –

Corrin: Nicholas, Lucy. Queer Post-Gender Ethics: The Shape of Selves to Come. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 3. Gender Justice [60-84] -- Limits to liberal justice and freedom -- The veil of ignorance -- Liberalism as androcentric androgyny -- Liberal feminism -- Ethics of benevolence and partiality -- Conclusion –

Nicholas, Lucy. Queer Post-Gender Ethics: The Shape of Selves to Come. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 4. Philosophical Arguments for Post-Gender Ontological Ethics [85-109]-- The ontological: the ambiguous existence of others -- The conditions of agency: situated capacity -- The ethical: transcendence through self creation -- Sexual difference as oppression and immanence -- Freedom as collective doing -- Reciprocity as enabling alternative -- Implications for post-gender politics: evaluating freedoms and maximising agency -- Nicholas, Lucy. Queer Post-Gender Ethics: The Shape of Selves to Come. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 Conclusion –

Nicholas, Lucy. Queer Post-Gender Ethics: The Shape of Selves to Come. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 5. Queer Futures and Queer Ethics: Sketching Inexhaustibly Reciprocal Androgyny [110-137] -- The violence of closure -- The closure of androgyny -- 'Queer' and the reification of identity -- Who is the other? The limits to recognition and the closure of sameness -- Being reciprocal -- Universalised particularism -- (Global) queer ethic: 'sex for pleasure' -- Queering utopia, queering androgyny -- Conclusion –

Nicholas, Lucy. Queer Post-Gender Ethics: The Shape of Selves to Come. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 6. The Politics of Implementing Post-Gender Ethics: Beyond Idealism/Realism [138-156]-- The inescapability of power and norms -- Negation of negation: justifying strategic violence -- Strategic essentialism and preventing closure -- Beyond means/ends in gender and sexuality politics -- Foreclosing foreclosure: doubled vision Conclusion –
Nicholas, Lucy. Queer Post-Gender Ethics: The Shape of Selves to Come. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 7. The Fully Armed Self: Cultivating Post-Gender Subjects [157-176]-- Multi-layered sites for post-gender ethics -- Fully armed: the ideal subject for androgynous reciprocity -- Why pedagogy? -- Queer pedagogy -- Teaching androgyny -- Gender-neutral childrearing –

Nicholas, Lucy. Queer Post-Gender Ethics: The Shape of Selves to Come. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 8. Ethical Post-Gender Sexual Relationships and Communities [177-203]-- Doing reciprocity together: enabling relations for post-gender ethics -- The relational ideal: enabling, truly dialogical communication -- Reciprocal relations in practice -- Anarchist and queer approaches to intimate relationships -- Enabling, post-gender cultural resources: 'transcending immanence in concert with others' -- Deregulating dimorphism: intersex rights -- Post-gender prefiguration and gender-neutral language -- Ethical sex: community responses to sexual assault.

Ricky: Amin, Kadji. “Haunted by the 1990s: Queer Theory’s Affective Histories.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Volume 44, Numbers 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2016, pp. 173-189.

Jaime: "Sex in Public" Lauren Berlant; Michael Warner (1998)

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading" (2002)

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “Gender Criticism.” Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies. Eds. Stephen Greenblatt and Giles Gunn. New York: Modern Language Association, 1992. 271-302.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “Queer Performativity: Henry James's The Art of the Novel.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1993, pp. 1–16

Butler, Judith. “Critically Queer.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1993, pp. 17–32.

Kit: Rich, Adrienne. "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence." Robert Dale Parker. Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies. New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012. 283-313.

Weir, Allison. Identities and Freedom: Feminist Theory Between Power and Connection (2013)--select a chapter: Introduction, Identities and Freedom: Rethinking a Paradox ; Ch. 1 Who Are We? Modern Identities Between Taylor and Foucault ; Ch. 2 Home and Identity; Ch. 3 Global Feminism and Transformative Identity Politics ; Ch. 4 Transforming Women ; Ch. 5 Feminism and the Islamic Revival: Freedom as a Practice of Belonging

Muñoz, José Esteban. Cruising Utopia : The Then and There of Queer Futurity, New York University Press, 2009. http://ida.lib.uidaho.edu:2129/lib/uidaho/detail.action?docID=865693

Introduction: Feeling Utopia
1 Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism
2 Ghosts of Public Sex: Utopian Longings, Queer Memories
3 The Future Is in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia
4 Gesture, Ephemera, and Queer Feeling: Approaching Kevin Aviance
5 Cruising the Toilet: LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Radical Black Traditions, and Queer Futurity
6 Stages: Queers, Punks, and the Utopian Performative
7 Utopia’s Seating Chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and Queer Intermedia as System
8 Just Like Heaven: Queer Utopian Art and the Aesthetic Dimension
9 A Jeté Out the Window: Fred Herko’s Incandescent Illumination
10 After Jack: Queer Failure, Queer Virtuosity
Conclusion: “Take Ecstasy with Me”

May, V.M., 2014. Speaking into the Void"? Intersectionality Critiques and Epistemic Backlash. Hypatia-A Journal Of Feminist Philosophy, 29(1), pp.94–112.

Nash, Jennifer. “Re-Thinking Intersectionality.” Feminist Review, vol. 89, no. 89, 2008, pp. 1–15.

Nash, J.C., 2016. Feminist originalism: Intersectionality and the politics of reading. Feminist Theory, 17(1), pp.3–20.

Wiegman, Robyn. “What Orgasmology Teaches Us about Sex: A Dossier on Annamarie Jagose's Orgasmology.” Feminist Formations, vol. 28, no. 2, 2016, pp. 94–100.
Amin, Kadji. “Against Queer Objects.” Feminist Formations, vol. 28, no. 2, 2016, pp. 101–111. [on Jagose’s Orgasmology]

Wiegman, Robyn, and Elizabeth A. Wilson. “Introduction: Antinormativity’s Queer Conventions.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 26, Number 1, 2015, pp. 1-25.

Jagose, Annamarie. “The Trouble with Antinormativity.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 26, Number 1, 2015, pp. 26-47.

Wiegman, Robyn. “Eve’s Triangles, or Queer Studies beside Itself.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 26, Number 1, 2015, pp. 48-73.

Love, Heather. “Doing Being Deviant: Deviance Studies, Description, and the Queer Ordinary.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 26, Number 1, 2015, pp. 74-95.

Kirby, Vicki. “Transgression: Normativity’s Self-Inversion.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 26, Number 1, 2015, pp. 96-116.

Keene: Menon, Madhavi. “Universalism and Partition: A Queer Theory.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 26, Number 1, 2015, pp. 117-140.

Edwards, Erica R. “Sex after the Black Normal.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 26, Number 1, 2015, pp. 141-167.

Povinelli, Elizabeth A. “Transgender Creeks and the Three Figures of Power in Late Liberalism.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 26, Number 1, 2015, pp. 168-187.

Traub, Valerie. Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2016.
Chapter 2. Friendship's Loss: Alan Bray's Making of History
this? Chapter 3. The New Unhistoricism in Queer Studies
or this? Chapter 4. The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography.
Chapter 5. The Joys of Martha Joyless: Queer Pedagogy and the (Early Modern) Production of Sexual Knowledge.
Chapter 6. Sex in the Interdisciplines.
Chapter 7. Talking Sex

Sanchez, Melissa E. Erotic Subjects: The Sexuality of Politics in Early Modern English Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011.
Introduction (pp. 1-10)
this: 1. Erotic Subjects in English History (11)
2. "She Therein Ruling": Hagiographic Politics in The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (31)
3. "Who Can Loue the Worker of Her Smart?: Tyrannous Seduction in The Faerie Queene (57)
4. "Accessory Yieldings": Consent Without Agency in The Rape of Lucrece and Pericles (87)
5. "Love, Thou Does Master Me": Political Masochism in Mary Wroth's Urania (117)
6. "It is Consent that Makes a Perfect Slave": Love and Liberty in the Caroline Masque (145)
7. "Honest Margaret Newcastle": Law and Desire in Margaret Cavendish's Romances (177)

Rothenberg, Molly Anne. “Embodied Political Performativity in Excitable Speech: Butler’s Psychoanalytic Revision of Historicism.” Theory, Culture & Society, Volume 23, Number 4, 2006, pp. 71-93.

Marlan: Church, David. “Queer Ethics, Urban Spaces, and the Horrors of Monogamy in It Follows.” Cinema Journal, vol. 57, no. 3, 2018, pp. 3–28.

Stockton, Will. "The Liberal World of Perversion." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 17 no. 2, 2011, pp. 389-403.
Lamb, Kevin & Singy, Patrick. "Perverse Perversion: How to Do the History of a Concept." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 17 no. 2, 2011, pp. 405-422.

McCann, Hannah. “Epistemology of the Subject: Queer Theory’s Challenge to Feminist Sociology.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Volume 44, Numbers 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2016, pp. 224-243.

Tweedy, Amy. “Openings, Obstacles, and Disruptions: Desire as a Portable Queer Method.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Volume 44, Numbers 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2016, pp. 208-223.

Wiegman, Robyn. “Sex and Negativity; or, What Queer Theory Has for You.” Cultural Critique, Number 95, Winter 2017, pp. 219-243 (Review)

Grewal, Inderpal, and Kaplan, Caren. “GLOBAL IDENTITIES: Theorizing Transnational Studies of Sexuality.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 7, no. 4, 2001, pp. 663–679.

Allen, Amy. “Dependency, Subordination, and Recognition: On Judith Butler's Theory of Subjection.” Continental Philosophy Review, vol. 38, no. 3, 2005, p. 199.

Povinelli, Elizabeth A. “The Part That Has No Part: Enjoyment, Law, and Loss.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 2011, pp. 287–308.

Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2004.
1. The Future Is Kid Stuff (1)
2. Sithomosexuality (33)
3. Compassion’s Compulsion (67)
4. No Future (111)
Notes (155)

Clare: Ahmed, Sara. “Killing Joy: Feminism and the History of Happiness" (2010), "Happy Objects" (2010), and full text of the second edition of The Cultural Politics of Emotion, including chapters In the Name of Love, Queer Feelings, and Feminist Attachments (2014)

Parvulescu, Anca. “Reproduction and Queer Theory: Between Lee Edelman’s No Future and J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man.” PMLA 132.1 (2017), pp. 86-100.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading"

Michael Warner, "Queer and Then?" (2012)

"Sex in Public" Lauren Berlant; Michael Warner Critical Inquiry, Vol. 24, No. 2, Intimacy. (Winter, 1998), pp. 547-566.

Berlant, Lauren. “A Properly Political Concept of Love: Three Approaches in Ten Pages.” (2011)

Berlant, Lauren, and Jennifer Cooke. “Transformations and challenges in politics, teaching, art and writing: an interview with Lauren Berlant.” (2013)

Slavoj Zizek, "Courtly Love, or, Woman as Thing" (1994)

Williams, Evan Calder. "No, Crisis" [from series, on gender & sexuality]

Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams. "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, identity Politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review 6 (1991): 1241-1299. See also Crenshaw TED Talk on the Urgency of Intersectionality

Michael Warner, "Queer and Then?" (2012)

The Feels of Friendship By Eric Newman

Rudy, Kathy. "Radical Feminism, Lesbian Separatism, and Queer Theory.” Feminist Studies 27.1 (Spring, 2001): 191-222

Grewal, Inderpal, and Kaplan, Caren. “GLOBAL IDENTITIES: Theorizing Transnational Studies of Sexuality.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 7, no. 4, 2001, pp. 663–679.

Lanser, Susan S. “Toward (a Queerer and) More (Feminist) Narratology.” Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions. Eds. Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser. Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2015. 23-42.

Keen, Suzanne. “Intersectional Narratology in the Study of Narrative Empathy.” Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions. Eds. Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser. Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2015. 123-146.

Coykendall, Abby. “Towards a Queer Feminism; Or, Feminist Theories and/as Queer Narrative Studies.” Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions. Eds. Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser. Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2015. 327-333.

Claggett, Shalyn. “The Human Problem.” Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions. Eds. Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser. Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2015. 353-360.

Matz, Jesse. “’No Future’ vs. ‘It Gets Better’.” Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions. Eds. Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser. Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2015. 227-250.

Blackwood, Evelyn. "From Butch-Femme to Female Masculinities: Elizabeth Kennedy and LGBT Anthropology." Feminist Formations 24.3 (2012): 92-100. Web.

Ward, Jane. "Butch/Femme." (2009): 99-102. Web.
Encyclopedia of Gender and Society
Ed. Jodi O'Brien
DOI: http://ida.lib.uidaho.edu:2153/10.4135/9781412964517.n61

Dietze, Gabriele, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, and Beatrice Michaelis. “Modes of being vs. categories: Queering the tools of intersectionality.”Beyond Gender: An Advanced Introduction to Futures of Feminist and Sexuality Studies. Eds. Greta Olson, Daniel Hartley, Mirjam Horn-Schott, and Leonie Schmidt. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. 117-136.

May, V.M., 2014. Speaking into the Void"? Intersectionality Critiques and Epistemic Backlash. Hypatia-A Journal Of Feminist Philosophy, 29(1), pp.94–112.

Nash, Jennifer. “Re-Thinking Intersectionality.” Feminist Review, vol. 89, no. 89, 2008, pp. 1–15.

Nash, J.C., 2016. Feminist originalism: Intersectionality and the politics of reading. Feminist Theory, 17(1), pp.3–20.

Wiegman, Robyn. “What Orgasmology Teaches Us about Sex: A Dossier on Annamarie Jagose's Orgasmology.” Feminist Formations, vol. 28, no. 2, 2016, pp. 94–100.
Amin, Kadji. “Against Queer Objects.” Feminist Formations, vol. 28, no. 2, 2016, pp. 101–111. [on Jagose’s Orgasmology]

Or select an article about Sarah Waters's engagement with feminisms, sexualities, neo-Victorian fiction ...:

Carroll, Samantha J. "Putting the 'Neo' Back into Neo-Victorian: The Neo-Victorian Novel as Postmodern Revisionist Fiction." Neo-Victorian Studies 3:2 (2010), pp. 172-205.

Muller, Nadine. “Not My Mother's Daughter: Matrilinealism, Third-Wave Feminism & "Neo-Victorian Fiction.” Neo-Victorian Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2009, pp. 109–136.

Jones, Adele, and Claire O’Callaghan. “Sarah Waters’s Feminisms.” Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms, eds. Adele Jones and Claire O’Callaghan. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 1-21.

De Groot, Jerome. "'Something New and a Bit Startling': Sarah Waters and the Historical Novel." Sarah Waters: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Ed. Kaye Mitchell. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 56-69.

Alden, Natasha. “’Accompanied by Ghosts: The Changing Uses of the Past in Sarah Waters’s Lesbian Fiction.” Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms, eds. Adele Jones and Claire O'Callaghan. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 61-78.

Simpson, Kathryn. “Quick and Queer: Love-Life Writing in Orlando and Affinity.” Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms, eds. Adele Jones and Claire O'Callaghan. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 43-59.

Hughes-Edwards, Mari. "'Better a prison . . . than a madhouse!': Incarceration and the Neo-Victorian Fictions of Sarah Waters. Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 133-151.

Boehm, Katharina. "Historiography and the Material Imagination in the Novels of Sarah Waters." Studies in the Novel, Vol. 43, No. 2 (summer 2011), pp. 237-257.

Brindle, Kym. "Diary as Queer Malady: Deflecting the Gaze in Sarah Waters's Affinity." Neo-Victorian Studies 2:2 (Winter 2009/2010), pp. 65-85.

Fischer, Susan Alice. "'Taking Back the Night'? Feminism in Sarah Waters' Affinity and Virginia Woolf's Night and Day." Sarah Waters: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Ed. Kaye Mitchell. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 16-28.

Llewellyn, Mark. "'Queer? I Should Say It Is Criminal!': Sarah Waters' Affinity (1999)." Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 13, No. 3 November 2004, pp. 203-214.

O'Callaghan, Claire. "The Equivocal Symbolism of Pearls in the Novels of Sarah Waters." Contemporary Women's Writing 6:1 March 2012, pp. 20-37.

Material Feminisms, edited by Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman (2008):

Alaimo, Stacy, and Susan Hekman, editors. “INTRODUCTION: EMERGING MODELS OF MATERIALITY IN FEMINIST THEORY.” pp. 1–20.

Grosz, Elizabeth. “DARWIN AND FEMINISM: PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS FOR A POSSIBLE ALLIANCE.” , pp. 23–51.

Colebrook, Claire. “ON NOT BECOMING MAN: THE MATERIALIST POLITICS OF UNACTUALIZED POTENTIAL.” pp. 52–84.

Hekman, Susan, and Stacy Alaimo, editors. “CONSTRUCTING THE BALLAST: AN ONTOLOGY FOR FEMINISM.” pp. 85–119.

Barad, Karen. “POSTHUMANIST PERFORMATIVITY: TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW MATTER COMES TO MATTER.” pp. 120–154.

Haraway, Donna J. “OTHERWORLDLY CONVERSATIONS, TERRAN TOPICS, LOCAL TERMS.” pp. 157–187.

John MacPhereson: Alaimo, Stacy, and Susan Hekman, editors. “TRANS-CORPOREAL FEMINISMS AND THE ETHICAL SPACE OF NATURE.” pp. 237–264.

Reading as Kissing, Sex with Ideas: “Lesbian” Barebacking? By Kathryn Bond Stockton
https://v2.lareviewofbooks.org/article/reading-kissing-sex-ideas-lesbian-barebacking

The Feels of Friendship By Eric Newman
https://v2.lareviewofbooks.org/article/feels-friendship

Edelman, Lee. "against Survival: Queerness in a Time That's out of Joint." Shakespeare Quarterly 62.2 (2011): 148-169.

Kendra: Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams. "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, identity Politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review 6 (1991): 1241-1299.

Crenshaw TED Talk on the Urgency of Intersectionality Crenshaw TED Talk on the Urgency of Intersectionality item options

Brown, Laura S. “Not Outside the Range: One Feminist Perspective on Psychic Trauma.” Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Ed. with introduction by Cathy Caruth. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins UP, 1995. 100-112.

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Primary literature and especially critical pieces already slated in the 511 semester schedule for reading/discussion (scroll down further below for list of articles/chapters not listed on our primary schedule for reading and discussion):

Jaffe, Sara. Dryland. Portland, OR and Brooklyn, NY: Tin House Books, 2015.

Nelson, Maggie. The Argonauts. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2015.

Waters, Sarah. Affinity (1999). Riverhead Books, 2002.

Rivkin, Julie, and Michael Ryan. “Introduction: Feminist Paradigms/Gender Effects.” Literary Theory: An Anthology. Third edition. Rivkin, Julie, and Michael Ryan, eds. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2017. 893-900.

Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins. “The Revolt of Mother” (1890) from The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Third edition, pp. 591-604

Warhol, Robyn. “Anglophone Feminisms.” Richter, David H., ed. A Companion to Literary Theory. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2018. 314-324.

Galvan, Margaret. “Gender Theory: Femininities and Masculinities.” Richter, David H., ed. A Companion to Literary Theory. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2018. 325-335.

Kruger, Steven. “Queer Theory.” Richter, David H., ed. A Companion to Literary Theory. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2018. 336-347.

Andrew Marvell, "Upon Appleton House" (1811); Kadue, Katie. “Sustaining Fiction: Preserving Patriarchy in Marvell’s Upon Appleton House.” Studies in Philology 114.3 (Summer 2017): 641-661.

Aemilia Lanyer, from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum: "The Description of Cookham" (1436); "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" (1433); "To the Doubtful Reader (1431); "To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty"; "To the Virtuous Reader" (1432); ; recommended: one of the essays on Lanyer, such as by Susanne Woods or by Marshall Grossman (Bblearn folder on Lanyer); Ben Jonson, "To Penshurst" (1546)

Halberstam, Judith. "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Men, Women, and Masculinity. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Second edition. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010. 2635-2653.
Jeffrey Williams' interview "Queer 2.0: Judith 'Jack' Halberstam Complicates Gender" The Chronicle of Higher Education (Jan. 1, 2012)

Nicholas, Lucy. Queer Post-Gender Ethics: The Shape of Selves to Come. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Introduction (1-16)

Puar, Jasbir. “’I Would Rather Be a Cyborg Than a Goddess’: Becoming Intersectional in Assemblage Theory.” Literary Theory: An Anthology, Third Edition. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2017. 1000-1013.

Paradise Lost, Book 4, especially ll. 1-828; focus on ll. 1-407, also include 1-130, 205-355, 356-393, 268 ff., 233 ff., 285ff., 288, 297, 307, 440-491, esp. 477, 345, 521; see Lecture 7 (adapted/condensed from John Rogers, in Bblearn folder on Milton); Sanchez, Melissa E. Erotic Subjects: The Sexuality of Politics in Early Modern English Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. Ch. 8. "My Self / Before Me": The Erotics of Republicanism in Paradise Lost (207)

Aphra Behn, "The Disappointment" and the Earl of Rochester, "The Imperfect Enjoyment" and "The Disabled Debauchee"; Zeitz, Lisa M. and Peter Thoms. "Power, Gender, and Identity in Aphra Behn's 'The Disappointment'." SEL 37 (1997): 501-516; also compare to Sir George Etherege's "The Imperfect Enjoyment" (Bblearn folder on Rochester and Behn)

Butler, Judith. "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution." Literary Theory: An Anthology. Second edition. Rivkin, Julie, and Michael Ryan, eds. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. 900-911. ; Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles” (1985), 5pp.; Butler, Judith. “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990), 12 pp.—excerpts from Robert Parker’s Critical Theory anthology (2012)

Recommended: Alcoff, Linda. "Cultural Feminism Versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory." Also see my (old) summary of Alcoff.

Carroll, Rachel. Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012. [Introduction, pp. 1-19]

Dicinoski, Michelle. “Wild Associations: Rebecca Solnit, Maggie Nelson and the Lyric Essay.” TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, no. [Supplement 39], 2017, pp. 1–12.

Rendle-Short, Francesca. Michelle. “Essay (queer). The. Essay. Queer. And. All. That.” TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, no. [Supplement 39], 2017, pp. 1–12.

O'Callaghan, Claire. Sarah Waters : Gender and Sexual Politics. London: Oxford ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. [Introduction ‘Queer and Feminist Contexts of Sarah Waters’s Gender and Sexual Politics’ and Afterword on ‘Telling It Straight? Waters’s Afterlives on Stage and Screen’]

Carroll, Rachel. Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012.[ch. 1 on Affinity, pp. 25-41]

Claire O'Callaghan, read chapter 2 from her book Sarah Waters: gender and sexual politics (2017), entitled "A Journal of Two Hearts? Lesbian Identities and Politics in Affinity" (47-72)

Traub, Valerie. Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns. Chapter 1. Thinking Sex: Knowledge, Opacity, History (pp. 1-34);

Moore, Lisa Jean. “When Is a Clitoris Like a Lesbian? A ‘Sociologist’ Considers Thinking Sex.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Volume 44, Numbers 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2016, pp. 328-331 (Review)

Fisher, Kate, and Rebecca Langlands. "Scholars in Pursuit of Elusive Sexual Knowledge."WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Volume 44, Numbers 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2016, pp. 324-327 (Review of Traub's Thinking Sex)

Sanchez, Melissa E. Erotic Subjects: The Sexuality of Politics in Early Modern English Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. Introduction (pp. 1-10)

Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, Sex, or the Unbearable

Ruti, Mari. The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects. New York: Columbia UP, 2017.

Henry James, "In the Cage" Henry James: Selected Tales. Ed. John Lyon. London: Penguin Books, 2001. 314-384.
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Rowe, John Carlos. "Working at Gender: In the Cage." Questioning the Master: Gender and Sexuality in Henry James's Writings. Ed. Peggy McCormack. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2000. 86-103.
Stevens, Hugh. "Queer Henry In the Cage." The Cambridge Companion to Henry James. Ed. Jonathan Freedman. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. 120-138.

Hogan, Patrick Colm. Sexual Identities: A Cognitive Literary Study. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2018. Hogan, Patrick Colm. Sexual Identities: A Cognitive Literary Study. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2018. Introduction: Sexual Identities (1-46); Chapter 1 The Cognitive Organization of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Identities: Marlowe's Edward II and “The Newly Compiled Tale of the Golden Butterflies”