Description: PART I: What is Feminist Theory? What is Feminism? Reading Feminist Theory 1. Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler, "Feminism" from The Feminist Dictionary (1985) 2. Alice Walker, "Womanist" from In Search of Our Mothers Gardens (1983) 3. Charlotte Bunch, "Not by Degrees: Feminist Theory and Education" (1979) 4. Audre Lorde, "Poetry Is Not a Luxury" (1977) from Sister/Outsider:Essays and Speeches (1984) 5. Maria Lugones and Elizabeth Spelman, "Have We Got a Theory for You! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for 'The Woman's Voice'" (1983) 6. *Delmar, Rosalind, "What is Feminism?" (1986) 7. bell hooks, "Theory as Liberatory Practice" from Teaching to Transgress (1994) Lexicon of Debates Introduction Bodies Epistemologies Essentialism/Social Construction/Difference Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender Language Power Psychoanalysis in/and Feminism Sexual Division of Labor Sexualities "Third World"/Global Feminism PART II: 1792 - 1920 1792-1920: Introduction 8. "The Changing Woman" (Navajo Origin Myth) 9. Mary Wollstonecraft, Chapters II, IX, and XIII from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) 10. Sarah Grimk, from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women (1838) 11. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments from The History of Women's Suffrage (1848) 12. *Harriet Taylor, "The Enfranchisement of Women" (1851) 13. Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman" (1851) 14. Sojourner Truth, "Keep the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring" (1867) 15. John Stuart Mill, Chapters 2 & 4 from Subjection of Women (1870) 16. Josephine Butler, "Letter to my Countrywomen Dwelling in Farmsteads and Cottages of England" (1871) 17. *Susan B. Anthony, Speech after Arrest for Illegal Voting (1872) 18. *Victoria Woodhull, "The Elixir of Life" (1873) 19. *Frederick Douglass, "Why I Became A Women's Rights Man" from The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself (1882) 20. Friedrich Engels, from Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) 21. Anna Julia Cooper, "The Status of Women in America" from A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South (1892) 22. *Elizabeth Cady Stanton,"Solitude of Self" (1892) 23. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Chapter VII and XIV from Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution (1898) 24. Mary Church Terrell, "The Progress of Colored Women" (1898) 25. *Ida B. Wells-Barnett, "Lynching and the Excuse for It" (1901) 26. Emma Goldman, from The Traffic in Women from Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) 27. Mother (Mary) Jones, "Girl Slaves of the Milwaukee Breweries" (1910) 28. *Alexandra Kollontai, "Working Woman and Mother" (1914) 29. Crystal Eastman, "Now We Begin" from On Women and Revolution (1919) PART III: 1920 - 1963 1920-1963 Introduction 30. Margaret Sanger, "Birth Control-A Parent's Problem or Woman's?" from Woman and the New Race (1920) 31. *Mary McLeod Bethune "Southern Negro Women and Race Cooperation" (1921) 32. Stella Browne, "Studies in Feminine Inversion" (1923) 33. *Joan Rivire, "Womanliness as Masquerade" (1929) 34. Virginia Woolf, Chapters 2, 5, and 6 from A Room of One's Own (1929) 35. Karen Horn

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