Revised Schedule of Readings for Upcoming Weeks

and also...a quick reminder to post to the blog for Tuesday's seminar. I've been thinking a lot about Dayan's references to Guantanamo Bay and the role of legal reasoning in establishing intent.

Week 4—Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?

-- Susan Moller Okin, Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? available at

http://bostonreview.net/BR22.5/okin.html

--Homi K. Bhabha, “Liberalism’s Sacred Cow,” www.bostonreview.net/BR22.5/bhabha.html

--Bonnie Honig, “Complicating Cultures”

www.bostonreview.net/BR22.5/honig.html

--Katha Pollitt, “Whose Culture?”

www.bostonreview.net/BR22.5/pollitt.html

--Cass Sunstein: "Sexual Equality vs. Religion: What Should the Law Do?"





www.bostonreview.net/BR23.5/Sunstein.html


--Susan Okin Responds





www.bostonreview.net/BR22.5/okin2.html


--Katharine Viner, Feminism as Imperialism, The Guardian, Saturday, September 21, 2002 http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0923-07.htm

Week 5—Gender and Reproductive Rights

--Carol Gilligan, “In a Different Voice,” in Meyers, Feminist Social Thought

--Angela Davis, “Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights”

--Sidney Callahan, “Abortion and the Sexual Agenda,” Commonweal, v. 113 (April 25, 1986):  232-38. On ERESERVE.

--Wendy Brown, “Reproductive Freedom and the Right to Privacy,” in Irene Diamond, ed., Families, Politics, and Public Policy, (New York: Longman, 1983):  322-38. On ERESERVE.

--Naomi Wolf, “Our Bodies, Our Souls,” The New Republic, v. 213 (October 16, 1995):  26-35. On ERESERVE.

--Jane: An abortion service.

http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUFeature/feature.html

Week 7 – Reproductive Freedom

--Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, “The Body as Property: A Feminist Re-vision”

--Laura Mamo, Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience

--Sara Ruddick, “Maternal Thinking,” “http://www.jstor.org/browse/00463663” Feminist Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Summer, 1980), pp. 342-367 


--R. Petchesky, "Spiraling Discourses of Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Post-Beijing Assessment of International Feminist Politics" from Cohen, Jones, Tronto, Women Transforming Politics 


Week 8—Culture, Freedom, and Gender

--Minoo Moallem “Transnationalism, Feminism and Fundamentalism”, in Women, gender, religion: a reader, Elizabeth Anne Castelli, Rosamond C. Rodman

--Uma Narayan,”Cross-Cultural Connections, Border Crossings, and “Death by Culture” in Dislocating Cultures (1997), pp. 83-96.

--Saba Mahmood, “Agency, Gender and Embodiment” in Politics of Piety: the Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, (2005).

Week 9

--Wendy Hesford, “Staging Terror Spectacles,” in Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights, Feminisms, and Transnational Publics, 2010

--Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

--Elaine Scarry, “The Structure of Torture: The Conversion of Real Pain into the Fiction of Power,” in The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World, 1985, 27-59

--Sharon Sliwinski, “The Spectator of Human Rights,” in Human Rights in Camera, chapter 1