Sparks/
Engl 436/636 -- Fall 2003
Core List for Final Exam
*Didn't actually read,
but talked about it
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1927 Virginia Woolf, A Room
of One's Own
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1934 Taggard, Genevieve.
The Life & Mind of Emily Dickinson
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1949/53 *Simone deBeauvoir,
The Second Sex (X)
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1949 Joseph Campbell, The
Hero with a Thousand Faces (XB)
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1960 Anderson, Charles R.
Stairway of Surprise
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1963 *Betty Friedan,
The
Feminine Mystique
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Moers, Ellen , Literary
Women
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1968 Mary Ellmann,
Thinking of Women
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1970 Kate Millet, Sexual
Politics (XB)
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1971 John Cody, "Sunset
at Easter," Chapter Nine of After Great Pain
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1974 Alice Walker, "In Search
of Our Mother's Gardens"
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1975 Laura Muhlvey, “Visual
Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
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Helene Cixous, “The Laugh of
the Medusa”
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Adrienne Rich, "Vesuvius at
Home" from On Lies, Secrets, and Silence
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Albert Gelpi, "Emily Dickinson
and the Deerslayer,"
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1977 Elaine Showalter, A
Literature of Their Own --"The Female Tradition" (H&W)
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1978 *Nancy Chodorow, The
Reproduction of Mothering
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Judith Fetterley, The Resisting
Reader --Introduction: On the Politics of Literature"(W&H)
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*Nina Baym, Women's Fiction:
A Guide to Novels by & abt Women in America
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1979 Sandra Gilbert and Susan
Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic--"Infection in the Sentence" (W&H)
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1979Alice Walker, “Zora Neal
Hurston”
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1980 Nina Baym, "Melodramas
of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors"
(XB)
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Annette Kolodny, "Dancing Through
the Minefield" (W&H)
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1981 Carol Pearson and Katherine
Pope, The Female Hero in British and American Literature (XB)
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Ann R. Jones, "Writing the
Body: Towards An Understanding of L’Ecriture Feminine”"
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Bonnie Zimmerman, "What Has
Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Criticism"
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1983 Lillian Robinson, "Treason
Our Text" (W&H)
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1983 Joanna Russ, How to
Suppress Women's Writing "Anomalousness" (W&H)
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Barbara Christian, "Trajectories
of Self-Definition
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1984 Janice Radway, “The Readers
and Their Romances"
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1985 *Sandra Gilbert &
Susan Gubar, eds, The Norton Anthology of Lit by Women
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Gilbert and Gubar "Women's
Studies and Feminist Criticism" (Teacher’s Guide to Norton)
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Judith Kegan Gardiner, "Mind
Mother: Psychoanalysis and Feminism"
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*Toril Moi, Sexual/Textual
Politics
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M.H. Abrams, A Glossary
of Literary Terms
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1986 Paula Gunn Allen, “Kochinnenako
in Academe”
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Pat Schweikert, "Reading Ourselves:
Towards a Feminist Theory of Reading"
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1987 Amy Ling, “I’m Here”
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Glorai Anzaldua, “La Conceincia
de la Mestiza”
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Nellie McKay, "Reflections
on Black Women Writers"
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1989 Lynn Pearce, "Sexual Politics"
(On Kate Millett, XB)
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Sue Spaull, "Gynocriticism"
(On Showalter, XB)
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Sue Spaull and Elaine Millard,
"The Anxiety of Authorship" (on Gilbert and Gubar, XB)
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Deborah Madsen, "The Second
Wave of American Feminism" (XB)
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Barbara Christian, “ The State
of Black Feminist Criticism”
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Elaine Showalter, "A Criticism
of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary
Theory"
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1990 Barbara Smith, "The Truth
That Never Hurts: Black Lesbian Fiction in the 1980’s,"
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1991 Wai-Chee Dimock
"Feminism, New Historicism, and the Reader"
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1992 Laura Donaldson, "The
Miranda Complex" from Decolonizing Feminism
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Bonnie Zimmerman, “Lesbians
Like This and Lesbians Like That”
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1995 Maggie Humm, “Third
World Feminism” from Practicing Feminist Criticism
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1998 Maggie Humm, "Feminist
Literary Theory"
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Sara Mills , "Post-Colonial
Fem Theory"
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Sue Thornham, "Feminst Media
and Film Theory"
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2000 Masden, “Feminism of Color:Walker,
Chavez, Silko, and Kingston”
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2001 Steven Lynn, "Gendering
the Text: Feminist Criticism" (XB)
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2002 Shari Benstock, excerpts
from A Handbook of Literary Feminisms : The Feminist Legacy of Post
Structuralism and Queer Theory, Identity Politics, Race, Ethnicity and
Nationality , PostColonial Criticism