Core List for Final Exam

• 1927 Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
• 1934  Taggard, Genevieve. The Life & Mind of Emily Dickinson

 
• 1949/53 *Simone deBeauvoir, The Second Sex (X)
• 1949 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (XB)

• 1960 Anderson, Charles R. Stairway of Surprise
• 1963 *Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
• Moers, Ellen , Literary Women
• 1968 Mary Ellmann, Thinking of Women

 
• 1970 Kate Millet, Sexual Politics (XB)
• 1971  John Cody, "Sunset at Easter," Chapter Nine of After Great Pain
• 1974 Alice Walker, "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens"
• 1975 Laura Muhlvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
• Helene Cixous, “The Laugh of the Medusa”
• Adrienne Rich, "Vesuvius at Home" from On Lies, Secrets, and Silence
• Albert Gelpi, "Emily Dickinson and the Deerslayer,"
• 1977 Elaine Showalter, A Literature of Their Own --"The Female Tradition" (H&W)
• 1978 *Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering
• Judith Fetterley, The Resisting Reader --Introduction: On the Politics of Literature"(W&H)
• *Nina Baym, Women's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by & abt Women in America
• 1979 Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic--"Infection in the Sentence" (W&H)
• 1979Alice Walker, “Zora Neal Hurston”
• 1980 Nina Baym, "Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors" (XB)
• Annette Kolodny, "Dancing Through the Minefield" (W&H)
• 1981 Carol Pearson and Katherine Pope, The Female Hero in British and American Literature (XB)
• Ann R. Jones, "Writing the Body: Towards An Understanding of L’Ecriture Feminine”"
• Bonnie Zimmerman, "What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Criticism"
• 1983 Lillian Robinson, "Treason Our Text" (W&H)
• 1983 Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women's Writing "Anomalousness" (W&H)
• Barbara Christian, "Trajectories of Self-Definition
• 1984 Janice Radway, “The Readers and Their Romances"
• 1985 *Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar, eds, The Norton Anthology of Lit by Women
• Gilbert and Gubar "Women's Studies and Feminist Criticism" (Teacher’s Guide to Norton)
• Judith Kegan Gardiner, "Mind Mother: Psychoanalysis and Feminism"
• *Toril Moi, Sexual/Textual Politics
• M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms
• 1986 Paula Gunn Allen, “Kochinnenako in Academe”
• Pat Schweikert, "Reading Ourselves: Towards a Feminist Theory of Reading"
• 1987 Amy Ling, “I’m Here”
• Glorai Anzaldua, “La Conceincia de la Mestiza”
• Nellie McKay, "Reflections on Black Women Writers"
• 1989 Lynn Pearce, "Sexual Politics" (On Kate Millett, XB)
• Sue Spaull, "Gynocriticism" (On Showalter, XB)
• Sue Spaull and Elaine Millard, "The Anxiety of Authorship" (on Gilbert and Gubar, XB)
• Deborah Madsen, "The Second Wave of American Feminism" (XB)
• Barbara Christian, “ The State of Black Feminist Criticism”
• Elaine Showalter, "A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory"
• 1990 Barbara Smith, "The Truth That Never Hurts: Black Lesbian Fiction in the 1980’s,"
• 1991 Wai-Chee Dimock  "Feminism, New Historicism, and the Reader"
• 1992 Laura Donaldson, "The Miranda Complex" from Decolonizing Feminism
• Bonnie Zimmerman, “Lesbians Like This and Lesbians Like That”
• 1995 Maggie Humm,  “Third World Feminism” from Practicing Feminist Criticism
• 1998 Maggie Humm, "Feminist Literary Theory"
• Sara Mills , "Post-Colonial Fem Theory"
• Sue Thornham, "Feminst Media and Film Theory"
• 2000 Masden, “Feminism of Color:Walker, Chavez, Silko, and Kingston”
• 2001 Steven Lynn, "Gendering the Text: Feminist Criticism" (XB)
• 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