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Trans(literation): Literary and Cultural Studies of Gender-Difference Group Independent Study Project (GISP 0007) Brown University Semester I 1998-1999
Original Syllabus
September: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies of Gender-Difference T 8 Introductions. Assign facilitators for each meeting. Take and discuss quizzes from Brain Sex and My Gender Workbook. Th 10 What is transgenderism, anyway? (Feinberg "Preface," "Chapter 1," "Portrait Gallery" of Transgender Warriors,Bornstein - "The Seven Year Itch," Rotello - "Transgendered Like Me," Nataf - "New Genders and Pansexualities") T 15 What is critical theory, anyway? (Butler - "Imitation and Gender Insubordination.", Wittig - "One Is Not Born a Woman," Mulvey - "Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema") Is Biology Destiny? Th 17 (Garber -"Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender," Fausto-Sterling - "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough") T 22 (Moir Brain Sex, selected chapters) Historical and Anthropological Perspectives of Gender-Difference Th 24 (Roscoe - "The Zuni Man-Woman," Kulick - "A Man in the House: The Boyfriends of Travesti Prostitutes.") T 28 (Feinberg Transgender Warriors chapters 5-9) October: Autobiography: Forging a Transsexual Identity Through Disclosure Th 1 (Califia - "Transsexual Autobiography: The First Wave") T 6 (Jorgensen - Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography, selected chapters) (Screening: You Don't Know Dick ?) Backlash: Feminist Responses to Transsexualism Th 8 (Raymond - The Transsexual Empire: The Making of a She-Male) T 13 (Stone - "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto")
Genderqueer Fiction Th 15 (Winterson - Written on the Body) Screening: Twelfth Night. T 20 (Bornstein and Sullivan - Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure)
Erotica Th 22 (finish Bornstein and Sullivan, Tan - GenderFlex, selected stories, Nagle - "Stroking My Inner Fag") T 27 (Hale - "Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies: How to Have Sex Without Men or Women," Sedgwick - "A Response to C. Jacob Hale," Harrison - "The Personals" Roughriders <http://www.netgsi.com/~listwrangler/roughriders.html>) Intersex Voices Th 29 (Valentine and Wilchins - "One Percent on the Burn Chart: Gender, Genitals, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude.," Angier - "New Debate Over Surgery on Genitals," ISNA <http//www.isna.org>, Intersex Voices <http://www.quis.net/~triea/inter.html>) November: Gender Identity Disorder in Childhood T 3 (Scholinski - The Last Time I Wore a Dress) Contemporary Theory and Political Action T 5 (Wilchins - Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender) T 10 (Finish Wilchins, Signorile - "Transgender Nation," Feinberg Transgender Warriors Chapters 14-15) Visuality Th 12 (Cameron - Body Alchemy) Screening: Ma Vie En Rose T 17 (Discussion of Ma Vie On Rose) Screening: The Crying Game. Th 19 (Zilliax - "The Scorpion and The Frog: Agency and Identity in Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game," Discussion of The Crying Game) December: DragRace T 1 (RuPaul - Lettin’ It All Hang Out) Th 3 (Halberstam - "Mackdaddy, Superfly, Rapper: Race and Gender in the Drag Scene") Outreach and Campus Activism Final Projects |
