English 420: Critical Theory
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Reserve Reading
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Reserve Reading
Raman Selden, Peter Widdowson, and Peter Brooker, "
Feminist theories
" (required)
bell hooks, "
Marginality as a Site of Resistance
" (required)
Raman Selden, Peter Widdowson, and Peter Brooker, "
Gay, lesbian, and queer theories
" (required)
Michel Foucault, from
The History of Sexuality
, vol. 1 or
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,
excerpts
from
Between Men
and
Epistemology of the Closet
or
Judith Butler, excerpts from
Gender Trouble
(
#1
) | (
#2
) (highly recommended)
Selected Web Resources
"
What Is Feminism
(and why do we have to talk about it so much)?" (Mary Klages, U Colorado, Boulder)
k.i.s.s. of the panopticon:
feminist theory
www.theory.org.uk:
queer theory
queertheory.com
: "the best online resources integrated with the best visual and textual resources in Queer Culture, Queer Theory, Queer/LGBT Studies, Gender Studies and related fields"
"
Queer Theory
" (Mary Klages, U Colorado, Boulder)
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