Weekly Readings

Week 1. Does Feminism Come in Waves?

Session 1: Introduction 

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble p.1-25 

Nicholson, Linda “Feminism in "Waves": Useful Metaphor or Not?”
 

Session 2: Intersectionality and Marxist Feminism

Flax, Jane "Do Feminists Need Marxism?" or Benston, “Political Economy of Women’s Liberation” 

Dill, Bonnie, Zambrana, Ruth “Critical Thinking about Inequality: An Emerging Lens”

Set up an account in Scalar

IDEAS AND RIGHTS

Week 2. The Right to Work 

Session 1: Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own, Chapter 1-3

Session 2:  Kollontai, Alexandra, “Communism and the Family” (selections) 

Week 3. Private and Public 

Session 1:  Scholz, Second Wave Reader, Chapter 4, first part (pp. 66-88) 

Choose the one you have not read before:

Beauvoir,  The Second Sex (1949) “Introduction” or Friedan, Betty The Feminine Mystique (1963) (selections) 

Session 2:  Baranskaya, Natalia, A Week Like Any Other Week

Clips in class: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1979) by Vladimir Menshov 
 

Week 4. Sexual Revolutions

Session 1: Ensler, Eve The Vagina Monologues (choose any 3)

Session 2: Herzog, Dagmar “The Romance of Socialism”, pp.184-220

Ghodsee, Kristen “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism”, The New York Times, Aug 12, 2017

Blogpost on “Ideas and Rights” due on Scalar