| WEEK # | TOPICS | READINGS |
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| 1 | Introduction to Course | What is "queer"? What is "trans"? What do these terms mean? Discussion of sexual and gender identities as historically situated. Video Schiller, Greta. Before Stonewall. 1985. |
| 2 | Medicalization and the "Birth of the Homosexual" | Jagose, Annamarie. "Introduction" and "Theorising Same-Sex Desire." Chapters 1 and 2 in Queer Theory: An Introduction. pp. 1-22. Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. pp. 1-131. Stryker, Suan. "(De)Subjugated Knowledges: An Introduction to Transgender Studies." Introduction in TG Reader. pp. 1-17. |
| 3 | Medical Science, History, and Theories of Gender and Sexual Identity | Halperin, David. "Is There a History of Sexuality?" In LGBT Reader. pp. 416-431. D'Emilio, John. "Capitalism and Gay Identity." In LGBT Reader. pp. 467-476.
 ———. "General Pathology." In Psychopathia Sexualis. New York, NY: Arcade Publishing, 1998, pp. 186-194, 221-235, and 274-284. ISBN: 9781559704267.
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| 4 | Constructing and Deconstructing Gender - the "Truth" of Sex |
Hirschfeld, Magnus. "Selections from The Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress." In TG Reader. pp. 28-39. Cauldwell, David O. "Psychopathia Transexualis." In TG Reader. pp. 40-44. Benjamin, Harry. "Transsexualism and Transvestism as Psycho-Somatic and Somato-Psychic Syndromes." In TG Reader. pp. 45-52. Stoller, Robert. "Biological Substrates of Sexual Behavior." In TG Reader. pp. 53-57. Garfinkel, Harold. "Passing and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status in an 'Intersexed' Person." In TG Reader. pp. 58-93. Spade, Dean. "Mutilating Gender." In TG Reader. pp. 315-332. |
| 5 | Psychoanalysis, Desire, and Sexual and Gender Identities |
Freud, Sigmund. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. Abelove, Henry. "Freud, Male Homosexuality, and the Americans." In LGBT Reader. pp. 381-393. Shepardson, Charles. "The Role of Gender and the Imperative of Sex." In TG Reader. pp. 94-102. Valentine, David. "'I Went to Bed with My Own Kind Once': The Erasure of Desire in the Name of Identity." In TG Reader. pp. 407-419. |
| 6 | The Invert, Third Sex, and Lesbians in History | Wittig, Monique. "One is Not Born a Woman." In LGBT Reader. pp. 103-109. Hale, Jacob. "Are Lesbians Women?" In TG Reader. pp. 281-299. Boyd, Nan Alamilla. "Bodies in Motion: Lesbian and Transsexual Histories." In TG Reader. pp. 420-421. Rubin, Henry. "The Logic of Treatment." In TG Reader. pp. 82-498. Vinicus, Martha. "'They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong': The Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity." In LGBT Reader. pp. 432-452. Newton, Esther. "Just One of The Boys: Lesbians in Cherry Grove, 1960-1988." In LGBT Reader. pp. 528-541. |
| 7 | Performativity, Drag, and Gender Identity | Butler, Judith. "Imitation and Gender Insubordination." In LGBT Reader. pp. 307-320. Rubin, Gayle. "Of Catamites and Kings." In TG Reader. pp. 471-481. Newton, Esther. "Selection from Mother Camp." In TG Reader. pp. 121-130.
Video Livingston, Jennie. Paris Is Burning. 1990. Taylor, Amanda, and Kim Brown. Dykes Do Drag. 2003. |
| 8 | Stonewall, Marriage, and the Closet | Jagose, Annemarie. "Gay Liberation." In Queer Theory: An Introduction. pp. 30-43. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. "Epistemology of the Closet." In LGBT Reader. pp. 45-61.
Willse, Craig, and Dean Spade. "Freedom in a Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage and Biopolitics." Widener Law Review 11, no. 2 (2005): 309. Lawrence v. Texas |
| 9 | Local and Global Movements | Feinberg, Leslie. "Transgender Liberation." In TG Reader. pp. 205-220. Chase, Cheryl. "Hermaphrodites With Attitude." In TG Reader. pp. 300-314. Nanda, Serena. "Hijras as Neither Man Nor Woman." In LGBT Reader. pp. 542-552. Roen, Katarina. "Transgender Theory and Embodiment." In TG Reader. pp. 656-665. Towle, Evan B., and Lynn M. Morgan. "Rethinking the Use of the 'Third Gender' Concept." In TG Reader. pp. 666-684. |
| 10 | Lesbian Feminism and the Trans Debate | Frye, Marilyn. "Some Reflections on Separatism and Power." In LGBT Reader. pp. 91-98. Raymond, Janice G. "Sappho by Surgery." In TG Reader. pp. 131-143. Riddell, Carol. "Divided Sisterhood." In TG Reader. pp. 144-158. Sullivan, Lour. "A Transvestite Answers a Feminist." In TG Reader. pp. 159-164. Koyama, Emi. "Whose Feminism Is It Anyway?: The Unspoken Racism of the Trans Inclusion Debate." In TG Reader. pp. 698-705. |
| 11 | Visibility/Invisibility: Queering Gender and Sexuality | Rubin, Gayle. "Thinking Sex." In LGBT Reader. pp. 3-44. Kessler, Suzanne J., and Wendy McKenna. "Toward a Theory of Gender." In TG Reader. pp. 165-182. Stone, Sandy. "The Empire Strikes Back." In TG Reader. pp. 221-235. Green, Jamison "Look! No, Don't: The Visibility Dilemma for Transsexual Men." In TG Reader. pp. 499-508. Prosser, Jay. "Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transubstantiation of Sex." In TG Reader. pp. 257-280. |
| 12 | Regulating Gender and Sexuality: Masculinity, Violence, and Public Space | Namaste, Viviane K. "Genderbashing." In TG Reader. pp. 584-600. Brown, George R. "Transsexuals in the Military: Flight into Hypermasculinity." In TG Reader. pp. 537-544.
France, David. "An Inconvenient Woman." New York Times Magazine. May 28, 2000. |
| 13 | Contemporary and Futuristic Portrayals of Gender and Sexuality | Halberstam. "Skinflick." In TG Reader. pp. 574-583. Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto." In TG Reader. pp. 103-118.
Surkan, Kim. "'I Want to Be a Real Boy': A. I. Robots, Cyborgs, and Mutants as Passing Figures in Science Fiction Film." Femspec 5, no. 1. Singer. "From the Medical Gaze to Sublime Mutations." In TG Reader. pp. 601-620. |
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This section features the required and recommended texts for this course. Readings by session are available below.
Required Texts
Foucault, Michel. History of Sexuality: An Introduction. Vol. 1. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1990. ISBN: 9780679724698.
Jagose, Annamarie. Queer Theory: An Introduction. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780814742341.
Stryker, Susan, and Stephen Whittle. The Transgender Studies Reader. New York, NY: Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 9780415947084. (TG Reader)
Freud, Sigmund. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1976. ISBN: 9780465086061.
Recommended Text
Abelove, Henry, Michele Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. New York, NY: Routledge, 1993. ISBN: 9780415905190. (LGBT Reader)