Course Readings

Following are required readings for Women's Studies 399. These readings also are listed on the course schedule on the days on which they are assigned.

REQUIRED READINGS

Alexander, M. Jacqui. 2003. "Remembering This Bridge, Remembering Ourselves." In Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray! Feminist Visions for a Just World, edited by M. J. Alexander, L. Albrecht, S. Day and M. Segrest. Fort Bragg, CA: EdgeWork Books.

Arndt, Susan. 2000. "African Gender Trouble and African Womanism: An Interview with Chikwenye Ogunyemi and Wanjira Muthoni." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 25 (3):709-726.

Dietz, Mary G. 2003. "Current Controversies in Feminist Theory." Annual Review of Political Science 6:399-431.

El Guindi, Fadwa. 1996. "Feminism Comes of Age in Islam." In Arab Women: Between Defiance and Restraint, edited by S. Sabbagh. Brooklyn, NY: Olive Branch Press.

Gornick, Vivian. 2001. "Introduction." The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narratives. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Jaimes, M. Annette, and Theresa Halsey. 1997. "American Indian Women: At the Center of Indigenous Resistance in Contemporary North America." In Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives, edited by A. McClintock, A. Mufti and E. Shohat. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Kumar, Radha. 1999. "From Chipko to Sati: The Contemporary Indian Women's Movement." In Gender and Politics in India, edited by N. Menon. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Nielsen, Joyce McCarl. 1990. "Introduction." Feminist Research Methods: Exemplary Readings in the Social Sciences. Boulder: Westview Press.

Pessate-Schubert, Anat. 2003. "Changing from the Margins: Bedouin Women and Higher Education in Israel." Women's Studies International Forum 26 (4):285-298.

Tripp, Aili Mari. 2000. "Rethinking Difference: Comparative Perspectives from Africa." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 25 (3):649-76.

All readings, with the exception of the linked article by Pessate-Schubert, are on electronic reserve in our course's Library Materials folder. See Instructions on accessing electronic reserve readings.

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SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS

Following are additional readings for your own knowledge and/or to support your research projects.

Readings to supplement "Remembering This Bridge, Remembering Ourselves" by M. Jacqui Alexander:

• Collins, Patricia Hill. 2000. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge.
• hooks, bell. 1984. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Boston: South End Press.
• Moraga, Cherríe, and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds. 1983. This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color. New York: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press.
• Morrison, Toni, ed. 1992. Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality. New York: Pantheon Books.
• Radford-Hill, Sheila. 2000. Further to Fly: Black Women and the Politics of Empowerment. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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