Readings & Meetings

Friday September 2 Schechner, Richard. 2003. “What is Performance?,” pages 123-168.
Tuesday September 6

Jones, Amelia. 2010. “Introduction: Conceiving The Intersection Of Feminism And Visual Culture, Again,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 1-8.

Reilly, Maura. 2007. “Introduction: Toward Transnational Feminisms,” In Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art, pages 15-43.

Friday September 9

Dolan, Jill. 2007. “Feminist Performance and Utopia: A Manifesto” in Staging International Feminisms, pages 212-221.

Goldberg, Roselee. 2004. “Identities: Feminism, Multiculturalism, Sexuality,” in Performance: Live Art Since The 60s, pages 129-145.

Tuesday September 13

Phelan, Art & Feminism, pages 15-34.

Cullen, Deborah. 2008. “Introduction,” in Arte No Es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, pages 12-15.

Friday September 16 Broude Norma and Mary D. Garrard. 1994 “Introduction: Feminism and Art in the Twentieth Century,” In The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact, pages 10-29.
Tuesday September 20

Berger, John. [1972] 2010. “Ways of Seeing,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 49-52.

Mulvey, Laura. [1975] 2010. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 57-66.

hooks, bell. [1992] 2010. “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 107-117.

Friday September 23

Pollock, Griselda. [1988] 2010. “Screening the Seventies: Sexuality and Representation in Feminist Practice—A Brechtian Perspective,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 89-106.

Grosz, Elizabeth. [1994] 2010. “Feminist Theory and the Politics of Art,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 128-138.

Tuesday September 27

Withers, Josephine. 1994. “Feminist Performance Art: Performing, Discovering, Transforming Ourselves,” In The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact, 158-173.

Phelan, Peggy. [1993] 2010. “Broken Symmetries: Memory, Sight, Love,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 118-127.

Phelan, Peggy. 2001. Art and Feminism, pages 34-42.

Friday September 30

Minh-ha, Trinh T. [1989] 2010. “Difference: “A Special Third World Women Issue,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 184-207.

Shim, Jung-Soon. 2007. “Reconstructing a Diasporic Female Self in O Kyong-Sook’s Dictee- A Speaking Woman” in Staging International Feminisms, pages 95-103.

Tuesday October 4

Piper, Adrian. [1990] 2010. “The Triple Negation of Colored Women Artists,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 273-282.

O’Grady, Lorraine. [1992] 2010. “Olympia’s Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 208-220.

Friday October 7

Muñoz, José E. [1997] 2010. “The White To Be Angry,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 237-248.

Báez, Josephina. “Spoken Word and the Dominican Experience: Dominicanish”, in La Voz Latina: Contemporary Plays and Performance Pieces by Latinas, pages 171-187.

Tuesday October 11  Fall Break
Friday October 14

Garland Thomson, Rosemarie. “Disabled Women Performance Artists & the Dynamics of Staring,” Bodies In Commotion, pgs. 30-41.

“Through the Peephole: Toward a Lesbian Sensibility in Art” by Arlene Raven and Ruth Iskin, Chrysalis: a Magazine of Women’s Culture, #4, Los Angeles: Chrysalis, 1977.

**Midpoint of semester MIDTERM DUE**

Tuesday October 18

Fusco, Coco. [1994] 2010. “The Other History of Intercultural Performance,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 225-236.

Luisa Capetillo, Luisa. 1913. “After Death (Puerto Rico),” in Stages of Conflict: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theatre and Performance, pages 136-144.

 

Friday October 21

Phelan, Peggy. 2001. Art and Feminism, pages 43-46.

Lippard, Lucy. 1989. “Both Sides Now,” HERESIES: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics # 24 Twelve Years.

Cheng, Meiling. [1999] 2010. “Renaming Untitled Flesh: Marking the Politics of Marginality,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 345-354.

Tuesday October 25

Case, Sue-Ellen. [1989] 2010. “Towards a Butch-Femme Aesthetic,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 492-504.

Halberstam, Jack. [2005] 2010. ”The Transgender Look,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 146-154.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. 1999. “The Fetish and the Gaze,” in An Introduction to Visual Culture, pages 169-175.

Friday October 28 In class Wikipedia Training
Tuesday November 1

Volcano, Del LaGrace. 2010. “Hermstory,” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pages 27-30.

Danan, Tammy. 2016. “Spoken Word Duo Darkmatter Talks Race, Gender, And Imperialism,” Bitch Magazine.

King, Jamilah. 2014. “DarkMatter: ‘We’re Proud of Our Resistance’,” ColorLines.

Cowan, T.L. 2014. “Transfeminist Kill/Joys Rage, Love, and Reparative Performance,” Transgender Studies Quarterly, pages 501-516.

Friday November 4

Guest Lecture Kat Lieder

(TW: SA) Pande, Asha. 2007. “A Journey towards Sensitisation and Empowerment: Feminist Performance and Intervention Theatre in the City of Jaipur” in Staging International Feminisms, pages 151-160.

**Last Day for Course Withdrawal**

Tuesday November 8

ELECTION DAY.

Stryker, Susan. 2016. “Radical Queen An Interview with Tommi Avicolli Mecca,” Transgender Studies Quarterly, pages 278-284.

Radical Queen manifesto (smachbook excerpt).
S.C.U.M. Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men) by Valerie Solanas

Friday November 11 Online Wikipedia Assignment “Week 3: Critique an Article”
Tuesday November 15  Reset.
Friday November 18

Revisit Dolan, Jill. 2007. “Feminist Performance and Utopia: A Manifesto” in Staging International Feminisms, pages 212-221.

Come to class with a reflection on one of the stanzas: where are we now? What do you want from this class moving forward?

Tuesday November 22

Elizabeth Groeneveld, “Are we all Pussy Riot? On narratives of feminist return and the limits of transnational solidarity” pages 289-307

 

Friday November 25  Turkey Day Recess-No Class
Tuesday November 29

(read in this order)

PDF: Snitow, A. “Women’s Anniversaries: Snapshots of Polish Feminism since 1989.” Dissent, vol. 56 no. 4, 2009, pp. 61-67. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/dss.0.0083.

PDF: Detwiler, K. & Snitow, A. “Gender Trouble in Poland.” Dissent, vol. 63 no. 4, 2016, pp. 57-66. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/dss.2016.0075

Friday December 2

Feminism After the Arab Spring by Dina Yazdani

Wipe it Off and I Will Paint Again by Jessica N. Pabón

Ways of Being Seen by Jessica N. Pabón

 

Tuesday December 6  Weaver and Shaw “Make Something”
Friday December 9  come prepared to talk through your final project progress/plans

Friday December 16 Final Performance/Essay: 10:15AM-12:15 PM