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.
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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). |
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
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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
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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