FALL 1999
This information effective for Fall 1999.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
FALL 1999
This information effective for Fall 1999.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
The course explores diverse forms of contemporary travel and tourism,
drawing
on literary travel writing, ethnography, photography, film, video,
and
journalism. Western and non-Western, male and female, elite and
lower-class
experiences of travel are contrasted.
The aim of the course is to heighten students' awareness of the
historical,
social, and political contexts within which people engage in the
activities of
travel and tourism. What kinds of contacts, dialogues, privileges,
and
blinders are associated with particular traditions of displacement?
The course
will encourage historically informed comparisons. Throughout, we will
look
critically at our own experiences as travelers and as tourists.
The course will be a lecture course with occasional film/video
screenings held
both in class time and in special evening sessions. There will be
required
weekly discussion sections. The general level is introductory,
though
accommodation may be made for advanced students with specialized
interests.
Students will be evaluated on: two short midterms, a five-page essay,
short
written responses to readings and films, a take-home final exam,
and
participation in sections.
Reading List: Foci: 1. Gayatri Spival, ed.and transl. Imaginary Maps. Three Stories by Mahasweta Devi. Routledge, 1995 2. A. Avtar Brah, Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities. Routledge, 1996 B. Mary John, Discrepant islocations. Feminism, Theory and Postcolonial Histories. California, 1996 C. M.J. Alexander and C.T. Mohanty, "Genealogies, Legacies, Movements," from M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures. Routledge, 1997 3. A. Judith Butler, Bodies That MNatter. On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex'. Routledge, 1993 B. Radhika Mohanram, Black Body. Women, Colonialism, and Space. Minnesota, 1999 C. Kimberle Crenshaw, "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex," from D. Kelly Weisberg, ed., Feminist Legal Theory. Foundations. Temple UP, 1993 4. A. Ann Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire B. Lauren Berlant, "Notes on Diva Citizenship," from Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City. Essays on Sex and Citizenship. Duke, 1997 c. Evelyn Hammonds, "Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality," from Alexander and Mohanty, eds., Genealogies, Colonoial Legacies, Democratic Futures 5. Lisa Rofel, Other Modernities. Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialisk. California, 1999 b. Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship 6. A. Marilyn Strathern, After Nature. English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge, 1992 b. "After Dolly," essay by Sarah Franklin on what cloning and other biotechnological interventions do to kinship, reproduction, and 'sexual' meanings 7. A. Anna Tsing, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen. Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place. Princeton, 1993 or Anna Tsing, "Environmentalisms: Transitions as Translations," from Joan Scott, Cora Caplan, and Debra Keates, eds., Transitions, Translations, Environments: International Feminism in Contemporary Politics. Routledge, 199? B. Noel Sturgeon, "Ecofeminist Appropriations and Transnational Environmentalisms," from Peter Brosius, ed., Unintended Consequences: On the Practice of Transnational Cultural Critique, special issue of *Identities*, 1999?
The History of Consciousness Fall 1999 Feminist Theory seminar
(HISC 250A) will be called something like "The Biopolitics of Bodies
(human, animal, none of the above): Natures and Cultures for Feminist
Theory." Planning is still in the early stages. Reading will be drawn
from among works by Emily Martin, Marilyn Strathern, Rayna Rapp,
Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Aihwa Ong, Evelyn Hammonds, Ann Stoler, Bina
Agarwal, Avtar Brah, Nelly Oudshoorn, Sarah Franklin, Noel Sturgeon,
Marnia Lazreg, Rosi Braidotti, Chela Sandoval. Also probably some SF
novels. Domains of attention might include ethnographies of science,
technology, and medicine; contestations for defining
environmentalism; feminist configurations of 'postcoloniality' in
relation to bodies and places; debates about genomes, peoples,
species, and races; and feminist contributions to theory and practice
in geography. What ties everything together, if anything does, is
attention to the inadequacy but nonetheless ongoing ubiquity of the
problematic categories of nature and culture.