Feminist Studies in the Classroom

Special Feature for Instructors:

Teachable Feminist Studies Articles
Across Four Decades

We asked over 20 seasoned professors to name articles that have worked well in classrooms. Here is a selection of articles that they have repeatedly assigned. You might find them useful as you design your syllabus. And we welcome your suggestions to help expand our list.

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Items listed are under the themes Theorizing Difference and Women’s Movements and Academic Institutionalization, Chicana Studies, and Women and Prison. Check back for updates and new themes. Coming next: Gender and Capitalism.

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Theorizing Difference

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1. “Is Female to Male
   as Nature is to Culture?” Sherry OrtnerFeminist Studies 1, no. 2 (Fall 1972): 5-31 Order this article only (pdf)
2. “The Conflict between Nurturance and Autonomy in Mother-Daughter Relationships and within Feminism.”Jane FlaxFeminist Studies 4, no. 2 (Summer 1978): 171-189Special Issue “Toward a Feminist Theory
   of Motherhood.” Order this article only (pdf)
3. “Freedom’s Yoke: Gender Conventions among Antebellum Free Blacks.” James Oliver HortonFeminist Studies 12, no. 1 (Spring 1986): 51-76 Order this article only (pdf)
4. “Deconstructing Equality versus Difference, or, The Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism.” Joan W. ScottFeminist Studies 14, no. 1 (Spring 1988): 33-50Order this article only (pdf)
5. “Feminism and Difference:
   The Perils of Writing as a Woman
   on Women in Algeria.” Marina LazregFeminist Studies 14, no.1 (Spring 1988): 81-107 Order this article only (pdf)
6. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Donna HarawayFeminist Studies 14, no. 3 (Fall 1988): 575-599Order this article only (pdf)
7. “Feminist Criticism, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’ and the Politics
   of Color in America.”Susan S. LanserFeminist Studies 15, no. 3 (Fall 1989): 415-441Special Issue“Feminist Reinterpretations /
   Reinterpretations of Feminism.”Order this article only (pdf)
8. “Debating Difference: Feminism, Pregnancy, and the Workplace.” Lise VogelFeminist Studies 16, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 9-32Order this article only (pdf)
9. “‘What Has Happened Here’: The Politics of Difference in Women’s History and Feminist Politics.” Elsa Barkley BrownFeminist Studies 18, no. 2 (Summer 1992): 295-312Order this article only (pdf)
10. “Compounding Differences.” Nancy A. HewittFeminist Studies 18, no. 2 (Summer 1992):313-326Order this article only (pdf)
11. “Theorizing Difference
    from Multiracial Feminism.” Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton DillFeminist Studies 22, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 321-331Order this article only (pdf)
12. “Orientalism’ and Middle East
    Feminist Studies”Lila Abu LughodFeminist Studies 27, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 101-113Order this article only (pdf)
13. “Radical Feminism, Lesbian Separatism, and Queer Theory.” Kathy RudyFeminist Studies 27, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 190-222Order this article only (pdf)
14. “Toward a Full-Inclusion Feminism:
    A Feminist Deployment
    of Disability Analysis.” Judy RohrerFeminist Studies 31, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 34-63Order this article only (pdf)
15. “Class Absences: Cutting Class
    in Feminist Studies.” Vivyan C. AdairFeminist Studies 31, no. 3 (Fall 2005): 575-603Order this article only (pdf)

Women’s Movements
and Academic Institutionalization

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1. “Mobilization without Emancipation? Women’s Interests, the State, and Revolution in Nicaragua.” Maxine MolyneuxFeminist Studies 11, no. 2 (Summer 1985): 227-254Order this article only (pdf)
2. “Made in America:
   ‘French Feminism’ in Academia.”Claire Goldberg MosesFeminist Studies 24, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 241-274Special Issue“Disciplining Feminism?
   The Future of Women’s Studies.”Order this article only (pdf)
3. “(Inter)Disciplinarity and the Question
   of the Women’s Studies Ph.D.”Susan Stanford FriedmanFeminist Studies 24, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 301-325Special Issue “Disciplining Feminism?
   The Future of Women’s Studies.”Order this article only (pdf)
4. “Refashioning Mother India: Feminism and Nationalism in Late Colonial India.”Mrinalini SinhaFeminist Studies 26, no.3, (Fall 2000): 623-644Order this article only (pdf)
5. “A Prehistory of Rights: The Age of Consent Debate in Colonial Bengal.” Tanika SarkarFeminist Studies 26, no. 3, (Fall 2000): 601-622Order this article only (pdf)
6. “Unveiling Scheherazade: Feminist Orientalism in the International Alliance of Women, 1911-1950.” Charlotte WeberFeminist Studies 27, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 125-157Order this article only (pdf)
7. “Women’s Studies: Interdisciplinary Imperatives, Again.”Robyn WiegmanFeminist Studies 27, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 514-518Order this article only (pdf)
8. “Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism.”Becky ThompsonFeminist Studies 28, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 336-360Special Issue “Second Wave Feminism
   in the United States.”Order this article only (pdf)
9. “Ph.D. Programs and the Research Mission of Women’s Studies: The Case for Interdiscplinarity.” Sally KitchFeminist Studies 29, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 435-447Order this article only (pdf)
10. “Graduate Education in Women’s Studies: Paradoxes and Challenges.” Pamela L. CaughieFeminist Studies 29, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 405-408Order this article only (pdf)
11. “Paradoxes of Empowerment: Interdisciplinary Graduate Pedagogy
    in Women’s Studies.” Judith Kegan GardinerFeminist Studies 29, 2 (Summer 2003): 409-421Order this article only (pdf)

Chicana Studies

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1. Feminist Studies 34, no. 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2008) Special IssueChicana Studies Issue
2. “The Fiction of Solidarity: Transfronterista Feminisms and Anti-Imperialist Struggles in Central American Transnational Narratives” Ana Patricia Rodríguez Order this article only (pdf)
3. “Goddess of the Américas in the Decolonial Imaginary: Beyond the Virtuous Virgen/Pagan Puta Dichotomy” Irene Lara Order this article only (pdf)
4. “Sophia’s Choice: Problems Faced by Female Asylum-Seekers and Their U.S.-Citizen Children” Anita Ortiz Maddali Order this article only (pdf)
5. “‘I’m a citizen of the universe’:
   Gloria Anzaldúa’s Spiritual Activism as Catalyst for Social Change” AnaLouise Keating Order this article only (pdf)
6. “The Best-Loved Bones:
   Spirit and History in Anzaldúa’s
   ‘Entering into the Serpent’” Anthony Lioi Order this article only (pdf)
7. “Borderland Bolerista:
   The Licentious Lyricism of Chelo Silva” Deborah R. Vargas Order this article only (pdf)
8. “‘They Are Testing You All the Time’: Negotiating Dual Femininities among Chicana Attorneys” Gladys García-López and Denise A. Segura Order this article only (pdf)
9. “‘Ongoing Missionary Labor’:
   Building, Maintaining, and Expanding Chicana Studies/History:
   An Interview with Vicki L. Ruiz” Leisa D. Meyer Order this article only (pdf)
10. “Sin Vergüenza: Chicana Feminist Theorizing” (Review Essay) Karen Mary Davalos Order this article only (pdf)
11. “Icons of Love and Devotion:
    Alma López‘s Art” (Art Essay) Guisela Latorre Order this article only (pdf)

Women and Prison

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1. Feminist Studies 30, no. 2 (Summer 2004) Special IssueThe Prison Issue
2. “Abu Ghraib:
   Arguing against Exceptionalism” Jasbir K. Puar Order this article only (pdf)
3. “Do Prisoners Have Abortion Rights?” Rachel Roth Order this article only (pdf)
4. “Women in Prison and Work” Marilyn Buck Order this article only (pdf)
5. “Feminist Ethnographies of Women in Prison” (Review Essay) Beth E. Richie Order this article only (pdf)
6. “Prison Narratives, Narrative Prisons: Incarcerated Women
   Reading Gayl Jones’s ‘Eva’s Man’” Megan Sweeney Order this article only (pdf)
7. “More Than Just Words: Women’s Poetry and Resistance at Cook County Jail” Ann Folwell Stanford Order this article only (pdf)
8. “The Medea Project: Mythic Theater
   for Incarcerated Women” Sara L. Warner Order this article only (pdf)
9. “‘Undesirable Relations’:
   Same-Sex Relationships and the Meaning of Sexual Desire at a Women’s Reformatory during the Progressive Era” Sarah Potter Order this article only (pdf)
10. “Parental Rights of Incarcerated Mothers with Children in Foster Care:
    A Policy Vacuum” Ronnie Halperin and Jennifer L. Harris Order this article only (pdf)
11. “Balancing Gender Equity
    for Women Prisoners” Deborah Labelle and Sheryl Pimlott Kubiak Order this article only (pdf)
12. “Some Time in Crime” Rebecca B. Rank Order this article only (pdf)
13. “All Ellas: Girls Locked Up” Bernardine Dohrn Order this article only (pdf)
14. “Counting Down the Days” Barbara Saunders Order this article only (pdf)
15. “Making Home/Making ‘Stranger’:
    An Interview with Cheryl Dunye” Maria St. John Order this article only (pdf)
16. “Voices in Time” Salome Chasnoff Order this article only (pdf)
17. Marilyn Buck “Prisoner”; “Three Women”;
    “Air Nike Slam Dunk”;
    “Yvette, Prison Poet Goes Home”;
    “Night Showers”; “Dear Liz”;
    “Not a Life Sentence” (Poetry) Order this article only (pdf)