Formulating Women’s Lives

General works of interest:

Antoinette Burton, ed. Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities, (London: Routledge, 1999).

Alison M Jagger,and Iris Marion Young,  eds., A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998).

Mary E John, Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, Theory, and Postcolonial Histories, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996)

Mary John, A Question of Silence: The Sexual Economies of Modern India, (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998)

Anne Phillips, Democracy and Difference, (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993)

Kalpana Ram, and Margaret Jolly,. Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Bharati Ray, ed. From the Seams of History: Essays on Indian Women, (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995)

30 Aug             Introduction: Why Gender is a Production of Power/Knowledge

6 Sept              A Woman Fights with Subjugated Knowledges

                                    Reading: Michael Ontdaatje, Anil’s Ghost, Knopf Paper         

13 Sept            Constructing of Knowledges/Gender

Reading: Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge Pantheon Paper,  “ Two Lectures,” Chapter 5

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Routledge paper, Preface 1990, Preface 1999,Chapter 3

20 Sept       New Views of Women in India I

                                    Reading: Raka Ray, Fields of Protest Minnesota Paper 

27 Sept            New Views of Women in India II          

Reading: Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, “Recasting Women: An Introduction,” Lata Mani, “Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India,”and Partha Chatterjee, “The Nationalist Resolution of the Woman’s Question,” in Sangari and Vaid, Recasting Women, Rutgers paper.

Oct 4               A Nineteenth Century Example: Pandita Ramabai and Cornelia Sorabji I

Reading: Antoinette Burton, At the Heart of the Empire, pp. 1-151.

Oct 11             A Nineteenth Century Example: Pandita Ramabai and Cornelia Sorabji II

Reading: Pandita Ramabai, American Encounter, Indiana Paper

Oct 18             To whom Does She belong – The Age of Consent Bill discussion

Reading: Tanika Sarkar, “The Prehistory of Rights: The Age of Consent Debate in Colonial Bengal.”   Feminist Studies 26:3, pp. 601-622,  @ http://uclibs.org/PID/35168                              

Oct 25             Gender and Nationalism – Possibilities and Limitations                         

                                    Film, Fire

Nov 1              Katharine Mayo and Mother India

Reading: Katherine Mayo, Selections from Mother India, pp. 1-160, Michigan paper                                  

Nov. 8             The Women of Partition I

                                    Reading: Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin,

Borders and Boundaries, pp. 3-163, Get it from Amazon.com

Nov 15            The Women of Partition II       

Reading: Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin,

                                    Borders and Boundaries, pp. 167-260.

Nov. 22           Desire and Nation II

Reading:

Paola Bacchetta, “ “Reinterrogating Partition Violence: Voices of Women /Children/Dalits in India’s Partition,“ Feminist Studies, 26:3, pp. 601-622,  @ http://uclibs.org/PID/35168                    

Jyoti Puri, Woman, Body, Desire, in Post-Colonial India, Chapters 2, 5.

Nov 29            The Limits of Nationalism for Women 

                                    “Reading:”

                                    Film” The Terrorist

History 103F: Formulating Women's Lives -- Fall 2005