Week 2: Making a feminist psychology
Weber, L. A conceptual framework for understanding race, class, gender and sexuality.Psychology of Women Quarterly, 22, 13-32. CP 1.
McIntosh, P. White privilege and male privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies. In M. L. Anderson and P. H. Collins, eds. Race, class and gender: An anthology. 2 nd. Ed. Wadsworth Publishing Co. CP 12.
Brown, L. S. 1989. New voices, new visions: Towards a lesbian/gay paradigm for psychology. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 13, 445-458. CP 18.
Week 3: Different voices
Gilligan, C. 1982. In a different voice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Ch. 3, 64-105. LIB.
Tronto, J. 1987. Beyond gender differences to a theory of care. Signs, 12, 644-662. CP 31.
Belenky, M., B. Clinchy, N. Goldberger, and J. Tarule. 1986. Women's ways of knowing. N.Y., Basic Books. Ch. 6, 100-130. LIB.
Tavris - Ch. 2 and 3.
Week 4: Gender differences on cognitive tasks
Halpern, D.F. 1992. Sex differences in cognitive abilities. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 2nd ed. LIB.
Ch. 3 Empirical evidence for cognitive sex differences, Ch. 6 Psychosocial hypotheses, Part 1, Ch. 7; Kimura, D., and Hampson, E. 1994. Cognitive pattern in men and women is influenced by fluctuations in sex hormones. Current Directions in Psychology, 3, 57-61. CP 26;
Tavris - Ch. 1.
Week 5: Some issues in women's health
Rodin, J., and J. Ickovics. 1990. Women's health: Review and research agenda as we approach the 21st century. American Psychologist, 45, 1018-1034. CP 41.
Amaro, H. 1995. Love, sex and power: Considering women's realities in HIV prevention. American Psychologist, 50, 437-447. CP 58.
Paltrow, Lynn 1999. Our common struggle. Harm reduction communication, #8. CP 69.
McFarlane, J., C.L. Martin, and T.M. Williams. 1988. Mood fluctuations: Women vs. men, and menstrual vs. other cycles. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 12, 201-223. CP 74.
Tavris - Ch. 4.
Recommended - Boston women's health collective. 1992. Our bodies, ourselves.
Week 6: Mental health
Russo, N.F. 1990. Overview: Forging research priorities for women's mental health. American Psychologist, 45. 368-373. CP 86.
Culbertson, F.M. 1997. Depression and gender. American Psychologist, 52, 25-31. CP 92.
Amaro, H., N. Russo, and J. Johnson. 1987. Family and work predictors of psychological well-being among Hispanic professional women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 11, 505-522. CP 99.
Brodkey, L., and M. Fine. 1992. Presence of mind in absence of body. In M. Fine, Disruptive voices. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 77-96. LIB.
Tavris - Ch. 5.
Week 7: Violence against women
Kurz, D. 1989. Social science perspectives on wife abuse. Gender and Society, 3, 489-505. CP 108.
Hall, J.D. 1983. 'The mind that burns in each body': Women, rape, and racial violence. In Snitow, Stansell and Thompson, eds. Powers of desire, N.Y.: Monthly Review Press, 329-349. LIB.
Haaken, J. 1996. The recovery of memory, fantasy, and desire: Feminist approaches to sexual abuse and psychic trauma. Signs, 21, 1069-1092. CP 117.
Week 8: Sexuality
Before coming to class, please write a "coming-out" letter to a member of your family. Note the feelings and attitudes aroused in you and assumed to be aroused in others. If such a letter is inconsistent with your values, imagine such a letter has been sent to you and respond to it.
Kitzinger, Wilkinson, and Perkins. 1992. Theorizing heterosexuality. Feminism and Psychology, 2, 293-300. CP 131.
Gill, R., and R. Walker. 1992. Heterosexuality, feminism, contradiction: On being young, white, heterosexual feminists in the 1990s. Feminism and Psychology, 2, 453-457. CP 136.
Gavey, N. 1989. Feminist poststructuralism and discourse analysis. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 13, 450-475, but ONLY 466-471 are assigned. CP 139.
Tiefer, L. 1995. Sex is not a natural act and other essays. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, Ch. 3 (31-39), Ch. 10 (97-102), Ch. 12 (111-116). LIB.
Lyndon, S. 1970. The politics of orgasm. In R. Morgan, ed. Sisterhood is powerful. N.Y.: Vintage Books, 197-204. LIB.
Tavris - Ch. 6.
Week 9: More on sexuality
Webster, P. 1984. The forbidden: Eroticism and taboo. In C.S. Vance, ed. Pleasure and danger: Exploring female sexuality. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul. LIB.
Stein, Arlene. 1997. Sex and sensibility: Stories of a lesbian generation. Berkeley: University of California Press, Ch. 7 (184-201). LIB.
McKinnon, C.A. 1987. Feminism unmodified. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Ch. 14 (163-175). LIB.
Queen, Carol. 1997. Sex radical politics, sex positive feminist thought and whore stigma. In Jill Nagle, ed. Whores and other feminists. New York: Routledge. LIB.
Week 10: Constructing genders
West, C., and D. Zimmerman. 1987. Doing gender. Gender and Society, 1, 125-151 CP 142.
Kessler, S. 1990. The medical construction of gender: Case management of intersexed infants. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 16, 3-26. CP 156.
Fausto-Sterling, A. 1993. The five sexes. The Sciences, March/April, 20-24. CP 169.
Tavris - Ch. 8.
Week 11: More on gender
Collins, P.H. 1990. Black feminist thought. New York: Routledge, Ch.5, 91-114. LIB.
Fiske, S. 1993. Controlling other people. American Psychologist, 48, 621-28. CP 174.
Gupta, S.R. 1999. Walking on the edge: Indian-American women speak out on dating and marriage. In S.R. Gupta, ed. Emerging voices: South Asian-American women redefine self, family and community. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira, Ch. 7. CP 182.
Mainardi, P. 1970. The politics of housework. In R. Morgan, ed. Sisterhood is powerful . N.Y.: Vintage. LIB.
Tavris - Ch.7
Week 12: Psychoanalysis
Hirsch, M. 1981. Mothers and daughters. Signs, 7, 200-222. CP 195.
Chodorow, N. 1978. Reproduction of mothering: Psychoanalysis and the sociology of gender. Berkeley: University of California Press, 205-219. A more complex book is Chodorow. 1989. Feminism and psychoanalytic theory. New Haven: Yale University Press for anyone interested.
Miller, J.B. 1986. Towards a new psychology of women. 2nd ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 1- 48. LIB.
Week 13: Finale
Briefly describe your project and hand in your paper.
