Marxism,
Feminism, Methodology and the Law:
Re-visiting
An Agenda for (Literary) Theory
ENG 6077/fall 2001/W 6-8
(12:50-3:50)/Professor S.A. Smith/Rolfs 207
Office: 4321 TUR Office Hours:
M 1:00-3:00 p.m. and by appointment
email: ssmith@english.ufl.edu
homepage: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/ssmith/femlaw.html
Overview
I.
Suffrage, Temperance, Anarchy, Socialism and/or Communism?
II.
Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation
III. The Personal
is Political: Marxism to Post-Marxism and the Problem of Identity
IV.
Materialist Feminisms?: Conflicts and Debates
Week One: Unit
I
Suffrage, Temperance, Anarchy,
Socialism and/or Communism?
Aug. 22
w Introductory Remarks:
Politics and the Turn of the 20th Cent. in the United States
Week Two: Unit
I
29 w Marx & Engels (selections TBA in Reader)
and the Uprising of the 20,000
Early Marxism, Unionization and Women's Labor in the United States
Week Three: Unit I
Sept. 5
w Tracing the (Grass) Roots
Week Four: Unit
I
12 w Red Emma Speaks (Foreword through Part III)
Week Five: Unit II
Red Feminism: Communism and
the Makings of Women's Liberation
19 w Questioning Culture, Identity & Desire
Week Six: Unit
II
26 w Red Feminism and the Culture Industy
Week Seven: Unit
II
Oct. 3 w War, Containment, Eruption: Two Decades of
Change
Week Eight: Unit III
The Personal is Political?
10 w Materialist Feminist/Feminist Materialist?
Week Nine:
17 w: OUT
Week Ten
24 w Red MacKinnon spake
-
Towards a Feminist Theory of
the State and
-
MacKinnon handouts
Week Eleven
31 w "Only Words" and the Issue of Pornography
-
Feminism & Pornography
Chpts. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15,
Week Twelve
7 w Conflicts of Theory
Week Thirteen
Nov. 14 w Racism
As the Ever-Present (Third) Term
-
Bannerji: Thinking Through
-
Feminism & Pornography:
chps. 17, 18
Week Fourteen 21 THANKSGIVING
WEEK
Week Fifteen 28 What
is Freedom?
-
At the Heart of Freedom
-
Feminism & Pornography
chp. 30
Week Sixteen Dec. 5 . CLASSES
END