ANSWER THESE 3 QUESTIONS. Write ONLY 2 pages for EACH question. Please include page numbers for in-text citations using MLA referencing style.
1. Compare and contrast classical versus welfare liberal feminism using at least two course readings. What are the central limitations and critiques of liberal feminism?
2. What is Freud’s theory of gender and sexuality? Drawing on at least two theoretical readings (Rubin, Irigaray, and/or Wittig) briefly contextualize how psychoanalytic feminism has both challenged and extended Freud’s ideas?
3. How did the “feminist sex wars” exacerbate key differences within radical feminism? Make sure to draw on both Tong and Ferguson’s analysis in your response.
Readings;
Liberal Feminism I
The Essential Feminist Reader, ed. Estelle B. Freedman:
Introduction, xi-xviii;
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 24-37;
Grimke, Letter on the Equality of the Sexes; 47-52;
Mill, The Subjection of Women, 73-85.
Tong, Feminist Thought, Chapter 1: Liberal Feminism, 11-38;
Liberal Feminism II
Hewitt, “From Seneca Falls to Suffrage? Reimagining a “Master” Narrative in
U.S. Women·s History,” No Permanent Waves, 1-39.
| Marxist & Psychoanalytic Feminism I The Essential Feminist Reader, ed. Estelle B. Freedman: |
Engles, The Origins of Family, Property, and the State, 104-112
Tong, Feminist Thought, Chapter 3 & 4: Marxist & Socialist, Psychoanalytic
Feminism, 96-163
Marxist & Psychoanalytic Feminism II
The Feminist Philosophy Reader, eds. Alison Bailey and Chris Cuomo:
Rubin, “The Traffic in Women,” 13-41
The Essential Feminist Reader, ed. Estelle B. Freedman:
Friedan, Feminine Mystique, 269-293;
Marxist & Psychoanalytic Feminism III
The Essential Feminist Reader, ed. Estelle B. Freedman:
de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 251-263
Wittig, “One is Not Born a Woman,” 359-367
The Feminist Philosophy Reader, eds. Alison Bailey and Chris Cuomo:
Irigaray, “The Sex Which is Not One,” 183-188
Radical Feminism *RR 2 Due*
Tong, Feminist Thought, Chapter 2: Radical Feminism, 48-96
The Feminist Philosophy Reader, eds. Alison Bailey and Chris Cuomo:
Ferguson, “Sex War: The Debate Between Radical & Libertarian
Feminists,” 222-227
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