WATCH film: "Generation Like", Frontline, 2014 (53 mins); (Screen via Moodle)

Tues Sept 1 - Introductions and goals of the course

• READ: Leni M. Silverstein and Ellen Lewin. 2016. "Introduction. Anthropologies and Feminisms: Mapping Our Intellectual Journey," in Ellen Lewin and Leni M. Silverstein (Eds.), Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century. (ereserve). (28 pp).
• READ: Allen, Jafari Sinclaire. One View from a Deterritorialized Realm: How Black/Queer Renarrativizes Anthropological Analysis," Cultural Anthropology. Volume 31, Issue 4, November 2016: 617–626. (ereserve)
• DO: Practice using Moodle and multimedia! Take a screenshot or video screen capture of a scene from the film "Generation Like" you were struck by. Upload the file to your Course google drive project folder, then put the link in a post in this week's Moodle discussion forum with your comments.

Scavenger Hunt Opens! (You have until Sun Sept 13, 8 pm)

Thurs Sept 3 - Generation Look/Like? The Cultural Politics of the Gendered Gaze

• READ: Laura Mulvey (1975). "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema". Screen 16 (3): 6–18. (ereserve).
• READ: hooks, bell. 1992. "The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators," Black Looks: Race and Representation, 1992.  (26 pp.) (On book, (ereserve), bookstore).
• READ: Halberstam, Bordo, Miller, Marcus, Mulvey. "The Male Gaze in Retrospect," Chronicle of Higher Education, December 15, 2015. (21 pp.) (ereserve).

Feminist and Queer Anthropology

• Allen, Jafari. Black/Queer/Diaspora at the Current Conjuncture.” 2012. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies Vol. 18: 2 & 3, 211-248
• Allen, Jafari. Race/Sex Theory ‘Toward a New and More Possible Meeting’. 2013 Cultural Anthropology, 28: 552–555
• Bennett, Jeffrey. Queer Teenagers and the Mediation of Utopian Catastrophe, Pages 455 - 476. Critical Studies in Media Communication:  Volume 27 Issue 5.
• Boellstorf, Tom. A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia. Duke Univ Press, 2007.
• --------------------. Queer Studies in the House of Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology, 2007.
• di Leonardo, Micaela. "Introduction," Micaela di Leonardo, ed., Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991 (on book reserve)
• Gottlieb, Alma. "Interpreting Gender and Sexuality: Approaches from Cultural Anthropology." Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines. Ed. Jeremy MacClancy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 167-189.
• Gray, Mary. Out in the Country: Youth, Media and Queer Visibility in Rural America, NYU Press, 2009.
• Mascia-Lees, Frances and Nancy Johnson Black. "Ch. 1: The History of the Study of Gender in Anthropology," and Ch. 2: "Analyzing Theories," Gender and Anthropology. Waveland Press, 2000. (19 pp.) (book reserve, ereserve).
• di Leonardo, Micaela and Roger Lancaster. (pp 1-5) "Introduction: Embodied Meanings, Carnal Practices," in The Gender/Sexuality Reader, New York: Routledge, 1997.  (book reserve, bookstore, ereserve)
• Moore, Henrietta. Feminism and Anthropology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
• Lewin, Ellen and William L. Leap, eds.  Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology.  Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2002.
• Robertson, Jennifer, ed. Same-sex cultures and Sexualities: an Anthropological Reader. Blackwell,  2005.
• Rosaldo, Michelle. "The Use and Abuse of Anthropology: Reflections on Feminism and Cross-Cultural Understanding," Signs 5(3), 1980.
• Sanday and Gallagher. Beyond the second sex : new directions in the anthropology of gender / edited by Peggy Reeves Sanday and Ruth Gallagher Goodenough. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1990.
• Weston, Kath. "Lesbian/Gay Studies in the House of Anthropology," Annual Review of Anthropology 22, 1993: 339-367.

Gender, Sexuality and the Media

• Cronin, Anne. Advertising and Consumer Citizenship: Gender, Images, and Rights. London: Routledge, 2000
• Goffman, Erving. Gender Advertisements. Harper and Row, 1979.
• Gallagher, Margaret. Gender Setting: New Agendas for Media Monitoring and Advocacy. Zed Books, 2001.
• Jhally, Sut. "Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture," in Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez, (eds.) Gender, Race and Class in Media. London: Sage, 1995. (book, ereserve). (10 pp).
• Mulvey, Laura. Afterthoughts on ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, 1982.
• Zaslow, Emilie. Feminism, Inc.: Coming of Age in Girl Power Media Culture. By Emilie Zaslow. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Check these links out for further information on this week's topics!

Use these links as quick references and contextualizing material as well as for ideas about forms of related activism and community work. To really delve, you need to print and read all essays, or go look at books and articles in Further Reading

Evolving Definitions (2016)
NOTE: An anthropological approach to sex/gender/sexuality may or may not endorse the definitions given in these glossaries! As always, prescriptive definitions can be helpful tools and starting places, but we also have to keep an anthropological eye to the ambivalent and evolving realities of actual practice and experience.

• Transwhat?.org online glossary
• Berkeley Gender Equity Resource Center online glossary
• LA-based Transgender Student Educational Resources glossary

Theory and Scholarly Resources

• Association for Feminist Anthropology Links and Resources
• The Feminist Theory Website
  Dr. Kristin Switala’s collection of research materials and information on feminist theory, including information on various fields within feminism, different national/ethnic feminisms, and biographic information about individual feminists.
• Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender
  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Association for Queer Anthropology Links
• Queer Theory Links and Resources
  University of Illinois' background sheet
• Brandeis Sexuality and Queer Studies Program links

Multimedia Resources

• Makley Image Archive
  Online exhibits on sexism and racism in print ads. This is my site for online media education and activism. Many links to media activist organizations, ideas for activism, etc.
• Media Education Foundation
  Founded by an interdisciplinary group of progressive media scholars, sponsors critical research and documentary film-making, as well as K-12 and higher education outreach.
• Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
• Gender Talk (Talk radio show that aired between 1997-2006, full archive available)
  Gender Talk's content, both online and through the airwaves, touches on a broad range of topics related to gender and sexuality. The weekly Gender Talk radio show is the centerpiece of the site and both live and archived shows are available in RealPlayer and MP3 formats online. Additionally, the Gender Talk site offers lists of links, books, and other resources.
• About Face. Feminist group devoted to protesting sexist media images. Links and resources on body image, activism, health, etc. 
• Frontline Merchants of Cool Media Giants (2001, good for historical reference)
  Companion website for the film "The Merchants of Cool". Has links on the media, charts the holdings of huge media corporations, teen issues, etc.
• Who Owns the Media? NPR, updated to 2016)

Online

• Johanna Blakely Ted Talk 2010, "Social Media and the End of Gender"
• The Youth and Gender Media Project
  At the Youth and Gender Media Project, we believe all young people should be encouraged to be themselves, free from the fear of bullying or discouragement. Our mission is to support educators, families and youth who want to create inclusive communities by providing them with ground-breaking videos and curricula about gender expansive youth.
• Representation.org (media advocacy group based around 2011 film Miss Representation, about gender stereotypes and lack of diverse representation in film)
• Beyonce et al, 2020, Brown Skin Girl music video (oppositional gaze?)

Related Films in Reed Library

• Step by step: building a feminist movement, 58 min, 1998.
  Traces the gradual emergence of contemporary feminism through the life stories of eight women who helped make it happen from 1941 to 1977

• Eyes on the prize: America's civil rights years, 1954-1965
  6-tape history of the civil rights movement in the United States. Uses archival footage and interviews with participants in the movement, PBS 1986-7
• The codes of gender : identity + performance in pop culture / produced by the Media Education Foundation ; written & directed by Sut Jhally Publication Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2009. Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman's groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape in this provocative new film about gender as a ritualized commercial performance.
• Electric purgatory: the fate of the black rocker. director: Raymond Gayle; producer: Marc Newsome, 2009.
  A documentary on the struggles of the black rock musician and the stigma they face in the black community and the music industry.
• Growing Up Online. PBS Frontline Documentary, 2006. Documentary looking at the massive impact of the internet on U.S. middle class childhood (watch online).
• Digital Nation. PBS Frontline Documentary, 2010. Follow up to Growing up Online. (watch online).

Killing Us Softly Series
This series of films developed over the past 25 years in response to Jean Kilbourne's spearhead 1979 film critiquing advertising images of women and femininity. Kilbourne herself has collaborated in various updating sequels, and she has a new book out (2002). Reed owns:

• Killing Us Softly. Jean Kilbourne, 1979.
• Still Killing us Softly: advertising's image of women / a film by Jean Kilbourne and Cambridge Documentary Films ; producer & director, Margaret Lazarus
  Publication Cambridge, Mass. : Cambridge Documentary Films, c1987
• Killing us Softly 3: advertising's image of women / Media Education Foundation
  Publication Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2000
• The Strength to Resist: Beyond Killing Us Softly, 2000 (30 min)
  Features Gloria Steinem and "Ask Amy" feminist writer Amy Richards, co-author of the book The Feminist Manifesta.
• Killing us softly 4 : advertising's image of women. Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2010

WATCH film: "Sex: Unknown," Nova, 2001 (60 min) (Screen via Moodle, also on Youtube) **Content notes: discussion and analysis of history and medical representation of intersexed persons, including genitalia and botched surgeries.

Tues Sept 8 - Nature, Culture and "Science"

• READ: Jordonova, L.J. Introduction and Ch. 3 "Body Image and Sex Roles," Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Madison: Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1992. (ereserve).
  **Content Notes: discussion of 18th century medical text representations (discourse and images) of female bodies, including genitalia and internal organs.Discussion of violence against female bodies and pornography.
• READ: Anne Fausto-Sterling, 1994 “The Five Sexes: Why Males and Females are not Enough.” The Sciences 33(2): 20-25 and “The Five Sexes Revisited.”The Sciences, July/June 2000. (ereserve).
  **Content notes: discussion and analysis of history and medical representation of intersexed persons, including genitalia and botched surgeries.

Handout/Google Doc: Walking Tours of Gendered Cities: an (Auto)ethnography Blog

Thurs Sept 10 - Sex, Gender and Evolution?

• READ: Pinker, Steven. 1997. "Men and Women," (pp. 460-476) in Ch. 7 "Family Values," How the Mind Works. New York: Norton. (ereserve)
• READ: Mckinnon, Susan. "Introduction," Ch. II "Mind and Culture," pg 1-42, Ch. IV "Sex and Gender," (pp. 72-119). Neoliberal Genetics. Prickly Paradigm Press, 2006. (bookstore, ereserve).

Scavenger Hunt Closes Sunday, Sept 13, 8 pm!

Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology

• Alcock, John. The Triumph of Sociobiology. Oxford University Press, 2001.[student of EO Wilson]
• Wilson, E.O. 1975. Sociobiology. [seminal book for launch of sociobiology as a subdiscipline].
• Wilson, Edward O.  Ch. 6 "Sex", in On Human Nature.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978.

Discussion and Critique

• American Anthropologist 117(4), 2015. Special Issue on anthropological genetics [considering rise of new field of epigenetics]
• Fausto-Sterling, Anne: How to Build a Man, GSR, 1997. [also see her essay available on-line on the companion website for this week's film: "Sex: Unknown".
• Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Myths of gender : biological theories about women and men Publication New York : Basic Books, c1985,
• Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, 2000.
• Fine, Cordelia. 2011. Delusions of Gender: How our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create Difference. W. W. Norton & Company.
• Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. Volume 1: An Introduction. Random House, 1990 (1978).
• Gibbon, Sahra. 2008. Biosocialities, genetics and the social sciences: making biologies and Identities. Routledge. [Intro takes off from Rabinow 1996. Rabinow has afterword].
• Gilbert, Scott. 1997. Bodies of Knowledge: Biology and the intercultural university. Changing life: Genomes ecologies, bodies, commodities, Taylor, Halfon, Edwards, eds. Univ. of Minn. Press. [Describes three discourses of the body in biology: neural, immune, genetic, cites Emily Martin; Argues biology has become the new metanarrative for Americans].
• Goodman, Heath and Lindee, eds. Genetic Nature/Culture, UC Press, 2003.
• Halberstam, Judith, 1995. Posthuman bodies / edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston Publication Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1995
• Harroway, Donna. Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Routledge, 1989. [oft-cited critical and anthropological history of primatology]
• Jordan-Young. Brainstorm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences. Harvard University Press. 2011.
• Jordonova, L.J.  "Natural Facts:  A Historical Perspective on Science and Sexuality," in Carol P. MacCormack, Ed.  Nature, Culture, Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.  (25 pp.)
• Karkaziz, Katrina. Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority and Lived Experience. Duke Univ Press, 2008.
• Kessler, lessons from the intersexed. 1998
• kessler, Suzanne and Wendy McKenna. "Ch. 3 Biology and Gender," in Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.(34 pp).
• Latour, Bruno. Science In Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass., USA, 1987.
• ---------------. We Have Never Been Modern (tr. by Catherine Porter), Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass., USA, 1993.
• Lancaster, Roger.  Ch. 6 "Sexual Selection," Ch. 7 "The Selfish Gene, Ch. 15, "The Social Body," Ch. 16 "Practices of Sex," Ch. 18 "The Biology of the Homosexual," in The Trouble with Nature: Sex in science and Popular culture. California, 2003. (66 pp). (In bookstore and on book reserve).
• Laqueur, Thomas. "Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology," (GSR). (20 pp.) (In bookstore and on book reserve)
• Leatherman, Thomas and Alan goodman. "Context and Complexity in Human Biological research," in McKinnon and Silverman, eds., Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nuture. Chicago, 2005. (In bookstore and on book reserve).
• Sandra Lee, Barbara Koenig, and Sarah S Richardson, eds. Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008
• Lewontin, R.C.. Not in our genes : biology, ideology, and human nature / R.C. Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon J. Kamin Publication New York : Pantheon Books, c1984. [seminal book from leading geneticist critiquing sociobiology and evolutionary psychology].
• MacKinnon, Katherine and Agustin Fuentes. "Reassessing Male Aggression and Dominance: The Evidence from Primatology," in McKinnon and Silverman, eds., Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nuture. Chicago, 2005 (In bookstore and on book reserve).
• Martin, Emily. The woman in the body : a cultural analysis of reproduction / Emily Martin Publication Boston : Beacon Press, c1987.
• Mascia-Lees, Frances and Nancy Johnson Black.  "Ch. 3: The Evolutionary Orientation," Gender and Anthropology.  Waveland Press, 2000. (book reserve).
• Orgel, Mary et al. "Surveying a Cultural 'Waistland': Some Biological Poetics and Politics of the Female Body," in McKinnon and Silverman, eds., Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nuture. Chicago, 2005. (In bookstore and on book reserve).
• Rabinow, Paul. 1996. Artificiality and enlightenment: From sociobiology to biosociality. Essays on the anthropology of Reason. Princeton Univ. Press. [seminal piece looking at advent of Human Genome Project from anthro perspective].
• Sarah S Richardson and Hallam Stevens. Postgenomics. Duke University Press, 2015.
• Richardson, Sarah S. Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
• Sahlins, Marshall. 1976. The Use and Abuse of Biology: an Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology. [cited in McKinnon]
• Singh et al, eds. Thinking About Evolution: Historical, Philosophical and Political Perspectives. edited by Rama S. Singh, Kostas Krimbas, Diane B. Paul, and John Beatty. Cambridge University Press 2001. [orderd for reed lib; festschrift for R.C. Lewontin by the main critics of evolutionary psychology].
• Sahlins, Marshall. "The Sadness of Sweetness," in Culture in Practice, 2001. [good discussion of the cultural logics underlying western theories of the person, including links between theories of economic behavior, structural-functionalism, and theories of sexual behavior like sociobiology].
• Somerville, Siobhan. "Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body," in (GSR). (10 pp.) (In bookstore and on book reserve).
• Spanier, Bonnie. "Biological Determinism and Homosexuality," in Robertson, Jennifer, ed. Same-sex cultures and Sexualities: an Anthropological Reader. Blackwell, 2005. (bookstore and book reserve).
• Sperling, Susan.  "Baboons with Briefcases vs. Langurs with Lipstick," (GSR). (10 pp). (In bookstore and on book reserve).

Theory

• Evolutionary Psychology and Sociobiology Online:
  An entry on Dr. G. Scott Acton’s Great Ideas in Personality website introducing the basics of sociobiological thought, outlining one of E.O. Wilson’s major arguments, etc. Contains definitions, links, and a suggested reading list.
• Evolutionary Psychology Primer
  An introduction to E-P from two leading scholars in the field, based at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at UCSB.
• Harpending on Neoliberal Genetics: So, So Wrong (Alex Golub's blog post defending Mckinnon's book)
• The Mind Meld of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker (NYT, Jan 27, 2018)

Debates: transgender and cisgender

• Blank, Paula. 2014. "Will 'Cisgender' Survive? The Atlantic (Sept.) [overview of recent debates about the meaning of the term]
• "Rethinking CIS: finding a few grains of truth in a fucked up TERF story," Queer Anarchism on tumblr.
• Serrano, Julia. "Julia Serano's compendium on cisgender, cissexual, cissexism, cisgenderism, cis privilege, and the cis/trans distinction," Whipping Girl blog, 2015.

Multimedia Resources

• "Sex: Unknown" On-line
  Companion website for the film . Links on how sex is determined, intersex and more.
• The Genderbread Person. Wildly popular graphic claiming to lay out the complexity of sex/gender/sexuality beyond a binary set of categories. Asks viewers to locate themselves on a series of continuua.
• The Genderbread Person, a Critique. Critique by a cultural anthropologist pointing out the problematic and still-westerncentric nature of the graphic.
• Intersex Genitalia Illustrated and Explained (by intersex blogger Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello)

Activism/Community Work Resources

• The International Gender Bill of Rights
  Mentioned by Fausto-Sterling, The International Bill of Gender Rights (IBGR) was first drafted in committee and adopted by the International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy (ICTLEP) at that organization's second annual meeting, held in Houston, Texas, August 26-29, 1993 .
• North American Task Force on Intersex (NAFTI)
  Mentioned by Fausto-Sterling, now defunct (Wikipedia).
• Intersex Society of North America (ISNA)
  Mentioned by Fausto-Sterling, The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) was founded in 1993 in an effort to advocate for patients and families who felt they had been harmed by their experiences with the health care system.
• Gendertalk
  Radio program advocating for transgender rights and dignity. Last recordings in 2006. Online archives, resources.
• Portland Community College's page of trans/gender/queer resources in PDX
• Intersex Initiative
  Intersex Initiative (IPDX) is a Portland, Oregon based national activist and advocacy organization for people born with intersex conditions. It was founded by Emi Koyama, a multi-issue social justice activist and former intern at Intersex Society of North America (2001-02). Looks defunct (last posts 2010).
• interAct: Advocates for Intersex Youth
  interACT uses innovative legal and other strategies, to advocate for the human rights of children born with intersex traits.

Youtube

• Alice Dreger: Is Anatomy Destiny? (Ted Talk, 2010)
• Woody Allen's Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex but Were Afraid to Ask: the sex scene(1972)
• Muppet Show: Koozebanian Mating Ritual
• Star Trek 1960s episode, noncorporeal alien falls in love with white man; her voice turns out to be feminine; Kirk to Spock: male and female are universal constants

Related Films in Reed Library:

• Science and gender with Evelyn Fox Keller, 30 min, 1990
  E.F. Keller, a theoretical physicist in the Dept. of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley, discusses how gender plays a significant role in the language that scientists use to describe their work
  
• Secrets underground, 1995
  This series presents the professional and personal stories of six notable women scientists - the challenges they face, their successes and setbacks, and their work. This program focuses on archaeologist Patty Jo Watson as she travels to unusual locales in her search for clues to the origins of agriculture in North America and evidence of prehistoric peoples in various caves
• Middle sexes : redefining he and she / HBO Original Programming ; written and directed by Antony Thomas ; produced by Antony Thomas, Carleen Ling-an Hsu ; a Home Box Office/Granada Television production ; a presentation of Home Box Office Publication [United States] : Home Box Office, c2006.
  Sensitively explores the controversial subject of the blurring of gender as well as the serious social and family problems -- even dangers -- often faced by those whose gender may fall somewhere in between male and female.
• the most dangerous year, 2019.
  In 2016 a small group of families with transgender kids joined the fight against a wave of discriminatory anti-transgender legislation that swept the nation and their home state. With the help of a coalition of civil rights activists and ally lawmakers, these families embarked on an uncharted journey of fighting for their children's lives and futures in this present-day civil rights story.

Watch film: "Google Baby", 76 min, Screen via Moodle, Content Notes: discussion and portrayal of surrogate pregnancy and childbirth. C-Section operation depicted on camera.

Tues Sept 15 - Constructing Essential Womanhood: Reproduction and the Domestic/Public Dichotomy

• READ: Rosaldo, Michele. "The Use and Abuse of Anthropology: Reflections on Feminism and Cross-Cultural Understanding," Signs Vol. 5, No. 3 (Spring, 1980), pp. 389-417. (ereserve).
• READ: Ginsburg, Faye and Rayna Rapp. Introduction. in Ginsburg and Rapp, eds., Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. UCalif Press, 1995. (ereserve).

Thurs Sept 17 - Marginalized/Dangerous Femininities

• READ: Davis, Dana-ain. "The Politics of Reproduction: the Troubling Case of Nadya Suleman and Assisted Reproductive Technology." Transforming Anthropology, Vol. 17, Number 2, pp. 105–116. (ereserve)
• READ: Zavella, Patricia. "'Playing with Fire' The Gendered Construction of Chicana/Mexicana Sexuality," in The Gender/Sexuality Reader, New York: Routledge, 1997. (13 pp.). (ereserve, bookstore, book reserve).**Content Notes: Discussion and analysis of personal narratives that include accounts of rape and domestic violence.
• READ: Kulik, Don. The Gender of Brazilian transgendered prostitutes. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 99, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 574-585 (13 pp) (ereserve)

DUE: First Blog post (at least 400 words plus other media) due Friday, Sept 18, 8 pm, your Moodle Blog Forum: Introduce yourself and your city/part of city, include a paragraph talking through at least one theorist from the course readings, focus on understanding up to three key terms, and consider applications in your city, or to you as gendered subject/citizen/resident of it. All posts should include citations of at least two sources from the course, including films. You can also add a third from outside course.

DUE: Comments on Blogs (at least 150 words) due Monday, Sept 21, 8 pm, your blog partner's Moodle Blog forums: Comments can be in many forms. This is not about copy-editing. Ask follow-up questions, comment on or compliment their writing/media use, discuss how their post made you feel, respond to the writer's use of a theorist or key term, bring in a comparison or contrast with your own blog post/experience of walking the city, bring in another author or film from the course (most important) and then from other courses.

• Blackwood, Evelyn. "Reading Sexualities acrosss Cultures: Anthropology and theories of Sexuality," Lewin, Ellen and William L. Leap, eds. Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2002.
• Blackwood, Evelyn. 2010. Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN: 9780824834876
• Briggs, Laura. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico (chapter on Demon Mothers)
• Duncan, Nancy. "Renegotiating Gender and Sexuality in Public and Private Spaces," in Nancy Duncan, (Ed.), Bodyspace: Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality. New York: Routledge, 1996. (17 pp.)
• Douglas, Mary. Introduction and Powers and Dangers, Purity and Danger.
• D'Emilio, John. "Capitalism and Gay Identity," in (GSR).
• Fine, Cordelia. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, 2010. [Canadian born British psychologist, critiques studies seeking absolute sex differences in male and female brains].
• Gray, Christine E. "Myths of the Bourgeois Woman: Rethinking Race, Class and Gender," in Lugo and Maurer, Eds. Gender Matters: Rereading Michelle Rosaldo. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2000. (22 pp.).
• Ginsburg, Faye and Rayna Rapp, eds. Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
• Hemmings, Clare. Bisexual Spaces: a Geography of Sexuality and Gender. New York: Routledge, 2002.
• Jordonova. Sexual Visions chapter on Medical images of the female body
• Lamphere, Louise. "The Domestic Sphere of Women and the Public World of Men: The Strengths and Limitations of an Anthropological Dichotomy," Brettell, Caroline and Carolyn F. Sargent, (Eds.). Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective.London: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1997. (7 pg).
• Ladin, Joy. Whipping Girl.
• Lewin, Ellen and William L. Leap, eds. Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2002.
• Martin, Emily. The Woman in the Body (2001 Edition), Boston, Beacon Press. **Content Notes: Discussion and analysis of medical representations as well as people's own experiences of female bodily processes, including menstruation, sexual reproduction, childbirth, internal organs.
• Moore: Lesbian Motherhood and Discourses of Respectability, ch. 4 in Invisible Families.
• Orgel, Mary et al. "Surveying a Cultural 'Waistland': Some Biological Poetics and Politics of the Female Body," in McKinnon and Silverman, eds., Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nuture. Chicago, 2005.
• Plemons, Eric. 2017. The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans-Medicine.Duke University Press Books. ISBN: 9780822369141
• Ragone, Helena and Rance Winddance Twine, eds. Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood. New York: Routledge, 2000. See me.
• Richardson, Sarah S. “Maternal Bodies in the Postgenomic Order: Gender and the Explanatory Landscape of Epigenetics.” In Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology After the Genome, edited by Sarah S Richardson and Hallam Stevens. Duke University Press, 2015. [great overview of her critique of actually existing epigenetics, vs. idealist hopes for it]
• Scheper-Hughes, Nancy: "Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil" in The Gender/Sexuality Reader, New York: Routledge, 1997 (8 pg)
• Stein, Arlene. "Sisters and Queers: The Decentering of Lesbian Feminism," in (GSR). (In bookstore and on book reserve).
• Tsing, Anna. "Monster Stories: Women Charged with Perinatal Endangerment". Faye Ginsburg and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, eds., Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990. (17 pp.) Discussion and analysis of legal and popular representations of childbirth, abortion and infanticide.
• Valentine, Gill. "(Re)Negotiating the 'Heterosexual Street': Lesbian Productions of Space," in Nancy Duncan, (Ed.), Bodyspace: Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality. New York: Routledge, 1996. (On book reserve).
• Weston, Kath. "Production as Means, Production as Metaphor, Women's Struggle to enter the Trades," Faye Ginsburg and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, eds., Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990. (on book reserve).
• ----------------. "Lesbian/Gay Studies in the House of Anthropology," Annual Review of Anthropology 22, 1993: 339-367. (available on-line).
• Zaslow, Emilie. Feminism, Inc.: Coming of Age in Girl Power Media Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Authors and Current Debates

• Tammuz Family Surrogacy and Egg Donors (new home page of Doron Mamet's company featured in film "Google Baby", old website included his critique of the film and defense of his company's practices)
• Interview with Director/Producer of Google Baby Zippi Brand Frank (Vimeo, 2011)
• NYT: A Surrogacy Agency that Delivered Heartache, 2014
• BBC: Despair over Ban in India's Surrogacy Hub, 2015.
• The Hindu: A Setback for Surrogacy in India?, 2015
• Nadya Suleman Interview with NYT 2018
• U.S. Presidents' statements on Mother's Day
• Amy Chau, Why Chinese Mothers are Superior, Wall Street Journal (Jan 2011)
  Controversial article that has set off a firestorm of debates about motherhood, ethnicity and parenting in the U.S.
• Femulate
  Blog of a "male who emulates a female". Example of wide variety of similar blogs!
• Joy Ladin Ted Talk 2016 "Ain't I a Woman?"
• Escher Girls. Tumbler Blog on ridiculous poses of "feminine" characters in video games and animation

Theory and History

• Queer Resources
  Professor Thomas King at Brandeis' annotated links.
• LGBT History Online
  Fordham Univ's People with a History An Online Guide to
  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History; Links to all aspects.
• Women's History Online
  Fordham Univ's Women's Internet History Sourcebook.

Activism/Community Work Resources

• National Organization of Women—Oregon Chapters
  Largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. NOW has been fighting for women’s rights, equality, and choice since 1966; the organization’s key issues span from reproductive rights to media activism, from violence against women to affirmative action.
• Planned Parenthood—Vox
  Information on Planned Parenthood’s campus organizing campaign. Includes press releases on issues concerning reproductive rights and sexual health.
• Basic Rights Oregon
  Since 1988, this non-profit organization has been working for the end of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Their website has information about numerous local volunteer opportunities in both political and educational capacities.
• qPDX
  Queer news, views and events for Portland.

Youtube/Audio

• Interview with Director/Producer of Google Baby Zippi Brand Frank (Vimeo, 2011)
• NPR Talk of the Nation program on "Google Baby", 2010.
• Nancy Scheper-Hughes interviewed on commodification of the human body (Hardtalk, 2008)
• Dove Evolution (famous commercial for Dove products revealing retouching that is routine to create ideal feminine beauty)
• My Husband Betty (goes with book of same name, hetero married couples in which the husband cross-dresses).
• Star Trek 1960s episode, noncorporeal alien falls in love with white man; her voice turns out to be feminine; Kirk to Spock: male and female are universal constants

Films in Reed Library

• Female misbehavior, 80 min, 1992
  Four short films featuring controversial women and provocative sexual issues. "The first film ... is a confrontation with the infamous author of 'Sexual Personae' Camille Paglia. The second film ... is an inside look at Annie Sprinkle, porn star, performance artist and sexual diva. The third film ... centers on an S&M practitioner, Carol, and her use of pain as pleasure. The final film ... is the story of a transexual's journey from female to male"
• Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill: Public hearing, private pain, 58 min, 1992
  Discusses the Thomas confirmation hearings, the charges of sexual harrassment by Anita Hill, and the reactions from Afro-Americans
• Coming out under fire, 71 min, 1994
  Based on the book Coming out under fire, the history of gay men and women in World War Two by Allan Derube. Gay men and lesbians who were in the United States military service during World War II discuss their experiences with the response of the military establishment towards their sexual orientation
• Pink Triangles, 35 min, 1982
  Takes a look at the nature of discrimination against lesbians and gay men and challenges some of society's attitudes toward homosexuality. Also examines historical and contemporary patterns of racial, religious, political, and sexual persecution
• Red moon: menstruation, culture & the politics of gender
  With humor and refreshing candor, Fabianova's Red Moon provides a fascinating, often ironic, take on the absurd and frequently dangerous cultural stigmas and superstitions surrounding women's menstruation. As educational as it is liberating, the film functions as both a myth-busting overview of the realities of menstruation, and a piercing cultural analysis of the ways in which struggles over meaning and power have played out through history on the terrain of women's bodies.
• Paris is burning
  Story of the young men of Harlem who originated "voguing" and turned these stylized dance competitions into glittering expressions of fierce personal pride. A story of street-wise urban survival, gay and trans self-affirmation, and the pursuit of a desperate dream.
• How do I look: from fantasy to reality
  A documentary capturing the Harlem "Ball" traditions that originated in the 70's, an historically off shot from the Harlem "Drag Balls" from the 20's. Because of the loss of hundreds of members of the "Ball" community due to the HIV epidemic, How Do I Look recorded an important aspect of the history and legacy. Focuses primarily on the icon and legends Pepper Labeija, Willi Ninja, Tracy Africa, Kevin Omni and Octavia St. Laurent, who took their talents outside the "Ball? community successfully and opened many doors for their community.

WATCH film (Screen via Moodle) "Afraid of Dark: Exploring Black Masculinity." Mya Baker, 2014. 73 min. Content Notes: Discussion and depiction of 19th century scientific racism, photos and depictions of violence against black men, including police shooting (audio) and lynching (still photos).

Tues Sept 22  - Constructing Essential (White) Manhood

• READ: Kimmel, Michael: "Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity," in Harry Brod and Michael Kaufman, (Eds.), Theorizing Masculinities. London: Sage Publications, 1994. (20 pp). (ereserve.
• READ: Katz, Jackson. "Advertising and the construction of violent white masculinity: from BMWs to Bud Light" in Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez, (eds.)  Gender, Race and Class in Media (2nd Edition).  London: Sage, 2011. (ereserve).
• READ: Jessica Johnson, The Self-Radicalization of White Men: “Fake News” and the Affective Networking of Paranoia, Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2018, Pages 100–115 (ereserve).

Thurs Sept 24 - Marginalized/Dangerous Masculinities

• READ: Mitchell, Gregory. Intro (skim first 10 pp) and Ch. 2 Typecasting: Racialized Masculinity and the Romance of Resistance. 2015. Tourist Attractions: Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil’s Sexual Economy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (27 pp). (ereserve)
• READ: Jackson, Peter. "Kathoey><Gay><Man: the Historical Emergence of Gay Male Identity in Thailand," in Manderson and Jolly, (Eds.), Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. (23 pp). (ereserve).

• Archer, L. (2003). 'Race', religion and masculinity in school, in _Race, masculinity and schooling: Muslim boys and education_ (pp. 47-65). Berkshire: Open University Press.
• The Atlantic. Black Masculinity in the United States, 2019.
• Baker, Yaa. 2020. "What a passionate exchange at a protest for civil rights tells us about the performance of Black masculinity as sincere investment in the Black community," Anthropology News.
• Bergling, Tim. Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior.
• Blackwood, Evelyn. "Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire," in Robertson, Jennifer, ed. Same-sex cultures and Sexualities: an Anthropological Reader. Blackwell, 2005. (bookstore and book reserve).
• -------------------------. From Butch-Femme to Female Masculinities: Elizabeth Kennedy and LGBT Anthropology Feminist Formations Volume 24, Number 3, Winter 2012. [cites Halberstam as seminal]
• Bordo, Susan. "Reading the Male Body," in Laurence Goldstein, (Ed.), The Male Body: Features, Destinies, Exposures. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994
• Chopra, R., Osella, C., & Osella, F. (2004). _South Asian masculinities : context of change, sites of continuity_. New Delhi: Women Unlimited an associate of Kali for Women.
• Connell, R. (2005). _Masculinities_ (2nd ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
• Cornwall, A., & Lindisfarne, N. (1994). _Dislocating masculinity : comparative ethnographies­_. London: New York: Routledge.
• D'Emilio, John. "Capitalism and Gay Identity," in (GSR).
• Driessen, Henk. "Male Sociability and Rituals of Masculinity in Rural Andalusia," Brettell, Caroline and Carolyn F. Sargent, (Eds.). Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective.London: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1997. (7 pg). (On book reserve)
• Fausto-Sterling, Anne: "How to Build a Man," in (GSR) (4 pg). ). In bookstore and on book reserve.
• Feinstein, Leslie (1993). Stone Butch Blues.
  
• Fussel, Sam: "Bodybuilder Americanus," in Laurence Goldstein, (Ed.), The Male Body: Features, Destinies, Exposures. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. (16 pg).
• Gardiner, Judith, ed. Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory: New Directions. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
• Gerami, S. (2003). Mullah, Martyrs, and Men: Conceptualizing Masculinity in the Islamic Republic of Iran. _Men and Masculinities_, 5(3), 257-274.
• Gerami, S. (2005). Islamist Masculinity and Muslim Masculinity. In M. S. Kimmel, J. Hearn & R. Connell (Eds.), _Handbook of studies on men & masculinities_ (pp. 505 p.). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.
• Ghasosoub, M., & Sinclair-Webb, E. (2000). _Imagined masculinities : male identity and culture in the modern Middle East_. London: Saqi.
• Gutmann, Matthew: "The Meanings of Macho: Changing Mexican Male Identities" in Lamphere et al (Eds.), Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge, 1997. (10 pg)
• hooks, bell. "Ch. 6: Reconstructing Black Masculinity" Black Looks: Race and Representation, 1992. (26 pp.)
• Hopkins, E. P. (2006). Youthful Muslim Masculinties: gender and generational problems. _Royal Geographical Society_.
• Halberstam, Judith. "Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum," in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, The Transgender Issue, Susan Stryker, (Ed.), 4(2), 1998.
• Halberstam, Judith. Female masculinity. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1998.
• Halberstam, Judith. "An Introduction to Female Masculinity". Female Masculinity. Duke University Press, 1998. (40 pp)
• Kimmel, Michael and Michael Kaufmann. "Weekend Warriors: The New Men's Movement," in Harry Brod and Michael Kaufman, (Eds.), Theorizing Masculinities. London: Sage Publications, 1994. (In bookstore and on book reserve).
• Kimmel, Michael. Guyland : the perilous world where boys become men / Publication New York : Harper, c2008.
• Lancaster, Roger. Ch. 10 "Homo Faber, Family Man," and Ch. 11 "T-Power," in The Trouble with Nature: Sex in science and Popular culture. California, 2003.
• Language and Masculinity, eds. S. Johnson and U. Meinhof. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 47-64, 1997.
  Black Masculinity and Sexual Politics. By Anthony J. Lemelle Jr. New York: Routledge, 2009, 302 pp., $95.00 (cloth)
• Marsden, M. (2005). Muslim Village Intellectuals: The life of the mind in northeren Pakistan. _Anthropology Today_, 21(1), 10-15.
• Marsden, M. (2007). All-male sonic gatherings, Islamic reform, and masculinity in northern Pakistan. American ethnologist V. 34, no. 3 (2007), p. 473-90
• Masculinity, power and technology: a Malaysian ethnography
   By Ulf Mellström
• McCune Jeffrey Q., Jr. "'Out' in the Club: the Down Low, Hip Hop and the Architexture of Black Masculinity," in Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. (bookstore, book, ereserve).
• Morris, Rosalind. Three Sexes and Four Sexualities: Redressing the Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Thailand," positions 2:1, 1994.
• Ouzgane, L. (2006). _Islamic masculinities­_. London: Zed.
• C.J. Pascoe. Dude, you're a fag : masculinity and sexuality in high school / Publication Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
• Perea, Jessica Bisset. "Audioviosualizing Men and Masculinities On the Ice, in Joanne Barker, ed. Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. Duke Univ Press, 2017.
• Pollack, William. Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood. Owl Books, 1999.
• Rubin, Gayle. "Of Catamites and Kings: Reflections on Butch, Gender and Boundaries," in Joan Nestle, (Ed.), The Persistent Desire: a Femme-Butch Reader. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1992.
• van Hoven, Bettina and Kathrin Horshelmann, eds. Spaces of Masculinities. Routledge, 2005. (on book reserve).
• Walle, T. M. (1998). 'As good as a man can be': Some thoughts on love, marriage and masculinity. Paper presented at the The Fourth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies: The Middle East in Globalizing world.
• Walle, T. M. (2004). Virginity vs. decency: continuity and change in Pakistani men's perception of sexuality and women. In R. Chopra, C. Osella & F. Osella (Eds.), _South-Asian Masculinities_. New Dehli: Kali for Women & Women Unlimited.
• Walle, T. M. (2007). Making Places of Intimacy: Ethnicity, Friendship, and Masculinities in Oslo. _NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research_, 15(2), 144 - 157.
• Whitehead, Steven and Frank Barrett, eds. The Masculinities Reader. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001.

Theory

• Interview with Michael Kimmel
  Interview with sociologist Michael Kimmel on his views on masculinity in the U.S. Accompanies a 1998 PBS documentary on violence against women called "No Safe Place".
  
• Michael Kimmel Called Out for Exploitative, Sexist and Homophobic Behavior by his graduate students (Inside Higher Educ, 2018)
• American Men's Studies Association.
  Recently organized association of educators and clinicians in the U.S. devoted to "encourage the refinement of the parameters of men's studies, to generate theory, and to develop methodologies of the study of masculinities from an ethical perspective which eschews oppression in all forms (namely sexism, racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, classism, et al.)"
• The Men’s Bibliography:
  An enormous, searchable bibliography on issues in men’s and gender studies, compiled by Michael Flood.
• LGBT History Online
  Fordham Univ's People with a History An Online Guide to
  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History; Links to all aspects.

Multimedia Resources and Debates

• Media Portrayals of Men and Masculinity:
  The Media Awareness Network provides a series of short articles that introduce some major problematics of gender and media representation, including stereotyping, male authority, the construction of masculinities in different media, etc. Also includes sections on constructions of femininity, sexuality, and ethnicity.
• The Mask We Live In
  Companion website for the film of the same name. A project from The Representation Project that complements the one focusing on girls and femininities (Missrepresentation).
• Anita Sarkeesian
  Feminist critic of masculine culture in video games whose Youtube videos brought her death threats from male gamers.
• Anita Sarkeesian's Feminist Frequency: critical videos on video games
• Anita Sarkeesian's 2012 Ted Talk
  Sarkeesian tells the story of her violent harassment at the hands of male gamers after her critical videos first aired.
• Cathy Young on the "Gamergate" scandal
  Real Clear Politics blog 2014
• The Serial Swatter
  2015 NYC investigative report on a Canadian teen white male who used false terrorism claims to send SWAT teams to women online who he felt had turned down his friendship

Activism/Community Work Resources

• Pride Northwest:
  This organization formed in 1994 to take over stewardship of Portland’s annual Pride events, including a parade, festival, performances, and keynote speakers in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, and queer rights. Website provides info on Pride events and volunteer opportunities.
• The National Organization for Men Against Sexism:
  Formed in 1975, NOMAS is the largest pro-feminist men’s organization in the United States. The group sponsors regular conferences on men and masculinity, task groups on issues such as homosexuality, racism, men’s culture, prisons, and more. Website contains information on conferences as well as resources for activism. (But see here for an exposé on rampant sexism within the organization and its leadership: http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/ohBROTHER/ )
• Basic Rights Oregon
  Since 1988, this non-profit organization has been working for the end of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Their website has information about numerous local volunteer opportunities in both political and educational capacities.

Video Online:

• "Home Improvement" skit: "The Man's Bathroom, (1990s sitcom mentioned by Lancaster)
• "That's Gay: Sissy Commercials" (Infomania, August 2010)
• Sexism, Strength and Dominance: Masculinity in Disney Films (a project by Sanjay Newton)
• "Phone Call," Key and Peele skit 2011.
• I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America (award-winning documentary by Bryon Hurt)
• "No Homo" - Masculinity, Homophobia, and Hip-Hop Culture (vlog on the term "no homo" in hip hop circles)
• Million Man March Pledge (Louis Farrakhan leads the pledge at the rally in Washington DC, 1995)
• Promise Keepers Stand in the Gap (montage from the 1997 rally in Washington DC, 1997)
• The Mask We Live In
  Companion website for the film of the same name. A project from The Representation Project that complements the one focusing on girls and femininities (Missrepresentation).

Films in Reed Library:

• Visible silence : the unspoken lives of Thai toms, dees and lesbians 2015. Ruth Gumnit, film director, film producer. Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources.
  "... a rare glimpse into the unspoken lives of Thai toms, dees, and lesbians striving for recognition, authenticity, and acceptance in a traditional Buddhist society. It is an intimate story of self and family, love and sexuality, and self-determination where conformity is prized. The film highlights the experience of masculine women (toms) who visibly transgress gender norms, yet are bound to remain silent about who they really are. [This film] gives voice to their unspoken truths" -- Container.
• Black Panthers (Le Panthers Noir);
  Alternative clip that provides a chilling look at California's racial environment in 1968, including demonstration scenes outside the Alameda County Jail. Features a rare in-jail interview with Huey P. Newton, with Eldridge Cleaver and Bobby Seale also offering their perspectives on the Panthers and police brutality. Filmed in 1968
• Game over: gender, race & violence in video games
  Discusses the controversial topic of video game violence. Encourages critical thinking about video games rather than dismissing the technology as harmless
• Huey!
  Original uncut international documentary directed by French filmmaker Agnes Varda of the "Free Huey" rally held at the Oakland Auditorium on February 17th 1968
• The Full Monty, 95 min, 1998
  Classic feature film that was the basis for the musical. Six unemployed men in a factory town in Britian, inspired by a touring group of male strippers, decide they can make a small fortune by putting on a striptease show of their own -- but with one small difference. They intend to go the "full monty" and strip completely naked!
• A Gathering of Men, 90 min, 1990.
  Bill Moyers interviews Robert Bly about the confusion men feel today about their roles in society and in their inner lives. Alternates between this interview and a workshop in which Robert Bly leads a group of 100 men into a deeper understanding of their own grief
• The aggressives
  Features intimate interviews with 6 lesbians (5 African American, 1 Asian) living in New York City who define themselves as "aggressives." They exhibit masculine appearances and behaviors, but do not aspire to be men. Shows their daily lives and their participation in the underground lesbian "ball" scene, where cross-dressers compete for trophies.
• The Vanishing Father, 57 min, 1995
  Explores the dramatic change in the American family and recent findings by sociologists that, despite economic status, children from single parent homes are twice as likely to drop out of school, to become teenage mothers, and to spend time in jail. Originally broadcast as Frontline, PBS.
• Tough Guise
• Wrestling With Manhood.
• You don't know Dick: courageous hearts of transsexual men
  Provides honest and riveting portraits of six men who once were women. Through their commentaries and the experiences of partners, friends, and family emerges an unforgettable story of self-discovery.

WATCH film (Screen via Moodle), "Small Happiness" (58 min) **Content notes: brief graphic description of foot-binding practices.

Tues Sept 29 - Constructing "Families" and "Kinship"

• READ: Mckinnon, Susan. "On Kinship and Marriage: A Critique of the Genetic and Gender Calculus of Evolutionary Psychology," in McKinnon and Silverman, eds., Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nuture. Chicago, 2005. (ereserve). (22 pg).
• READ: Judd, Ellen. "Families We Create": Women's kinship in Rural China as a Spatialized Practice," Chinese Kinship: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives. Edited by Susanne Brandtstädter, Gonçalo D Santos, Routledge, 2008. (ereserve). (13 pg.)

Thurs Oct 1 - Marginalized/Dangerous Families and Kinship

• READ: Moore, Mignon. 2011. Introduction and Ch. 5 Family Life and Gender Relations Between Women, in  Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Black Women. Berkeley: University of California Press. (ereserve).

DUE: Blog post 2 due Friday Oct 2, 8 pm, your Moodle Blog Forum

DUE: Comments on Blogs due Monday Oct 5, 8 pm, your blog partner's Moodle Blog forum

• Collier, Jane, Michelle Rosaldo and Sylvia Yanagisako. "Is There a Family? New Anthropological Views," in (GSR), 1997(1982). (8 pp). (In bookstore and on book reserve).
• Collier, Jane and Sylvia Yanagisako. Gender and Kinship: Essays Toward a Unified Analysis. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987.
• Constable, Nicole (2003), Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography,
  and “Mail Order” Marriages, Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Constable, Nicole. The Commodification of Intimacy: Marriage, Sex, and Reproductive Labor
  Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 38: 49-64 (Volume publication date October 2009.
• Ginsburg and Rapp, eds. Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. Univ of Calif. Press, 1995.
• Jankowiak, William (ed.) 2008 Intimacies: Love and Sex across Cultures. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Johnson-Hanks, Jennifer. "Women on the market: Marriage, consumption, and the Internet in urban Cameroon," American Ethnologist, Volume 34. Issue 4. November 2007 (Pages 642 - 658)
• Lancaster, Roger. Ch. 12 "Nature's Marriage Laws," in The Trouble with Nature: Sex in science and Popular culture. California, 2003. (20 pg). (In bookstore and on book reserve).
• Lewin, Ellen. Prologue (13 pp) and Ch. 3, "'Something Inside Me': Gay Fathers and Nature," (22 pp). Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America. UChicago Press, 2009.
• Levine, Nancy. Alternative kinship, marriage, and reproduction. Annual Review of Anthropology Vol 37 (2009).
• Marco, Anton. "Same-Sex "Marriage": Should America Allow "Gay Rights" Activists to Cross The Last Cultural Frontier? PART II: Transition: Gay Activists' Diverse "Families We Choose"", Christian Leadership Ministries.http://www.leaderu.com/marco/marriage/gaymarriage2.html
• Maynes et al, eds., Gender, Kinship, Power. New York: Routledge, 1996. (9 pp). ). (On book, article reserve).
• Obeler, Regina Smith, "Is the Female Husband a Man? Woman/Woman Marriage among the Nandi of Kenya," Ethnology 19, 1980.
• MG Peletz. Kinship studies in late twentieth-century anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology, 1995
• Rifkin, Mark. "Around 1978: Family, Culture and Race in the Federal Production of Indianness," in Joanne Barker, ed. Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. Duke Univ Press, 2017
• Rubin, Gayle. "Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex," Reiter, ed., Toward an Anthropology of Women, New York: Monthly Review, 1975.
• Sandell, Jillian. "The Cultural Necessity of Queer Families". Bad Subjects, Issue # 12, March 1994. (as commentary and critique of Weston's book). Online:
  http://eserver.org/bs/12/sandell.html
• Shapiro, Warren. "The Old Kinship Studies Confronts Gay Kinship: a Critique of Kath Weston," Anthropological Forum 20.1: 1-18, 2010.
• Stacey, Judith. "The Neo-Family-Values Campaign," in (GSR). In bookstore and on book reserve.
• Stone, Linda. New Directions in Anthropological Kinship. 2002.
• Strathern, Marilyn. Reproducing the Future: Anthropology, Kinship, and the New Reproductive Technologies. Routledge, 1992.
• Weston, Kath. Families We Choose Ch.'s 1-3, Ch. 5, Ch. 8

Theory

• Kinship and Social Organization:
  David Schwimmer’s tutorial on kinship from the University of Manitoba, with animated diagrams, a glossary, ethnographic examples, and more.

Multimedia Resources

• Ellen Lewin
  University of Iowa, Dept of Anthropology
  
• Pride and Parenting: Review of Gay FatherhoodRewire, 2009
• AAP on Same-Sex Couples and Adoption
  American Association of Pediatrics 2002 Press Release supporting same-sex co-parent adoption.
• Collected Info on Domestic Partners in the U.S.
  Good list of links at Carnegie Mellon University on recent developments on legal definitions of "family" and "domestic partners".

Activism/Community Work

• Family Equality Council
  Formed in 1979, the Family Equality Council (formerly Family Pride Coalition) is the fastest growing national advocacy group for the families of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender parents. They provide links and information on current issues, educational resources, local resources for parents, and an action-alert email list.

Online Video:

• Slam Poet Andrea Gibson: "I Do"
• LL Cool J learns he is an adoptive grandson, PBS "Finding Your Roots" episode, 2016 (start at 23:58)

In Reed Library:

• Dadi's family, 58 min, 1988.
  Classic portrait of a farming family in India which focuses on Dadi, the grandmother, who manages a large household of sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren and tries to hold the extended family together despite external and internal changes. Looks at the role and lives of women, who become members of their husband's family upon marriage.
• Generations, a Chinese family, 28 min, 1986.
  Looks at the way of life of the seventeen-member, four-generation Shen family, who are part of the small Christian minority in China. Also describes funeral, wedding, and New Year's customs among this minority
• Women of the yellow earth. 50 min, 1995.
  A documentary film concerning the quality of life for rural Chinese women and their families on the remote Loess Plateau. It introduces us to two village women, one who has just delivered her third child and is in trouble with the family planning officials who force her to undergo sterilization. The other is about to be married by arrangements with a matchmaker. Film gives a picture of how the state intercedes in family life, with its regulations and penalties for non-compliance.

WATCH film: (Screen via Moodle), Film shorts: Pink Boy (Youtube), Eric Rockey, dir, 2016 (15 min) and I'm Just Anneke, New Day films 2010 (25 min) (Moodle)

Tues Oct 8 Rendering and Gendering Children in Late Capitalism

• READ: Stephens, Sharon. Introduction: Children and the Politics of Culture in Late Capitalism (pp. 1-24). Children and the Politics of Culture. Sharon Stephens, ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1995. (ereserve),
• READ: Ivy, Marilyn. "Have you Seen Me? Recovering the Inner Child in Late 20-Century America," in Sharon Stephens, ed.,Children and the Politics of Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (book, ereserve), 1995. (ereserve)

Thurs Oct 13 - Marginalized/Dangerous Children

• READ: Gould, Lois. "X: A Fabulous Child's Story," in Kesselman et al, (Eds.), Women: Images and Realities, A Multicultural Anthology, Mountain View: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1995. (5 pg) (ereserve)
  • Animated version of "X: A Fabulous Child's Story" (2016)
• READ: Rooke, Alison. Trans youth, science and art: creating trans gendered space, Gender, Culture and Power Reader, 2016 (2010). (ereserve).
• READ: Johnson, Patrick. ONLY pp. 24-54 (sections "Parenting and Family Dramas," and "Education") in Ch. 1 "some bitter and some sweet: growing up black and gay in the south." Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2011. (ereserve, bookstore).

• Jeffrey A. Bennett. Queer Teenagers and the Mediation of Utopian Catastrophe, Pages 455 - 476 . Critical Studies in Media Communication:  Volume 27 Issue 5.
• Castaneda, Claudia. Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. 204 pp
• Chin, Elizabeth. 2001. Feminist Theory and the Ethnography of Children’s Worlds: Barbie in New Haven, Connecticut. In Children and Anthropology: Perspectives for the 21st Century. Helen B. Schwartzman, ed. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin and Garvey. Pp. 129-
  148.
• Chin, Elizabeth. Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry. American Anthropologist, June 1999.
• Connolly, Paul. Racism, Gender Identities and Young Children. London : Routledge. 1998 .
• Kathleen E. Denny. Gender in Context, Content, and Approach: Comparing Gender Messages in Girl Scout and Boy Scout Handbooks. Gender & Society 2011;25 27-47
• Diamond, Irene and Lee Quinby, eds., Feminism and Foucault: Reflections on Resistance. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1988.
• Foucault, Michel. "The Means of Correct Training," (from Discipline and Punish), in Rabinow, ed. The Foucault Reader, 1984. (17 pp)
• Hall, Kathleen. 1995. “There’s a Time to Act English and a Time to Act Indian”: The Politics of Identity among British-Sikh Teenagers. In Children and the Politics of Culture. Sharon Stephens, ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Pp. 243-264.
• Karsten, Lia. 2003 Children’s Use of Public Space: The Gendered World of the Playground. Childhood
  10(4):457-473.
• Kessler, Suzanne and Wendy McKenna. "Ch. 4 Developmental Aspects of Gender," in Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.(29 pp). In bookstore and on book reserve.
• Lareau, Annette. 2003. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 1-13, 182-197, 233-257.
• Ritty A. Lukose, Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.
• Malkki, Lisa, and Emily Martin. 2003. Children and the Gendered Politics of Globalization: In Remembrance of Sharon Stephens. American Ethnologist 30(2):216-224.
• Mac An Ghaill, Martin. "The Making of Black English Masculinities," in Harry Brod and Michael Kaufman, (Eds.), Theorizing Masculinities. London: Sage Publications, 1994.
• Allison J. Pugh. Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture. By . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009,
• Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood.
• Kirrilly Thompson. Because looks can be deceiving: media alarm and the sexualisation of childhood - do we know what we mean? J. of Gender Studies 4, 2010.
• Sweis, Rania Kassab. Security and the Traumatized Street Child: How Gender Shapes International Psychiatric Aid in Cairo. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 11 July 2017
• Thorne, Barrie. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School.  Routledge, 1993
• Weston, Kath. Families We Choose. ch. 4: "Kinship and Coherence: Ten Stories" (25 pg). (In bookstore and on book reserve).
• Emilie Zaslow. Feminism, Inc.: Coming of Age in Girl Power Media Culture.. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Multimedia

• London Museum of Childhood (mentioned by Stephens)
• The Canadian Baby X (2011, E. Rawdon, Gender and Education Association blog)

Theory

• Foucault On-Line
  Well-organized site with biographical information on Foucault, on-line texts and bibliography, as well as links to archives of secondary sources on Foucault's life and work.
• Foucault Resources
  Patrick Jennings' compilation of Foucault resources, related articles applying and critiquing Foucault's ideas.

Children, Sexuality and Moral Panics: The QAnon Conspiracy World Online (2020) (curated by anthro senior Paul Molamphy '20)

• “What is QAnon, the Viral Pro-Trump Conspiracy?” (New York Times, Sep. 2020) This article details the rise of the QAnon conspiracy and the beliefs of its followers, as well as offering a few possible examples for why QAnon is so popular.
• “What Is #SaveTheChildren and Why Did Facebook Block It?” (Rolling Stone, Aug. 2020) Outlines how QAnon latched onto existing social media campaigns about child sex trafficking to spread their conspiracy.
• “It Makes Perfect Sense That QAnon Took Off With Women This Summer” (Slate, Sep. 2020) The author explains how the QAnon conspiracy is particularly well-positioned to spread through online spaces dominated by women, such as ‘new mother’ Facebook pages and skin care Instagram influencers.
• Twitter thread from Marc-André Argentino on “Pastel QAnon” (Sep. 1 2020) Dives into specific examples of the aesthetic and branding strategies that QAnon supporters use to garner support via Instagram pages dedicated to influencers, mommy pages, fitness pages, diet pages, and alternative healing.
• Video: Republican Congressional nominee Marjorie Taylor Greene details her belief in QAnon conspiracy (from Nov 26 2017) In a Facebook Live video from November, Congressional nominee Marjorie Taylor Greene expressed her belief in many aspects of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Greene is overwhelmingly favored to win the Congressional election for Georgia’s 14th congressional district.

Activism/Community Resources

• Outside In Portland area organization providing services for homeless youth since 1968.
• SMYRC Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center (see their Portland area resources especially)
• PFLAG Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
• MVAV Mothers Against Video Game Addiction and Violence (active 2002-2006, then relaunched as social satire site)
• AAP on Same-Sex Couples and Adoption
  American Association of Pediatrics 2002 Press Release supporting same-sex co-parent adoption.
• Report of the American Psychological Association on the Sexualization of Girls (cited by competing activist groups)
• SPARK Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge (SPARK) is a movement for girls’ rights to healthy sexuality.  It began at the SPARK Summit (2010), a day to speak out, push back, plan, and have fun. The SPARK Summit was designed to engage girls as part of the solution rather than to protect them from the problem. Workshops and action spots gave girls the tools they needed to become activists, organizers, researchers, policy influencers, and media makers.

Online Video:

• Interviews with kids on gender (2008?)
• "Little Beauties: a visual remix" (montage of pop culture moments in the 'beautification' of girls), 2012
• Tesco Peekaboo Pole Dancing Kit
• Kony 2012 (Controversial 2012 film by the US-based NGO Invisible Children)
• "The Guy Behind Kony 2012 Finally Explains How things Went so Wierd," (The Business Insider, 2013).
• Molly Long Choreography, Children and Competitive "Jazz" Dance (2000s)
  • 8-9 yr old girls jazz dance Beyonce (2010)
  • 6-7 yr old girls and boy dance Hip Hop (2010)
  • 8 yr old girls jazz dance Beyonce's Run the World (2013)
  • Molly Long interview (Youtube 2013)
  • Molly Long on Raising Asia (reality show) (2014)
• Patrick Johnson one man show of Sweet Tea
• Animated version of X story! (2016)

Other Related Films

• Cuties (Les Mignonnes) (Netflix 2020) “Cuties” won the world cinema dramatic directing award at the Sundance Film Festival in January (2020). The film follows 11-year-old Senegalese immigrant Amy (Fathia Youssouf), who upsets her Muslim mother by opting to join the “Cuties,” a quartet of scantily-dressed girls who rehearse dances after school.
  
  • Variety Mag on the Controversy over Cuties (2020)
  • Netflix Apologizes for Poster Sexualizing young cast of Cuties (Variety Mag, 2020)
  • What the ‘Cuties’ Critics Can’t See: The Complexities of Black Girlhood (NYT, 2020)
• Growing up Trans (Frontline 2015)
• List of films on trans kids (a recent boom in 2010s)

Films in Reed Library:

• Bathing Babies in Three Countries, 9 min, 1941
  Famous anthropologists Margaret Mead and Greg Bateson's classic ethnographic film comparing bathing techniques and interplay between mother and child in three different settings--in the Sepik River in New Guinea, in a modern American bathroom and in a mountain village of Bali. Early visual anthropology!
• Born to bondage. director: Marion Mayer-Hohdahl; producer: Journeyman Pictures
  Despite a decade of feminism, the lot of Indian women at the brink of the 21st century is painfully hard. Widespread poverty means families need to send their children to the workplace, especially the girls. ... To make it past birth is a challenge for girl babies ... in much of rural India, where families cannot bear the cost of a dowry.
• Class C: the only game in town. director: Justin Lubke Shasta Grenier; producer: Wally Kurth Tim Swain Mark Zetler
  The mall is 234 miles away. You have thrown 10,000 three-point shots on the dirt court behind the barn. You drive a backhoe after practice to support the family business. And you are a sixteen-year-old girl. Welcome to Class C. As their tiny hometowns fight to stay on the map, girls from across rural Montana compete for the state basketball title and a chance to bring home something worth celebrating. Montana native and basketball legend Phil Jackson brings insight and humor to the disappearing landscapes of his youth in a story that will change the way you see rural America. Documentary follows these girls' basketball teams during their 2005 season: Reed Point/Rapelje, Twin Bridges, Scobey, Rocky Boy, and Chester.
• Going on 13 director: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Dawn D. Valadez; producer: Vaquera Films, LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ; co-produced and launched in association with Chicken & Egg Pictures, The Fledgling Fund, Working Films
  Chronicles four girls' coming of age and the precarious moments between being a little girl and becoming a young woman. As they grapple with issues of school, family, friends and identity, GOING ON 13 allows us to see what real girls face during this pivotal time in puberty, while providing a vehicle for discussing important developmental milestones
• Hoop dreams. director: Steve James; producer: Steve James Fred Marx Peter Gilbert
  Filmed over a five-year period, this documentary follows the lives of two inner-city kids with aspirations to play professional basketball
• I'm just Anneke & The Family Journey. producer: The Youth and Gender Media Project
  I'm Just Anneke is a portrait of a 12-year-old girl who loves ice hockey and has a loving, close-knit family. Anneke is also a hardcore tomboy and everybody she meets assumes she?s a boy. The onset of puberty has created an identity crisis for Anneke. Does she want to be a boy or a girl when she grows up, or something in between? To give her more time to make a decision, her doctor has put her on Lupron, a hormone blocker that temporarily freezes her body in a pre-pubescent state. Despite rejection by her friends and struggles with suicidal depression, Anneke is determined to be true to herself and maintain a gender fluid identity that matches what she feels on the inside. ?Anneke? takes us into the heart of a new generation of children who are intuitively questioning the binary gender paradigm.
• The Family Journey: Raising Gender Nonconforming Children charts the emotional and intellectual transformations parents and siblings must make in order to successfully nurture their gender nonconforming family members. In frank, vulnerable interviews, families from all over the country speak about the power of love and acceptance to help their unusual children thrive. They also come to realize that loving a gender nonconforming child, in the face of ignorance?and sometimes?hostility, has turned them into more compassionate human beings.
• Looking for Busi. director: Robyn Hofmeyr; producer: Robyn Hofmeyr. This is the story of a fifteen-year old South African girl, Busi, who is an HIV-positive mother. Busi's mother abandoned her when Busi becomes pregnant, even before testing positive for AIDS. Busi is chosen for a mother-to-child drug trial and to be the subject of a documentary. After the documentary airs and exposes that she is HIV-positive, Busi disappears, and the filmmaker and her friend search for her.
• Looking for China girl. director: BBC Education & Training; producer: Sophie Todd
  This program raises the question, what happens when women become a rare commodity? China Girl is a documentary that explores China's one child policy which was introduced as a measure to stabilise China's burgeoning population and now has resulted in over 500,000 abortions and many more girls being killed once they have been born. The program looks at the underlying issues, from the increase of professional women in China who have rejected their traditional role, to the overwhelming lack of women in the provinces and why China's crime rate has tripled in the last 20 years, with police struggling with loutish behavior, gangs and the disappearance of young women.
• Monday's girls. director: Ngozi Onwurah; producer: Lloyd Gardner production for BBC-TV
  A grandmother named Monday Moses in Ogoloma, Nigeria is responsible for taking the young girls of the village through the rites of passage into womanhood so that they will be ready for marriage.
• Sita, a Girl from Jambu = Bichari Sita. director: Kathleen Man; producer: Salmon Pictures
  Reveals how uneducated, rural Nepalese girls are tricked and lured into sexual slavery. Focusing on one girl's journey into the brothels of Mumbai, the film is an adaptation of a street play performed by rural Nepalese girls, whose performance is also featured in the film. This innovative blend of documentary and fiction both expands our notion of cinematic genre and extends the broader social message that people can make a difference in their communities
• Straightlaced: how gender's got us all tied up. director: Debra Chasnoff; producer: Debra Chasnoff & Sue Chen
  Meet 50 incredibly diverse students who take us on a powerful, intimate journey to see how popular pressures around gender and sexuality are shaping the lives of today's American teens ... Demonstrates how gender-based expectations are deeply intertwined with homophobia, and also are impacted by race, ethnicity and class. From girls confronting popular messages about culture and body image, to boys who are sexually active just to prove they aren't gay, STRAIGHTLACED reveals the toll that deeply-held stereotypes and rigid gender policing have on all of our lives, and offers both teens and adults a way out of anxiety, fear, and violence
• The Flashettes. director: Bonnie Friedman; producer: Bonnie Friedman, Emily Parker Leon
  A young man returns to Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York after college and decides to do something about the alcoholism, drugs, and teen pregnancies he sees everywhere. He starts a track club for girls ages 6-16, The Flashettes. This film is an exposition of how young urban women actively develop themselves through sports. Focusing on their hopes and aspirations, it movingly shows how the rigorous training helps to produce more than just muscle, but also positive self-identity and pride. More than a team, The Flashettes became a second family, building self-confidence and self-respect in its members

WATCH Film (Screen via Moodle) "Tales of the Waria," 2011, 56 mins

Tues Oct 13 Physically Achieving/Subverting Gender

• READ: Butler, Judith. pp. 163-180, "Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions," in Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1999. [NOTE: DO NOT READ THE 1990 EDITION, PAGE NUMBERS ARE DIFFERENT] (11 pp.). (ereserve).
• READ: Weston, Kath. "Do Clothes Make the Woman? Gender, Performance Theory, and Lesbian Eroticism," Genders 17, Fall 1993. (17 pp). (ereserve). [NOTE: DO NOT READ THE VERSION IN WESTON'S BOOK, GENDER IN REALTIME. PAGINATION DIFFERENT AND THE ARTICLE IS NOT CLEARLY FRAMED]
• READ: Valentine, David. "We're Not About Gender": The uses of Transgender. in Lewin and Leap, eds. Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology. Chicago: Univ of Illinois Press, 2002. (18 pp) (ereserve)

Thurs Oct 15 No Class! Break Day 

• Take time to breathe! and perhaps blog your gendered city.

DUE: Blog post 3 due Friday Oct 16, 8 pm, your Moodle Blog Forum

DUE: Comments on Blogs due Monday Oct 19, 8 pm, your blog partner's Moodle Blog forum.

The Bodily Performance of Sex/Gender/Sexuality

• Bailey, Marlon. Butch queen up in Pumps/ [ethnography re: impact of Paris is Burning and voguing]
• Bergling, Tim.  Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior. 
• Blackwood, Evelyn. "Sexuality and Gender in Certain Native American Tribes: The Case of Cross-Gender Females," in Signs 10: 27-42, 1984
• Blackwood, Evelyn. "Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire," in Robertson, Jennifer, ed. Same-sex cultures and Sexualities: an Anthropological Reader. Blackwell,  2005. (bookstore and book reserve).
• Tom Boellstorff. Playing Back the Nation: Waria, Indonesian Transvestites, Cultural Anthropology May 2004, Vol. 19, No. 2: 159-195.
• Bordo, Susan. "Postmodern Subjects, postmodern bodies, postmodern resistance,"Unbearable Weight, 1993. (good response to Butler).
• Bordo, Susan: "Material Girl," in The Gender/Sexuality Reader, New York: Routledge, 1997. (21 pp). (ereserve, bookstore, on book reserve.).
• Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter. 1993. [in part a response to her critics re: Gender Trouble].
• Garber, Marjorie. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. New York: Routledge, 1992
• gender-bending section of Queerly articulated.
• Halberstam, Judith.  "Transgender Butch:  Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum," in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, The Transgender Issue, Susan Stryker, (Ed.), 4(2), 1998.
• --------------------. Halberstam, Judith. Female masculinity. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1998.
• Lauren Hastings (Columbia Univ): Gender Pretenders - a drag king ethnography
• Herdt, Gilbert, ed. Third Sex Third Gender
• Kulick, Don. "No," in Robertson, Jennifer, ed. Same-sex cultures and Sexualities: an Anthropological Reader. Blackwell, 2005. (bookstore and book reserve).
• Kulik, Don.  "Transgender and Language," in GlQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 5(4), 1999: 605-622.  (On JSTOR).
• The (Mismeasure) of Trans. Transgender Studies Quarterly.
• McGlotten, Shaka. “Ch. 3 Feeling Black and Blue: Online Gay Sex Publics and Black Affects” in Virtual Intimacies; Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality. 2013. pp 61-79. (18 pp).
• Shaka McGlotten, Vogue Time Down
• McGlotten, Shaka. "Ordinary Intersections: Speculations on Difference, Justice, and Utopia in Black Queer Life, Transforming Anthropology.

• Morris, Rosalind. Three Sexes and Four Sexualities: Redressing the Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Thailand," positions 2:1, 1994.
• Raymond, Janice. The Transsexual Empire: the Making of the She-Male. New York: Teachers College Press, 1994(1979).
• Rubin, Gayle.  "Of Catamites and Kings: Reflections on Butch, Gender and Boundaries," in Joan Nestle, (Ed.), The Persistent Desire: a Femme-Butch Reader. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1992.
• Stone, Sandy. "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto," in Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub, (Eds.), Bodyguards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity. New York: Routledge, 1991.
• Shapiro, Judith. "Transsexualism: Reflections on the Persistence of Gender and the Mutability of Sex," in Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub, (Eds.), Bodyguards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity. New York: Routledge, 1991. (24 pp.). (on book reserve).
• Tang ben hui. "Sexuality and the Discourse on Asian Values: Cross-Dressing in Malaysia," in Blackwood and Wieringa, Eds. Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1999.
• Valentine, Daniel.Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category. [nice historical overview in intro chapter but no mention of "trans/cis"]
• Weston, Kath. Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age, New York: Routledge, 2002.

Sex/Gendering and Digital Personhood

• Boellstorf, Tom. Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce & T. L. Taylor. Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method. Princeton, 2012.
• Boellstorf, Tom. Intro, Ch. 5. Coming of Age in Second Life: an Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
• boyd, danah., Why youth (heart) social network sites: the role of networked publics in teenage social life, MacArthur Foundation series on digital learning: Youth, identity, and digital media volume, pp. 1-26, N/A, 2007
• boyd, danah. (her website listing her collected works on gende, race, youth, bullying online)
• Lang, Peter, ed. Queer Online: Media Technology & Sexuality, 2007.
• Manning, Paul. Can the Avatar Speak? Review of Beollstorf's 2nd Life, online, Academia.edu.
• McGlotten, Shaka. “Feeling Black and Blue: Virtual Sex Publics and Black Affects” in Do You Feel Me?: Exploring Black American Gender and Sexuality through Emotion and Feeling (Forthcoming 2011).
• ----------------------. “Like, Dead and Live Life: Zombies, Digital Culture, and Queer Sociality” in Discourses of the Living Dead (Forthcoming 2011).
• ----------------------. “Virtual Intimacies” in Queers Online, David Phillips and Kate O’Riordan, eds. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.
• Nakamura, Lisa, Cybertypes: race, ethnicity, and identity on the Internet, pp. 1-30, 147-149, Routledge, 2002

Theory

• Judith Butler Bibliography (compiled by Kurt Borg)
• Judith Butler 2016 Lecture. 
  A nice update to Gender Trouble, responds to aftermath of the book, nice discussion of 'sex' and stakes of, updates to her work on global precarity. She has worked hard on her discourse to make it much more accessible.
• Judith Butler Adorno Prize Controversy 2012
  • Berkeley report and interview with Butler
  • Observer.com report on controversy and video of Butler speech at Tufts
  • Wall St Journal critique of Butler's politics critical of Israel
• The Cut cover story: Judith Butler (2016)

Pop Media

• Thinspiration Pictures (blog)
• Dove Evolution 2006 (commercial re: woman's makeover)
• Man photoshopped
• Effects of Photoshop (photoshop makeover, one of a huge number of similar tutorials)
• Hess, Amanda. "The Ugly Business of Beauty Apps," Internetting on NYT.

Gendered Participation Online: People Presenting as Women

• Anita Sarkeesian Attacked for Feminist Analysis of Video Games (2012) (Jessica Coen's piece in Jezebel about this)
  • Amanda Marcotte on Sarkeesian's experience (Slate.com 2012)
  • Sarkeesian's Kickstarter page for her Tropes vs. Women video series
  • Anita Sarkeesian's Ted Talk on online harassment (2012)
  • "Damsel in Distress" (2013, Sarkeesian's first kickstarter-funded video analyzing video game tropes)
• Engendering the Knowledge Society: Measuring Women's Participation (recent research)
• Women’s Political Participation in 21st Century: Using Communication Technologies
• Transforming Gender Identity through the Internet (post for Gender and Technology course at Bryn Mawr, 2009)
• Wikipedia: Online Identity [multiple sources on flexible gendered online personas]
• Social Media and the End of Gender (Johanna Blakely's Ted Talk arguing that women's increasing use of online social media will have radical effects, 2010)
• Why Women Rule the Internet (Media consultant raves about women's newfound 'power' as social media consumers, 2011)

Debates: transgender and cisgender

• Blank, Paula. 2014. "Will 'Cisgender' Survive? The Atlantic (Sept.) [overview of recent debates about the meaning of the term]
• "Rethinking CIS: finding a few grains of truth in a fucked up TERF story," Queer Anarchism on tumblr.
• Serrano, Julia. "Julia Serano's compendium on cisgender, cissexual, cissexism, cisgenderism, cis privilege, and the cis/trans distinction," Whipping Girl blog, 2015.

Debates: Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal 2015

• Burkett, Elinor. “What Makes a Woman?” The New York Times. N.p. 6 June 2015.
• Beyer, Dana. “What Makes a Woman? A Trans Woman Responds to a 20th Century Era Feminist.” The Huffington Post. N.p. 8 June 2015
• Miller Julie. “The Inside Story of Caitlyn Jenner’s Historic ‘Vanity Fair’ Cover.” Vanity Fair. 26 July 2015
• Pilkington, Ed. “Caitlyn Jenner: transgender community has mixed reactions to Vanity Fair reveal.” The Guardian. 2 June 2015 
• Caitlyn Jenner on Privilege, Reality TV, Time Mag (was runner up for person of the year 2015)
• Caitlyn Jenner on supporting Ted Cruz, USA Today, 2016
• "An open letter to Caitlyn Jenner," Huffington Post, Brynn Tannehill Director of Advocacy, SPARTA, 2016.
• "Rachel Dolezal, in Center of Storm, Is Defiant: ‘I Identify as Black’ NYT, 2015
• "Rachel Dolezal's True Lies," Vanity Fair, 2015
• "In Rachel Dolezal's Skin," Broadly, 2015.
• "It Isn’t Crazy to Compare Rachel Dolezal With Caitlyn Jenner" Slate Mag, 2016
• "The surprising ways Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal are now linked," Washington Post, 2015
• "Why Comparing Rachel Dolezal To Caitlyn Jenner Is Detrimental To Both Trans And Racial Progress," Huffington Post, 2015.
• Rachel Dolezal is not Caitlyn Jenner: Race and gender are not the same, Salon, 2015.

Second Life

• Second Life Home page
• Second Life International destinations
• Second Life Shopping
• Estimated Linden Lab earnings, 2008
• Linden Lab Land Sales, 2011 (blog post)

Activism/Community Work

• ANAD: National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
  Established in 1976 ANAD is the first non profit eating disorder organization.
• TransActive Online. TransActive is an internationally recognized non-profit focused on serving the diverse needs of transgender and gender nonconforming (GNC) children, youth, their families and allies.
• PDXqCenter Resources page
• Portland State University Transgender Resources Page
• Joy Ladin Blog: "cissexual"

Online Video

• Madonna "Express Yourself" (1989)
• Madonna "Open Your Heart to Me" (1986)
• Dream Girls clip (documentary film on Takarazuka Review) (1993)
• Judith Butler 2016 Lecture. 
  A nice update to Gender Trouble, responds to aftermath of the book, nice discussion of 'sex' and stakes of, updates to her work on global precarity. She has worked hard on her discourse to make it so much more accessible.

Films in Reed Library

• You don't know Dick: courageous hearts of transsexual men. director: Candace Schermerhorn; producer: Candace Schermerhorn
  Provides honest and riveting portraits of six men who once were women. Through their commentaries and the experiences of partners, friends, and family emerges an unforgettable story of self-discovery
• Dream Girls, 50 min, 1993
  A documentary film illustrating the ways that the all-female Takarazuka Music School and its annual musical revue reflect Japanese puritanism and sexual politics. Great companion to Robertson's ethnography on the Revue.
• Shinjuku Boys, 53 min, 1995
  Documentary looking at life among trans youth in an urban Japanese bar. Great companion to Robertson's ethnography.
• Urban Tribe, 54. min, 1997
  This keenly observed documentary profiles an African-American natural hair salon in Chicago. Biko, the articulate and energetic proprietor, is a former social worker who left his job because he was asked to wear a suit to the office instead of the traditional African attire he prefers. In his salon, Urban Tribe, there are no hair-straightening services. He specializes in natural-hair styling of "locs" (otherwise known as dreadlocks) and braids, sculpting complex and magnificent arrangements of hair that can be interpreted as political and cultural statements.
• Paris is Burning, 76 min., 1992.
  Award-winning documentary. Story of the young men of Harlem who originated "voguing" and turned these stylized dance competitions into glittering expressions of fierce personal pride. A story of street-wise urban survival, gay self-affirmation, and the pursuit of a desperate dream. Madonna made a mint appropriating their dance style.
• Truth or Dare, 118 min, 1991
  Madonna famously appropriated Harlem gay men's voguing style. This is a record of Madonna's "Blond Ambition" tour. Reveals as much about her experiences, performances and life as she wishes you to know. Good companion to Bordo's article "Material Girl".
• Trappings of transhood : a documentary about gender identity, 27 min, 1997.
  The world and concerns of transsexuals -- their lives; relations between transgendered persons and homosexuals; issues of cultural, ethnic, erotic, and gender identification; transitioning with and without hormones and surgery -- are communicated through interviews, video collage, and music
• A Boy Named Sue, 57 min, 2000
  Documents the transformation of a female-to-male transexual over the course of six years, highlighting changes in his relationships with his female partner and close friends.
• The Aggressives
  Features intimate interviews with 6 transgendered lesbians (5 African American, 1 Asian) living in New York City who define themselves as "aggressives." They exhibit masculine appearances and behaviors, but do not aspire to be men. Shows their daily lives and their participation in the underground lesbian "ball" scene, where cross-dressers compete for trophies. Interesting counterpart to "Paris is Burning".

Tues Oct 20 - Performing Gender/Sexuality Through Language

• READ: Gal, Susan. "Between Speech and Silence:The Problematics of Research on Language and Gender," in Micaela di Leonardo, ed., Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. (20 pp.) ( ereserve)
• READ: Zimman, Lal, Jenny Davis and Joshua Raclaw. "Opposites Attract: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender and Sexuality," in Zimman, Lal, Jenny Davis and Joshua Raclaw, eds. Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford University Press, 2014. (ereserve)
• READ: Davis, Jenny. "More Than Just 'Gay Indians': Intersecting Articulations of Two-Spirit Gender, Sexuality and Indigenousness, in Zimman, Lal, Jenny Davis and Joshua Raclaw, eds. Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford University Press, 2014. (ereserve)

Thurs Oct 22 - Dilemmas of gender neutral pronouns (No Class! Asynchronous Break Day)

• Ahearn, Laura. "Language and Agency", Annual Review of Anthropology, 2001. Online EPNET: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=6533582&db=aph&tg=AN
• Armstrong, James D. "Homophobic Slang as Coercive Discourse Among College Students," pp.326-334, in Livia, Anna and Kira Hall, (Eds.), Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. See me\
• Bassett, Caroline. "Virtually Gendered: Life in an on-line World [1995]", in Gelder and Thornton, (Eds.), The Subcultures Reader. New York: Routledge, 1997.
• Cameron, Deborah. 1997. Performing gender identity: Young men’s talk and the construction of heterosexual masculinity. In Language and Masculinity, eds. S. Johnson and U. Meinhof. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 47-64, 1997.
• Colville AAA 2019 paper on 'they'
• Eckert, Penelope and Sally McConnell-Ginet. "Think Practically and Look Locally: Language and Gender as Community-based Practice," Annual Review of Anthropology 21, 1994: 461-90.
• Gal, Susan. "Language, Gender and Power: An Anthropological Review" in Hall and Bulcholtz, (Eds.), Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge, 1995. (In bookstore and on book reserve).
• Hall, Kira. "Lip Service on the Fantasy Lines," in Hall and Bulcholtz, (Eds.), Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge, 1995. (26 pp.). (In bookstore and on book reserve).
• Herring, Susan, Deborah Johnson and Tamra DiBenedetto. "This Discussion is Going Too Far": Male Resistance to Female Participation on the Internet," in Hall and Bulcholtz, (Eds.), Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge, 1995. (25 pp.). (ereserve, In bookstore and on book reserve.)
• Keenan, Elinor. "Norm-makers, Norm-breakers: Uses of Speech by Women and Men in a Malagasy Community." In Bauman, R. and J. Sherzer, (Eds.), Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. (18 pg). (On book, article reserve).
• Kulick, Don. "Speaking as a Woman: Structure and Gender in Domestic Arguments in a New Guinea Village," Cultural Anthropology 8(4), Nov. 1993: 510-541. Available online JSTOR.
  
• Kulick, Don. "Transgender and Language," in GlQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 5(4), 1999: 605-622. Kulick Online:http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9360885&db=aph&tg=AN
• Kulick, Don and Deborah Cameron. Language and Sexuality. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003
• Kulick, Don and Deborah Cameron, eds. The Language and Sexuality Reader. London, Routledge, 2006.
• Maltz, Daniel and Ruth Borker. "A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication," Gumperz, ed., Language and Social Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
• Moonwomon, Birch.  "The Writing on the Wall: A Border Case of Race and Gender," in Hall and Bulcholtz, (Eds.), Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self.  New York: Routledge, 1995. (18 pp.).
• Ochs, E. 1992. "Indexing gender" in Rethinking context: language as an interactive phenomenon, ed. by A. Duranti & C. Goodwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.335-358.
• Bershtling, Orit. "Speech Creates a Kind of Commitment: Queering Hebrew," (pp. 35-61) in Zimman, Lal, Jenny Davis and Joshua Raclaw, eds. Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Silverstein, Michael. 1985. Language and the culture of gender: At the intersection of structure, usage, and ideology. In eds. E. Mertz and R. Partmentier, Semiotic Meditation: Sociocultural and Psychological Perspectives. Orlando: Academic Press. 219-259.
• Tannen, Deborah. You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation. New York: William Morrow, Co., 1990.
• ------------------. Gender and Discourse. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994.
• Katrina Daly Thompson. Zanzibari women’s discursive and sexual agency: Violating gendered speech prohibitions through talk about supernatural sex. Discourse Society 2011;22 3-20.
• Zimman, Lal. The Other Kind of Coming Out: Transgender People and the Coming Out Narrative," in Gender and Language 3.1, 2009: 53-80.
• Zimman, Lal and Kira Hall. 2012. "Language, Embodiment, and the 'Third Sex'," in Watt and Llamas, eds., Language and Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (ereserve, In bookstore and on book reserve.)

Theory

• The Igala Blog: Language, Gender, and Sexuality
  Blog of the International Gender and Language Association
• Bibliography of Gender and Language:
  Part of Professor Harold S. Schiffman’s website at U Penn, the Bibliography of Gender and Language provides a sizable list of books and journal articles from a wide variety of sources.[note that this extensive bibliography seems to indicate an overwhelming focus on English language and U.S. and European contexts].
• Bibliography on LGBTQ Language
  Compiled by Gregory Ward, professor of linguistics at Northwestern University, this bibliography provides resources for the study of language use by and about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. [note that this extensive bibliography seems to indicate an overwhelming focus on English language and U.S. and European contexts].

Gender Pronouns

• Bennett, Jessica. She? Ze? They? What’s In a Gender Pronoun? NYT, Jan 2016
• Braw, Elizabeth. "The Three letter word driving a gender revolution," Newsweek, 2014.
• blog post: Dennis Baron. "The gender-neutral pronoun: 150 years later, still an epic fail," OUP blog 2010.

Transgender Language [the majority of top hits on Youtube for "transgender and voice" are white transwomen seeking voice training to 'feminize' their voices]

• Kulick, Don. "Transgender and Language," in GlQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 5(4), 1999: 605-622.
• "Transsexual Voice Resources" 2004 (early website devoted to TS voice resources)
• "Finding Your Female Voice" 2006 (Youtube promo clip)
• "Transgender and Transsexual voice tip" 2011 (Youtube promo); voice transition as a "science"
• "How my Voice Sounded Before Hormones" (Dawn Marie's Youtube vlog, 2017)
• "Transgender voice feminization" 2015 (Youtube promo)
• "FTM transgender: 3.5 years on T voice comparison" 2015 (Youtube)

Gendered Language Online

Linguist List: "dog" as sexist language, as analyzed in Herring et al

• Wheeler's initial post
• Wheeler's first summary of responses
• Given and Weschler: responses to Wheeler summary
• Prince: women's responses
• Swann: This discussion is going too far
• Given: final summary

WATCH film (Screen via Moodle), "Between Allah and Me (and Everyone Else), Kyoko Yokoma, 2015 (60 min). 

Tues Oct 27 - Gender, Agency and Cosmology

• READ: Saba Mahmood. Chs 1-3 (Skim ch. 2). Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject Princeton University Press, 2005. (bookstore, ereserve).

Thurs Oct 29  

• READ: Saba Mahmood. Ch. 5, Epilogue. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject Princeton University Press, 2005. (bookstore, ereserve).

DUE: Blog post 4 due Friday Oct 30, 8 pm, your Moodle Blog Forum

DUE: Comments on Blogs due Monday Nov 2, 8 pm, your blog partner's Moodle Blog forum.

• Abu-Lughod, Lila. The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women, American Ethnologist, 1990.
• Lila Abu-Lughod.  "Ch. 1 Guest and Daughter" (first 24 pages) and Ch. 4 "Modesty, Gender and Sexuality," (48 pages). Veiled sentiments : honor and poetry in a Bedouin society .  Berkeley : University of California Press, 1986.  (70 pp.).
• Lila Abu-Lughod.  "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?"American Anthropologist 104 (3): 783-790, Sept. 2002.
• Anderson, Paul. ‘The piety of the gift’: Selfhood and sociality in the Egyptian Mosque Movement, Anthropological Theory 11(3), 2011.
• Bynum, Caroline. "Women's Stories, Women's Symbols: A Critique of Victor Turner's Theory of Liminality," Moore and Reynolds, eds., Anthropology and the Study of Religion, Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1984.
• Elliston, Deborah.  "Erotic Anthropology:  'Ritualized Homosexuality' in Melanesia and Beyond,"  in Robertson, Jennifer, ed. Same-sex cultures and Sexualities: an Anthropological Reader. Blackwell,  2005.
• Lindsey Harlan (Editor), Paul B. Courtright (Editor). From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture [Hardcover]
  Oxford University Press, USA (May 25, 1995)
• Herdt, Gilbert. "Fetish and Fantasy in Sambia Ritual," Rituals of manhood : male initiation in Papua New Guinea / edited by Gilbert H. Herdt ; with an introduction by Roger M. Keesing .Berkeley : University of California Press, c1982.
• Hirshkind, Charles. 2006. "The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics." New York: Columbia University Press.
• Johnson, Patrick. ch. 3 Church Sissies: Gayness and the Black Church. Sweet Tea, 2008.
• Jones, Carla. Materializing piety: Gendered anxieties about faithful consumption in contemporary urban Indonesia. American Ethnologist, November 2010,
• Mahmood, Saba. Sectarian conflict and family law in contemporary Egypt, American Ethnologist, Feb. 2012.
• Makley, Charlene. 2007. The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China. Univ of California Press.
• Ong, Aihwa and Michael G. Peletz, eds. Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1995.
• Ramberg, Lucinda. 2014. Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN: 9780822357247
• Rew, Martin. Religion and development I: Anthropology, Islam, transnationalism and emerging analyses of violence against women. Progress in Development Studies 2011;11 69-76
• Sobo, Elisa and Sandra Bell. Celibacy, Culture and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.
• Turner, Victor. 1967. "Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in rites de passage," from The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  
  

Methods

• Anthropology of Religion Overview
  Doug Padgett's site on the Anthropology of Religion; brief essay giving nice overview
• Society for the Anthropology of Religion

Rites of Passage

• Bibliography on rites of passage for boys and men in the U.S.

Women and Islam

• Muslim Women's Homepage
• Webography on Women in Islam
  Extremely comprehensive listing of sites on women in Islam
• RAWA
  Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
• Non-Profits Working on Women's Issues in Afghanistan

More Recent Events: The Egyptian Revolution (2011)

• "Visions of Female Identity in the New Egypt" (Spiegel Online, April 2011)
• "The backlash against women and Egypt's revolution," (PRI online, March 2011)
• "Egypt Protests Level Playing field for Women," (VOA, March 2011)
• "Protests Raise Hopes for Women's Rights in Egypt," (LA Times, Feb. 2011)
• Mahmood: "The Architects of the Egyptian Revolution," (The Nation, Feb. 11, 2011)

Films in Reed Library

• A Jihad for Love, 2007 .
  "A Jihad for Love" is Mr. Sharma's debut and is the world's first feature documentary to explore the complex global intersections between Islam and homosexuality. Parvez enters the many worlds of Islam by illuminating multiple stories as diverse as Islam itself. The film travels a wide geographic arc presenting us lives from India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa and France. Always filming in secret and as a Muslim, Parvez makes the film from within the faith, depicting Islam with the same respect that the film's characters show for it.
  
• Adio kerida (Goodbye dear love), 82 min., 2002
  A personal journey about the search for identity and memory among Sephardic Jews with roots in Cuba. Anthropologist Ruth Behar returns to her native Cuba in search of the country's remaining Sephardic Jews and her family's ties to them. Presents a lyrical journey into Cuba's Jewish past and present-day that is filled with painful goodbyes and a belief in the possibility of return and renewal. Behar addresses her goodbye to her native land, from which she departed as a child, before she developed her own memories. Her grandparents were Jewish emigrants to Cuba and hoped it would be their promised land. Like most Cuban Jews, they left Cuba and resettled in the United States, with only a small number of Jews remaining on the island. Interviews with Sephardic Jews in Cuba and Miami.
  
• An Initiation "kut" for a Korean shaman, 37 min., 1991
  A thirty-two-year-old woman tells of the events which led her to decide to become a shaman. Includes scenes from the two-day initiation. By anthropologist Laurel Kendall.
• Ball of Fire: Angry Goddess, 58 min, 1999.
  Ethnographic coverage of the Kerala South Indian ritual dance mudiyettu, in which men become possessed by the spirit of the goddess Bhadrakali
• Dhaminis of Jumla: Spirit Possession in Western Nepal, 38 min, 2000.
  Explores the ritual practice and social importance of spirit possession in the villages of Jumla, in western Nepal. The film focuses on two women, known as "dhaminis", and examinies the ways in which spirit possession makes them the centerpieces of religious life in their communities.
• Living Islam (6 cassettes), 300 min, 1993.
  v. 1. Foundations -- v. 2. Challenge of the past -- v. 3. Struggling with modernity -- v. 4. Paradise lies at the feet of the mother -- v. 5. Among the non-believers -- v. 6. Last crusade
• Women serving religion. 29 min., 1995.
  This program traces women's roles in religious tradition and what it means to be a woman in the three great religions today (including Islam). It also explores the cultural influences of feminism upon religious traditions and the beliefs regarding the ordination of women.
• Satya, a prayer for the enemy. 28 min., 1993.
  This film focuses on personal testimonies of Tibetan Buddhist nuns who have taken the lead in resistance to Chinese rule by staging courageous demonstrations for religious freedom and independence.
• The Return of Sarah's daughters, 56 min., 1997.
  Three Jewish women, Myriam Klotz, Rus Burdman, and Marcia Jarmel, discuss their relationship to Judaism.

WATCH film: "Southern Belle", 2010 (Screen via Moodle) (90 min).

Tues Nov 3 Gendering the Colonized (Election Day, No class: take time to vote and blog!)

• READ: Mohanty, Chandra. "Under Western Eyes," Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Duke, 2003. (25 pp.) (Bookstore, ereserve)

Thurs Nov 5 Gendering National Subjects: The American South

• READ: Mcpherson, Tara. Ch. 3 Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South.  2003. (ereserve)
• READ: Johnson, Patrick. Introduction and Ch. 5 "Trannies, Transvestites, and Drag Queens, Oh My!: Transitioning the South," Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2011. [2 very long interviews; long but should read fast; choose ONE of the interviews to read]. (ereserve, bookstore)

• Aloula, Malek. 1986. The Colonial Harem. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Brandtzel, Amy. Queering Citizenship? Same-Sex Marriage and the StateGLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11.2 (2005) 171-204
• Canaday, Margot. 2009. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton University Press.
• Comaroff, Jean. "The Empire's Old Clothes," in Lamphere et al (Eds.), Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge, 1997. (16 pp.). (On book, (ereserve).
• Lisa Duggan. Queering the State. Social Text. No. 39 (Summer, 1994), pp. 1-14
• Enloe, Cynthia. "Ch. 3: Nationalism and Masculinity," in Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. London: Pandora, 1989. (20 pg).
  
• Lesley Gill. Creating Citizens, Making Men: The Military and Masculinity in Bolivia. Cultural Anthropology Nov 1997, Vol. 12, No. 4: 527-550.
• Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. Gender and Jim Crow : women and the politics of white supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 / Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1996
• Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. Revolt against chivalry : Jessie Daniel Ames and the women's campaign against lynching. New York : Columbia University Press, 1979
• Hayden, Robert M. "Rape and Rape Avoidance in Ethno-National Conflicts: Sexual Violence in Liminalized States," American Anthropologist 102(1), March 2000.
• Kauanui, J. Kehaulani. "Indigenous Hawaiian Sexuality and the Politics of Nationalist Decolonization," in Joanne Barker, ed. Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. Duke Univ Press, 2017.
• Larvie, Sean Patrick. "Queerness and the Spectre of Brazilian National Ruin", GlQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 5(4), 1999. Larvie Online: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9360836&db=aph
• Lutz, Catherine. "The Color of Sex," GSR.
• Heng, Geraldine and Janadas Devan. "State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore," in The Gender/Sexuality Reader, New York: Routledge, 1997. (9 pp.).
• Morgensen, Scott Lauria. Ch. 5 "Global Desires and Transnational solidarity: Negotiating Indigeneity among the Worlds of Queer Politics," Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization. First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. (bookstore, ereserve, book reserve).
• Morrell, Robert. From Boys to Gentlemen: Settler Masculinity in Colonial Natal 1880-1920. Unisa Press.
• Nez Denetdale, Jennifer. "Return to the 'the Uprising at Beautiful Mountain in 1913,' Marriage and Sexuality in the Making of the Modern Navajo Nation," in Joanne Barker, ed. Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. Duke Univ Press, 2017.
• Parker, Andrew, et al, eds., Nationalisms and Sexualities. New York: Routledge, 1992. See especially oft-cited essay on Indian nationalism and gender by Radhakrishnan.
• Patton, Cindy & Benigno Sanchez-Eppler (eds.) 2000. Queer Diasporas. Q series. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Sharp, Joanne. Gendering Nationhood: a Feminist Engagement with National Identity. in Nancy Duncan, (Ed.), Bodyspace: Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality.  New York: Routledge, 1996.
• Sinha, M. Colonial Masculinity The 'Manly Englishman' and the 'Effeminate Bengali' in the Late Nineteenth Century . 1996.
• Stoler, Ann. "Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia," in The Gender/Sexuality Reader, New York: Routledge, 1997. (16 pp.). (ereserve, bookstore, book reserve).
• Stoler, Ann. Race and The Education of Desire. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
• Yuval-Davis, Nira. Gender and Nation, Sage: London, 1997. First chapter "Ch. 1: Theorizing Gender and Nation," is useful overview.

Maps are not only vital ways to contextualize the readings and theories in geographic and geopolitical space, but we must also see them as graphic illustrations of theories of culture in time and space. They are visual texts and thus must be analyzed critically and in historical context.

• Library of Congress Maps from European Age of Discovery
  Library of Congress digital map collections, 1500-2002. Great collection of maps from European age of discovery, zoomable to high resolution details, includes annotated map and details from 1562 Map of America by a Spanish explorer featured on this website!

Gender and Race in the Southern U.S.

• Civil War 150th Anniversary (Civil War Trust Home page)
• Secession Ball in S. Carolina (2010, Washington Post)
• Sons of confederate vets website (see opening speech)
• "Is the South Really so Bigoted?" (Anna North, jezebel, 2010)
• Southern Women: a New Generation of Women are Redefining the Southern Belle. Garden & Gun, 2011.
• 21 Differences Between a Southern Belle and a Modern Woman, Thought Catalogue, 2014.
• Manners for the Modern Southern Belle. The Spruce, 2017.
• "The Ugly Side of the Southern Belle" (History Prof. Blaine Roberts' discussion of the rise of southern Miss America's during Jim Crow, NYT, 2013).
• "Steel Magnolias Blooms again with All-Black Cast" (abc online, 2013)
• Steel Magnolias original trailer (Tristar, Youtube, 1989)
• Steel Magnolias remake trailer (Lifetime, Youtube, 2013)

WATCH film (Screen via Moodle):" Ghosts of Abu Ghraib", HBO, 2007 (78 min) **Content Notes: discussion and some graphic images of torture and sexual violence.

Tues Nov 10 Gendered Violence at "Home"

• READ: Veena Das, "Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity," Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 37: 283-299, October 2008. (ereserve).
• READ: Valentine, David. "The Calculus of Pain: Violence, Narrative, and the Self," in Imagining Transgender: an Ethnography of a Category. 2007. (ereserve).

Thurs Nov 12 - Gendered Violence in National/International Spheres

•  READ: Enloe, Cynthia. "Ch. 3:  Nationalism and Masculinity," in Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics.  London: Pandora, 1989. (20 pg). (ereserve, In bookstore and book reserve.)
• OPTIONAL: Enloe, Cynthia. 2000. Ch. 4 "When Soldiers Rape," Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press. (ereserve). (80 pp). **Content Notes: some description of sexual assault.
• READ: Boellstorff, Tom. The emergence of political homophobia in Indonesia: masculinity and national belonging. Ethnos, vol. 69:4, dec. 2004 (pp. 465–486). (ereserve).

Handout/Google Doc: Final Photo Essay Guidelines 

DUE: Blog post 5 due Sunday Nov 15, 8 pm, your Moodle Blog Forum

DUE: Comments on Blogs due Monday Nov 16, 8 pm, your blog partner's Moodle Blog forum

• Angier, Natalie: "Ch. 14: Wolf Whistles and Hyena Smiles: Testosterone and Women, " and "Ch. 15: Spiking the Punch: in Defense of Female Aggression," Woman: An Intimate Geography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999 (40 pp.).
• Michael Bochenek, A. Widney Brown, Human Rights Watch (Organization). Hatred in the Hallways: Violence and Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students in U.S. Schools. 2001.
• Boddy, Janice. "Womb as Oasis: The Symbolic Context of Pharaonic Circumcision in Rural Northern Sudan," (GSR). In bookstore and on book reserve.
• Campbell, Jacqueline. "Wife Battering: Cultural Contexts vs. Western Social Sciences," in Counts, Brown and Campbell, (Eds.), Sanctions and Sanctuary: Cultural Perspectives on the Beating of Wives. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.
• Color of violence : the Incite! anthology / Incite! Women of Color Against Violence Publication Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, c2006.
• Davidson, M. Seeking refuge under the umbrella: Inclusion, exclusion, and organizing within the category Transgender. Sex Res Soc Policy (2007) 4: 60. https://doi.org/10.1525/srsp.2007.4.4.60
• de Lauretis, Teresa. "The Violence of Rhetoric: On Representation and Gender," in (GSR). In bookstore and on book reserve.
• di Leonardo, Micaela. "White Lies, Black Myths: Rape, Race, and the Black 'Underclass',"(GSR). In bookstore and on book reserve.
• Sally Engle Merry. Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective. 2009.
• Engle Merry, Sally. 2016. The Seductions of Quantification Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking. UChicago press.
• Enloe, Cynthia.  "The Militarisation of Prostitution," in Does Khaki Become You?  (22 pg). 
• Gender violence in Africa : African women's responses / December Green Publication New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999
• David Ghanim Ph.D. (Author) , Gender and Violence in the Middle East [Hardcover]
• Paula Ruth Gilbert (Author), Kimberly K. Eby (Author). Violence and Gender: An Interdisciplinary Reader [Paperback].
• Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman (eds.) Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones. University of California Press, 2004. 373 pp.
• Gill, Lesley. "Creating Citizens, Making Men: the Military and Masculinity in Bolivia" (abridged in Gender culture Power reader? or Cult Anthro 12(4) version, 1997.
• Grossman, Arnold H., Adam P. Haney, Perry Edwards, Edward J. Alessi, Maya Ardon & Tamika Jarrett Howell (2009) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth Talk about Experiencing and Coping with School Violence: A Qualitative Study, Journal of LGBT Youth, 6:1, 24-46, DOI: 10.1080/19361650802379748
• Hayden, Robert M. "Rape and Rape Avoidance in Ethno-National Conflicts: Sexual Violence in Liminalized States," American Anthropologist 102(1), March 2000.
• Heise, Lori.  "Violence, Sexuality, and Women's Lives," in (GSR) (18 pp.). (In bookstore and on book reserve)
• Henson, Maria Rosa. Comfort Woman: a Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military. Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
• Hirsch and Shah Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, 2020
• Hine, Darlene Clark. "Rape and The Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West," (GSR). In bookstore and on book reserve.
• I never called it rape : the Ms. report on recognizing, fighting, and surviving date and acquaintance rape / Robin Warshaw ; afterword by Mary P. Koss Publication New York : Harper & Row, c1988
• MacKinnon, Katherine and Agustin Fuentes. "Reassessing Male Aggression and Dominance: The Evidence from Primatology," in McKinnon and Silverman, eds., Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nuture. Chicago, 2005 (In bookstore and on book reserve).
• McClintock, Ann.  "Maid to Order: Commercial Fetishism and Gender Politics" (on the cultural politics of S/M).
• Merry, Sally Engle. 2001  "Spatial Governmentality and the New Urban Social Order: Controlling Gender Violence through Law." American Anthropologist  103: 16-30.
• Merry, Sally Engle. Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective (Blackwell Introduction to Engaged Anthropology Series).
• Moore, Henrietta. "The Problem of Explaining Violence in the Social Sciences," in Penelope Harvey and Peter Gow, (eds.), Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and Experience. London: Routledge, 1994. (In bookstore and on book, article reserve)
• Morrissey, Belinda. When Women Kill: Questions of Agency and Subjectivity. London: Routledge, 2003.
• Paur JK. 2004. Abu Ghraib: arguing against exceptionalism. Feminist Stud. 30(2):522–34 [cited in Das]
• Perry, Barbara. In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate Crimes New York: Routledge, 2001.
• Razack SH. 2005. How is white supremacy embodied? Sexualized racial violence at Abu Ghraib. Can. J.Women Law 17(2):341–63 [cited in Das]
• Martin Rew, Religion and development I: Anthropology, Islam, transnationalism and emerging analyses of violence against women. Progress in Development Studies 2011;11 69-76.
• Mason, Gail.  "Introduction: Impetus" and Ch. 2 "Disorder", The Spectacle of Violence: Homophobia, Gender and Knowledge.  London: New York: Routledge 2002.
• Nagel, Joanne. Race, ethnicity, and sexuality : intimate intersections, forbidden frontiers, New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Ristock, Janice. No More Secrets: Violence in Lesbian Relationships.New York: Routledge, 2002.
• Sanday, Peggy. "Rape-Prone versus Rape-Free Campus Cultures, Violence Against Women 2(2), June 1996: 191-208.
• Sanday, Peggy. "Fraternities, Athletes, and Violence Against Women on Campus," Special Issue of journal Violence against Women 2(2), June 1996.
• Sanday, Peggy.  "Introduction", Ch. 1-3 in Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood and Privilege on Campus, 1990 (89 pg).
• Sanday, Peggy Reeves. FOCUS ON: Prologue and Introduction, ch. 1, ch. 9, SKIM: chs. 11-12. A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial. Berkeley: UCalif. press, 1997. (ereserve, book reserve). (~104 pp).
• Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2003.
• Edited By Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle. The Transgender Studies Reader. 2013.
  
• Kathleen Staudt, Violence and Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez (Inter-America Series) [Paperback]
• Theidon reconstructing masculinities: the Disarmament, Demobiliz, and reintegration of former combatants in Colombia, (abridged in GCP, or full in Human Rights Quarterly 31.1, 2009
• Valverde, Mariana. "Beyond Gender Dangers and Private Pleasures: Theory and Ethics in the Sex Debates," Feminist Studies 15(2), 1989. (15 pp) (good overview of some of the issues in the 80's sex debates).
• Vance, Carol. Pleasure and Danger. 1984. (oft-cited book for 80s debates re: sexuality, pleasure and violence).
• Jennifer R. Wies (Editor), Hillary J. Haldane (Editor). Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence [Paperback]
• Winkler, Cathy. One Night: Realities of Rape. Altamira Press, 2002.
• Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Laura.  "'Wild Pigs and Dog Men': Rape and Domestic Violence as 'Women's Issues' in Papua New Guinea," (GCCP) (12 pg). (On book, ereserve.)

Abu Ghraib's Aftermaths

• Exposure: The woman behind the camera at Abu Ghraib. The New Yorker, 2008 [on Lynndie England]
• Abu Ghraib, 10 Years Later NYT editorial, 2014
• Eight Years After Abu Ghraib, Lynndie England's Not Doing So Well, The Atlantic, 2012
• Iraq Prison Abuse Scandal Fast Facts, CNN 2018 [detailed timeline]
• 'It Was Torture': An Abu Ghraib Interrogator Acknowledges 'Horrible Mistakes', NPR Fresh Air, 2016
• A Torturer’s Confession: Former Abu Ghraib Interrogator Speaks Out. Democracy Now interview, 2016.
• 15 years after torture at Abu Ghraib, a historic ruling in the fight for accountability, Center for Constitutional Rights, 2018.

Sexual Assault Prevention at Reed

• Sexual Assault Prevention and Response at Reed (home page)

Violence Against Women

• Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Resources
  This resource guide was developed and launched through a partnership between the Global Women’s Institute (GWI)* at George Washington University, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the World Bank Group (WBG) in December 2014. The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) joined the partnership in June 2015.
• NOW and Violence Against Women
  National Organization of Women's online resources on violence.

 LGBT Issues and Violence

• Human Rights Campaign Resources on LGBT Hate Crimes
  Statistics on increasing incidence of hate crimes nationally, state legislation and more.

• Lambda Legal Anti-Violence Project
  National LGBT agency with long-standing anti-hate crime network. Information and statistics on hate crimes nationally, other online resources.
• GLAAD Report on Hate Crimes against LGBTQ people, 2019
• Barriers to Reporting Sexual Violence in LGBTQ Communities, Rainn.org, 2020

Activism/Community Work Resources

• Global Campaign for Microbicides
  This is the Washington D.C.-based international non-profit organization of which Lori Heise is the director. Dedicated to increasing investment in "user-controlled prevention methods" for HIV/AIDS and other STDs. Through advocacy, policy analysis, and social science research, the Campaign works to accelerate product development, facilitate widespread access and use, and protect the needs and interests of users, especially women.
• National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs:
  A coalition of programs that document and advocate for victims of violence/harassment, domestic violence, sexual assault, police misconduct and other forms of victimization. Site has a list of local anti-violence programs and publications. Hotline: 212.714.1141
• The Trevor Project:
  Help and suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth. Hotline: 866.488.7386
• LGBT National Hotline:
  Call center that refers to more than 15,000 resources across the country that support LGBTQ individuals. Hotline: 888.THE.GLNH (843.4564) pen pals, weekly LQB and T chatrooms for youth.
• FORGE (For Ourselves: Reworking Gender Expression):
  Home to the Transgender Sexual Violence Project. Provides services and publishes research for transgender persons experiencing violence and their loved ones.
• Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
  For 25 years, the OCADV has worked towards an end to gendered violence. The organization supported numerous successful grassroots efforts, including foundational legislation to make rape illegal within marriage and to make arrest mandatory for domestic abuse in Oregon. Their website includes a wide variety of resources for and about victims of domestic violence, as well as employment and volunteer opportunities.
• Call to Safety (formerly Portland Women’s Crisis Line)
  One of the first crisis lines of its kind in the US, the PWCL has been providing services to both male and female survivors of domestic and sexual assault since 1972. The organization runs a state-wide, toll-free crisis line that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Website includes educational resources and volunteer opportunities in the Portland area
• Bradley-Angle House
  Founded in 1975, Bradley-Angle House is the oldest domestic violence agency on the West Coast. In addition to emergency services such as a shelter and crisis line, Bradley-Angle House provides community education, long-term case management for survivors, and support groups. Volunteer opportunities are available on the website, as is a special page on same-sex domestic violence.
• Raphael House (Raphael House of Portland is a multi-faceted domestic violence agency dedicated to ending intimate partner violence for good. We serve individuals and families of all backgrounds, cultures, ages, and sexual orientations.)

Related Films Online

• Hirsh and Shah talk on their new book Sexual Citizens, Jan 2020.
• Justice and the Central Park Five, PBS, 2013 (Ken Burns' documentary on the wrongful arrests and convictions of the 5 black and Hispanic teens in the 1990 rape of a jogger in Central Park)
• Why don't boys see it as rape? CNN, 2013, Peggy Sanday's response to the Steubenville, OH rape case, includes cellphone footage of boys talking about it.
• "Censorship, Environmentalism, and Steubenville," Rochester University Economics professor Steven Landsburg's controversial blog post referring to the Steubenville case, 2013.
• "How blogger helped the Steubenville rape case unfold online," (NYT, 2013)
• Leaked video of drunk Steubenville boys joking about the rape victim (leaked by Anonymous, **Content Notes: this is graphic talk)
• "Steubenville: this is rape culture's Abu Ghraib moment," Laurie Penney's op-ed in the New Statesman, 2013
• "War Porn" supplemental links from the Frontline film "Digital Nation" to related videos about the increasingly "pornographic" representation of war in the digital age

Related Films in Reed Library

Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

• "Rape is...", 2002, 33 mins
  Featuring Eve Ensler, author and performer of the well-known Vagina Monologues, This half-hour documentary video explores the meaning and consequences of rape. This documentary looks at rape from a global and historical perspective, but focuses mainly on the domestic cultural conditions that make this human rights violation the most underreported crime in America.
• No Safe Place: Violence Against Women, 1996, 57 mins.
  Explores the origins of violence against women, includes the moving stories of women who have been assaulted, and interviews men who committed these crimes and experts who look at causes and solutions.
• Defending Our Lives, 1999, 30 mins.
  Shows the magnitude and severity of domestic violence in this country. This video features four women imprisoned for killing their batterers and their personal testimonies.

Pop Cultures of Gendered Violence

• "Wrestling With Manhood", 60 min. MEF, 2002. Drawing the connection between professional wrestling and the construction of contemporary masculinity, they [Sut Jhally and Jackson Katz] show how so-called 'entertainment' is related to homophobia, sexual assault and relationship violence."
• Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity, 2002, 105 mins
  Another Jhally-Katz film. Looks systematically at the relationship between the images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the end of the 20th century. Jackson Katz argues that there is a crisis in masculinity and that some of the guises offered to men as a solution (e.g., rugged individualism, violence) come loaded with attendant dangers to women, as well as other men.
• Game over : gender, race & violence in video games / produced and directed by Nina Huntemann Publication Northhampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2002. Discusses the controversial topic of video game violence. Encourages critical thinking about video games rather than dismissing the technology as harmless.
• Militainment, inc. 2007. offers a fascinating, disturbing, and timely glimpse into the militarization of American popular culture, examining how U.S. news coverage has come to resemble Hollywood film, video games, and "reality television" in its glamorization of war. Mobilizing an astonishing range of media examples - from news anchors' idolatry of military machinery to the impact of government propaganda on war reporting - the film asks: How has war taken its place in the culture as an entertainment spectacle? And how does presenting war as entertainment affect the ability of citizens to evaluate the necessity and real human costs of military action? The film is broken down into nine sections, each between 10 and 20 minutes in length, allowing for in-depth classroom analysis of individual elements of this wide-ranging phenomenon.
• Returning fire: interventions in video game culture / a Roger Stahl production ; in collaboration with the Media Education Foundation ; written, directed...by Roger Stahl Publication Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2011. Video games like Modern Warfare, America's Army, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now far outpace even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The sophistication of these games is undeniable, offering users a stunningly realistic experience of ground combat and a glimpse into the increasingly virtual world of long-distance, push-button warfare. Far less clear, though, is what these games are doing to users, our political culture, and our capacity to empathize with people directly affected by the actual trauma of war. For the culture-jamming activists featured in this film, these uncertainties were a call to action. In three separate vignettes, we see how Anne-Marie Schleiner, Wafaa Bilal, and Joseph Delappe moved dissent from the streets to our screens, infiltrating war games in an attempt to break the hypnotic spell of "militainment." Their work forces all of us -- gamers and non-gamers alike -- to think critically about what it means when the clinical tools of real-world killing become forms of consumer play.
• The price of pleasure : pornography, sexuality, & relationships / [presented by] Open Lens Media ; produced and directed by Miguel Picker & Chyng Sun Publication Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2008. "Once relegated to the margins of society, pornography has emerged as one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries, assuming an unprecedented role in the mainstream of our popular culture at the same time that its content has become more extreme and harsh, more overtly sexist and racist. This eye-opening and disturbing film places the voices of critics, producers, and performers alongside the observations of men and women as they candidly discuss the role pornography has played in shaping their sexual imaginations and relationships. The Price of Pleasure moves beyond the liberal versus conservative debates so common in the culture to paint a myth-busting and nuanced portrait of how pleasure and pain, commerce and power, liberty and responsibility have become intertwined in the most intimate areas of our lives".
• Not a love story : a film about pornography / National Film Board of Canada ; director, Bonnie Sherr Klein ; producer, Dorothy Todd Hénaut Publication New York : National Film Board of Canada, c1983. Explores the facts and problems of pornography and analyzes its impact on today's society.

Gendered and Race Hate Crime

• Blink, 2000, 57 mins
  Once a fanatical rising star in the white supremacist movement, Greg Winthrow grapples with a legacy of hatred handed down across generations in this haunting documentary. The film reveals how class divisions are masked by racial confict and follows the intense, angry and breathtakingly resourceful Winthrow as he grapples with his own redemption from a heritage of violence.
• The Brandon Teena Story, 1998, 90 mins
  Documentary film about Brandon Teena, who arrived in rural Falls City, Nebraska, in 1993 where he finds some new friends. Three weeks later he is brutally raped and beaten by friends who discover that he is actually a female. A week later the same two men murder Teena along with two other people. This is a tale of Brandon's coming of age struggle with identity and how his gender identity induced feelings of betrayal, confusion and hostility among residents of a town in America's heartland.
• Boys Don't Cry, 1999, 118 mins
  Feature film with Hilary Swank. The story of the life and murder of Brandon Teena, an FTM man in a small Nebraska town.

WATCH Film (Screen via Moodle), "Girl Model," 2011 (77 min)

Tues Nov 17- Sex Work and Agency

• READ: "What Makes a Photo Essay Unforgettable?" Alex Brown, Format, 2018.
• READ: Aguilar, Delia. Questionable claims: colonialism redux, feminist style," Race and Class.2000; 41 (3): 1-12. (ereserve).
• READ: Wardlow, Holly. Intro, Ch. 1 (pp. 1-62).Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society. Univ. of CA press, 2006. (bookstore, ereserve). **Content Notes: some narratives and discussion of interpersonal violence and sexual assault.

Thurs Nov 19 - Becoming "passenger women"

• READ: Wardlow, Holly. Ch. 4 "Becoming a Pasinja Meri", and OPTIONAL Ch. 5 "'Eating her Own Vagina': Passenger Women and Sexuality" (pp. 134-190). Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society. Univ. of CA press, 2006. (bookstore, ereserve). **Content Notes: some narratives and discussion of interpersonal violence and sexual assault.

Thanksgiving Break Nov 21-29 Campus/dorms close.

• Aguilar, Delia. "Questionable Claims: Colonialism Redux, Feminist Style" in Race and Class, 1997. (well-known Filipina feminist critiques sex work activism in U.S. and Europe).
• Alexander, Priscilla. "Prostitution: a Difficult Issue for Feminists," in Delacoste and Alexander, (Eds.) Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry. Cleis Press, 1987. (good source for earlier writings on prostitution, now called "sex work").
• Barry, Kathleen. (1995). The Prostitution of Sexuality. New York: New York University Press.
• Chapkis, Wendy. "Ch. 1 The Meaning of Sex" and pp. 58-66, pp. 83-96, in Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor, New York: Routledge, 1997. (on book reserve).
• Jennifer Cole. Transnational sex work. Vol 40. (2010.10).
• Day, Sophie. "What Counts as Rape? Physical Assault and Broken Contracts: Contrasting Views of Rape Among London Sex Workers," in Penelope Harvey and Peter Gow, (eds.), Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and Experience. London: Routledge, 1994. (16 pp). (on book reserve).
• Dunn, Kasia. "Prostitution, Pro or Con?" Portland Mercury, May 2002. (full text online, good balanced overview of the debates in Portland, Oregon between opposing groups serving men and women in the sex industry there).
• Ehrenreich, Barbara and Arlie Hochschild, eds. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002.
• Eichenwald, Kurt. "With Child Sex sites on the Run, Nearly Nude Photos Hit the Web," New York Times, 2006.
• Engle Merry, Sally. 2016. The Seductions of Quantification Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking. UChicago press.
• Gillen, Eric. "Why Does ChildSuperModels.com Exist Anyway?" on The Black Table blog, 2003. (interview with internet provider about why they used photos of scantily clad pre-teen girls to attract internet users).
• Hall, Kira. "Lip Service on the Fantasy Lines," in Hall and Bulcholtz, (Eds.), Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge, 1995. (26 pp.). (In bookstore and on book reserve). (about phone sex workers in California).
• Enloe, Cynthia. "Ch. 2: On the Beach: Sexism and Tourism," in Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. London: Pandora, 1989. (20 pg). (In bookstore, on book reserve).
• Frank, Katherine. G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire. Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 2002.
• Lane, Frederick. Obscene Profits: the Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age. New York: Routledge, 2000.
• Liepe-Levinson, Katherine. Strip Show: Performances of Gender and Desire. London: Routledge, 2002.
• McClintock, Ann. "Screwing the System: Sexwork, Race and the Law," boundary 2 19(2), 1992
• MacNair, Brian. Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire. London: Routledge 2002.
• Montgomery, Heather. "Children, Prostitution and Identity," in Kempadoo, Kamala and Jo Doezema, (Eds.). Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition. New York: Routledge, 1998. (10 pp). (in bookstore and on book reserve) (One of the more ethnographic of pieces in this edited volume).
• Noer, Michael. "The Economics of Prostitution," Forbes Magazine, 2006.
• Nestle, Joan. "Lesbians and Prostitutes: a Historical Sisterhood," in Delacoste and Alexander, (Eds.) Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry. Cleis Press, 1987.
• Penuala, May. "Transculture," Civil Society, or Capitalism?: An Interview with Delia Aguilar," Dec. 2000. (addresses in more detail Aguilar's critiques presented in her Questionable Claims" article.
• Raymond, Janice. "Prostitution as Violence Against Women: NGO Stonewalling in Beijing and Elsewhere," in Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 1-9, 1998. (trenchant criticism of recent sex work activism).
• Raymond, Janice. 10 Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution. Coalition Against Trafficking in Women International (CATW), (March 25, 2003)
• Rosen, Ruth. The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America. Viking, 2000. Chapter on the Sex Debates of the 1980's.
• Ryan, Chris and C. Michael Hall. Sex Tourism: Marginal People and Liminalities, London: Routledge, 2001.
• Ulysse, Gina. Downtown Ladies. [Good intro chapter on race, feminism and native anthro/reflexivity in ethnography]
• Williams, Phil, ed. Illegal Immigration and Commercial Sex: the new Slave Trade. London: Frank Cass, 1999.
• Zheng, Tiantian. Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China. University of Minnesota Press, 2009
• --------------------.ed. Sex Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice. 2010 – Routledge

Girl Model (2011)

• Q & A with directors Ashly Sabin and David Redmond (includes comments from women who have modeled in Japan, and from the new US-based Model Alliance, Youtube, 2012)
• Girl Model, an Interview with Ashly Sabin (SPARK Movement, 2012)
• Girl Model Kickstarter campaign (to fund an audience outreach project around the film)
• Phelan, Hayley. “The Complicated Backstory Behind New Doc Girl Model: Why Its Subject, Model Nadya Vall, Is Furious Over Her Portrayal.” Fashionista. 20 Mar. 2012. Web. 22 Apr. 2016.
• Makers of Girl Model Respond to Nadya Vall. mommyish, 2012.
• The Model Alliance (New York-based advocacy org, NOT a union!, for models, mentioned in Q & A with the directors). Website: The Model Alliance promotes fair treatment, equal opportunity, and sustainable practices in the fashion industry, from the runway to the factory floor. By assisting models and other stakeholders in understanding the laws applicable to them, and by encouraging them to have a voice in their work, the Model Alliance identifies common areas of concern in the fashion industry, conducts strategic research with leading research institutions to inform policy initiatives, and educates the industry and the public about our core issues. [The UK and Denmark now have unions for models, not the U.S., where all models, no matter the age, are treated as 'independent contractors,' and thus not entitled to protections].
• Why Models Need Labor Unions. (LA Times Op-Ed by a former model, 2016).

Multimedia Resources

• World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights (1985) (Wikipedia)
• Sex Workers Make History: 1985 and 1986--The World Whores' Congresses (pdf)
• Prostitution Research Online
  Psychologist and Researcher Melissa Farley's comprehensive site. Includes full-text articles, fact sheets and more.
• Unicef on Child Sexual Exploitation
  
• Prostitute's Education Network (PEN)
• List of stats on US prostitution
  PEN's statistics up through the 1980s.
• Human Trafficking Reports and Stats

Children, Sexuality and Moral Panics: The QAnon Conspiracy re: Child Sex Trafficking Online (2020) (curated by anthro senior Paul Molamphy '20)

• “What is QAnon, the Viral Pro-Trump Conspiracy?” (New York Times, Sep. 2020) This article details the rise of the QAnon conspiracy and the beliefs of its followers, as well as offering a few possible examples for why QAnon is so popular.
• “What Is #SaveTheChildren and Why Did Facebook Block It?” (Rolling Stone, Aug. 2020) Outlines how QAnon latched onto existing social media campaigns about child sex trafficking to spread their conspiracy.
• “It Makes Perfect Sense That QAnon Took Off With Women This Summer” (Slate, Sep. 2020) The author explains how the QAnon conspiracy is particularly well-positioned to spread through online spaces dominated by women, such as ‘new mother’ Facebook pages and skin care Instagram influencers.
• Twitter thread from Marc-André Argentino on “Pastel QAnon” (Sep. 1 2020) Dives into specific examples of the aesthetic and branding strategies that QAnon supporters use to garner support via Instagram pages dedicated to influencers, mommy pages, fitness pages, diet pages, and alternative healing.
• Video: Republican Congressional nominee Marjorie Taylor Greene details her belief in QAnon conspiracy (from Nov 26 2017) In a Facebook Live video from November, Congressional nominee Marjorie Taylor Greene expressed her belief in many aspects of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Greene is overwhelmingly favored to win the Congressional election for Georgia’s 14th congressional district.

Community Work/Activism (Abroad)

• Empower (Thai Sex Worker Advocacy group)
• Empower film about NGOs and police trying to rescue them (Youtube)

Community Work/Activism (U.S.)

Portland Stripper Strike (2020)

• Portland Stripper Strike (Instagram)
• Haymarket Pole Collective. Advocacy NGO for Black and indigenous workers in adult entertainment in Portland, founded by Cat Hollis. Hosted Stripper Strike, 2020. Their intro: The Haymarket Pole Collective is a group of autonomous sex workers who share a common vision of our labor liberated from the binds of racism, patriarchy, ableism, and other oppressive structures. We recognize the centuries of exploitation against BIPOC workers in our industry, and realize we hold the means of production in our collective action. Our existence has always been counter-culture, profiting off the male-gaze and relying on mutual aid. In an effort to alleviate the systematic pressures of the status quo, we now join hands, click heels, and dance together as a unified front.
• A Labor Movement Demands Better Treatment for Portland’s Black Strippers. Williamette Weekly, June 2020
• Black Exotic Dancers Demand Better Treatment With ‘Stripper Strike’. Rolling Stone, June 2020. [Why did Rolling Stone editors put this story in the "culture" section???]
• I Started Portland’s Stripper Strike—We Still Have Serious Work to Do. Vogue, June 2020 [Vogue also put this story in their "culture" section'; belies the very title of the article].

• Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
  NGO with international branches. CATW "works internationally to combat sexual exploitation in all its forms, especially prostitution and trafficking in women and children, in particularly girls." Has an extensive and searchable online resource library with full-text downloadable articles, legislation, international agreements, and speeches.
• Danzine
  Portland based zine and advocacy group for sex workers, created May 1995 by women exotic dancers, lingerie models and escorts. Folded in 2003.
• Sex Worker Outreach Project SWOP is a Portland Oregon based blog. SWOP Portland is dedicated to community through support, education, outreach and activism.  Our goal is to end violence and discrimination against sex workers and people who trade sexual services for money or other compensation.  We welcome all sex workers no matter race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, or socioeconomic status.
• Sex Workers Outreach Coalition
  SWOC is a Portland, Oregon based coalition of social service providers concerned with the safety, dignity, and diversity in needs of those working in the sex industry. It is our goal to educate ourselves and our community regarding the issues most relevant to sex workers in an effort to reduce associated risks of the sex trade and promote basic human rights for all those working in the sex industry.
• Sex Traders' Radical Outreach and Liberation Lobby (STROLL), founded and based in Portland. It's founder and director, Red, also runs the quarterly zine Working It, contributes to the sex worker group blog titsandsass.com, and was the co-plaintiff in the suit against Casa Diablo three years ago.
• Oregonians Against Traffiking Humans
  Oregonians Against Trafficking Humans (OATH) was established in 2008 by the Oregon Human Trafficking Task Force (OHTTF) to encourage citizens to “Take The Oath” to help combat the growing scourge of human trafficking within the state of Oregon.
• Abolition Now
  Portland-based Christian organization against human traffiking. Website: Portland has a high incident rate per capita for the sexual victimization of women, teens, and children in the United States. We believe that God has placed His Church in the center of this moral devastation to be agents of His grace in bringing healing and freedom to those trapped in, and by, this depravity. We know that local churches working together with civic organizations can significantly impact this destructive victimization.
• YES Youth Ending Slavery
  Founded in 2012 by 5 St Mary's Academy students. YES is an entirely student-led 501(c)3 nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon. Our mission is to combat modern-day slavery by raising awareness about its prevalence in the world and empowering youth to be advocates for change. Educating youth about the existence of slavery is crucial because the rising generation has both the opportunity and responsibility to create a world where unjust practices in the name of profit are not tolerated.
• The Sex Workers Project
  Created in December 2001, the Sex Workers Project is the first program in New York City and in the country to focus on the provision of legal services, legal training, documentation, and policy advocacy for sex workers. Using a harm reduction and human rights model, the SWP protects the rights and safety of sex workers who by choice, circumstance, or coercion remain in the industry.
• Network of Sex Work Projects
  NSWP is a legally constituted international organization for promoting sex workers' health and human rights. With member organizations in more than 40 countries, the Network develops partnerships with technical support agencies to work on independently-financed projects. NSWP is currently in the process of establishing a new official board of directors, made up of regional representatives from Asia Pacific, Africa, Latin America, Europe and North America.
• Half the Sky Movement
  Portland resident and New York Times op-ed columnist Nicolas Kristof and his wife Sheryl Wudunn's controversial NGO. Website: The Half the Sky Movement is cutting across platforms to ignite the change needed to put an end to the oppression of women and girls worldwide, the defining issue of our time. Inspired by journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book of the same name, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide brings together video, websites, games, blogs and other educational tools to not only raise awareness of women's issues, but to also provide concrete steps to fight these problems and empower women. Change is possible, and you can be part of the solution.

Youtube

• Inside Amy Schumer skit, "Judging Strippers," (Comedy Central 2015)

Films in Reed Library

Pornography

• Not a Love Story: a Film about Pornography, 1983 (69 min)
  Early feminist look at pornography and its impacts.
• The price of pleasure : pornography, sexuality, & relationships. director: Miguel Picker & Chyng Sun; producer: Miguel Picker & Chyng Sun. Once relegated to the margins of society, pornography has emerged as one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries, assuming an unprecedented role in the mainstream of our popular culture at the same time that its content has become more extreme and harsh, more overtly sexist and racist. This eye-opening and disturbing film places the voices of critics, producers, and performers alongside the observations of men and women as they candidly discuss the role pornography has played in shaping their sexual imaginations and relationships. The Price of Pleasure movies beyond the liberal versus conservative debates so common in the culture to paint a myth-busting and nuanced portrait of how pleasure and pain, commerce and power, liberty and responsibility have become intertwined in the most intimate areas of our lives.

Sex Work in the U.S. and Europe

• Female misbehavior, 80 min, 1992
  Four short films featuring controversial women and provocative sexual issues. "The first film ... is a confrontation with the infamous author of 'Sexual Personae' Camille Paglia. The second film ... is an inside look at Annie Sprinkle, porn star, performance artist and sexual diva. The third film ... centers on an S&M practitioner, Carol, and her use of pain as pleasure. The final film ... is the story of a transexual's journey from female to male"
• Live Nude Girls Unite! 2001 (70 min).
  Follows Julia Query, a peepshow stripper, on her journey to help organize the only strippers union in the US. Good companion to the 1983 film on pornography for a glimpse at different feminist positions on sex and sex work, and the shift in discourse in the 90's towards "sex-positive" views of sex workers' agency.
• Diagnosing difference. director: Annalise Ophelian; producer: Annalise Ophelian
  A documentary film featuring thirteen transgender and genderqueer scholars, artists, and activists discussing the impact and implications of the Gender Identity Disorder diagnosis on their lives and communities. Discusses sex work.

Global Sex Work and Traffiking

• Sisters and Daughters Betrayed, 1996 (28 min)
  A report on the practice in Southeast Asia of selling women into virtual slavery for prostitution.
• "Rape is...", 2002, 33 mins
  Featuring Eve Ensler, author and performer of the well-known Vagina Monologues, This half-hour documentary video explores the meaning and consequences of rape. This documentary looks at rape from a global and historical perspective, but focuses mainly on the domestic cultural conditions that make this human rights violation the most underreported crime in America. Considers global sex traffic in women and children.
• Trading women. director: David A. Feingold; producer: Dean W. Slotar, David A. Feingold
  Narrated by Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie, the documentary investigates the trade in minority girls and women from the hill tribes of Burma, Laos and China, into the Thai sex industry. Filmed on location in China, Thailand and Burma, Trading Women follows the trade of women in all its complexity, entering the worlds of brothel owners, trafficked girls, voluntary sex-workers, corrupt police and anxious politicians. The film also explores the international community's response to the issue
• Remote sensing. director: Ursula Biemann; producer: Ursula Biemann
  The sex industry has become a business without borders. As sex industries expand, they seek out new global markets, and often new and younger victims. This video essay discusses the routes and reasons women travel across the globe for work in the sex industry.
• In the name of love. director: Shannon O'Rourke; producer: SOR Productions
  What's motivating the thousands of Russian women who sign up with agencies to meet and marry American men? From the gray skies of St. Petersburg to sunny California ranches, we see the financial and emotional pros and cons of exporting one's heart. The film grapples with the tremendous economic challenges and difficult decisions facing Russian women today.
• India cabaret. director: Mira Nair; producer: Mira Nair
  This video examines the lives of several cabaret dancers in Bombay, India. A comparison is drawn between their lives and the life of a "virtuous wife". One of the dancers leaves the cabaret life to marry and become "respectable" at the end.
• Looking for China girl. director: BBC Education & Training; producer: Sophie Todd
  This program raises the question, what happens when women become a rare commodity? China Girl is a documentary that explores China's one child policy which was introduced as a measure to stabilise China's burgeoning population and now has resulted in over 500,000 abortions and many more girls being killed once they have been born. The program looks at the underlying issues, from the increase of professional women in China who have rejected their traditional role, to the overwhelming lack of women in the provinces and why China's crime rate has tripled in the last 20 years, with police struggling with loutish behavior, gangs and the disappearance of young women.
• Night stop. director: Licinio Azevedo; producer: Licinio Azevedo
  This documentary tells of the lives of eight prostitutes living in northern Mozambique. They reveal their individual stories of pregnancy, the search for a husband, unrequited love, violence and resignation. While the women are aware of the dangers of HIV and AIDS, they continue to have unprotected sex. Also illustrates the world of the truck drivers as they talk among themselves.
• Sita, a Girl from Jambu = Bichari Sita. director: Kathleen Man; producer: Salmon Pictures
  Reveals how uneducated, rural Nepalese girls are tricked and lured into sexual slavery. Focusing on one girl's journey into the brothels of Mumbai, the film is an adaptation of a street play performed by rural Nepalese girls, whose performance is also featured in the film. This innovative blend of documentary and fiction both expands our notion of cinematic genre and extends the broader social message that people can make a difference in their communities
• Tokyo girls. director: Penelope Buitenhuis; producer: Gillian Darling Kovanic
  This program explores the phenomenon of attractive women from the West who work as nightclub hostesses in Japan. A cheaper version of the geisha, a hostess is hired to talk and flirt with her customers. Although she is well paid, sex is usually not part of the transaction. The film traces the stories of several Canadian women.

Tues Dec 1 Futures and Alternatives?

• READ: Mohanty, Chandra. "Under Western Eyes Revisited." Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Duke, 2003. (ereserve, bookstore).
• READ: Berry, M.J., Arguelles, C.C., Cordis, S., Ihmoud, S., and Estrada, E.V. (2017), Toward a Fugitive Anthropology: Gender, Race, and Violence in the Field. Cultural Anthropology, 32: 537–565. (26 pp.) (ereserve). **Content notes: some discussion of sexual assault and gendered violence in fieldwork.

Thurs Dec 3 Reflection and presentations

• Come prepared with some ideas for your final photo essays to present to the class, and we'll discuss a particular question you pose for us via Moodle (eg., a particular theorist's approach you want to clarify, a key term you're still unclear on, a writing or ethics dilemma, advice on how two different theorists might dialogue or conflict, a question on how to apply a particular kind of analysis).
• Everyone should post ONE such question by 4 pm Wed on the Moodle discussion forum for Thursday; and then by 5 pm Wed comment on/respond to your blog partner's question.

DUE: 1200-1500 word Photo Essay, due Friday Dec 11, 8 pm (Google Doc or Google Slides, placed in your course Google Drive folder, along with all of your photos).

 Further Reading

• Davis, Heath Fogg. Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? New York, NY: New York University Press, 2017, [reviewed favorably by Suisui Wang in Gender & Society, argues against use of sex-classification discipline in 4 arenas, argues for importance of sex-identity discrimination as a term, and for continued importance of theoretical distinction btw sex and gender, vs. pomo conflations.
• Enloe new book.
• hooks, bell. Feminism is for Everyone.
• Studying Gender and Neoliberalism Transnationally: Implications for Theory and Action. Catherine Kingfisher, in the forthcoming; Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century; Ellen Lewin (Editor), Leni M. Silverstein (Editor) (spring 2016, ordered for lib)
• Lancaster, Roger. Ch's 24-26, The Trouble with Nature: Sex in science and Popular culture. California, 2003.
• Mohanty's most recent update to her piece under western eyes, in 2013 special issue of Signs re: intersectionality
• Mohanty, Chandra. 2013. “Transnational Feminist Crossings: On Neoliberalism and Radical Critique.” Signs 38(4):967–91