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PHIL 20046: Feminism | University of Melbourne | Winter Intensive | 2020 [Please do not circulate or cite without permission]. Lecturer Holly Lawford-Smith [email protected] Tutors Holly Lawford-Smith | [email protected] Kate Phelan | [email protected] Sun Liu | [email protected] Morgan Weaving | [email protected] Handbook Description “Feminism is for everybody”! “Men have no place on the women’s march!”. “If your feminism isn’t intersectional, it’s bullshit!” “It is not the job of feminism to care about all injustice everywhere!”. “Feminism is about women’s equality with men!”. “Feminism isn’t about equality with men, it’s about women’s liberation from what men have created!” These are all familiar claims, and yet they pull in completely different directions. What is feminism? Who is it for? Can men be feminists, or only allies? What is intersectionality, and must feminism be intersectional? In this subject we’ll critically consider a range of feminist theories, including both radical feminism and liberal feminism, and from all four ‘waves’ (with an emphasis on second wave feminism). We’ll also consider a range of applied topics like prostitution and pornography, inclusion of transwomen, theories of gender, gendered social norms, and reproductive rights. Schedule Week 1 Monday 6th July | Lectures 1 & 2 | Tutorial 1 Tuesday 7th July | Lectures 3 & 4 | Tutorial 2 Wednesday 8th July | No classes Thursday 9th July | Lectures 5 & 6 | Tutorial 3 Friday 10th July | Lectures 7 & 8 | Tutorial 4 Week 2 Monday 13th July | Lectures 9 & 10 | Tutorial 5 Tuesday 14th July | Lectures 11 & 12 | Tutorial 6 Wednesday 15th July | No classes Thursday 16th July | Lectures 13 & 14 | Tutorial 7 Friday 17th July | Lectures 15 & 16 | Tutorial 8 Week 3 Monday 20th July | Lectures 17 & 18 | Tutorial 9 Tuesday 21st July | Lectures 19 & 20 | Tutorial 10 Wednesday 22nd July | No classes Thursday 23rd July | Lectures 21 & 22 | Tutorial 11 Friday 24th July | Lectures 23 & 24 | Tutorial 12

Topic overview Week 1 Lectures 1 & 2 | What is ideology? & Women as a caste Lectures 3 & 4 | What is oppression? & Are women oppressed? Lectures 5 & 6 | Trailblazers, types, waves Lectures 7 & 8 | Are women the same as men, or different from men? Week 2 Lectures 9 & 10 | Patriarchy: origins, mechanisms Lectures 11 & 12 | Patriarchy: solutions & the place of men Lectures 13 & 14 | Objectification & beauty norms Lectures 15 & 16 | Prostitution & pornography Week 3 Lectures 17 & 18 | Reproductive rights & self-ownership Lectures 19 & 20 | Women and work Lectures 21 & 22 | Trans/gender Lectures 23 & 24 | Intersectionality

Compulsory assessment A 1,000 word essay due Sunday 19th July 11.59pm, worth 25% of total grade A 3,000 word essay due Sunday 2nd August 11.59pm, worth 75% of total grade Hurdle requirement*: students must attend a minimum of 75% of tutorials in order to pass this subject. All pieces of assessment must be submitted to pass this subject. *COVID-19 alternatives to satisfying the hurdle requirement: if you lack the technology to participate in online tutorials, or simply prefer to meet the hurdle requirement in another way, you can replace attending live tutorials with either 9x substantive contributions to discussion boards, or sending your tutor 9x brief emails throughout the semester with some critical reflections on any of the readings, ideas discussed in lectures, or video interviews. The usual flexibility applies for medical certificates and APAs; if you submit less than 7x pieces of work then you will need to apply for Special Consideration.

Option for feedback prior to assessment If you haven’t taken an Arts subject before (and so written essays for assessment) then you are welcome to write a mini-paper which I will give you feedback on before the first piece of assessed work is due. A 500 word essay component due Tuesday 7th July 11.59pm, unmarked.* Note: no extensions. There is no teaching on Wednesdays, so this is the only day available for me to mark these and get you fast feedback that will be useful in writing your first essay. *Further detail on this option available in the Canvas site for the course.

Courses you can take if you like this one PHIL30052: Race and Gender: Philosophical Issues https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/2020/subjects/phil30052 GEND30005: Gender Diversity in the Workplace https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/subjects/gend30005 HPSC20023: Sex in Science https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/2020/subjects/hpsc20023

Books with an overview of different types of feminism Tong, Rosemary. Feminist Thought (Colorado, Westview Press, 1989). Jaggar, Alison. Feminist Politics and Human Nature (Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1983).

The full immersion experience If you want to fully immerse yourself in feminism throughout the Winter Intensive, here are some suggestions for further things to watch, listen to, or read! Watch: ‘Feminists: What Were They Thinking?’ (documentary interviewing prominent feminists whose portraits were published in the 1977 book ‘Emergence’—available on Netflix). ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ (about the women’s liberation movement in the US from 19661971—available at http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com/). ‘Mrs America’ (new television series starring Cate Blanchett, loosely based on the prominent figures of the American second-wave—available on iTunes). ‘I Am Not An Easy Man’ (French romantic comedy imagining men’s and women’s gender roles perfectly reversed—available on Netflix). ‘After Porn Ends’ (documentary talking to people who have worked in porn about what they’re up to now—available on Netflix). ‘Hot Girls Wanted’ (documentary following 18-25 year old girls entering amateur pornography for the first time—available on Netflix). ‘Eggsploitation’ (documentary about the exploitation of women as egg providers for the surrogacy and IVF industries—available from https://vimeo.com/ondemand/eggs). ‘Hot Girls Wanted: Turned on’ (television series covering a range of topics including ‘feminist pornography’ (Episode 1), being in pornography as a ‘cam girl’ (Episode 5), and the filming of sexual crimes (Episode 6)—available on Netflix. ‘Ti-Grace Atkinson: A Biography of Ideas’ (a compilation of clips and information about Ti-Grace Atkinson, arguably the first of the radical feminists—available on YouTube). ‘The Rachel Divide’ (documentary about Rachel Dolezal, an ethnically white woman who identifies as black, which has interesting parallels to cross-gender identification)—available on Netflix. ‘But What Was She Wearing?’ (documentary about workplace sexual harassment in India – the first feature-length documentary on this subject. Available from https://gumroad.com/vaishax). ‘Unorthodox’ (a television series based on a novel written by a woman who escaped from an utraorthodox Jewish community–available on Netflix).

Listen to: Feminist Current: https://www.feministcurrent.com/category/podcasts/ The Guilty Feminist: https://guiltyfeminist.com/episodes/ (IMO the older episodes with Sofie Hagen are the best) Popaganda: https://www.bitchmedia.org/feminist-podcasts/popaganda Gail Dines at the 2011 Sydney Writer’s Festival, talking about her book Pornland: https://www.wheelercentre.com/broadcasts/gail-dines Read (feminist fiction): Naomi Alderman, The Power. Roxanne Gay, Difficult Women. Lexi Freiman, Inappropriation. Lisa Taddeo, Three Women. Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs. Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. Chimamanda Ngoza Adichie, Americanah. Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart. Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body & Other Parties. Laura Elizabeth Woollett, The Love of a Bad Man. Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness. Read (popular & contemporary feminist non-fiction): Leta Hong Fincher, Betraying Big Brother. Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do? Helen Lewis, Difficult Women. Deborah Cameron, Feminism: A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, and Politics of the Movement. Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women. Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender. Cordelia Fine, Testosterone Rex. Daphna Joel, Gender Mosaic. Ijeoma Oluo, ‘The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black’, The Stranger, 19th April 2017. Bindel, Julie. ‘The ugly side of beauty’, The Guardian, 2nd July 2005. Roxanne Gay, Hunger. Read (pre- second wave): Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex. Read (second-wave): Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex. Ti-Grace Atkinson, Amazon Odyssey. Somer Brodribb, Nothing Mat(T)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism. Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique. Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality. Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts. Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy. Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider. Catherine MacKinnon, A Feminist Theory of The State. Kate Millett, Sexual Politics. Janice Raymond, The Transsexual Empire.

Readings Week 1 Lectures 1 & 2 What is ideology? & Women as a caste Required reading Hacker, Helen Mayer. ‘Women as a Minority Group’, Social Forces 30/1 (1951), pp. 60-69. Recommended readings Lecture 1: What is ideology? Saul, Jennifer. ‘Dogwhistles, Political Manipulation, and Philosophy of Languauge’, in Daniel Fogal, Daniel Harris, & Matt Moss (Eds.) New Work on Speech Acts (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018). Stanley, Jason. How Propaganda Works (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), Chapter 2. Leiter, Brian., & Leiter, Samuel. ‘Not Your Grandfather’s Propaganda’, The New Rambler, 12th October 2015. Online at https://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/philosophy/not-your-grandfather-sphilosophy. Brennan, Jason. ‘Propaganda about Propaganda’, Critical Review, 29/1 (2017), pp. 34-48. Mills, Charles. ‘Ideology’, in Ian Kidd, José Medina, & Gaile Polhaus Jr. (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice (Abingdon : Routledge, 2017), pp. 100-111. Sankaran, Kirun. ‘What’s new in the new ideology critique?’ Philosophical Studies 177/5 (2020), pp. 14411462. Sunstein, Cass. ‘Traveling in Herds’, in Why Societies Need Dissent (Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2003), Chapter 3. Sunstein, Cass. ‘The Law of Group Polarization’, The Journal of Political Philosophy, 10/2 (2002), pp. 175195. Lecture 2: Women as a caste Hacker, Helen Mayer. ‘Women as a Minority Group’, Social Forces 30/1 (1951), pp. 60-69. Gunnarsson, Lena. ‘A defence of the category ‘women’’, Feminist Theory 12/1 (2011), pp. 23-37. MacKinnon, Catharine. ‘Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory’, Signs 7/3 (1983), pp. 515-544. Millett, Kate. ‘Theory of Sexual Politics’, in Sexual Politics (Great Britain: Virago Press, 1977), Chapter 2. Firestone, Shulamith. ‘The Dialectic of Sex’, in The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970), Chapter 1. Hoff Sommers, Cristina. ‘Women Under Siege’, in Who Stole Feminism (New York: Touchstone, 1994), Chapter 1.

Lectures 3 & 4 What is oppression? & Are women oppressed? Required reading Dworkin, Andrea. ‘The Herstory’ in Woman-Hating (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1974), Part Three, pp. 91-150. Recommended reading Theories of oppression Frye, Marilyn. ‘Oppression’, and ‘In And Out Of Harm’s Way’, in The Politics of Reality (New York: Crossing Press, 1983), pp. 1-16, & 52-83.

Iris Marion Young. ‘Five faces of oppression’, in Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), Chapter 2, pp. 39-65. Atkinson, Ti-Grace. Amazon Odyssey (New York: Links Books, 1974). Atrocities against women Clack, Beverley. ‘A tradition of misogyny’, The Philosopher’s Magazine, Summer 1999, p. 47-48. Dworkin, Andrea. ‘The Fairy Tales’, and ‘The Herstory’ in Woman-Hating (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1974), Part One, pp. 29-49, & Part Three, pp. 91-150. Dworkin, Andrea. ‘Feminism: An Agenda’, in Letters From a War Zone (New York: Lawrence Hill Books, [1988] 1993) pp. 133-152. Jeffreys, Sheila. ‘Military Prostitution’, in The Industrial Vagina (Abingdon: Routledge, 2009), Chapter 5. Manne, Kate. ‘Humanizing Hatred’, in Down Girl (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), Chapter 5. French, Marilyn. ‘Introduction’, in The War Against Women (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1992).

Lectures 5 & 6 Trailblazers, Types, Waves Required reading Wollestonecraft, Mary. ‘Observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes’, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London: Arcturus [1792] 2017), Chapter IV, pp. 73-104. Recommended readings Trailblazers Pizan, Christine de. The Book of the City of Ladies. Rosalind Brown-Grant (Trans.). (London: Penguin, [1405] 1999), Part I, pp. 5-11 & pp. 78-80.. Gouges, Olympe de. Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (1791). Taylor Mill, Harriet. ‘Enfranchisement of Women’ (1851), in Alice Rossi (Ed.) Essays on Sex Equality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970), Chapter 3. Taylor Mill, John Stuart. ‘The Subjection of Women’ (1869), in Alice Rossi (Ed.) Essays on Sex Equality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970), Chapter 4. Wollstonecraft, Mary. ‘Observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes’, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London: Arcturus [1792] 2017), Chapter IV, pp. 73-104. Woolfrey, Joan. ‘Olympe de Gouges’, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Online at https://www.iep.utm.edu/gouges/ Types (overview) Jaggar, Alison. ‘The Politics of Liberal Feminism’, in Feminist Politics & Human Nature (USA: Rowman & Littlefield, 1983), Chapter 7, pp. 173-206. Jaggar, Alison. ‘The Politics of Radical Feminism’, in Feminist Politics & Human Nature (USA: Rowman & Littlefield, 1983), Chapter 9, pp. 249-302. Tong, Rosemary. ‘Socialist Feminism’, in Feminist Thought (Colorado, Westview Press, 1989), Chapter 6, pp. 173-193. Tong, Rosemary. ‘Postmodern Feminism’, in Feminist Thought (Colorado, Westview Press, 1989), Chapter 8, pp. 217-233. Waves—United States & United Kingdom Pankhurst, Emmeline. [Extracts from] My Own Story (London: Vintage, [1914] 2018). MacKinnon, Catharine. ‘Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory’, Signs 7/3 (1982), pp. 515-544. hooks, bell. ‘Black women: Shaping Feminist Theory’, in Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre (London: Pluto Press, [1984] 2000), pp. 1-17. Cameron, Deborah. ‘What is Feminism?’ in Feminism: A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, & Politics of the Movement (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), pp. 1-12.

Types (more detail) Kreps, Bonnie. ‘Radical Feminism 1’, in Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, & Anita Rapone (Eds.) Radical Feminism (New York: Quadrangle, 1973). Fahs, Breanne. ‘Ti-Grace Atkinson and the Legacy of Radical Feminism’, Feminist Studies 37/3 (2011), pp. 561-590. Wendell, Susan. ‘A (Qualified) Defense of Liberal Feminism’ Hypatia 2/2 (1987), pp. 65-93. Faludi, Susan. ‘Death of a Revolutionary’, The New Yorker, 8th April 2013. Online at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/15/death-of-a-revolutionary Video interview Interview with Dr. Kate Phelan, about feminism as ‘epic theory’.

Lectures 7 & 8 Are women the same as men, or different from men?

Required reading Fine, Cordelia. ‘Explaining, or Sustaining, the Status Quo? The Potentially Self-Fulfilling Effects of ‘Hardwired’ Accounts of Sex Differences’, Neuroethics 5/3 (2012), pp. 285-294. Recommended reading Sex differences Fine, Cordelia. ‘Explaining, or Sustaining, the Status Quo? The Potentially Self-Fulfilling Effects of ‘Hardwired’ Accounts of Sex Differences’, Neuroethics 5/3 (2012), pp. 285-294. Fine, Cordelia. ‘From Scanner to Sound Bite: Issues in Interpreting and Reporting Sex Differences in the Brain’, Current Directions in Psychological Science 19/5 (2010), pp. 280-283. Jaggar, Alison. ‘Sex Inequality and Bias in Sex Differences Research’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 13 (1987), pp. 24-39. Gilligan, Carol. ‘Revisiting “In a Different Voice”’, LEARNing Landscapes 11/2 (2018), pp. 25-30. Human natures & essentialism Stotz, Karola., & Griffiths, Paul E. ‘A Developmental Systems Account of Human Nature’, in Why We Disagree About Human Nature, Tim Lewens & Elizabeth Hannon (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Stoljar, Natalie. ‘Essence, Identity, and the Concept of Woman’, Philosophical Topics 23/2 (1995), pp. 261-293. The law MacKinnon, Catharine. ‘Difference and Dominance’, in Feminism Unmodified (Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1987), pp. 32-45. Tong, Rosemary. ‘Liberal Feminism’, in Feminist Thought (Colorado, Westview Press, 1989), Chapter 1, pp. 22-28. (Section ‘Liberal Feminism in the Twentieth Century: The Pluses and Minuses of Treating Women and Men the Same’). Listen Sharon Moalem v. Gina Rippon, ‘The genetic gender gap’, BBC Start the Week, 6th April 2020. Online at bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000h2c0 Video interview Interview with Professor Cordelia Fine, about her work on sex differences.

Week 2 Lectures 9 & 10 Patriarchy: origins, mechanisms Required reading Firestone, Shulamith. The Dialectic of Sex (New York: Farrar, Giroux & Strauss, 1970), Chapter 6, ‘Love’. Recommended readings Origins Lerner, Gerda. ‘A Working Hypothesis’, in The Creation of Patriarchy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), pp. 36-53. O’Connor, Cailin. ‘The Evolution of Gender’, in The Origins of Unfairness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 84-102. Pateman, Carole. ‘Patriarchal Confusions’, in The Sexual Contract (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988), Chapter 2, pp, 19-38. Reed, Evelyn. ‘Introduction’, in The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, by Frederik Engels (New York: Pathfinder Press, 1972). Mechanisms Atkinson, Ti-Grace. ‘Radical feminism and love’, in Amazon Odyssey (New York: Links Books, 1974), pp. 41-45. Bicchieri, Cristina. ‘Norm Change’, in Norms in the Wild (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), Chapter 3. Atkinson, Ti-Grace. ‘Radical Feminism and Love’ (1969), in Amazon Odyssey (New York: Links Books, 1974). Weisstein, Naomi. ‘Psychology Constructs the Female, or, The Fantasy Life of the Male Psychologist (with some attention to the fantasies of his friends, the male biologist and the male anthropologist)’, in Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, & Anita Rapone Radical Feminism (New York: Quadrangle, 1973), pp. 178198.

Lectures 11 & 12 Patriarchy: solutions & the place of men Required reading hooks, bell. ‘Men: Comrades in Struggle’, in Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre (London: Pluto Press, [1984] 2000), Chapter 5. Recommended reading Solutions Wittig, Monique. ‘The Category of Sex’, Feminist Issues, Fall ([1976] 1982), pp. 63-68. Firestone, Shulamith. ‘The Ultimate Revolution: Demands and Speculations’, in The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970), Chapter 10, pp. 175-216. Millett, Kate. ‘Sexual Politics: A Manifesto for Revolution’, in Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, & Anita Rapone Radical Feminism (New York: Quadrangle, 1973), pp. 365-367. The Feminists. ‘The Feminists: A Political Organization to Annihilate Sex Roles’ in Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, & Anita Rapone Radical Feminism (New York: Quadrangle, 1973), pp. 368-378. New York Radical Feminists. ‘Politics of the Ego: A Manifesto for New York Radical Feminists’, in Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, & Anita Rapone Radical Feminism (New York: Quadrangle, 1973), pp. 379383. Asta. ‘Sex and Gender: From Beauvoir to Butler’, in Categories We Live By (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), Chapter 3, pp. 54-69.

On the place of men Atkinson, Ti-Grace. ‘Declaration of War’, in Amazon Odyssey (New York: Links Books, 1974), pp. 47-55. Frye, Marilyn. ‘Some Reflections on Separatism and Power’, in The Politics of Reality (New York: Crossing Press, 1983). hooks, bell. ‘Men: Comrades in Struggle’, in Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre (London: Pluto Press, [1984] 2000), Chapter 5. King, Tania., Shields, Marissa., Sojo, Victor., Daraganova, Galina., Currier, Dianne., O’Neil, Adrienne., King, Kylie., & Milner, Alison. ‘Expressions of masculinity and associations with suicidal ideation among young males’ BMC Psychiatry 20/228 (202...