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Gender andSexuality

Dodson. Don't Call Us. Pp. 50-82.

Ross, Ellen, and Rayna Rapp. "Sex and Society." In Powers of Desire. Edited by AnnSnitow et al. Pp. 51-73.

Rubin, Gayle. "The Traffic in Women." In Toward an Anthropology of Women. Edited

by Rayna R. Reiter. 1975. Pp. 157-77. [Optional pp. 178-210].

Peiss, Kathy. "Charity Girls and City Pleasures," Rennie Simson. "The Afro-American

Female," and Amber Hollibaugh, and Cherrie Moraga. "What We're Rollin Around inBed With: Sexual Silences in Feminism," and Joan Nestle. "My Mother Liked toFuck." In Powers of Desire. Pp. 73-88, 229-35, 394-405 and 468-70.

"The Nature of the Beast: What is a Lesbian?" Pp. 29-49.

Clausen, Jan. "My Interesting Condition." Out/Look (Winter 1990): 11-21.

Pornography,Rape, and thePolitics of Consent

Pateman, Carole. "Women and Consent." In The Disorder of Women. Pp. 71-89.

Marcus, Sharon. "Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of RapePrevention." In Feminists Theorize the Political. Edited by Judith Butler, and Joan W.Scott. Pp. 385-403.

Benedict, Helen. "Blindfolded: Rape and the Press's Fear of Feminism." In Feminism,Media. Edited by Fineman, and McCluskey. Pp. 267-72.

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. "The Mind That Burns in Each Body: Women, Rape and RacialViolence," and Ann Barr Snitow. "Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is

Different." in Powers of Desire. In The Politics of Sex . Pp. 329-333, 245-63.

Cuklanz, Lisa M. Rape on Trial: How the Mass Media Construct Legal Reform and Social Change. (1996): 1-32.

Gender andMothering


Ashe, Marie. "'Bad Mothers' and Welfare Reform in Massachusetts: The Case of Claribel Ventura." InFeminism, Media. Edited by Fineman, and McCluskey. Pp. 203-16.

Pollitt, Kathe. "'Fetal Rights': A New Assault on Feminism," and Annette R. Appell. "OnFixing 'Bad' Mothers and Saving Their Children." In "Bad Mothers": The Politics of Blame in Twentieth-Century America. Edited by Molly Ladd-Taylor, and LauriUmansky. 1998. Pp. 285-98 and 356-80.

Ragone, Helena. "Chasing the Blood Tie: Surrogate Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, andFathers," and Lopez, Iris. "Agency and Constraint: Sterilization and ReproductiveFreedom Among Puerto Rican Women in New York City." Situated Lives. Pp. 110-27

and 157-171.

The Welfare State


Fraser, Nancy, and Linda Gordon. "'Dependency' Demystified: Inscriptions of Power ina Keyword of the Welfare State." Social Politics 1, 1 (Spring 1994): 4-31.

Lubiano, Wahneema. "Black Ladies, Welfare Queens, and State Minstrels: Ideological

War by Narrative Means." In Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power. Edited by ToniMorrison. 1992. Pp. 323-63.

Mink, Gwendolyn. "The Lady and the Tramp: Gender, Race, and the Origins of theAmerican Welfare State." In Women, the State, and Welfare. Edited by Linda Gordon.1990. Pp. 92-122.

"Welfare: Facts and Fictions," Ms. (May/June 1995): 93,



Dodson, Lisa. Don't call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

Enloe, Cynthia. Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives. Berkeley: Universityof California Press, 2000.

Lamphere, Louis, Helena Ragone, and Patricia Zavella, eds. Situated Lives: Gender and Culture inEveryday Life. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Snitow, Ann, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, eds. Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality. New York: New Left Review Press, 1983.

and "Welfare." Ms. (July/Aug. 1995): 50-61.

0 The Political Sphere


Duke, Lois Lovelace, ed. Women in Politics: Outsiders or Insiders? Prentice Hall, 1996.Pp. 33-44, 78-99, 127-143, 175-186, 199-214, 295-313 and 322-337.

1Militarism andGender

Cohn, Carol. "Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals."

In Feminist Theory in Practice and Process. Edited by Micheline R. Malson et al. Pp.107-138.

Pohl, Frances K. "Ritual and Sacrifice at Tailhook '91: A Documentary Exhibition andPolitical Action." InWomen Transforming the Political. Edited by Cathy J. Cohen et al.1997. Pp. 238-55.

Enloe, Cynthia. Maneuvers. Pp. 1-34 and 108-52.

2InternationalPolitics

Stoler, Ann L. "Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality inTwentieth-Century Colonial Cultures," Jean Comaroff. "The Empire's Old Clothes,"

Faye V. Harrison. "The Gender Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment: A Viewfrom Jamaica." Pena, Devon G. "The Mirror of Exploitation." InSituated Lives. Pp. 373-419 and 451-85.

Enloe. Maneuvers. Pp. 49-53, 68-79 and 235-87.

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Concluding

Thoughts andStudentPresentations


Enloe. Maneuvers. Pp. 103-7 and 288-300.