丁乃非  性/別理論專題:同性戀研究

Intro to Queer Studies in English

Spring 2005         DING Naifei

Tuesday 1400-1700 C2-437

dingnf@cc.ncu.edu.tw [subject: QS2005]

Office Hours: Monday 1600-1800, Tuesday 1700-1800


Tentative Schedule:

February 22            Introduction

 

Unit 1: lesbian feminisms, lavender cultures

March 1

Audre Lorde, 「Uses of the Erotic」 in Sister Outsider, 1984, pp. 53-59

Adrienne Rich, 「Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence」 in Blood, Bread, and Poetry, 1986, pp. 23-75

Monique Wittig, 「One Is Not Born a Woman」 (1980) 「The Straight Mind」 (1981) in The Straight Mind and Other Essays, 1992, pp. 9-32

March 8

Gayle Rubin, 「Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality」 in Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, Pandora1989, pp. 267-319

Gayle Rubin with Judith Butler, 「Sexual Traffic, Interview」 in Feminism Meets Queer Theory, Indiana 1997, pp. 68-108, originally volume 6, summer-fall 1994, of Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies

March 15

Lisa Duggan, 「Making It Perfectly Queer」 in Queer Innovation: Transforming Gender, Sexuality, and Social Movements, Socialist Review Volume 22, No. 1, January-March 1992, pp. 11-31

Arlene Stein, 「Sisters and Queers: The Decentering of Lesbian Feminism」 in Socialist Review 22:1, 1992, pp. 33-55

 

Unit 2: identity formations

March 22

David Halperin, 「Sex Before Sexuality」 in Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (Penguin, 1989), pp. 37-53

John D』Emilio, 「Capitalism and Gay Identity」 in Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University, Routledge, 1992, 3-16

Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy & Madeline D. Davis, 「To cover up the truth would be a waste of time」 and 「I could hardly wait to get back to the bar」 in Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (1993, 1994), pp. 1-66

March 29

Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, 1993, 2004

Samuel R. Delany, 「Aversion, Perversion, Diversion」 in Negotiating Lesbian and Gay Subjects, Monica Dorenkamp and Richard Henke (eds), Routledge: 1994, pp. 7-33

April 5             HOLIDAY

April 12 (to be rescheduled)

April 19

Joan Nestle, 「The Femme Question」 in The Persistent Desire, pp. 138-146

Amber Hollibaugh & Cherrie Moraga, 「What We』re Rollin』 around in Bed With: Sexual Silences in Feminism: A Conversation toward Ending Them」 in The Persistent Desire, pp. 243-254

Gayle Rubin, 「Of Catamites and Kings: Reflections on Butch, Gender and Boundaries」 in The Persistent Desire, 466-482

 

Unit 3: cultural theories, cultural activisms

April 26

Cindy Patton, 「Containing African AIDS in LGSR, pp. 127-140

Simon Watney, 「AIDS and the Politics of Queer Diaspora, in Negotiating Lesbian and Gay Subjects, Routledge: 1994, pp. 53-70

May 3     Prof. Amie Parry

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 「Introduction: Axiomatic」 and 「Epistemology of the Closet」 in Epistemology of the Closet (UC Press, 1990), pp. 1-90

May 10  

D.A. Miller, 「Anal Rope」 in Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, ed. Diana Fuss. New York: Routledge, 1991, pp. 119-141

Lee Edelman, 「Homographesis」 from Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory, Routledge: 1994, pp. 3-23

May 17   Prof. Fran Martin

Annamarie Jagose, 「Limits of Identity」 and 「Queer」 in Queer Theory: An Introduction, pp. 58-100

May 24   Prof. Fran Martin

Judith Butler, Introduction and 「Critically Queer」 from Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 『Sex』, London and New York: Routledge, 1993, pp. 1-26, 223-242

Sarah E. Chinn, 「Gender Performativity」 in Andy Medhurst and Sally R. Munt (eds), Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Critical Introduction, London: Cassell, 1997, pp. 294-308.

 

Unit 4:同性戀研究/酷兒論述

May 31  

寧應斌,1997,〈獨特性癖與社會建構:邁向一個性解放的新理論〉,《性/別研究的新視野》,元尊:1997109-189

朱偉誠,〈臺灣同志運動的後殖民思考:論「現身」問題〉。《從酷兒空間到教育空間》。編:何春蕤。麥田人文35。臺北:麥田,20001-25

葉德宣,1995,〈陰魂不散的家庭主義魑魅─對詮釋《孽子》諸文的論述分析〉,《中外文學》1995:12

趙彥寧,2000,〈老T搬家:酷兒文化公民論的物質基礎〉,論文發表於「女『性』主體的另類提問.Part II」學術研討會,行政院國科會人文處主辦、中央大學性/別研究室承辦,1126

June 7     劉人鵬教授

劉人鵬、丁乃非,1998,〈罔兩問景:含蓄美學與酷兒政略〉,《性/別研究》nos. 3 & 4「酷兒理論與政治」專號(中壢:中央大學性/別研究室),109-155頁。

Hans Tao-Ming Huang, 「Policing Sex: State Power, Prostitution and the Establishment of the Sexual Order Under the Police Offence Law in Postwar Taiwan - Towards a Genealogical Critique of 『Virtuous Custom』」 in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies

June 14

陳雪,《惡女書》

邱妙津,《鱷魚手記》

 

June 21

Project Presentations

 

WORK:

1.      Weekly journal: write a 1-2 paragraph response to one item in each week』s assigned readings (40%).  These responses could be in the form of short essays focusing on one aspect or question of the reading, or they may record your reflections on the reading in the form of passages which you return to and develop in dialogue with other readings in the course of the semester.  Ideally, you might develop a thesis for a final paper out of one or a series of these responses.

2.      Final paper or project (50%).  Project: research and make up an annotated bibliography or write a 10-15 page bibliographic essay describing and developing a unit for a projected 「Taiwan Queer Studies」 seminar.

3.      Attendance and participation: 10%

READINGS:

 

1.      Xeroxed materials (Gaoguan Xerox Center)

2.      Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory: An Introduction (NYU 1996)

3.      Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, Firebrand: 1993

EXTENDED READINGS: