Gender Theory & Criticism


Primary Sources   I   Gender Theory & Criticism


Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barele, and David M. Halperin, eds., The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (1993).

M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, eds., Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (1996).

Michèle Barrett, Women’s Oppression Today: Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis (1980, rev. ed., Women’s Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter, 1988).

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacres et simulation (1981, Simulacra and Simulations, trans. Sheila Faria Glaser, 1994).

Simone de Beauvoir, Le Deuxieme Sexe (1949, The Second Sex, trans. H. M. Parshley, 1953).

Diane Bell and Renate Klein, eds., Radically Speaking (1996).

Dennis Bingham, Acting Male: Masculinities in the Films of James Stewart, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood (1994).

Marcellus Blount and George P. Cunningham, Representing Black Men (1996).

Robert Bly, Iron John (1990).

Joseph Allen Boone and Michael Cadden, eds., Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism (1990).

Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw (1995).

Avtar Brah, Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities (1996).

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Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter (1993).

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (1990).

Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power (1997).

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Richard Dyer, White (1997).

Tim Edwards, Erotics and Politics: Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity, and Feminism (1994).

Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub, eds., Bodyguards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity (1991).

Rebecca Blevins Faery, Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex in the Shaping of an American Nation (1999).

Frantz Fanon, Peau noire, masques blancs (1952, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lan Markmann, 1967).

Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors (1997).

Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth, eds., Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture (2002).

Jane Flax, Thinking Fragments (1990).

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Ruth Frankenberg, White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (1993).

Nancy Fraser, Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory (1989).

Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963).

Marjorie Garber, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (1992).

Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (1979).

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Eileen Green and Alison Adam, eds., Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption, and Identity Matters (2001).

Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (1994).

Paul Hammond, Love between Men in English Literature (1996).

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Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (1999).

Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Toward a Recognition of Androgyny (1973).

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bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies (1996).

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Jacques Lacan, "Le Stade du miroir comme formateur de la fonction du Je" (1949, Écrits, 1966, "The Mirror Stage as a Formative of the Function of the I," Écrits: A Selection, trans. Alan Sheridan, 1977).

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Nina Lykke and Rosi Braidotti, eds., Between Monsters, Goddesses, and Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations with Science, Medicine, and Cyberspace (1996).

Larry McCaffery, ed., Storming the Reality Studio (1991).

Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Conquest (1995).

Anne McClintock, Aamir Mufti, and Ella Shohat, eds., Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives (1997).

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Nancy K. Miller, ed., The Poetics of Gender (1986).

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Juliet Mitchell, Psychoanalysis and Feminism (1974).

Juliet Mitchell, Woman’s Estate (1971).

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Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourse," Third World Women and The Politics of Feminism (ed. Mohanty et al., 1991).

Toril Moi, Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (1985).

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Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992).

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Uma Narayan and Sandra Harding, eds., Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World (2000).

Steve Neale, "Masculinity as Spectacle: Reflections on Men in Mainstream Cinema," Screen 6 (1983).

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Rictor Norton, The Myth of the Modern Homosexual: Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity (1997).

Mary Ann O’Farrell and  Lynne Vallone, eds, Virtual Gender: Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment (1999).

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Carole Pateman, "Feminist Critiques of the Public/Private Dichotomy," Feminism and Equality (ed. Anne Phillips, 1987).

Fred Pfeil, White Guys: Essays in Postmodern Domination (1995).

Joseph H. Pleck, The Myth of Masculinity (1981).

Shirin Rai, Gender and the Political Economy of Development: From Nationalism to Globalization (2001).

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Jacqueline Rose, Sexuality in the Field of Vision (1986).

Peter Schwenger, Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Literature (1984).

Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (1988).

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985).

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Elaine Showalter, Speaking of Gender (1989).

Kaja Silverman, The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (1988).

Kaja Silverman, Male Subjectivity at the Margins (1992).

Siobhan B. Somerville, Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (2000).

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Susan Stryker, ed., The Transgender Issue (1998).

Calvin Thomas, ed., Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality (2000).

Trinh T. Minh-ha, When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation and Cultural Politics (1991).

Trinh T. Minh-ha, Woman, Native, Other (1989).

Edmund White, The Burning Library (1994).

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Sharon Willis, High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film (1997).

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