Core List is everything we read for whole semester
* designates extra reading done by grad students
(ED) and (VW) refer to examples of practical criticism about Emily Dickinson or Virginia Woolf
H&W : essay in Feminisms by Herndl and Warhol
MF: excerpt in Modern Feminisms ed. by Maggie Humm
1927 Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (VW)
1934 Genevive Taggard, excerpt from The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson (ED)
1949/53 Simone deBeauvoir, The Second Sex (excerpt in MF)
1949 Joseph Campbell, charts based on The Hero with a Thousand Faces
1963 Betty Friedan, exerpt from The Feminine Mystique
1963 Ellen Moers, excerpt from Literary Women
1970 Kate Millet, Sexual Politics Chapter One: Instances of Sexual Politics"
1971 John Cody, "Sunset at Easter" from After Great Pain (ED)
1974 Alice Walker, "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" (VW)
1975 Helene Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa"
1975 Adrienne Rich, "Vesuvius at Home: the Poetry of Emily Dickinson" (ED)
1977 Elaine Showalter, A Literature of Their Own ;
*"Virginia Woolf's Flight into Androgyny" (VW)
1978 Nancy Chodorow, excerpt from The Reproduction of Mothering MF
1978 Judith Fetterley, "The Politics of Literature" and "Palpable Designs" from The Resisting Reader W&H
1978 Jane Thompkins, "Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin" W&H
1979 Albert Gelpi, "Emily Dickinson and the Deerslayer: The Dilemma of the Woman Poet in America" (ED)
1979 Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, "Infection in the Sentence" from The Madwoman in the Attic (ED)
1979 Carolyn Heilbrun, "Bringing the Spirit Back to English Studies"
1979 Elaine Showalter, excerpt from "Towards a Feminist Poetics" MF
1980 Nina Baym, "Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of
American Fiction Exclude Women Authors" H&W
1980 Adrienne Rich, excerpt from "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" in MF
1980 Annette Kolodny, "Dancing Through the Minefield" H&W
1981 Ann Rosalind Jones, "Writing the Body: Toward an Understanding of l'Ecriture feminine" W&H
1981 Carol Pearson and Katherine Pope, excerpts from The Female Hero in British and American Literature
1981 Catherine Stimpson, "Zero Degree Deviancy: The Lesbian Novel in English" H&W
1981 Bonnie Zimmerman, "What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Criticism" W&H
1981 Angela Davis, from "Women, Race and Class" MF
1982 Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice (excerpt in MF)
1982 Barbara Mossberg, excerpt from When a Writer is a Daughter (ED)
1982 Jonathan Culler, "Reading As a Woman" W&H
1982 Jane Marcus, "Storming the Toolshed" H&W (VW)
1983 Joanna Russ, "Anomalousness" and "Aesthetics" from How to Suppress Women's Writing W&H
1983 Lillian Robinson, "Treason Our Text" H&W
1983 Barbara Christian, "Trajectories of Self-Definition: Placing Contemporary Afro-American Women's Fiction" H&W
1985 Gilbert and Gubar "Women's Studies and Feminist Criticism" from A Classroom Guide to Accompany The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women
1985 Judith Kegan Gardiner, "Mind Mother: Psychoanalysis and Feminism"
1985 *Kora Caplan, "Pandora's Box: Subjectivity, Class, and Sexuality in Socialist Feminist Criticism" H&W
1985 *Toril Moi "Who's Afraid of VIrginia Woolf?" from Sexual/Textual Politics (VW)
1985 *Annis Pratt, "Spinning Among Fields"
1987 Nellie McKay, "Reflections on Black Women Writers: Revising the Literary Canon" H&W
1987 Hazel Carby, "It Just Be's Dat Way Sometime: The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues" H&W
1987 *Jane Marcus, "Sapphistry:Narration as Lesbian Seduction" in VW and the Language of Patriarchy (VW)
1987 Joyce Ladner, from Intro to Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman in Society MF
1988 *Gilbert and Gubar, Excerpt from The War of the Words, Vol. I of No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century
1988 *Linda Alcoff, "Cultural Feminism vs. Post-Structuralism"
1989 Elaine Showalter, "A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory" H&W
1990 Barbara Smith, "The Truth that Never Hurts: Black Lesbians in Fiction in the 1980"s" H&W
1992 Maggie Humm, " History of Feminism in Britain and America" MF
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