pre-lim list #2

I feel much better today. But, since it's the end of the semester, not much has happened here. Although, with the amount of work I have to do, a lot should be happening. So, since I don't want the rest of you to be bored until something exciting happens in my life (utter sarcasm), here's my second pre-lim list. This is my shortest list and the list I like the least, but the list will get shorter. I've read more than the highlighted ones, but I didn't take very good notes, so I'm reading them again (I'm a masochist). Enjoy and I'll give you a quiz on Friday.

Modern European Women's history pre-lim list

General Theory/History
Joan Wallach Scott, “Gender as a Useful Category of Analysis”
---“Gender: Still a Useful Category?”
Denise Riley, Am I that Name? Feminism and the Category of “Women” in History
Bonnie Smith, Gender of History
Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity
Bonnie G. Smith, Changing Lives
Bridenthal, Stuard, Wiesner, Becoming Visible.
Barbara Clements, Russia’s Women


I. The Sexualization of Women

Tom Lacqueur, Making Sex
Lumilla Jordanova, Sexual Visions
Londa Schiebinger, Nature’s Body

II. Rise of the Domestic System

A. Politics and the French Revolution
Scott, Only Paradoxes to Offer, introduction and chapter one (Olympe de Gouges).
Hunt, Family Romance
Hesse, The Other Enlightenment
Sara Melzer and Leslie Rabin, Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution
Darlene Levy, Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1989-95, “Declaration on the Rights of Women” by Olympe de Gouges, and “The National Convention Outlaws Clubs and Popular Societies of Women.”

B. Industrial Revolution
Laura Frader and Sonya Rose, eds. Gender and class in Modern Europe.
Joan Scott, “L’Ouvriere! Mot impie, Sordid. . . .”: Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840-1860.” in Gender and the Politics of History.
Deborah Valenze, The First Industrial Woman.
Laura Tabili, “Women of a Very Low Type,” in Gender and class in Modern Europe, eds. Laura Frader and Sonya Rose.
Leonore Davidoff, “Class and Gender in Victorian England,” Feminist Studies, 5 (Spring) 1979.
Barbara Engel, Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work and Family in Russia, 1861-1914.

C. Middle Class Domesticity

Mary Poovey, Uneven Developments
Leonore Daviddoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes
Michelle Perrot and Alain Corbin, A History of Private Live
Leora Auslander, “The Gendering of Consumer Practices in 19th Century France,” in The Sex of Things by Victoria de Graza

III. Sex, Nature and Empire

Antionette Burton, The Burden of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915.
George Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality
Antionette Burton, ed. Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernity.
Margaret Strobel, Gender, Sex and Empire.

A. Introduction: Gender and Race
Judith Butler, “Passing, Queering: Nella Larsen’s Psychoanalytic Challenge,” in Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex”.
Neil McMaster, Racism in Europe
Mrinalini Sinha, “Gender in the Critiques of Colonialism and Nationalism: Locating the ‘Indian Woman’” in Feminism and History, ed. Joan Scott.

B. Nationalism, Antisemitism and the Jew
Christopher Forth, The Dreyfus affair and the crisis on French manhood.
John M. Hoberman, “Otto Weininger and the Critique of Jewish Masculinity,” in Nancy A Harrowitz, Barbara Hyams, and Nancy Hyams, eds. Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger.
Ritchie Robertson, “Historicizing Weininger: The Nineteenth-Century German Image of the Feminized Jew, ‘ in Modernity, Culture and “the Jew,” eds. Bryan Cheyette and Larua Marcus.
Otto Weininger, Sex and Character.

Janis Bergman-Carton, “Negotiating the Categories: Sarah Bernhardt and the Possibilites of Jewishness,” Art Journal, 55, no. 2 (Sep. 1996): 55-64.
Jean Radford, “The Woman and the Jew: Sex and Modernity” in Modernity, Culture and “The Jew,” eds. Bryan Cheyette and Laura Marcus.
Stephen Wilson, Ideology and Experience.

C. Race, Gender and the Creation of Empire

Lisa Lowe, Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms.
Douglas Northrop, Veiled Empire: Gender & Power in Stalinist Central Asia.
Gregory Massell, The Surrogate Proletariat: Moslem Women and revolutionary strategies in Soviet Central Asia, 1919-1929.
R. Kh. Aminova, The October Revolution and Women’s Liberation in Uzbekistan.

Nayereh Tohidi, “The intersection of Gender, ethnicity and Islam in Soviet and post-Soviet Azerbaijan,” Nationalities Papers [Great Britian], 1997, 25(1), 147-167.
----, “’Soviet in public, Azeri in private’,” Gender, Islam and Nationality in Soviet and post-Soviet Azerbaijan,” Women’s Studies International forum, 1996, 19(1-2), 111-123.
Leonore Davidoff, “Missionary Stories: Gender and Ethnicity in England in the 1830s and 1840s,” in White, Male and Middle Class: Exploration in Feminism and History.
Catherine Hall, Civilizing Subjects Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867.
Kathleen Wilson, The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the 18th Century.

Jenny Sharpe, “The Civilizing Mission Disfigured,” in Allegories of Empire: The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text.
Margaret Strobel, European Women and the Second British Empire.

Alice Conkiln, “Redefining ‘Frenchness’” Citizenship, Race Regeneration and Imperial Motherhood in France and West Africa, 1914-1940, “ in Domesticating the Empire, eds. Julia Clancy Smith and Frances Gouda.
Choi Chatterjee, “Ideology, Gender and propaganda in the Soviet Union: a historical survey,” Left History [Canada] 1999 6(2), 11-28.

D. Challenging the Category of “Woman”
Habiba Fathi, “Otines: The Unknown women clerics of Central Asian Islam,” Central Asian Survey [Great Britain], 1997 16(1), 27-43.
Shoshana Keller, “Trapped between State and Society: Women’s liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926-1941,” Journal of Women’s History, 1998 10(1): 20-44.
Janaki Nair, “Uncovering the Zenana: Visions of Indian Womanhood in Englishwomen’s Writings, 1813-1940,” in Journal of Women’s History 2, 1 (Spring, 1990): 8-34.
Margaret Strobel and Nupur Chaudhuri, Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses,” in Dangerous Liasions, eds. McClintock, Mufti and Shohat.

IV. The Decline of the Domestic System

A. The New Women and Feminism
Erica Rappaport, Shopping for Pleasure: Gender in the Making of London’s West End.
Judy Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight.
Elaine Showalter Sexual Anarchy
Lisa Tickner, The Spectable of Women
Laura Engelstein, The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle Russia.
Alexandria Kollontai, “Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations,” “The Winged Eros,” and “The Family and the Communist State.”
Wendy Z. Goldman, Women, the State & Revolution: Soviet Family Policy & Social Life, 1917-1936.

B. Women and War
Higonnet et at. Behind the Lines
Billie Melman, Borderlines: Gender and Identities in War and Peace.
Mary Louise Roberts, Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927.
Birgitte Soland, Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s.
Cynthia Simmons, Writing the Siege of Leningrad.
Svetlana, Alexievich, “’I am Loath to Recall’: Russian Women soldiers in World War II,” in Women’s Studies Quarterly, 23, 23-24, p.78.