Theories of Inequality Syllabus
Gender & Sexuality Studies 152, University of California, Riverside
Dr. Tanya Rawal-Jindia
Email: trawa001@ucr.edu
Office Hours: T/R 1–4 CHASS INTN 2050
Assignments:
Participation: 10%
4 Articles: 60% (15% each; due Week 6 — Nov. 3, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9)
Final Exam Article: 30% (due finals week)
*anything underlined is hyperlinked, so click =)*
Week 0: Introduction
September 22, 2016
What is equality? To whom do you want to be equal?
Week 1: Class Inequality
September 27, 2016
Read: Mila D. Aguilar’s “To A Social Democrat” (Pg. 8)
September 29, 2016
Read: Karl Marx’s “The Wages of Labor”
Week 2: Sex Work
October 4, 2016
Watch: Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
Guest Lecture: “Whorephobia from the 19th Century: The legacy of Marx and Freud” (Vanessa Carlisle, MFA, PhD Candidate)
October 6
Read: Gayle Rubin’s “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality”
Read: Carole Pateman’s What’s Wrong with Prostitution? (1999)
Week 3: Equal Pay For Equal Work!
October 11, 2016
bell hooks’ Feminism is For Everybody (Introduction + pgs 1–54)
October 13, 2016
bell hooks’ Feminism is For Everybody (Introduction + pgs 55–118)
Week 4: Dear Seemingly Left-Wing, Forward-Thinking Media, Replace ‘Prostitution’ with ‘Sex Work’ and help us work towards DECRIMINALIZATION
October 18, 2016
Watch: Law and Order: SVU, Season 16, Episode 5 “Pornstar’s Requiem” and Episode 15 “Undercover Mother” (available on Hulu)
Read: Selections from Kamala Kempadoo’s Trafficking and Prostitution Considered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights
October 20, 2016
Read: Gayle Rubin’s “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex” (1975)
Read: “No Rock Scorns Me As Whore” from This Bridge Called My Back (1981; pgs. 243–245)
Week 5: So Deregulation for Corporate Persons Equals Regulation for Non-Corporate Persons?
October 25, 2016
Read: Wendy Brown’s “Walled Democracy, Porous Sovereignty”
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October 27, 2016
Watch: The Corporation (2003)
Week 6: Beyond Equality
November 1, 2016
Maya Angelou’s “Equality” (1990)
Read: Luisa Muraro’s “The Passion of Feminine Difference Beyond Equality”
November 3, 2016
“Equality is what is offered as legal rights to colonized people. And what is imposed on them as culture. It is the principle through which those with hegemonic power continue to control those without.” -CARLA LONZI
Read: Carla Lonzi’s “Let’s Spit on Hegel”/”Sputiamo su Hegel” (note page numbers)
Week 7: Difference
November 8, 2016
Read: Joan W. Scott’s “Deconstructing Equality-versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism”
November 10, 2016
Screen: Rosi Braidotti’s interview on ‘Crisis, Capital, and Austerity’ with Open Democracy
Week 8: “Dialogue and Difference”
November 15, 2016
Read: Marguerite Waller’s “‘One Voice Kills Both Our Voices’: ‘First World’ Feminism and Transcultural Feminist Engagement” from Dialogue and Difference (2005; pgs 113–142)
November 17, 2016
Read: Corinne Kumar’s “South Wind: Towards a New Political Imaginary” from Dialogue and Difference (2005; pgs. 165–199)
Read: Audre Lorde’s “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House” from This Bridge Called My Back (1981; pgs. 98–106)
Is everyone a special snowflake?!
Read: Trinh T. Minh-ha’s “Difference: ‘A Special Third World Women Issue’” from Woman, Native, Other (1989; pgs. 79–118)
Week 9: History of Sexuality
November 22: Read Foucault, “We Other Victorians” and “The Repressive Hypothesis”
November 24: HOLIDAY.
Week 10: History of Sexuality
November 29: Read Foucault, “The Deployment of Sexuality”
December 1: Read Foucault, “The Right of Death and Power Over Life”
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