This Page Contains Information About the Following:

1. Readings on the course: Notes or Study Questions 
2. Background readings for the course: Notes or Study Questions 

(these are optional unless indicated by the instructor) 
3. Feminist Popular Culture Sites of Interest 
4. Resources on Electronic Hypertext 
5. List of other readings on the course 

For some of you, the concepts raised in the critical writings may be familiar. Others will find the material challenging because of unfamiliar terms. In order to make certain that all of us are working together on this project called learning, I would like you to pair up with another student whose intellectual experiences are different from you own. That is to say, if you are from a non-literary or cultural studies background, link up with someone who is. If you have studied film and are familiar with film theory, take the time to find someone who has little experience in this area. We will discuss this process of collaboration in class. 

  

1. Readings on the course: Notes or Study Questions    

Frances Bonner, Lizbeth Goodman, Richard Allen, Linda Janes and Catherine King , eds. Imagining Women: Cultural Representations and Gender London: Open University Press, 1992: 1-19. 

bell hooks. "Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination." Cultural Studies. Eds. Lawrence Grossberg et al. London: Routledge, 1992: 338-342. 

Nancy Miller. ''Getting Personal: Autobiography as Cultural Criticism.'' Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts. New York: Routledge, 1991: 1-30. 

  

2. Background readings for the course: Notes or Study Questions  
   (these are optional unless indicated by the instructor) 

Tania Modleski "Femininity as mas(s)querade: a feminist approach to mass culture''

Raymond Williams "Base & Superstructure in Marxist Theory" 

Mixed race women's issues and critical perspectives.
Several students in both classes have requested references about mixed race women's issues and critical perspectives. The following is a preliminary list. 

Gloria Anzaldua. Borderlands:La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco:
Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1987. 

Homi Bhabha. "Introduction: Locations of Culture." The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994: 1-18. 

Carol Camper, ed. Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women. 
Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1994.

Janice Gould. "The Problem of Being "Indian": One Mixed-Blood's Dilemma." De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography." Eds. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 1992: 81-87 

Francoise Lionnet. Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture. Ithaca: Cornell, 1989. 

Lewis Owens. Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel . Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1992. 

Kateri Dam. an essay on aboriginal identity in Journal of Canadian Studies, 1996. (This writer teaches at the E'nowkin School of Native Writing in BC.) 

 

3. Feminist Popular Culture Sites of Interest: 

• Feminist Cyber Resources (includes search engines and websites)
• For a feminist philosopher's analysis of Princess Di's death, See: Rosi Braidotti "In the Sign of the Feminine: Reading Diana" Theory & Event 1.4 (1997) 

(note: in order to download this file, you must be accessing it from your gpu account since the Muse group of journals is available through the University of Alberta) 
• article from Feed electronic magazine on Ally McBeal (feminist pop cult)
• women and computing resources
• Jeannette Armstrong: For more  biocritical information: see Jeannette Armstrong.For an essay on her novel Slash that introduces many compelling ideas about reading/writing and pedagogy, see: Luke, Robert. "Towards a Holotropic Pedagogy: A Metaphor for Cross-Cultural Communication. JeannetteArmstrong's Slash and Native Education in Canada."

 

 

4. Resources on Electronic Hypertext 

George Landow's Hypertext  (search for gender matters and queer studies sites) 

Nancy Kaplan "E-Literacies: Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print" 

See David Miall's hypertext course for information on making web pages and for discussion 

 

5. Other readings on the course:  

Janice Williamson "Notes on Storyville North: Circling West Edmonton Mall." LifeStyle Shopping: The Subject of Consumption. Ed. Rob Shields. London: Routledge, 1992: 216-232. 

Williamson "Pedestrian Notes on West Edmonton Mall (18min)

Stuart Hall. "Chapter 1: The Work of Representation."Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. Ed. Stuart Hall. London: Sage, 1997: 1-64.

Rosemary Betterton. "Feminism, Femininity and Representation." Looking On: Images of Femininity in the Visual Arts and Media. London: Pandora, 1987.

Background Reading: John Storey. "Feminism." An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1993: 125-153.

  Background Reading: Jo Anne Isaak. "The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter." Feminism and Contemporary Art: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter. London: Routledge, 1996. 

several videos by Shawna Dempsey & Laurie Millan

Jane Gallop Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment. Durham: Duke UP, 1997.
(Purchase this book at Orlando Books 10640 Whyte Avenue (492-7633)) 

    Electronic discussion netsite with Jane Gallop TBA