Critical Works:
Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own (Selected chapter)
Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex (chapter xi, Myth and Reality)
Betty Friedman “The Feminine Mystique”(Selected chapters)
Helen Cixous The Laugh of the Medusa (Excerpt)
John Stuart Mill On the Subjection of Women
Barbara Smith Toward a Black Feminist Criticism
Judith Butler Gender Trouble(Selections)
Adrienne Rich Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Michel Foucault The History of Sexuality (Selections)
Sean Nixon “Exhibiting Masculinity” in Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Ed. Stuart Hall)
Michael S. Kimmel “Masculinity as Homophobia” in The Gender of Desire: Essays on Male Sexuality
Mattilda B. Sycamore (ed.) Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
Literary Texts:
Thomas Mann Death in Venice
Kate Chopin Wiser than a God (women’s creativity)
Mahashweta Devi “Draupadi” (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s translation from Breast Stories)
Doris Lessing To Room Nineteen
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale
Alice Walker The Color Purple
Rudyard Kipling “If”
Adrienne Rich “Diving into the Wreck”