İKA 705 Class and Gender

İKA 705 Class and Gender 2011-2012, Fall Assoc.Prof.Dr.Hande Seber

Tentative Reading List

From A Critical and Cultural Reader. Ed. Antony Easthope and Kate McGowan Gender S.Freud “On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love” H.Cixous from “Sorties” L.Mulvey from “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” G.C.Spivak from “Displacement and the Discourse of Woman”

From British Cultural Studies: Geography, Nationality, and Identity. Ed. D. Morley and K.Robins Linda McDowal “Changing Cultures of Work: Employment, Gender and Lifestyle” Angela McRobbie “Good Girls, Bad Girls? Female Success and the New Meritocracy” Sean Nixon “Resignifying Masculinity: From ‘New Man’ to ‘New Lad’” Ken Plummer “Gay Cultures / Straight Borders” Alan Tomlison “Sport, Leisure, and Style”

From The Cultural Studies Reader. Ed. Simon During T.Adorno and M.Horkheimer “The culture industry: enlightenment as mass deception” Teresa de Lauretis “Upping the anti [sic] in feminist theory” David Forgacs “National-popular: genealogy of a concept” Connel West “The new cultural politics of difference” Raymond Williams “Advertising: the magic system”

From The Contemporary British Society Reader. Ed. N.Abercrombie and A.Warde. D.Gallie, M.White, Y.Cheng and M.Tomlison “The Restructuring of Work since the 1980s” J.Westergaard “The Persistence of Class Inequalities” M.Savage “The Condition of the Contemporary Middle Classes” F.Devine “In Search of a British Underclass” L.McDowell “Women at Work in the City of London” L.Morris “Work, Gender and Unemployment” B.Skeggs “Women Avoiding being Working Classes” S.Virdee “Racial Harassment”

From Contemporary British Society. N. N.Abercrombie, A.Warde et al. Third ed. Chapters 6 and 7.

From United Kingdom? Class, Race and Gender since the War. E.E.Cashmore. Part I and II.

Related Sections will be studied Questioning Identity: Gender, Class, Nation. Ed. Kath Woodward. Class. Ed. Richard Mabey Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class. J.Batsleer, T.Davies, R.O’Rourke and C.Weedon. Worlds Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class. L.Davidoff. Short Introductions: Gender. R.Connell The Gendered Society. M.S.Kimmel Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology. M.L.Anderson and P.H.Collins Class and Gender in Early English Literature. Ed. B.J.Harwood and G.R.Overing The Working Class in Britain, 1850-1939. John Benson. The Rise and he Decline of the English Working Classes: 1918-1990 A Social History. E.Hopkins Proposing Men: Dialectics of Gender and Class in the Eighteenth-Century English Periodical. S.L.Maurer Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender. Moira Ferguson. Discourse on Popular Culture: Class, Gender and History in Cultural Analysis, 1730 to the Present. Morag Shiach. Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel. ArleneYoung.

Literary texts (and films): Chaucer, “Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” Some renaissance sonnets C.Rossetti, The Goblin Market. E.B.Browning, Aurora Leigh. Tennyson, “Guinevere” from Idylls of the King. D.G.Rossetti’s paintings. J.Arden, Live Like Pigs. A.Wesker, Chips With Eveything. A.Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. “Billy Eliot” The film W.Russell, Educating Rita. K.Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day. S.Daniels, Neaptide. A.Carter, The Passion of New Eve.