English 680G: Gender, Rhetoric, and the Body
This seminar will investigate theoretical and rhetorical approaches to the gendered body. Readings will examine the gendered body in relation to theories of subjectivity, technology, class, race, history, culture, epistemology, methodology, politics, representation, and writing. In particular, we will address the ways that these theories have been articulated in rhetoric and composition. Assignments will include reading notes, participation in class and electronic discussions, and an extended research project.

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Balsamo, Anne. Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1996.

Bell, Shannon. Reading, Writing, and Re-Writing the Prostitute's Body. Bloomingon: Indiana University Press, 1994.

Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Brooks, Peter. Body Work. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex." New York: Routledge, 1993.

——— . Gender Trouble. New York: Routledge, 1990.

——— . "How Bodies Come to Matter: An Interview with Judith Butler." Interview by Irene Meijer Costera and Baukje Prins. Signs 23 (1998): 275–86.

——— . Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge, early 2004 (anticipated publication).

Cixous, Hélène. "An Exchange with Hélène Cixous." Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine. Verena Andermatt Conley. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. 129–161.

——— . "Coming to Writing" and Other Essays. Deborah Jenson, ed. Trans. Sarah Cornell, Deborah Jensen, Ann Liddle, Susan Sellers. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Cixous, Hélène and Catherine Clément. The Newly Born Woman. Trans. Betsy Wing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Code, Lorraine. Rhetorical Spaces: Essays on Gendered Locations. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Conboy, Katie et al, eds. Writing on the Body. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Conley, Verena Andermatt. Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Crable, Bryan. "Symbolizing Motion: Burke's Dialectic and Rhetoric of the Body." Rhetoric Review 22.2 (2003): 121-137.

De Lauretis, Teresa. Technologies of Gender. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Dean, Tim. "Bodies That Mutter: Rhetoric and Sexuality." Pre/Text 15.1–2 (1994): 80–117.

Du Bois, Paige. Sowing the Body: Psychoanalysis and Ancient Representations of Women. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough." The Sciences (March/April 1993): 20-25.

Faludi, Susan. Stiffed.New York: Perennial Press, 2000.

Favazza, Armando R.. Bodies Under Seige: Self-Mutilation in Culture and Psychiatry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987

Fleckenstein, Kristie S. "Writing Bodies: Somatic Mind in Composition Studies." College English 61(1999): 281–306.

Freud, Sigmund. Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria. New York: Macmillan Press, 1963.

Freedman, Diane P., Martha Stoddard Holmes, and Madeleine R. Grumet, eds. The Teacher's Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003.

Gallop, Jane. Thinking Through the Body. New York: Columbia UP, 1988.

Grosz, Elizabeth. Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1994.

——— . Space, Time, and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies. New York, Routledge, 1995.

Halberstam, Judith. Female Masculinity. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.

Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Hawhee, Debra. “Bodily Pedagogies: Rhetoric, Athletics, and the Sophists’ Three Rs.” College English 65:2 (November 2002).

Hekman, Susan, ed. Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.

Hekman, Susan. Gender and Knowledge: Elements of a Postmodern Feminism. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.

Irigaray, Luce. Speculum of the Other Woman. Trans. Gillian C. Gill. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985.

Jackson, Shelley. The Melancholy of Anatomy. Anchor Press, 2002.

Jaggar, Alison M., and Susan R. Bordo, eds. Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being andKnowing. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1989.

Jones, Ann Rosalind. "Writing the Body: Toward an Understanding of L'Écriture Féminine." Feminist Studies 7.2 (Summer 1981): 247–63.

Juncker, Clara. "Writing (with) Cixous." College English 50 (April 1988): 424–36.

Keuls, Eva. The Reign of the Phallus. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Kirby, Vicki. Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Kroker, Arthur and Marilouise, eds. The Last Sex: Feminism and Outlaw Bodies. New York: St. Martin's, 1993.

Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1990.

Lay, Mary M., et al., eds. Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.

Lorraine, Tasmin. Irigaray and Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Marks, Elaine and Isabelle de Courtivron, eds. New French Feminisms. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

McCannell, Juliet Flower and Laura Zakaran, eds. Thinking Bodies. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.

McLaren, Peter. "Schooling the Postmodern Body: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Enfleshment." Journal of Education 170 (1988): 53–83.

Price, Janet and Margrit Schildrick, eds. Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Richlin, Amy. "Roman Oratory, Pornography, and the Silencing of Anita Hill." 65 Southern California Law Review 1321-32 (1992).

Roberts, Dorothy. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. Pantheon Press, 1997.

Sawicki, Jana. Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power, and the Body. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Sellers, Susan, ed. The Hélène Cixous Reader. London: Routledge, 1994.

Selzer, Jack and Sharon Crowley, eds. Rhetorical Bodies. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

Shaviro, Steven. The Cinematic Body. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

Simpson, Mark. Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Springer, Claudia. Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.

Stone, Allucquère Rosanne. The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996.

——— . "Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?: Boundary Stories About Virtual Cultures." Cyberspace: First Steps. Ed. Michael Benedikt. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1991. 81–118.

Sullivan, Shannon. Living Across and Through Skins. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001

Terry, Jennifer, and Jacqueline Urla, ed. Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995.

Tuana, Nancy, ed. Feminist Interpretations of Plato.University Park: Penn State UP, 1994.

——— et al, eds. Revealing Male Bodies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.

Welton, Donn, ed. Body and Flesh: A Philosophical Reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998.

Wenzel, Helene Vivienne. "The Text as Body/Politics: An Appreciation of Monique Wittig's Writings in Context." Feminist Studies 7.2 (Summer 1981): 264–87.

Whitford, Margaret. Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine. London: Routledge, 1991.

Wilson, Deborah S., and Christine Moneera Laennec, eds. Bodily Discursions: Genders, Representations, Technologies. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.

Wilson, James C. and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, eds. Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture. Carbondale: SIU Press, 2001.

Winterson, Jeanette. Written On The Body. New York : Vintage Books, 1993.

Worsham, Lynn. "Writing Against Writing: The Predicament of Écriture Féminine in Composition Studies." Contending With Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age. Eds. Patricia Harkin and John Schilb. New York: MLA, 1991.