Here are some things I have used:
Al-Hibri, Azizah Y. “Is Western Patriarchal Feminism Good for Third World/Minority Women?” In Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?, edited by Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard, and Martha C. Nussbaum, 41-46. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Anagol-McGinn, P. “Sexual Harassment in India: A Case Study of Eve-teasing in Historical Perspective.” In Rethinking Sexual Harassment, edited by Clare Brant and Yun Lee Too, 220-34. London: Pluto, 1994.
Bunch, Charlotte. “Women’s Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights.”
Correa, Sonia, and Rosalind Petchesky. “Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Feminist Perspective.” In Population Policies Reconsidered, edited by Gita Sen, Adrienne Germain and Lincoln C. Chen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1994.
Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review 43 (1991): 1241-1299.
Fan, Jennifer S. “From Office Ladies to Women Warriors?: The Effect of the EEOL on Japanese Women.” UCLA Women's Law Journal 10 (1999): 103-140.
Hessini, Leila. “Abortion and Islam: Policies and Practice in the Middle East and North Africa.” Reproductive Health Matters 15, no. 29 (2007):75–84.
Ilkkaracan, Pinar. “Women, Sexuality, and Social Change in the Middle East and the Maghreb.” Social Research 69, 3 (2002): 753-779
Kandiyoti, Deniz. “Bargaining with Patriarchy.” Gender and Society 2, no. 3 (1988): 274-290.
Kimmel, Michael S. “The Gender of Violence.” In his The Gendered Society, 264-288. 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Kimmel, Michael. "Spanning the World." In his The Gendered Society, 52-71. 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Narayan, Uma. “Cross-Cultural Connections, Border-Crossings, and ‘Death by Culture’: Thinking about Dowry-Murders in India and Domestic-Violence Murders in the United States.” In her Dislocating Cultures: Identities Traditions, and Third World Feminism, 83-117. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Nussbaum, Martha. “Women and Work—The Capabilities Approach.” The Little Magazine. <http://www.littlemag.com/martha.htm> (June 3, 2004).
Okin, Susan Moeller. “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?” In Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? edited by Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard, and Martha C. Nussbaum, 9-24. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Oyewumi, Oyeronke. “Conceptualizing Gender: The Eurocentric Foundations of Feminist Concepts and the Challenge of African Epistemologies.” Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies (2002).
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. New York: Pantheon, 2003.
Walley, Christine J. “Feminism, Anthropology, and Global Debate.” In Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood: Disputing U.S. Polemics, edited by S.M. James and Claire Robertson, 17-53. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
--On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Shelley Park <[log in to unmask]> wrote:There's a nice memoir from Islamic scholar Leila Ahmed called _Border Crossings_ that I use in teaching postcolonial feminism in my feminist theory course. Not a theory book per se, but very useful in teaching about hybrid identities, internalized colonization, encounters with western feminism and much else . . . (including opportunities to tackle some of students' stereotypes about Muslim women as victimized dupes of their culture).
My experiences thus far with global feminism is that a) students know very few facts about any culture other than their own and b) start from a framework of 'pity' for 'those poor oppressed women over there' who don't live in the land of feminist freedom. So it becomes really important to select texts that enable our students to see through the eyes of the 'other' rather than projecting all of their own ill-informed baggage (sigh).
But maybe your students are starting from a more enlightened place than mine :)
I'd love to know what you come up with!
Shelley
Dr. Shelley Park
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL 32816-1352
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>>> Charlotte Witt <[log in to unmask]> 12/10/2009 10:10 AM >>>
Hi everyone,
I am working on a feminist theory course that focuses on global
feminism. This is a new approach for me (i.e. the focus on global
feminism in a theory course) and I wonder if any of you have
recommendations for readings or might be willing to share syllabi etc.
Thanks in advance,
Charlotte
Margaret A. Crouch
Department of History and Philosophy
Eastern Michigan University
701 Pray-Harrold
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
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