Course Readings

Introduction

Week 1:

Hughes, Langston. “I, Too.” The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. 1926. New York: Knopf and Vintage Books, 1994. Accessed at Poets.org.

Chopin, Kate. “The Story of an Hour.” 1894. Kate Chopin: Complete Novels & Stories.  Library of America, 2000.  Accessed at Library of America. 

Amory, Deborah. “What is LGBTQ+ Studies?” LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook. Accessed at SUNY OER Services (Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)

Unit 1: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality

Week 2:

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Grimm’s Fairy Tales (selections). Olcott, Frances Jenkins, ed. Philadelphia: The Penn Publication Company, 1927. Accessed at Project Gutenberg.

Miller, Jennifer. “The Constructionist Turn in Gender and Sexuality Studies.” LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook. Accessed at SUNY OER Services (Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)

Miller, Jennifer. “Gender Performativity,” LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook. Accessed at SUNY OER Services (Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)

Week 3:

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The New England Magazine, January 1892. Accessed at  Project Gutenberg.

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. “Dueling Dualisms.” Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books, 2000: 1-29. Accessed at City Tech Library.

Aimers, James. “Queering the Sex and Gender Binary.” LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook. Accessed at SUNY OER Services (Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)

Week 4:

Kron, Lisa. “Ring of Keys” and “Changing my Major” from Fun Home (musical based on the 2006 graphic novel by Alison Bechdel), 2013.  Accessed at Genius.

Cisgender, Cisgenderism, Identity, Intersex, LGBT, Microaggressions, Queer, Transgender. TSQ (2014) vol.1, issue 1-2. Accessed at TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.

Week 5: Essay 1 Due

Unit 2: Intersectionality

Week 6:

Truth, Sojourner. “Ain’t I a Woman?” Akron Ohio Women’s Convention, 1851. Accessed at Internet Modern History Sourcebook.

Lorde, Audre. “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference.” Sister Outsider. Trumansburg: The Crossing Press, 1984. Accessed at Alexander Street via City Tech Library.

Aimers, James. “Intersectionality.” LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook. Accessed at SUNY OER Services (Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)

Week 7:

Feinberg, Leslie. Stone Butch Blues (Selections). Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1993. Accessed at lesliefeinberg.net.

Miller, Jennifer. “Transgender Studies.” LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook. Accessed at SUNY OER Services (Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)

DeGruy, Joy. Cracking the Codes: “A Trip to the Grocery Store” (video). Accessed via YouTube.

Week 8:

Feinberg, Leslie. Stone Butch Blues (Selections). Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1993. Accessed at lesliefeinberg.net.

McIntosh, Peggy. “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” (Video). Accessed via YouTube.

Week 9:

Lorde, Audre. “The Fourth of July.” Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. Accessed at Internet Archive. Also available at the Ursula C. Schwerin Library, PS3562 .O75 Z23.

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. “The Danger of a Single Story” (Video). Accessed via YouTube.

Week 10: Essay 2 Due

Unit 3: Beauty and Media

Week 11:

Morrison, Toni. “The Gift of the Dolls” and “I Hated Shirley Temple.” The Bluest Eye. Accessed at Genius. Also available at the Ursula C. Schwerin Library, PS3563 .O8749 B55.

Berry, D. Channsin Berry and Bill Duke, directors. “Dark Girls” (Video excerpt). Accessed at YouTube.

Riggs, Marlon. Tongues Untied. Accessed on Kanopy via City Tech Library.

Bey, Marquis. “Giving Voice to Black Gay Men Through Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied.” LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook. Accessed at SUNY OER Services (Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)

Week 12:

Larsen, Nella. Passing (Part 1). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Accessed at Internet Archive.

Wagner, Johanna M. “In the Place of Clare Kendry: A Gothic Reading of Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing.” Callaloo, vol. 34 no. 1, 2011, pp. 143-157. Accessed at Project MUSE via City Tech Library.

Week 13:

Larsen, Nella. Passing (Part 2). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Accessed at Internet Archive.

Kilbourne, Jean. “The More You Subtract, The More You Add: On Disempowering Women Through Fashion Advertising.” Vestoj: The Platform for Critical Thinking on Fashion, Issue 4. Accessed at Vestoj.com.

Week 14:

Review/Catch up

Week 15: Essay 3 Due

Week 16: Final Exam