I had to design a 6 week Feminist Theory curriculum as part of an exam recently. Here it is. You can find pdf’s of the journal articles/pdfs/books here: feminist theory google drive folder
Southern Feminist Theory Curriculum
Gender
Gqola, P., 2015. Violent Masculinities and War Talk. In: Gqola,P, ed. Rape: A South African Nightmare. 1 ed. Johannesburg: MF Books.
Magadla, S., 2017. Matrofocality and shared motherhood.
Available at: mg.co.za/article/2017-08-25-00-matrifocality-and-shared-motherhood
Oyewumi, O., 1997. Visualizing the body. In: O. Oyewumi, ed. The invention of women: making an African Sense of western gender discourses. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 1-30.
Vaid-Menon, A., 2015. The Pain & Empowerment of Choosing Your Own Gender: Alok Vaid-Menon.
Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Gh2n9kPuA
Intersectionality
Crenshaw, K. W., 2008. Mapping the margins: intersectionality, identity politics and violence against women of colour. In: A. Bailey & C. Cuomo, eds. The Feminist Philosophy Reader. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 279-309.
Collison, C., 2016. #FeesMustFall ‘burns’ queer students.
Available at: https://mg.co.za/article/2016-10-13-00-feesmustfall-burns-queer-students
Dlakavu, S., 2017. On the EFF and gender.
Available at: https://www.news24.com/Columnists/GuestColumn/on-the-eff-and-gender-20170804
Sanchez, G., 2015. Queering Disability – on the power of celebrating intersectionality. [Online]
Available at: http://ewn.co.za/2015/12/15/OPINION-Gaby-Sanchez-Queering-disability-On-the-power-of-celebrating-intersectionality
Theory/Action
Ahmed, S., 2000. Whose counting?. Feminist Theory, 1(1), pp. 97-103.
Berlant, L., 1999. The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, privacy and politics. In: A. Sarat & T. Kearns, eds. Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics and the Law. Michigan: University of Michigan, pp. 48-84.
Kelley, R., 2016. Black Study, Black Struggle.
Available at: http://bostonreview.net/forum/robin-d-g-kelley-black-study-black-struggle
Puar, J., 2007. Queer Times, Queer Assemblages . In: J. Puar, ed. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 203-222.
Belonging
Bongela, M., 2016. Where is the white feminism movement in SA?.
Available at: https://mg.co.za/article/2016-12-02-00-where-is-the-white-feminist-movement-in-sa
Eng, D. & Lan, S., 2000. A Dialogue on Radical Melancholia. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10(4), pp. 667-700.
Modongo, L. P., 2015. Don’t you want to be white?.
Available at: http://thoughtleader.co.za/mandelarhodesscholars/2015/11/04/dont-you-want-to-be-white/
Putuma, K., 2016. Water (Poem in Collective Amnesia).
Available at: http://pensouthafrica.co.za/water-by-koleka-putuma/
Fick, A., 2017. Am I an African? On xenophobia and violence in South Africa 2017.
Available at: https://www.enca.com/opinion/am-i-an-african-on-xenophobia-and-violence-in-south-africa-2017
Class, Land, Labour
Amandla!, 2017. Amandla! interviews campaign Reclaim The City.
Available at: http://aidc.org.za/amandla-interviews-campaign-reclaim-city/
Asijiki: Coalition to decriminalize sex work in South Africa, 2015. Sex work and Feminism. [Online]
Available at: http://www.sweat.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Sex-work-and-Feminism_Asijiki-Fact-Sheet_Web.pdf
Benya, A., 2015. The invisible hands: women in Marikana. Review of African Political Economy, 42(146), pp. 545-560.
Available at: http://aidc.org.za/invisible-hands-women-marikana/
Keeanga-Yamahtta, T., 2016. Chapter 7. In: T. Keeanga-Yamahtta & M. Ellis, eds. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Chicago: Haymarket Books, pp. 191-219.
Tsikata, D., 2009. Gender, Land and Labour Relations and livelihood in Sub-Saharan Africa in the era of Economic Liberalisation. Feminist Africa, 12(1), pp. 11-30.
Agency
Dosekun, S., 2015. For Western Girls Only? Post-feminism as transnational culture. Feminist Media Studies , 15(6), pp. 960-975.
Motsemme, N., 2007. Loving in a time of hopelessness: on township women’s subjectivities in a time of HIV/Aids. African Idenities, 5(1), pp. 61-87.
Mahmood, S., 2011. The Subject of Freedom. In: S. Mahmood, ed. Politics of Piety. Princeton: Princeton, pp. 1-39.
Nyanzi, S., 2013. Unpacking the Governmentality of African Sexualities. In: S. Tamale, ed. African Sexualities: A reader. Cape Town: Pambazuka Press, pp. 477-501.
Zakaria, R., 2015. Sex and the Muslim Feminist. [Online]
Available at: https://newrepublic.com/article/123590/sex-and-the-muslim-feminist
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