CURSUS: LITERATURE AND CULTURAL CRITICISM: BOEK: Saturday - Ian McEwan
Perowne makes his way to his weekly squash game through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors. A minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive, young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's...
CURSUS: LITERATURE AND CULTURAL CRITICISM: BOEK: A room of One's own - Virginia Woolf
In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. In A Room of One's Own (1929), she examines the work of past women writers, and looks...
CURSUS: FEMINIST RESEARCH PRACTICE Boek: The Politics of Passion - Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora - Gloria Wekker
Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker vividly describes the lives of these women, who prefer to create alternative families...
CURSUS: FEMINIST RESEARCH PRACTICE Boek: Queer phenomenology - Sara Ahmed
In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the “orient” in “orientalism,” Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and...
CURSUS: FEMINIST RESEARCH PRACTICE Boek: Along the archival grain - Ann Laura Stoler
Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced mediations on the nature of colonial documents from the nineteenth-century...
CURSUS: FEMINIST RESEARCH PRACTICE Boek: Feminist research practice - Patricia Leavy
The topic of feminist research has frequently been neglected in standard research methods books. The purpose of this Primer is to invite students to explore the range of feminist perspectives, including feminist empiricist, feminist standpoint, and postmodern perspectives in...
CURSUS: STATE OF ART; LITERATURE AS CULTURAL MEDIUM: The Singularity of Literature - Derek Attridge
Literature and the literary have proved singularly resistant to definition. Derek Attridge argues that such resistance represents not a dead end, but a crucial starting point from which to explore anew the power and practices of Western art.
In this lively, original volume,...
CURSUS: STATE OF ART; LITERATURE AS CULTURAL MEDIUM: Coming to birth - Marjorie Oludhe MacGoye
In this quietly powerful and eminently readable novel, winner of the prestigious Sinclair Prize, Kenyan writer Marjorie Macgoye deftly interweaves the story of one young woman’s tumultuous coming of age with the history of a nation emerging from colonialism.
At the age of...
CURSUS:Advanced Introduction to Gender Research: The Man of Reason - Genevieve Lloyd
This new edition of Genevieve Lloyd's classic study of the maleness of reason in philosophy contains a new introduction and bibilographical essay assessing the book's place in the explosion of writing on philosophy and gender since 1984.
CURSUS:Advanced Introduction to Gender Research: Nomadic Subjects - Rosi Braidotti
Over the past fifteen years, Nomadic Subjectshas guided the discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory. Exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory, Rosi Braidotti...
