Sexuality and Nation Winter 2008 Professor Sara Sanders Ethnic Studies 127/Critical Gender Studies 112 T,Th 9:30-11:00 am Office Hours: Tues, Th 11-12:30 and by appointment Office: SSB 231 s2sander@ucsd.edu Course Description: This course explores gender and sexuality in (trans)national context. We will focus on gender and race relations and the ways they affect and are affected by national projects and processes. The materials we read will locate gender, sexuality, the family, and reproduction at the heart of national projects and international relations, showing them as central to conceptualizations of citizenship and nation. Moreover, we will examine how such categorizations, with their implicit notions of belonging and otherness, are negotiated and contested. We will explore the ways in which nations, as public spaces, are configured as masculine and the consequent problematic that creates for women who seek "incorporation" into the newly emergent or already existing nation. At the same time, we must also recognize that women have always been central to the construction and reproduction of the nation - they are not "newcomers" to the national arena. Our investigations of gender, race, and nation will span the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, taking us around the world. The course is configured around a series of “problematics” with readings and lectures serving as “case studies.” Course Materials: The materials are drawn from a range of scholarly works, primary documents, movies, paintings, and literature. All readings, with the exception of Imagined Communities, are in the course pack which is available through University Readers. The book is available at the University Bookstore. All materials are also on reserve at Geisel Library. Any additional readings or syllabus modifications may be posted to blackboard on webct. • Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, rev. ed. (London and New York: Verso), 1991. • CSG 112/ETHN 127, Course Reader. Course Requirements: Students are required to complete all assigned readings. Periodically, students will submit in-class writing responses to the week’s readings. The bulk of the grade will be divided between a midterm exam, paper, and final exam. Students must complete all assignments in order to pass the course. Grading: Writing Response: 10% Midterm Exam: 25% Paper: 30% Final Exam: 35% Course Schedule Week 1: Conceptual Frameworks: the Nation Readings: • Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, rev. ed. (London and New York: Verso), 1991. Preface, Chapters 1-6 (to pg. 111). • Ernest Renan, "What is a Nation?,” in Becoming National, pp. 42-55. • Etienne Balibar, "The Nation Form: History and Ideology," in Becoming National, pp. 132-149. • Prasenjit Duara, "Historicising National Identity or Who Imagines What and When," in Becoming National, pp. 151-177. Week 2: Conceptual Frameworks: Gender, Race, and the Nation Readings: • complete week 1 readings. • Chandra Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes,” reprinted in C. Mohanty, Feminism without Borders. • Andrew Parker, Mary Russ, Doris Somer, and Patricia Yaeger, eds., “Introduction,” in Nationalisms and Sexualities, pp. 1-18. • Nira Yuval-Davis, “Theorizing Gender and Nation,” in Gender and Nation, pp. 1-25. • Audre Lorde, “The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,” This Bridge Called My Back, pp. 98-101. Week 3: Marriage, Honor, and Morality Readings: • Verena Martinez-Alier, Marriage, Class, and Colour in Nineteenth Century Cuba, pp. 1-7 and 11-41. • Henry Abelove, “Some Speculations on the History of ‘Sexual Intercourse’ During the “Long Eighteenth Century in England,” in Nationalism and Sexualities, pp. 335-342. • E. Anthony Rotundo, “Learning about manhood: gender ideals and the middle-class family in nineteenth-century America” in Manliness and Morality, pp. 35-51. • Yen Le Espiritu, “We Don’t Sleep Around Like White Girls Do: Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives,” in Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends, pp. 263-284. Week 4: Women, Rights and Resistance Readings: • Patricia Hill Collins, “Producing the Mothers of the Nation: Race, Class and Contemporary US Population Policies,” from Women, Citizenship and Difference, pp. 118-129. • Pnina Werbner, “Political Motherhood and the Feminisation of Citizenship: Women’s Activism and the Transformation of the Public Sphere,” in Women, Citizenship and Difference, pp. 221-245. • Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes, “Female Consciousness or Feminist Consciousness?: Women’s Consciousness Raising in Community-Based Struggles in Brazil,” in Feminist Theory Reader, pp. 126-137. • Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Mapping at the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color,” in Feminist Frontiers, pp. 405 – 414. • Margaret Stetz, “Wartime Sexual Violence Against Women: A Feminist Response,” in Feminist Theory Reader,” pp. 138-145. • Barbara Ehrenreich, “What Abu Ghraib Taught Me,” in The Los Angeles Times. Week 5 The Nation and Masculine Formation Readings: • Geraldine Heng and Janadas Devan, “State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore,” in Nationalisms and Sexuality, pp. 343-364. • Seth Koven, “From Rough Lads to Hooligans: Boy Life, National Culture, and Social Reform,” in Nationalisms and Sexuality, pp. 365-391. • Eric McLeod, “Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body,” in Packaging Culture, pp. 581-593. • Matthew Gutmann, “Introduction” and “Men’s Sex,” in The Meanings of Macho (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, pp. 1-10 and 111-145. Week 6: Women, Sex, and the Discourse of the Nation Readings: • Donna Guy, “Dangerous Women: Legalized Prostitution” in Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires, pp. 37-76. • Margot Canaday, "Building a Straight State: Sexuality and Social Citizenship Under the 1944 G.I. Bill." Journal of American History 90 (#3, 2003): 935-957. • Adria Imada. "Hawaiians on Tour: Hula Circuits Through the American Empire," American Quarterly (56.1, 2004): 111-149. Week 7: The Politics of Sexual Control Readings: • Eithne Luibheid, "'Looking Like a Lesbian'": The Organization of Sexual Monitoring at the United States-Mexican Border." Journal of the History of Sexuality 8 (#3, 1998): 477-506. • Dorothy Roberts, “From Norplant to the Contraceptive Vaccine: The New Frontier of Population Control,” in Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, pp. 104-149. • Cynthia Enloe, “Sneak Attack: The Militarization of U.S. Culture” in Reconstructing Gender, pp. 524-526. • Laura Briggs, "Mother, Child, Race, Nation: The Visual Iconography of Rescue and The Politics of Transnational and Transracial Adoption." Gender and History 15 (#2, 2003): 179-200. Week 8: Circulating Women and Babies Readings: • Christina Klein, "Family Ties and Political Obligation: The Discourse of Adoption and the Cold War Commitment to Asia." In Christian G. Appy, ed., Cold War Constructions, pp. 35-66. • Lisa Cartwright, “’Photographs of "Waiting Children’: The Transnational Adoption Market.” In Social Text 74 (Spring, 2003) 83-109. • Enloe, C. “Carmen Miranda on my Mind: the International Politics of the Banana,” in Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, pp. 124-150. Week 9: Women and Globalization Readings: • “Working to Place Family at the Center of Life: Dual Earner and Single Parent Strategies” and “Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexicana Immigrant Mothers and Employment” in Feminist Frontiers, pp. 250-259 and 261-275. • “Capitalism, Imperialism, and Patriarchy: The Dilemma of Third-World Women Workers in Multinational Factories” pp. 222-230 by Linda Y.C. Lim in Feminist Theory Reader. • ”It’s a Family Affair: Women, Poverty and Welfare” Randy Albelda and Chris Tilly in Reconstructing Gender, pp. 420-426. • “The Truth About Women and Power,” and “The Globetrotting Sneaker” in Feminist Frontiers, pp. 444-451 and 453-457. • “Globalization of the Local/Localization of the Global: Mapping Transnational Women’s Movements” Amrita Basu from Feminist Theory Reader, pp. 68-77. Week 10: Unbounding the Nation: Transnational Feminist Mobilizing Readings: • Rosa Linda Fregoso, “Toward a Planetary Civil Society,” in meXicana Encounters, pp. 1-29. • Charlotte Bunch, “Women’s Human Rights: The Challenges of Global Feminism and Diversity” in Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice, pp, 129-146. • Chandra Talpade Mohanty: “Sisterhood, Coalition, and the Politics of Experience”in Feminism Without Borders, pp. 106-123.