WEEK ELEVEN: The Woman Question
Required Reading
Freud, “On Femininity” in New Introductory Lectures (1933), e-reserves.

Nancy Chodorow, “Why Women Mother” chapter two of her Reproduction of Mothering : Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (1978), e-reserves.


Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose, introductions to Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the Ecole Freudienne (1982); ordered at the book stores. (Warning: these may be "introductions" but they are neither short nor easy.) For further introductions to Lacan, see the issue of Yale French Studies devoted to "French Freud: Structural Studies in Psychoanalysis" (1972) available via JSTOR.

Further Bibliography
Sally Alexander, Becoming a Woman and other essays in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Feminist History (1995).

Jessica Benjamin, The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination (1990).

Rachel Bowlby, Still Crazy after all these Years: Women, Writing, and Psychoanalysis (1992).

Mari Jo Buhle, Feminism and its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998).

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990).

Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter (1993).

Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément, The Newly Born Woman (1975).

Julia Kristeva, "Women's Time," (1979) available in Toril Moi, ed., The Kristeva Reader  (1986).

Renata Salecl, The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis and Feminism after the Fall of Socialism (1994).

Yale French Studies 55/56 (1977), "Literature and Psychoanalysis. The Question of Reading: Otherwise," available via JSTOR (most pieces included in Shoshona Felman, ed., Literature and Psychoanalysis).

Yale French Studies 87 (1995), "Another Look, Another Woman: Retranslations of French Feminism" available via JSTOR [especially the piece by Peggy Kamuf on Cixous].



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