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CS 301-02, Spring 2013, Fridays 9:00-11:45am Main Campus Room (MCR) Instructor: Thea Quiray Tagle, ttagle@sfai.edu Office Hours: F 12:00-1:00PM, or by appointment
How has the concept of the domestic been deployed in colonial and modern nation-state building projects? How has the protection of the home justified acts of violence upon individual and collective bodies in both the First World and in the Global South? Finally, how have those injured bodies resisted through various means including, but not limited to, their participation in social movements and the creation of cultural productions? Over the course of the semester, we will examine these questions through the lens of critical race, postcolonial, queer, and feminist of color theories. Exploring thematics ranging from immigrant womens labor to the legality of sex work will help us to trouble the divide between the public and private spheres, and to expand our imaginaries of home to include queered forms of kinship, culture, and alternative modes of life. Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes 1. Students will understand the development and transformation of the concepts of home and the domestic in the 20th and 21st century United States, and the ways these discourses developed alongside US projects of war, conquest, and economic domination. 2. Students will become conversant in key debates over domesticity in the fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies and Ethnic Studies. 3. Students will gain both specific and broad knowledge about state-sponsored enactments of individual and collective violence against women and people of color, to expand their understanding of domestic violence in both the public and private sphere. 4. Students will consider a variety of historical, cultural and ideological perspectives on how to address domestic violence, and will develop a final seminar paper in relation to this. 5. Students will learn how to conduct primary and secondary research, using a variety of sources. 6. Students will apply a variety of critical methods to the interpretation of popular cultural productions in course assignments. Course Materials Almost all of the assigned articles will be made available on the course website at http://moodle.sfai.edu. It is highly recommended that you print out all course readings, as we will be referring to them frequently in seminar. In addition, digital copies of the syllabus,
additional handouts, and other miscellaneous information will be posted on this site, so check it often! Films for in-class and at-home viewing are available on streaming websites such as Netflix and Amazon. In addition, copies of films will be available at the SFAI Library in the film reserves. Two books are required for purchase, and can be easily obtained through online and brick-and- mortar bookstores. PDFs of the suggested books are available on Moodle, but are highly recommended for purchase if you would like a deeper engagement with the topics covered in the course. Required Books: Nayan Shah, Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2012. Dolores Hayden, Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth,1820-2000. New York: Vintage, 2004. Suggested Books: Beatriz Colomina, Domesticity at War. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2007. Gloria Anzalda, Borderlands/la frontera. Third Edition. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2007. Color of Violence: the INCITE! Anthology. Eds. INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2006 Robyn Rodriguez, Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Course Assignments & Requirements Attendance and Participation (15%) Students are expected to do all required reading in advance of the seminars; in addition, participation in discussions and consistent and punctual attendance are crucial to ones success in this course. If you must miss class for an extenuating circumstance, it will be excused with proper notice and documentation; however more than two unexcused absences will negatively affect your final evaluation. Critical Blog Responses (20%) Over the course of the semester, you are expected to submit five critical responses to posts made by the instructor in the course blog, on the weeks assigned readings, films, and/or cultural productions (http://disturbingdomesticity.wordpress.com). Responses must be at least
two paragraphs long, and must substantively engage with the questions or ideas posed in the blog post. Students may choose to write responses to any of the blog posts, but must submit two responses before the midterm date, and three after the midterm. These should be submitted before the weekly seminar meeting that the student is responding to. In-Class Midterm Exam (30%) A midterm exam will be administered in class on Week 7 (March 8). More information will be given in seminar. Take-Home Final Paper (35%) Students are required to complete a 12-15 page research paper (double-spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman font, 1 margins, MLA or Chicago-style citations and works cited), due by email in .doc form by 5PM on Thursday, May 9. Students will briefly summarize and discuss their final papers at the last seminar meeting on May 10. Prior to submitting the final paper, students must submit a 1.5-page (single-spaced) paper proposal in .doc form on Moodle during Week 10 (by 5PM Thursday, April 9). The proposal will include a research prompt or question that the student is interested in addressing, and a short list of scholarly sources that the student plans on consulting. It is required that students meet with the instructor about the final paper in advance of these deadlines. Additional Information I wish to make my class as accessible as possible to all students. If you require accommodations (for mobility, hearing, or vision challenges; ESL; etc.), please let me know immediately so that arrangements can be made. MLA and Chicago-style citation and formatting guides can be found online at the following sources: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/ Please familiarize yourself with SFAIs policy on academic integrity. If any academic dishonesty is discovered during the course of the seminar, an F grade with 0 points will automatically be assigned. If you have concerns or questions about properly attributing sources, please make an appointment to discuss with me! All course assignments must be completed satisfactorily in order to pass this seminar. Incompletes for the course are strongly discouraged and will only be given under extenuating, unavoidable circumstances.
COURSE SCHEDULE
Week
1/
January
25
/
Setting
the
Terms
Keywords:
Domestic
by
Rosemary
Marangoly
George;
Family
by
Carla
L.
Peterson;
Marriage
by
Elizabeth
Freeman;
Public
by
Bruce
Robbins
in
Keywords
for
American
Cultural
Studies,
88-92,
112-116,
152-156,
183-186.
Eds.Bruce
Burgett
and
Glenn
Handler.
New
York:
New
York
University
Press,
2007.
(15
pages)
Unit 1: Historical transformations in the meanings of home and the domestic Week
2/
February
1
/
Imperial
domesticities--race,
gender,
home,
and
nation
Chandra
Mohanty
with
Biddy
Martin,
Whats
Home
Got
to
Do
With
It?
in
Feminism
without
Borders:
Decolonizing
Theory,
Practicing
Solidarity,
pp.85-105.
Durham,
NC:
Duke
University
Press,
2003.
(20
pages)
Amy
Kaplan,
Manifest
Domesticity
in
The
Anarchy
of
Empire
in
the
Making
of
U.S.
Culture,
pp.
23-50.
Cambridge,
MA:
Harvard
University
Press,
2002.
(27
pages)
Week
3/
February
8
/
The
ethnic
ghetto
and
the
protection
of
Whiteness
Nayan
Shah,
Chapters
1,
2,
and
5
of
Stranger
Intimacy:
Contesting
Race,
Sexuality
and
the
Law
in
the
North
American
West,
19-89,
153-188.
Berkeley,
CA:
University
of
California
Press,
2012.
(105
pages)
Suggested
reading:
Introduction
to
Stranger
Intimacy
Week
4/
February
15/
Planned
housing
between
the
wars
George
Lipsitz,
The
Possessive
Investment
in
Whiteness:
Racialized
Social
Democracy
and
the
White
Problem
in
American
Studies,
American
Quarterly,
Vol.
47,
No.
3
(September
1995),
pp.
369-287.
(18
pages)
Part
One
(Chapters
One
and
Two);
Chapter
Five
Streetcar
Buildouts;
Chapter
Six,
Mail-Order
and
Self-Built
Suburbs,
in
Dolores
Hayden,
Building
Suburbia:
Green
Fields
and
Urban
Growth,
1820-2000,
3-18,
71-127.
New
York:
Vintage,
2004.
(71
pages)
4
Week
5/
February
22
/
Exteriors
I:
Levittown
and
the
Case
Study
Homes
Chapter
Seven:
Sitcom
Suburbs,
in
Dolores
Hayden,
Building
Suburbia:
Green
Fields
and
Urban
Growth,
1820-2000,
129-153.
New
York:
Vintage,
2004.
(22
pages)
Introduction;
Chapter
1:
1949;
Chapter
3:
The
Eames
House,
in
Beatriz
Colomina,
Domesticity
at
War
5-59;
83-109.
Cambridge,
MA:
The
MIT
Press,
2007.
(81
pages)
Week
6/
March
1/
Exteriors
II:
Southern
California
sprawl
Chapter
Eight:
Edge
Nodes
in
Dolores
Hayden,
Building
Suburbia:
Green
Fields
and
Urban
Growth,
1820-2000,
154-180.
New
York:
Vintage,
2004.
(26
pages)
Karen
Tongson,
Empire
of
My
Familiar,
Relocations:
Queer
Suburban
Imaginaries,
112-158.
New
York:
New
York
University
Press,
2011.
(32
pages)
Week
7/
March
8
In-class
midterm
Week
8/
March
15
/
The
home
and
the
city:
urban
redevelopment
and
gentrification
Rosalyn
Deutsche
and
Cara
Gendel
Ryan,
The
Fine
Art
of
Gentrification,
October
Vol.
31
(Winter
1984),
pp.
91-111.
(20
pages)
Le
Paperson/K.
Wayne
Yang,
The
Postcolonial
Ghetto:
Seeing
Her
Shape
and
His
Hand,
Berkeley
Review
of
Education
1(1):
2010,
pp.
5-34.
(29
pages)
*Spring
Break-
No
class
March
22*
Unit 2: Contemporary questions and issues around domesticity
Week
9/
March
29/
Racial
and
gendered
fictions
of
Sluts
and
Bad
Mothers
Watch
on
your
own:
Precious,
dir.
Lee
Daniels
(2009)
Dorothy
E.
Roberts,
Racism
and
Patriarchy
in
the
Meaning
of
Motherhood,
Journal
Of
Gender
&
The
Law,
Vol.
1.
No.
1
(1993),
pp.
1-38.
(38
pages)
M.
Jacqui
Alexander,
Not
Just
(Any)
Body
Can
Be
a
Citizen:
The
Politics
of
Law,
Sexuality,
and
Postcoloniality
in
Trinidad
and
Tobago
and
the
Bahamas,Feminist
Review,
No.
48
(Autumn
1994),
pp.5-23.
(19
pages)
Audre
Lorde,
A
Litany
for
Survival
(online
link)
5
Week
10/
April
5/
Women
and
nationalism
Final
Paper
Proposal
due
on
Moodle
by
5PM,
Thursday,
April
9
Anne
McClintock,
No
Longer
in
a
Future
Heaven:
Gender,
Race,
and
Nationalism
in
Dangerous
Liaisons:
Gender,
Nationa,
and
Postcolonial
Perspectives,
89-112.
Eds.
Anne
McClintock,
Aamir
Mufti,
and
Ella
Shohat.
Minneapolis:
University
of
Minnesota,
1997.
(23
pages)
Gloria
Anzalda,
Chapter
1:
The
Homeland,
Aztln
and
Chapter
2:
Movimientos
de
rebelda
y
las
culturas
que
traicionan,Borderlands/la
frontera,
23-45.
Third
Edition.
San
Francisco:
Aunt
Lute
Books,
2007.
(22
pages)
Suggested
reading:
Sonia
Saldvar-Hull,
Introduction
to
the
Second
Edition
of
Borderlands/la
frontera
(15
pages)
Week
11/
April
12/
Protecting
the
Home
domestic
violence
and
community
accountability
Gloria
Anzalda,
Chapter
7:
La
consciencia
de
la
mestiza,Borderlands/la
frontera,
99-113.
Third
Edition.
San
Francisco:
Aunt
Lute
Books,
2007.
(14
pages)
Andrea
J.
Ritchie,
Law
Enforcement
Violence
Against
Women
of
Color,
in
Color
of
Violence:
the
INCITE!
Anthology,
138-156.
Eds.
INCITE!
Women
of
Color
Against
Violence.
Cambridge,
MA:
South
End
Press,
2006.
(18
pages)
Communities
Against
Rape
and
Abuse
(CARA),
Taking
Risks:
Implementing
Grassroots
Community
Accountability
Strategies,
in
Color
of
Violence:
the
INCITE!
Anthology,
250-266.
Eds.
INCITE!
Women
of
Color
Against
Violence.
Cambridge,
MA:
South
End
Press,
2006.
(16
pages)
Vanessa
Huang,
manifesto
in
The
Revolution
Starts
at
Home:
Confronting
Intimate
Violence
Within
Activist
Communities,
152-153.
Eds.
Ching-In
Chen,
Jai
Dulani,
and
Leah
Lakshmi
Piepzna-Samarasinha.
Brooklyn:
South
End
Press,
2011.
(1
page)
Week
12/
April
19
/
Domestic(ating)
Work,
pt.
1
In-class
film
screening:
The
Maid,
dir.
Kelvin
Tong
(2005)
Robyn
Rodriguez,
Introduction:
Neoliberalism
and
the
Philippine
Labor
Brokerage
State
and
Chapter
1:
The
Emergence
of
Labor
Brokerage:
U.S.
Colonial
Legacies
in
the
Philippines,
Migrants
for
Export:
How
the
Philippine
State
Brokers
Labor
to
the
World,
ix-xxviii,
1-18.
Minneapolis:
University
of
Minnesota
Press,
2010.
(38
pages)
Catherine
Gomes,
Maid-in-Singapore:
representing
and
consuming
foreign
domestic
workers
in
Singapore
cinema,
Asian
Ethnicity
12:2
(2011),
pp.
141-154.
(14
pages)
6
Week 13/ April 26/ Domestic(ating) Work, pt. 2 Robyn Rodriguez, Chapter 5: The Philippine Domestic: Gendered Labor, Family, and the Nation-State and Conclusion: The Globalization of the Labor Brokerage State, Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World, 93-115, 141- 158. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. (39 pages) Geraldine Pratt, Inscribing Domestic Work on Filipina Bodies, in Places Through the Body, 283-304. Eds. Heidi J. Nast and Steve Pile. New York: Routledge, 1998. (19 pages) Week 14/ May 3/ Queering domesticity alternative formations of kinship and home Watch on your own: Paris is Burning, dir. Jennie Livingston (1990) Chandan Reddy, Home, Houses, Nonidentity: Paris is Burning, in Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity, 355-379. Ed. Rosemary Marangoly George. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. (26 pages) Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, Sex in Public, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 24, No. 2, Intimacy (Winter 1998), pp. 547-566. (20 pages) Week 15/ May 10/ Wrapping Up Final Paper Due by 5PM, Thursday May 9