Date: 03 Feb 96 12:18:46 PST
From: Ryan.Schram-AT-directory.Reed.EDU (Ryan Schram)
Subject: Re: French Fem. syllabus


I can tell you what's on the syllabus. I don't think anything we'll be reading
by mid-semester will be a big surprise. The beginning however made me pay
attention. the professor has a particular framework of
Marx-LeviStrauss-Saussure as the basis for the french feminist school. At a 
basic and/or intuitive level, i thought this was logical. As for the details of
their interrelations to Fr. Fem'ism, well, I'll have to wait and see.

The pre-French-fem'ism readings are: 

Saussure, Course in General Linguistics.
Levi-Strauss, Elementary Structures of Kinship.
Marx, Greman Ideology; Das Kapital, v.1.

later on:

Irigaray, Ce Sexe qui n'en est pas un.
Kristeva, Pouvoirs de l'horreur.
Cixous, La jeune ne'e.
Derrida, Epirons: Les Styles de Nietzche
Lacan, Feminine Sexuality.

The thing I like about this course is that, while the content forces one to
think critically, by the end, I will have read so much Fr. fem'ism!