THIS SYLLABUS PROVIDES IN AN ABBREVIATED FORM THE UNITS THAT YOU WILL FIND ON THE WEBPAGE (www.ncf.edu/hassold) "IMAGES OF WOMEN." EACH CLASS INDICATES ONLY THE ASSIGNED READINGS TO BE COVERED FOR DISCUSSION. ADDITIONAL READINGS CAN BE FOUND FOR EACH UNIT UNDER THE NAME AND NUMBER OF THAT UNIT. THESE WILL BE COVERED IN CLASS DISCUSSIONS ALONG WITH THE SLIDES INDICATED.

THE WEBPAGE ALSO INCLUDES THE CLASS REQUIREMENTS, THE FORM FOR PAPER BIBLIOGRAPHIES, THE CORRECT FORM FOR ILLUSTRATIONS IN YOUR PAPER, AND A LINK TO THE WEBBOARD FOR THIS COURSE WHERE YOU MUST POST YOUR RESPONSES TO THE READINGS TO FACILITATE GOOD CLASS DISCUSSIONS. EACH STUDENT MUST JOIN THE WEBBOARD AS A NEW USER. THERE IS A LINK TO THE WEBBOARD FROM THE "IMAGES OF WOMEN" SECTION ON MY HOMEPAGE, OR THE URL IS:

** DURING THIS SESSION, EACH STUDENT WILL CHOOSE AN ARTICLE FROM THE ADDITIONAL READING ASSIGNMENTS IN UNIT 00 HANDOUT OR WEBPAGE "IMAGES OF WOMEN." YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO POST ON THIS MATERIAL BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE NEXT CLASS ON TUESDAY. I WILL COLLECT THESE POSTS MONDAY AFTERNOON AT 5:00 PM. SO DO NOT PLAN TO POST AFTER THAT.

AUGUST RENOIR, WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT, GUSTAVE COURBET, J.D.INGRES, D. G. ROSSETTI, EDGAR DEGAS, EDOUARD MANET, GUSTAV KLIMT,  ARTHUR HUGHES, EUGENE DELACROIX,  FORD MADDOX BROWN,  VON STUCK, GUSTAVE MOREAU, AUBREY BEARDSLEY, JEAN DELVILLE, CARLOS SCHWABE,  EDVARD MUNCH

# 00.1 Pollock, Griselda, Chapter 6," Woman as Sign: Psychoanalytic Readings," 120-154, in Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Art, London and New York: Routledge, 1988/1989.

[COPY ON E-RESERVES] [34 pages]

[see SECTION #00-4: The Woman Viewed]

THE REST OF THE READINGS FOR THIS SESSION CAN BE FOUND BELOW. YOU WILL RESPONSIBLE FOR BOTH THE POLLOCK AND A SECOND TEXT YOU HAVE CHOSEN AND MUST POST ON BOTH.

#00.2________ Dijkstra, Bram, Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture, New York/Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1986

[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: NX 652 W6 D55 1986]

Pick a chapter that interests you.

#00.3________ Gilman, Sander L., Chapter 1, "Male Stereotypes of Female Sexuality in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna," 37-58. [21 pages] in Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1985

[RESERVE--NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: BF 323 C5 G55 1985]

Hess and Nochlin (editors), Woman as Sex Object: Studies in Erotic Art 1730-1970, Art News Annual XXXVIII New York: Newsweek, 1972.

[RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART LIBRARY: N 7630 W37 1972]

OPEN HOURS: 1-5 p.m. Wed- Fri, and by appointment.

#00.4________ Pierrot, Jean, Chapter 4, "The Unconscious and Sexuality," 119-143. (24 pages)

    The Decadent Imagination 1880-1900, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 1981. 

[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: PQ 298 P513 1981]

#00.5________Charles Bernheimer, "Huysmans: Writing Against (Female) Nature," 374-386 (12 pages) in Suleiman, Susan Rubin, editor, (1985/86) The Female Body in Western Culture, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard UP.

[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: NX 652 W6 F46 1986]

#00.6________Walkowitz, Judith, "Introduction," 1-13; Chapter 7: "Jack the Ripper," 191-228. (50 pages) in City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

[RESERVE- FROM TAMPA LIBRARY: HQ 72 G7 W33 1992]

#00.7________Garb, Tamar, "Renoir and the Natural Woman," 295-311 (16 pages) in Norma Broude and Mary D. Gerrard, The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, New York: Harper Collins Icon Edition, 1992 [16 PAGES]

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#00.8________Barbara Erlich White, "Renoir's Sensuous Women," 167-181, (14 pages) in Hess and Nochlin (editors), Woman as Sex Object: Studies in Erotic Art 1730-1970, Art News Annual XXXVIII, New York: Newsweek, 1972. [14 PAGES]

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[RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART LIBRARY: N 7630 W37 1972]

[SEE SLIDE LIST # 5: The Woman at Work]

#00.9________Lipton, Eunice, Looking into Degas: Uneasy Images of Women and Modern Life, Berkeley/ Los Angeles/London, University of California Press, 1986

[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: N 6853 D33 L57 1987]

#00.10________Alessandra Comini, "Vampires, Virgins and Voyeurs in Imperial Vienna, 207-221, (14 pages) in  Hess and Nochlin (editors), Woman as Sex Object: Studies in Erotic Art 1730-1970, Art News Annual XXVIII, New York: Newsweek, 1972.

[RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART LIBRARY: N 7630 W37 1972]

#00.11________ Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar, Chapter 1," Heart of Darkness: The Agon of the Femme Fatale," 3-46.(43 pages) in No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, v. 2 Sexchanges, New Haven: Yale UP, 1989.

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[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: PR 116 G5 1988 V.2]

#00.12________ Kingsbury, Martha, "The Femme Fatale and Her Sisters," 183-205, (22 pages) in Hess and Nochlin

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[RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART LIBRARY: N 7630 W37 1972]

#00.13________ Jacobus, Mary, Section III, Chapter 2, "Judith, Holofernes, and the Phallic Woman," 110-136. (26 pages) in Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism, New York, Columbia University Press, 1986

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[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: PN 98 W64 J3 1986]

UNIT 1: THE PSYCHOANALYTIC VISION: FREUD, LACAN AND THE FRENCH FEMINISTS.

WEEK 3.1 Tuesday, September 9 Assigned Readings:

# 1.1 Sigmund Freud, (1931) "Female Sexuality," 194-211, in Sexuality and the Psychology of  Love, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1963 or 223-243, Vol. 21, The Standard Edition of  the Complete Works.

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[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: BF/ 173/ F6253/ V. 21]

# 1.2 Jane Gallop, Chapter 1, "Psychoanalysis and Feminism," 1-14, in The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis.

[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: HQ 1154 .G344 1982]

# 1.3 Sigmund Freud, (1933) "Femininity," 112-135, in New Introductory Lectures On Psychoanalysis (Translated by James Strachey), 1933, 1961, W.W. Norton and Co.

ON E-RESERVES

[Be prepared to compare and contrast 1931 essay with 1933 essay]

[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: BF/ 173/ F76/ c.3]

# 1.4 Jane Gallop, Chapter 5, "The Father's Seduction," 56-79, in The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis.

[COPY ON E-RESERVES]

WEEK 3.2 Friday September 12: Assigned Readings:

# 1.5 De Koven, Marianne. "Introduction," 3-16 and "Toward the Modernist Narrative" Chapter 1, "Modernism under Erasure," 19-37 in Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton U.P. 1991.

[COPY ON E-RESERVES]

# 2.1 Torgovnick, Marianna, TEXT TEXT

Chapter 1. "Defining the Primitive/Reimagining Modernity," 3-41.

Chapter 6. "William Rubin and the Dynamics of Primitivism," 119-140.

Chapter 10. "Entering Freud's Study," 194-209, in Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1990. TEXT  [TOTAL 74 PAGES]

# 2.2 Hal Foster, (1985) "The 'Primitive' Unconscious of Modern Art, or White Skin Black Masks," 181- 210; 228-233 in Recodings: Art Spectacle, Cultural Politics, Bay Press, Port Townsend, Washington.

COPY ON E-RESERVES [29 PAGES]

[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: NX/456.5/P66/F67/ 1984]

# 2.3 Duncan, Carol, (1989) "The MOMA's Hot Mamas," 171-78, Art Journal 48 (Summer 1989).

[7 PAGES]

[COPY ON E-RESERVES]

[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY PERIODICAL: N81 .A887]

Reprinted in Broude and Garrard, editors, (1992) The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, New York: Harper Collins, 347-358. [11 PAGES]

# 2.4 Daix, Pierre, "Dread, Desire and the Demoiselles."

COPY ON E-RESERVES UNIT 2

ARTISTS:

OSKAR KOKOSCHKA, FRANCIS PICABIA,

MARCEL DUCHAMP, FRITZ LANG,

HANS BELLMER, PIERRE MOLINIER,

ALLAN JONES, NIKI DE SAINT-PHALLE

# 3.1 Sigmund Freud, (1919) "The Uncanny," 219-252, Vol. 17, The Standard Edition of the Complete Works.

[COPY ON E-RESERVES]

[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: BF 173 F6253 V. 17] [53 pages]

# 3.2 Helene Cixous, (1975) "Fiction and its Phantoms: a Reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche (The 'Uncanny')," 525-548, New Literary History, 7:3 [23 pages].

COPY ON E-RESERVES

# 3.3 Rosalind Krauss, (1985) "Notes on the Index, Part 1," 196-209 in The Originality of the Avant- Garde and Other Modernist Myths. [13 pages]

COPY ON E-RESERVES

# 3.4 Foster, Hal. (1993) Chapter 1, "Beyond the Pleasure Principle," 1-17 in Compulsive Beauty. Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1993. [17 pages]

BALTHUS, JULES PASCIN, HANS BELLMER, RICHARD LINDNER, MAX ERNST,

WEEK 5.2 Friday, September 26: LOOK AT ERNST SLIDES, READ EVANS.

# 4.1 Max Ernst, A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil, 1930, George Braziller, Inc., New York, English translation 1982 by Dorothea Tanning.

THIS BOOK IS OUT OF PRINT... SO SLIDES ARE IN TRAY FOR UNIT

# 4.2 Evans, Martha Noel. "Cixous, Hélène: The Hysteric," 157-184 in Masks of Tradition: Women and the Politics of Writing in Twentieth-Century France, Ithaca and London: Cornell UP.  [27 pages]

[COPY ON E-RESERVES]

[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: PQ 149 .E83 1978]

# 5.1 Sigmund Freud, (1927) "Fetishism," 152-157, Vol. 21, The Complete Works [5 pages]

[COPY ON E-RESERVES]

[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: BF 173 F6253 v. 21]

# 5.2 Rosalind Krauss, "Corpus Delecti," 55-112, in L'Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism, 1985, Abbeyville Press, New York [57 pages]

[COPY ON E-RESERVES]

NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY; TR 646 U6 W376 1985]

# 5.3 Hal Foster, (1986) "L'Amour Faux," pp. 117-128, Art in America, January 1986. [11 pages]

[COPY ON E-RESERVES]

[NEW COLLEGE PERIODICAL: N 1 A 43

# 5.5 Apter, Emily, (1991) Chapter 1, "Fetishism in Theory: Marx, Freud, Baudrillard, 1-14 in Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France, Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991. [14 pages]

[COPY ON E-RESERVES]

[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: PQ 653 A77 1991]

# 5.6 Foster, Hal. (1993) Chapter 4. "Fatal Attraction," 101-123 in Compulsive Beauty. Cambridge, Mass. London England: MIT Press. [22 pages]

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THIS DISCUSSION SHOULD TAKE ONLY HALF A CLASS SESSION

HESS IS A NEW TEXT, THE DUNCAN IS A REVIEW OF ONE READ EARLIER.

# 6.1 Hess, Thomas, "Pinup and Icon," 222-237, in Hess and Nochlin (editors), Woman as Sex Object: Studies in Erotic Art, Art New Annual XXXVIII, New York: Newsweek, 1972. [15 pages] [COPY ON E-RESERVES]

[RINGLING MUSEUM LIBRARY: N 7630 W37 1972]

# 6.2 Duncan, Carol, "The MOMA's Hot Mamas," 171-178, Art Journal 48 (Summer 1989) [7 pages]

[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY JOURNAL: N81 A887

Reprinted in Brounde and Garrard, editors, (1992) The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, New York: Harper Collins, 347-358.

WEEK 7.1 Tuesday, October 7: READ RIVIERE, DOANE (1982),AND HEATH.

WEEK 7.2 Friday, October 10: READ DOANE (1988-9) AND APTER.

Assigned Readings in Order of Publication:

# 7.1 Riviere, Joan (1929/1986) "Womanliness as Masquerade."

[COPY ON E-RESERVES]

# 7.2 Doane, Mary Ann, (1982) "Film and Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator," Screen, v.23 (3-4) Sept/Oct 1982.

# 7.3 Heath, Stephen, (1986) "Joan Riviere and the Masquerade," in Burgin, et. al., eds. Formations of Fantasy.

[COPY ON E-RESERVES]

# 7.4 Doane, Mary Ann, (1988-89) "Masquerade Reconsidered: Further Thoughts on the Female Spectator," Discourse, 2 (Fall/Winter 1988-89).

[COPY ON E-RESERVES]

# 7.5 Apter, Emily, (1991) "Unmasking the Masquerade: Fetishism and Femininity from the Goncourt Brothers to Joan Riviere," Feminizing the Fetish.

[COPY ON E-RESERVES]

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# 7.6 Jones, Amelia G. (1993) "The Ambivalence of Male Masquerade: Duchamp as Rrose Selavy," 21- 31 plus notes 192-193, in Adler and Pointon, eds., The Body Imaged.

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# 7.7 Tashjian, Dickran. Chapter 2. "Vous Pour Moi? Marcel Duchamp and Transgender Coupling," 37- 65, in Whitney Chadwick, (ed.) Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation. Cambridge, Mass. London England: MIT Press, 1998.

# 7.8 Matlock, Jann, "Masquerading Women, Pathologized Men: Cross-dressing, Fetishism, and the Theory of Perversion, 1882-1935," 31-61 in Fetishism as Curtural Discourse.

[COPY ON E-RESERVES]

# 7.9 Kuhn, Annette, "Sexual Disguise and Cinema," 48-73, 135-136, in Annette Kuhn's The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality, London and New York: Routledge adn Kegan Paul, 1985.

[COPY ON E-RESERVES]

# 8.1 Creed, Barbara. "Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection," 44-70 in Screen: The Journal of the Society for Education in Film and Television, vol. 27, Jan-Feb 1986. [36 PAGES]

# 8.2 Taylor, Simon. "The Phobic Object: Abjection in Contemporary Art," in Ben Levi, J., Houser, C. Jones, C.L. and Taylor, S., eds. Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. Exhibition Catalogue, 1993.

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# 8.3 Mulvey, Laura. "A Phantasmagoria of the Female Body: The Work of Cindy Sherman," New Left Review, No. 188 (July-August 1991), 136-150. [14 pages]

COPY ON E-RESERVES

NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY PERIODICAL: HX 3 N4

# 8.4 Jones, Leslie C. "Transgressive Feminity: Art and Gender in the Sixties and Seventies," 33-58 in Ben Levi, J., Houser, C., Jones, L. C., and Taylor, S. (1993) Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. exh. cat. [25 pages]

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[Jones discusses the use of the abject/transgressive in male and female artistic practices to show that male artists are celebrated for their exploration of the "femininity" (40) in themselves, while women artists are seen as "stereotypically feminine" (43) when they explore comparable body images. Artists covered include: Lee Bontecou, Claes Oldenberg, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Morris, Eva Hesse, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Carolee Schneeman, Hannah Wilke, Cindy Sherman and May Wilson.]

# 8.5 Stone, Jennifer. "The Horrors of Power: A Critique of 'Kristeva.'" Essex Conference on the Sociology of Literature, The Politics of Theory: Proceedings of the Essex Conference on the Sociology of Literature. Essex: University of Essex, 1982: 38-48. [10 pages]

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# 8.6 Creed, B.(1986) "Horror and the Monstrous Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection," Screen 27:1.

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WEEK 2.1 Tuesday October 28: LECTURE 1: student name: subject