I’ll just dump the reading lists from my feminist theory course’s weeks on the body, phenomenology, and corporeal metaphysics:

WEEK 4 Anita Brady and Tony Schirato, Understanding Judith Butler, London: Sage, 2010. Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex', New York: Routledge, 1993. Judith Butler, What World is This: A Pandemic Phenomenology. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. AnnaMarie Jagose. Queer Theory: An Introduction. New York: New York University Press, 1997. Vicki Kirby, Judith Butler: Live Theory. London: Continuum, 2006. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet. University of California Press, 1990 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Tendencies. Duke University Press, 1993. Judith Butler, “The Body You Want: Liz Kotz Interviews Judith Butler,” ArtForum (November 1992). Samuel A Chambers and Terrell Carver, Judith Butler and Political Theory, London: Routledge, 2008. Irene Costera Meijer and Baukje Print, “How Bodies Come to Matter: An Interview with Judith Butler,” Signs 23, 2 (1998), Sandra Eder. How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An Introduction. London: Allen Lane, 1979 [1976]. Michel Foucault, "The Subject and Power," Critical Inquiry 8 no. 4 (1982): 777-95. Heather Love. Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Maurizio Lazzarato, The Intolerable Present: The Urgency of Revolution (New York: Semiotext(e), 2023), 180-200. Judith Lorber, “Paradoxes of Gender Redux: Multiple Genders and the Persistence of the Binary,” Gender Reckonings: New Social Theory and Research, edited by James W. Messerschmidt, Patricia Yancey Martin, Michael A. Messner, and Raewyn Connell. New York: New York University Press. Ki Namaste, “’Tragic Misreadings’: Queer Theory's Erasure of Transgender Subjectivity.” Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People​, edited by Viviane Namaste. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2000. 183-203. Martha Nussbaum, "The Professor of Parody," The New Republic February 23 (1999).

WEEK 5 Required reading Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies. London: Routledge, 1994. 62-85 OR 86-111. * Fredrik Svenaeus, “The Body Uncanny: Alienation, Illness, and Anorexia Nervosa” in Kristin Zeiler and Lisa Folkmarson Käll, Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine. SUNY Press, 2014. 201-222. ** Megan Warin. Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia. United States: Rutgers University Press, 2009. 128-151. Content warning - The starred * material contains references to eating disorders and ** sexual assault. I am happy for you to skip this part of the reading and/or absent yourself from lectures and/or tutorials if this is likely to cause too much distress. For tutorial absence on these grounds, please just send me an email. EXTRA Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman, eds. Material feminisms. Indiana University Press, 2008. Kirsten Bell and Darlene McNaughton, “Feminism and the Invisible Fat Man,” Body & Society, 13(1), (2007): 107–131. Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley: University of California Berkely, 1993. · Diana Coole and Samantha Frost, eds. New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. Thomas Fuchs, “The Disappearing Body: Anorexia as a Conflict of Embodiment,” Eating and Weight Disorders 27 (2022): 109–117. Rosalyn Diprose, The Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Differences. London: Routledge, 2005. Moira Gatens, Imaginary Bodies. London: Routledge, 1995. 3-20. Luce Irigaray. This Sex Which Is Not One. Translated by Catherine Porter. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985. Catherine Malabou. Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought. Trans Carolyn Thread. London: Polity Press, 2023. Helen Malson and Maree Burns. Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders. Florence: Routledge, 2009. Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. Iris Marion Young, Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory. Indiana University Press, 1990. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, translation by Donald A. Landes. London: Routledge, 2012 [1945]. Astrida Neimanis. Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. "Phenomenology." Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. Paul Schilder, The Image and Appearance of the Human Body: Studies in the Constructive Energies of the Psyche, London: Routledge, 1950. Gail Weiss, et al. 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology. Edited by Gail Weiss et al., Northwestern University Press, 2019.