Annotated Indicative Bibliography: Feminist Social Epistemology- Essay Writing Assignment

Essay proposal and annotated indicative bibliography Overview Assessment Item 2.

Essay outline and Annotated Bibliography 1000 words 20% Based on the theories and theorists covered in the unit you will select your topic for the final essay.

The outline will provide an indicative focus of the essay including:

• An explanation of the essay topic – sentence form (can also include dot points but the clearer and more comprehensive your explanation the better). There will be an opportunity for general discussion of the requirements of the essay in the face-to-face workshops and to discuss the essay topics individually with the lecturer prior to the due date.

• A brief overview of the literature you will be using, incorporating an annotated bibliography of at least 8 books, book chapters and/or academic articles you have identified, via a data-base search (NOT INTERNET SEARCH), as relevant to your topic.

• An indication of the arguments you have identified as relevant to your theoretical topic.

The dot points set out above can be used as a way to organise your proposal.

The outline is a working document that will enable feedback on the direction you are planning and the work already undertaken for the essay. The more work you put into the essay proposal and reading the more useful the feedback you will get for your final essay. Essay outlines that are not well thought through and reflective of relevant reading are hard to give useful feedback on.

Topic 1 Introduction to Social Theory REQUIRED READINGS

Delanty, G 2009, The foundations of social theory, in Bryan S Turner (ed.) The new Blackwell companion to social theory, New Ed, Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Malden, MA, USA, Wiley-Blackwell, pp 19-37  (eBook).

Grasswick, H 2016. “Feminist Social Epistemology”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (Winter 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/feminist-social-epistemology/ , accessed 7 February 2017.

Goldman, A 2010, “Social Epistemology”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2010/entries/epistemologysocial/ accessed 8 February 2014. Rose, N 2013, 'The Human Sciences in a Biological Age', Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 3-34.

Stones, R. (ed.), 2008, Key sociological thinkers, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Browse to check the inclusions)

Recommended texts Hofweber, T., “Logic and Ontology”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),

http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2010/entries/logicontology/ accessed 8 February 2014.

Radhakrishnan, R. 2003, “Theory in an uneven world”, in Theory in an uneven world, Oxford Malden, MA: Blackwell (eBook). Russel, B. 1926. “Theory of Knowledge”. The Encyclopaedia Britannica.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/russell1.htm , Accessed 29 January 2015. Smith, D. 1999. Writing the social: critique, theory and investigations Buffalo, Toronto, University of Toronto Press (eBook).

Topic 2 Critical theory: Marx and beyond REQUIRED READINGS

Engels, F 1970 [1880], “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific – Parts IIII”, Marx and Engels’ Selected Works, London: Progress Press, available online:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/socutop/index.htm , accessed 30 January 2015.

Marcuse, H 1964, “The New Forms of Control” in H. Marcuse One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Boston: Beacon Press, (Ch. 1), available online:

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/onedimensionalman/ch01.htm , accessed 30 January 2015.

Mohanty, Chandra T 2003, '“Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles', Signs, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 499-535.

Motta, SC 2013, “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For”, Latin American Perspectives, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 35-54.

Sofronov, V., Jameson, F., Amariglio, J., & Madra, Y. M. (2008). The theory of Marxism: questions and answers. Rethinking Marxism, 20(3), 367-384,508-511.

Retrieved from

https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.uws.edu.au/docview/212148817?accountid=36155 , accessed 7 February 2017.

Recommended texts Barrett, Ml 1988, Women's oppression today: the Marxist/feminist encounter, Rev. ed. edn, London, Verso (browse).

Boothman, D 2008, The sources for Gramsci's concept of hegemony. Rethinking Marxism, 20(2), 201-215,332. Retrieved from

https://search-proquestcom.ezproxy.uws.edu.au/docview/212152755?accountid=36155 , accessed 7 Feb 2017.

BenHabib,S., 1986. Critique, Norm, and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory. New York: Columbia University Press. Calhoun, C.J., 1995.

Critical Social Theory: Culture, History, and the Challenge of Difference. New York: WileyBlackwell. Gramsci, A. 1971, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, London: Lawrence and Wishart.

Stolze, T 1998, Deleuze and Althusser: Flirting with Structuralism, Rethinking Marxism, 10:3, 51-63, DOI: 10.1080/08935699808685540 Tormey, S. & Townshend, J. 2006. Key thinkers from critical theory to po stMarxism, Thousand Oaks, Calif; London, Sage. Wolff, R 1998, A Note on Althusser's Importance for Marxism Today, Rethinking Marxism, 10:3, 90-92, DOI: 10.1080/08935699808685544.