bell hooks (Orlo Interview)
http://www.teleport.com/~orlo/be4/interview/bellhooks.html
Pema Chödrön & bell hooks Talk Over Life and All Its Problems http://www.shambhalasun.com/pema.html
Postmodern Blackness (bell hooks) http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Articles_Gen/Postmodern_Blackness_ 18270.html
hooks, bell - Voices From the Gaps
voices.cla.umn.edu

bell hooks resources at Erratic Impact’s Feminism Web
www.erraticimpact.com

hooks, bell - Articles
www.dc.peachnet.edu

Program Schedule - bell hooks
www.flint.lib.mi.us

bell hooks
www.dbis.ns.ca

BELL HOOKS (1955 - )
http://ucl.broward.cc.fl.us/writers/hooks.htm

Third World Viewpoint interviews Bell Hooks
http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/dec95hooks.htm

Disabilities

Websites:
http://www.ada.ucsb.edu/sectn1.html
Background and Definitions regarding the Americans With Disabilities Act
http://website.lineone.net/~starfive/AllInIt2Gether.htm
Gives details on the equality of people with disabilities’ oppression.
http://www.progressive.org/pmpkfn27.html
Reflections of a person with a physical disability.
http://website.lineone.net/~starfive/Oppression.htm
Discusses the roots of disabled people’s oppression.
http://www.accessiblesociety.org/topics/economics-employment/
Gives account of disabled persons and unemployment.
http://www.swquin.org/html/history.html
History of disability services in the United States.
http://www.disabilityhistory.org/peopbody.html
List of famous people with disabilities.
http://www.disabilityhistory.org/timelist.html
Provides a timeline on significant dates in disability history.
http://ww.seguin.org/html/history.html
History of Disability

Judith Butler/Queer Theory (thanks to Sandra Dika)

http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~scctr/Wellek/butler
In-depth bibliographic information (searchable!) on texts by and about Judith Butler, compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan, bibliographer of Critical Theory, Logic and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, and Religion at the University of California, Irvine.
– Texts referencing her work in the disciplines of law, religion, sociology, philosophy, literature, and education
– Scholarly journals and conference papers

http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-butl.htm
Assigned “reading” for EDCI 5784. Information about Butler’s work, especially as related to queer theory, compiled by David Gauntlett, Institute of Communication Studies at University of Leeds, UK.
– Media and communication studies - Madonna as a media icon
– Scholarly journals, cultural magazines, media (TV, film)

http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/People/Butler.htm
From Swirl, a cultural theory web site compiled by Warren Hedges, Department of English, Southern Oregon University. Butler is named as one of the “Grand PooBahs” of theory.
– Links to queer theory, performance theory, and identity/post-identity controversy (e.g., what would it mean to be post-Black?)

http://www.queertheory.com
Links to online resources integrated with the visual and textual resources in Queer Culture, Queer Theory, Queer Studies, Gender Studies, and related fields.
– Site supported by Amazon.com
– Indicates the spread of queer theory
– Includes books, news, music, films, and travel.

http://lib.harvard.edu/e-resources/details/i/ijsegest.html
The International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies (online) dedicated a special issue entitled Gender Trouble: Judith Butler and Her Impact on Sexuality and Gender Studies
to Judith Butler and her work in October 2000. Unfortunately, online access to the journal is restricted to Harvard users only.

Myers, D. G. (1999). Bad writing [Online]. Available: http://www-english.tamu.edu/pers/fac/myers/bad_writing.html
– Critique of Butler by David Myers, English Professor at Texas A&M
– Discusses “bad” academic writing as a confirmation of the scholar’s status and authority - a contribution to political power rather than to knowledge
– Cites Butler’s work as a case in point

Nussbaum, M. (1999). The professor of parody. The New Republic Online. Available: http://www.tnr.com/archive/0299/022299/nussbaum022299.html
– Critique of Butler’s work by Martha Nussbaum, Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.
– Criticizes Butler’s self-involved feminism
– Challenges Butler’s notion that we should engage in parodic performances, but that the dream of escaping oppressive structures is just a dream - we can only resist within those structures
– “Isn’t hierarchy in drag still hierarchy?”

Gloria Anzaldua (thanks to Lisette Garcia)

Taken from: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/gloriaanzaldua.html a site devoted to Anzaldúa complied by Elizabeth Jones, Elvin Jones, Jessica Olson, and Rebecca Tealie.
The following sites might be helpful in providing background and other pertinent information regarding Anzaldúa and her perspective as a lesbian Chicana feminist. They offer insight into why Anzaldúa writes what she writes and why it is necessary.

Other sites:
Making Face, Making Soul… A Chicana Feminist homepage
§ provides information on the birth of Chicana feminism and Anzaldúa’s role as a lesbian Chicana writer
http://chicanas.com/huh.html

Queer Theory homepage
§ provides some good information on her background and theoretical information on this and her other works
http://www.queertheory.com/histories/a/anzaldua_gloria.htm#online

Voices from the gaps women writers of color homepage
§ provides information on feminism and the role of women of color in that movement
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/

Study sheet for Anzaldúa
§ provides some questions to help guide discussion on Anzaldúa’s work Borderlands/La Frontera (used for a class discussion at Shepherd College, West Virginia)
http://webpages.shepherd.edu/ltate/355AnzalduaMomadayStudySheet.htm

2) Links to either on-line or print journal articles that address these writings

What people are saying about this book:
http://www.indiana.edu/~glbtlib/reviews/r01401.html April 30, 1998 - Judith Roof

http://chicanas.com/chicfiction.html#BLF date and author unknown

http://www.english.udel.edu/teague/barringer2.html - Robby Barringer (class response) Mr. Barringer makes reference to the work of Richard Rorty in his writings on Anzaldúa – for more information on him you can visit: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/1643/rorty.html

http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~lxb1801/Anzaldua_index.html - Leslie Bary -this piece touches upon many of the topics that have been central to our discussions during this semester and relates them specifically to Borderlands/La Frontera – very critical

http://www.oxy.edu/~singer/Anzaldua.htm - Marisa Singer

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ramirez/projects/giselle/borgr.html - Giselle Rodriguez (class response)

http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/wyrick/debclass/anzal.htm date and author unknown

http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~womcolor/anzaldua.htm - Maria Esther Fernandez – she offers her personal insight and thoughts on Anzaldúa’s work – gives us an individual perspective on Borderlands/La Frontera from a fellow Chicana

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~hartleyg/authors/borderlandsnotes.html date and author unknown but it does a good job of touching upon some of the themes of the work

http://www.nd.edu/~observer/11132000/News/0.html November 13, 2000 - Katie Kelleher – this piece offers us an illustration of one way this work by Anzaldúa has been used by the academy

http://www.princeton.edu/~howarth/557/border%20rev.html

Trinh Minh-ha (thanks to Cecile Cachaper)

biographical information
http://vietspace.com/taleoflove/totbio.html
http://cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/Film_Studies/minh-ha.html

How her work has been used

Conceptualization of identity as ‘fluid’
http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/trinh.html

Link to an interview with Trinh Minh Ha: “Shifting the borders of the Other”: http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/kino/3265/1.html

Feminism and Art Criticism

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0425/4_58/59552683/p1/article.jhtml

Michel Foucault (thanks to Eunsil Lee)

1. Web sites that reflect the different audiences that read this work

Search on Michel Foucault
(1) http://www.csun.edu/~hfspc002/foucault.home.html
· Foucault Pages at CSUN
· Produced by Dr. Bernardo Attias, Dept. of communication Studies, California State University, Northvidge

(2) http://www.qut.edu.au/edu/cpol/foucault/
http://home.iprimus.com.au/panopticon1
· Michel Foucault Resources – includes FAQ, bibliography, news, articles, and links
· Producer of the site and her book:
Clare O’Farrell,
- Foucault: Historian or Philosopher? London: Macmillan, 1989,
188 pp. Reprinted in paperback 1993
- Foucault: The Legacy, Brisbane: QUT, 1997. 73 chapters, 792pp.

(3) http://www.theory.org.uk/foucault
· Michel Foucault Resource Centre – includes articles, essays, and illustrated guides, as well as fun extras
· Developed by David Gauntlette, University of Leeds, Institute of Communications Studies – http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ics/david.htm
· Trading Card: Creative Knowledge you can put in your pocket
Action Figures: $14.99

(4) http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/BirthOfTheClinic/biohome.htm
· A very Non-Foucauldian History of Michel Foucault
· A link from O’Farrell’s Frequently Asked Questions, a question about Foucault’s life

2. Web sites or links that show the kinds of discussion – popular and/or academic surrounding these writings

(1) Links from http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/BirthOfTheClinic/biohome.htm
· The History of Sexuality
http://cgi.student.nada.kth.se/cgi-bin/d95-adh/get/foucaulteng
· Power/Knowledge by Michel Foucault
· “The Discourse on Language” by Michel Foucault – a summary

(2) Links from http://www.theory.org.uk
· On Judith Butler: http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-butl.thm
· Intros to queer theory: http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-quee.htm
· Media ‘effects’
· Madonna and Gender Trouble
· What’s interesting about Michel Foucault

(3) Yahoo.com search on queer theory
http://users.cybercity.dk/~dko12530185tudies.htm
http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENG2012klages/queertheory.html

3. Links to either on-line or print journal articles that centrally address these titles
· http://muse.jhu.edu/journals
University of Texas Press – Journal of the History of Sexuality
· Benesch, S. (2001). Critical EAP: Theoretical Influences. Critical English for Academic Purpose: Theory, Politics and Practices, Lawrence Erlbaum Association, New Jersey: Mahwah.
Gore, J. M. An Introduction to Foucault and Educatio

Frantz Fanon (thanks to Alex Jean Charles)
http://www.ovationtv.com/artszone/teachers/fanon.html
http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_fanon_frantz.html
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/may01/fanon.htm
http://www.liberator2000.com/fanon/
http://www.raceandhistory.com/Historians/frantz_fanon.htm

Noam Chomsky
http://monkeyfist.com/ChomskyArchive
Interviews http://monkeyfist.com:8080/ChomskyArchive/about
http://www.netzero.com/