Rethinking Gender Through Mimesis: Performativity, Narrative, and Queering
Readings:
- Adriana Cavarero, Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood, Taylor & Francis, 2000, Reading 1 & Reading 2
- Judith Butler, Undoing Gender, Routledge, 2004, Reading
- Judith Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination,” 1991, Reading
- Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life, Duke University Press, 2017, Reading
Reading Group on Adriana Cavarero
Readings:
- Nidesh Lawtoo, Adriana Cavarero, “Mimetic Inclinations: A Dialogue with Adriana Cavarero,” in Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers, SUNY Press, 2021, pp. 183-192.
- Adriana Cavarero, chapter 2, chapter 4, in Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude, Stanford University Press, 2016.
- Adriana Cavarero, chapter 9, chapter 10, chapter 12, in Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude, Stanford University Press, 2016.
- Judith Butler, “Leaning Out, Caught in the Fall: Interdependency and Ethics in Cavarero,” in Towards a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence, Fordham university Press, 2021.
- Nidesh Lawtoo, Adriana Cavarero, “Mimetic Inclinations: A Dialogue with Adriana Cavarero,” in Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers, SUNY Press, 2021, pp. 192-199.
- Adriana Cavarero, preface, chapter 5, chapter 6, in Surging Democracy: Notes on Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought, Stanford University Press, 2021, pp. ix-xvi; pp- 59-71; pp. 72-85.
Adriana Cavarero: Mimetic Inclinations & Musical Narratives
Readings:
- Adriana Cavarero, “The Envied Muse: Plato verus Homer,” in Cultivating the Muse, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 52-60 & 64-67.
- Adriana Cavarero and Nidesh Lawtoo, “Mimetic Inclinations: A Dialogue with Adriana Cavarero,” in Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers, SUNY Press, 2021.