Course Schedule

TUESDAY	THURSDAY
January 13 Syllabus overview; what to expect from the class; image analysis and in-class writing	January 15 Getting to know one another; establishing our classroom guidelines; media survey; brainstorm questions, issues, topics for project 1
January 20 In-Class Writing (ICW); Lind, “Laying a Foundation for Studying Race, Gender, and the Media”; Gorham, “The Social Psychology of Stereotypes”	January 22 Blum, “The Gender Blur”; Lorber, “The Social Construction of Gender”; Jervis, “Ladies and Gentlemen”
January 27 Bitchfest: “Introduction” by Jervis and Zeisler and “The F Word” by Jervis; Mayne, “Women, Representation, and Culture”; Douglas, “Introduction,” (1-20); Discussion of Project #1	January 29 Friedan, “The Problem that Has No Name”; Peril, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, “An Introduction"
February 3 Mad Men pilot episode	February 5 Douglas, “Fractured Fairy Tales,” Orenstein, “What’s Wrong with Cinderella?”; clips from Cinderella ; Bartnett, “Destructive and Constructive Characterizations of Women in Disney’s Mulan”; clips from Mulan

February 10 duCille, excerpts from Skin Trade (17-30 and 41-59); The Simpsons, “Lisa v. Malibu Stacy”	February 12 NO REGULAR CLASS MEETING; Online discussion on the blog about: Traister, “Class Act”; Meltzer, “Are Fat Suits the New Blackface?”; Ugly Betty pilot episode
February 17 Jhally, “Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture”; Bordo, “Never Just Pictures”; Dove et al, “Only Two Percent of Women Describe Themselves as Beautiful”	February 19 Zeisler, “Beauty Myths and Body Projects”; Douglas, “Narcissism as Liberation” (245-68)
February 24 MARDI GRAS HOLIDAY	February 26 Discussion of What Women Want (2000, Dir. Nancy Meyers); Project 1 Due
March 3 – Midterm Review	March 5 – Midterm Exam
March 10 Douglas, “Mama Said” (43-60); 50s-era sitcoms, Gilmore Girls, “That Damn Donna Reed”	March 12 Douglas, “Genies and Witches” (123-38); episodes of Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie
March 17 Conners, “Color TV?”; Tharpe, “The Black and the Beautiful”; Sapiro, “The Plurality of Gender-Based Realities”	March 19 Where we've we been, and where we are now: television in your lifetime
March 24 Douglas, "Why the Shirelles Mattered” (83-99)	March 26 Profiles of women in hip hop; Morgan, “From Fly Girls to Bitches and Hos”
March 31 – Lorde, “The Uses of the Erotic”; Walker, "In Search of Our Mothers Gardens"	April 2 - Discussion of Something New (2006, Dir. Sanaa Hamri), Project 2 Due
April 7 – SPRING BREAK	April 9 – SPRING BREAK
April 14 Kimmel, “What Are Little Boys Made Of?”; Jervis, “Hot and Bothered: Unmasking Male Lust”; In-class screening of Tough Guise	April 16 Solinger, Pregnancy and Power, “Introduction”
April 21 Martin, "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles"	April 23 In-class screening of The Business of Being Born; Latham, “Double Life”; Nolan, “Mother Inferior”
April 28 Douglas and Michaels, “The New Momism”; Discussion of Final Exam; discussion of Waitress (2007, Dir. Adrienne Shelly)	April 30 Hogeland, “Fear of Feminism”; Kimmel, “Real Men Join the Movement”; Rich, “Claiming an Education”; Pick up take-home exam

This is a tentative schedule; check frequently for modifications and changes.

updated fall 2007