| 8/25
Introduction to the course: What to Expect; in-class writing
For Wed.: print and bring course syllabus
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8/27
Syllabus overview and course goals: Why images? Why women? Why
popular culture?
For Fri.: Bring an image
of a woman from a popular media source
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8/29 Introductions and
image analysis
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9/1
Labor Day Holiday
(final date for dropping class w/o receiving a W is tomorrow) |
9/3 Hurricane Gustav |
9/5 Hurricane Gustav |
9/8 Week 2: The "F" Word and Other Words: Defining and Debunking
Jervis/Zeisler, "introduction" and Mayne, "Women, Representation, and Culture"
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9/10 Lorber, "The Social Construction of Gender" and Blum, "The Gender Blur" |
9/12 Hurricane Ike |
9/15 Week 3: How to Read Popular Texts: Concepts and Questions
Lind, "Laying a Foundation for Studying Race, Gender, and Media" |
9/17 Gorham, "The Social Psychology of Stereotypes" |
9/19 Douglas, "Introduction"
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9/22 Week 4: I Want to Be a Princess: Fairy Tales and Female Identity
Orenstein, "What's Wrong with Cinderella?" |
9/24 Henke, Umble, and Smith, "Constructions of the Female Self: Feminist Readings of the Disney Heroine"
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9/26 Douglas, "Fractured Fairy Tales," 21-42
Screening: 2:30-4:30, Ugly Betty and
Mad Men, pilot episodes
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9/29 Week 5: Beauty and the Body:
Fashion and Advertising
What defines Beauty? Bordo, "Never Just Pictures"; "Class Act" by
Rebecca Traister |
10/1
"Only Two Percent of Women Describe Themselves as Beautiful" and
"Decoding Victoria's Secret"
Screening
Thursday: 7:30-9:30, What Women Want
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10/3
Douglas, "Narcissism as Liberation" (245-68)
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| 10/6 Week 6: Beauty and
the Body, continued: Barbie and the Construction of Feminine Beauty
Excerpts from Ann duCille's Skin Trade
(8-30)
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10/8 Barbie,
Race, and Class: duCille (31-59) |
10/10 No Regular Class Meeting:
Reading/Viewing Day |
| 10/13 Midterm Exam
Review |
10/15 Exam essay prep |
10/17 Midterm
Exam, in-class portion |
| 10/20
Week 8: Group Project Week |
10/22 Group Project |
10/24
Group Project |
| 10/27
Week 9: Regrouping, Rethinking, Looking Back |
10/29
Douglas, "Mama Said," 43-60
Screening Thursday: 7:30-9:30,
The Stepford Wives (original version) in Allen 23
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10/31
Douglas, "Genies and Witches," 123-38 |
| 11/3
Discussion of The Stepford Wives and
Special Topic: Women and Politics (readings
posted on the homepage)
Don't forget to vote tomorrow!
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11/5
Douglas, "Why the Shirelles Mattered," 83-98 |
11/7
Joan Morgan, "From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hos"
Screening 2:30-4:30, Something New in Allen 19
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| 11/10 Profiles of
African American women in music: Salt-N-Pepa, Queen Latifah, Lauryn
Hill, Erykah Badu, Lil' Kim, Missy, Eve, Alicia Keys |
11/12
Evelynn M. Hammonds, "Towards a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality:
The Problematic of Silence"
Screening Thursday: 7:30-9:30,
Waitress in Allen 23
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11/14 Discussion of Something New |
| 11/17 Audre Lorde, "The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power";
Douglas, "Sex and the Single Teenager" |
11/19
Rickie Solinger, "Introduction: What Is Reproductive Politics?" from
Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics |
11/21
Lisa Moricoli Latham, "Double Life: Everyone Wants to See Your
Breasts Until Your Baby Needs Them" and Monica Nolan, "Mother
Inferior: How Hollywood Keeps Single Moms in Their Place";
Discussion of Waitress |
| 11/24
Finish discussion of single moms and Waitress; discuss website stuff |
11/26
Thanksgiving Holiday: No regular class |
11/28
Thanksgiving Holiday |
| 12/1
"The New Momism" by Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels |
12/3
Michael Kimmel, "Real Men Join the Movement" and Lisa Marie Hogeland,
"Fear of Feminism: Why Young Women Get the Willies" |
12/5
Last things; pick up take-home exam |
