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Gender and Feminisms II

Gender and Feminisms II. TODAY's LECTURE: 1. Gender construction (Butler, Barbie, Disney) 2. Ang, pleasure in fiction (soap operas) 3. Post-feminism (versus the sexual double standard) 4. The crisis of masculinity 5. Problematics in feminism. Judith Butler.

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Gender and Feminisms II

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  1. Gender and Feminisms II TODAY's LECTURE: 1. Gender construction (Butler, Barbie, Disney) 2. Ang, pleasure in fiction (soap operas) 3. Post-feminism (versus the sexual double standard) 4. The crisis of masculinity 5. Problematics in feminism

  2. Judith Butler

  3. “Gender Trouble”gender as socially constructed Sex = biology Gender = social construction You are not born a man or a woman, you are socialized to become one Gender is a performance (the performativity of gender)

  4. Media's Role in Gender Construction Media reflect and reinforce the dominant ideologies of femininity and masculinity LGBTQ rarely (till now?) represented in the media Heteronormativity: the idea that heterosexuality is the only “normal” behaviour between men and women

  5. The Princess and the Frog, 2009 Snow White, 1937

  6. Ien Ang

  7. “Watching Dallas” Postmodern feminist perspective: real pleasure exists in watching soap operas Enjoying “emotional realism” does not make you any less of a feminist

  8. The assumption that equality between men & women has been (more or less) achieved

  9. Sex and the City (can women “have it all”?)

  10. Bridget Jones

  11. She's a slut, he's a stud The Sexual Double Standard

  12. Gloria Steinem on Miley: “I wish we didn’t have to be nude to be noticed ... But given the game as it exists, women make decisions. For instance, the Miss America contest is in all of its states ... the single greatest source of scholarship money for women in the United States. If a contest based only on appearance was the single greatest source of scholarship money for men, we would be saying, "This is why China wins." You know? It’s ridiculous. But that’s the way the culture is. I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.” Second wave feminist icon

  13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VysXD5o6HeM

  14. Crisis of Masculinity

  15. Media Stereotypes:Jocks contra Nerds

  16. Ideology of Masculinity

  17. Problems re: feminism...? The Weird, Wonderful You: the commodification of feminism Misconception that Feminism = “successful” woman (e.g. Margaret Thatcher as “Iron Lady”, Sharon Stone in “Fatal Attraction”)

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