week 9 – culture
June 13, 2010
Culture surrounds us. The readings for this week will reflect a lot of what you’ve written in your personal blogs. If interested in the topic, you might enjoy the class COM 422: Women, Men, and Media – “An examination of the processes by which gender is constructed in the mass communication media. Students will be asked to consider how the technical, economic, and political constraints and capabilities of the media construct images of gender for audiences.”
Chapter 9 readings
Textbook readings:
- Chapter 9 introduction, 3rd ed.: p.503-517; 4th ed.: p.498-514
- Reading 71/67 “Poetry Is Not a Luxury”, Lorde, 3rd ed.: p.520-522; 4th ed.: p.517-519
- Reading 73 “Pop Culture Is Us: Two Essays on a Theme”, Douglas and Orenstein, 3rd ed.: p.525-527; 4th ed.: not available
- Reading 69 “Female Chauvinist Pigs”, Levy, 3rd ed.: not available; 4th ed.: p.522-527
- Reading 70 “A Woman’s Role Is … on Television”, Turnquist, 3rd ed.: not available; 4th ed.: p.528-529
- Reading 72 “If Women Ran Hip-Hop”, de Leon, 3rd ed.: not available; 4th ed.: p.534
- Reading 74/71 “Desperately Seeking Housewives“, Pozner and Seigel, 3rd ed.: p.528-531; 4th ed.: p.530-533
- Reading 75 “From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hos”, Morgan, 3rd ed.: p.532-534; 4th ed.: not available
- Reading 75 “Pop Culture Gone Wild”, Valenti, 3rd ed.: not available; 4th ed.: p.549-553
- Reading 77/74 “Cut-and-Paste Revolution: Notes from the Girl Zine Explosion”, Bleyer, 3rd ed.: p.541-547; 4th ed.: p.542-548
- Reading 78 “Strip Till You Drop”, Pollet and Hurwitz, 3rd ed.: p.548-552
Supplemental readings:
- “Cover versions: Sarah Jones‘“, BBC, January 14, 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3376983.stm
- Women in the ‘Girls Gone Wild’ Era (audio), NPR, Fresh Air from WHYY, November 28, 2006, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6549015
- Joe Francis [Girls Gone Wild founder]: ‘Baby, give me a kiss’, Claire Hoffman, Los Angeles Times Magazine, August 6, 2006
- Joss Whedon’s Equality Now speech, YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYaczoJMRhs
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