Course Calendar with Reading & Assignment Due Dates
The Professor-Page- Blogging In College: The Gender & Pop Culture Blog Project:
| Class 1 May 12 | Introduction to concepts, theories, and key terms/approaches to studying popular culture through the lens of gender | Introduction to the course Discussion of goals, concepts, and assignments for the semester Blog Creation / Topic Brainstorming/Link Hunt |
| Class 2 May 13 | Approaches to studying gender & popular culture | 2. Kellner, "Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, & Media Culture," 9-20 (G) 3. Croteau & Hoynes, “The New Media Giants: Change Industry Structure,” 21-39 (G) 4. Lipsitz, “The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television,” 40-47 (G) |
| Class 3 May 14 | “Hegemony, patriarchy, & ideologies, oh my!” | 5. Newman, Chapter 2, “Manufacturing Difference: The Social Construction of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality”* 6. Lull, "Hegemony," 61-66 (G) 7. Johnson, “Patriarchy, the System: An It, Not a He, a Them or an Us,” 91-98 * 8. Hall, “By the Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media,” 89-93 (G) Watch episode "Don't Make Me Over" from Family Guy & Daily Show clips on racism and immigration |
| Class 4 May 15 | Interpreting the media’s constructs of the ‘ideal’ & ‘pathological’ subjects | 9. Newman, Chapter 3, “Portraying Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Language and the Media” * 10. Pozner, “The Unreal World” * 11. Rogers, “Hetero Barbie?” 94-97 (G) 12. Raymond, “Popular Culture & Queer Representation: A Critical Perspective,” 98-110 (G) Watch Further Off The Straight & Narrow |
| Class 5 May 19 | Edutainment: (Gendered) Consumers R Us | Student Presentation #1: Edutainment 13. Newman, Chapter 4 “Learning difference: Families, schools, and socialization” 14. Giroux, “Kids for Sale: Corporate Culture & the Challenge of Public Schooling,” 171-175 (G) 15. Messner, “Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the construction of Masculinities” * 16. Ijeoma A. “Because You’re a Girl” * 17. “girls, sexulity, & popular culture” * |
| Class 6 May 20 | The evolving discursive/material constructs of women and beauty in the media industry | 18. Ouelette, “Reinventing the Cosmo Girl: Class Identity and Girl-Style American Dreams,” 116-128 (G) 19. Steinem, “Sex, Lies, & Advertising,” (223-229) 20. Breazeale, “In Spite of Women: Esquire Magazine and the Construction of the Male Consumer,” (230-243) 21. Wolf, Excerpt From The Beauty Myth * Watch Killing Us Softly 3 in Class Blog Post #1 Due (by 9pm): Engendering Consumers/Gendered Consumption |
Class 7 May 21 | Marketing Sexual Subjectivities: Masculinity & Femininity Commodified | Student Presentation #2: Advertising Masculinity and Femininity 22. Jhally, “Image-Based Culture: Advertising & Popular Culture,” 249-257 (G) 23. Higginbotham, “Teen Mags: How to Get a Guy, Drop 20 Pounds, and Lose Your Self-Esteem” * 24. Kilbourne, “The More You Subtract, the More You Add: Cutting Girls Down to Size,” 258-267 (G) 25. Kirkham & Weller, “Cosmetics: A Clinique Case Study,” 268-273 (G) 26. Katz, “Advertising and the Construction of Violent White Masculinity: From Eminem to Clinique for Men,” 349-358 (G) |
| Class 8 May 22 | Body=Big $$$ The embodiment of ideals | Student Presentation #3: Body Businesses 27. Hesse-Biber, Chapter 1, “A Cult Grows In America” * 28. Hesse-Biber, Chapter 2, “Men and Women: Mind & Body” * 29. Hesse-Biber, Chapter 3, “Selling the Body Beautiful: Food, Dieting, & Recovery” * 30. Hesse-Biber, Chapter 4, “There’s No Business Like the Body Business: Fitness & Cosmetic Surgery” * |
| May 23 | No Class—Memorial Day | No Class Friday Blog Post #2 Due (by 9pm): Collage Assignment |
| May 26 | No Class—Memorial Day | No Class Monday |
| Class 9 May 27 | Defining Identities & Audience Identity using the Music Industry | Student Presentation #4: Identity-Production in Rock, Rap, & Hip Hop 31. Coates, “Moms Don’t Rock: The Popular Demonization of Courtney Love”* 32. Perry, “Who(se) am I? The Identity and Image of Women in Hip Hop,” 136-148 (G) 33. Cole & Guy-Sheftall, “No Respect: Gender Politics and Hip Hop” * 34. Rose, “Hidden Politics: Discursive and Institutional Policing of Rap Music,” 396-405 (G) |
| Class 10 May 28 | It’s everywhere… There may be a few reasons: Rereading “Reality TV” | Student Presentation #5: Reality TV’s Multidimensional Power 36. Ouellette & Hay “TV Interventions: Personal Responsibility and Techniques of the Self,” 63-98 37. Ouellette & Hay “Makeover TV: Labors of Reinvention,” 99-133 |
| Class 11 | Defining the boundaries of inclusion and otherness | 38. Ouellette & Hay “TV & the Self-Defensive Citizen,” 134-169(?) 39. Ouellette & Hay “TV’s Constitutions of Citizenship,” 170-202(?) Final Class Wrap-Up Blog Post #3 Due (by 9pm): Rereading Reality TV |
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