WMGST-211 Women, Gender and Popular Culture
Interdisciplinary investigation of how popular culture reproduces gendered identities and racialized differences. Feminist theories of popular culture will inform examinations of racial stereotypes and heterosexist conventions in diverse forms of popular culture (films, fiction, non-fiction, television, music, the internet) from 1980-present in both mainstream and sub-cultural contexts. Analysis of popular culture’s commodification of contradictory versions of "womanhood," as well as how women’s self-representations pose complex questions of agency and resistance in the culture industry.
Standard Course (40)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
one course in women’s studies or consent of instructor.
Offered
Fall