UCSB, WM ST 20

Excerpt: ... usness Cancer Industrial Complex Cleavage "Culture of Thinness" Disability Rights Movement Drag Queen Double Marriage Squeeze Female Orgasm Female Sexual (IM)morality Femicide Feminist Consumerism Intersexed Labiaplasty Little Sisters Marriage Movement Multiracial Feminism Objectivity Myth Osteoporosis PODER Politics of Choice PPPO Racialized Sexuality Reproductive Films La Operacion Sterilization Shinjuku Boys Onnabe Tomboy - Girlhood Tough Guise Masculinity Under One Sky - Hijab Vital Signs - Crip Gender Bending Gender Identity Disorder Gender Performativity Gender vs. Sex Girl Power Good Hair Heterosexism Hypersexuality Intersectionality Justice Sexual Harassment SisterSong Standpoint Theory Supremacy Crimes Transgender Transsexual Voluntary Motherhood Wedding Porn White Privilege ...

Wisconsin, SOC 530

Excerpt: ... vti_encoding:SR|utf8-nl vti_timelastmodified:TR|05 Feb 2002 16:29:00 -0000 vti_extenderversion:SR|5.0.2.6417 vti_author:SR|PRIMO\Jfreese vti_modifiedby:SR|PRIMO\Jfreese vti_timecreated:TR|05 Feb 2002 22:42:09 -0000 vti_title:SR|Sitting on the fence: ...

UCSD, SOC 101

Excerpt: ... he Body Ritual of the Nacirema" 1. How would you relate this article to The Little Prince? 2. What does the study of the Nacierma mean for our own society? From Mead, "The Self" 1. Explain the relationship between the self as subject and the self as object. 2. What is meant by "taking the role of the other"? From Goffman, "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" 1. What is Goffman's distinction between expressions that one gives and expressions that one gives off. 2. What does he mean by "the definition of the situation"? From Lorber, "Night to His Day" 1. Explain the following: a. Doing gender; b. Gender bending ; c. gender as an institution. Study Questions 3 From Mead, "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies" 1. Describe the gender relations in the three tribes and explain why a set of findings such as this is important to understanding gender relations. From Steinem, "If Men Could Menstruate" 1. Why, according to Steinem, would menstruation be valued more if men experienced it instead of w ...

Cornell, ENGL 2080

Excerpt: ... Engl. 2080 Essay #3: Macbeth topics -1 S09 4-5 pp., due W March 25 in class. More topics on the way soon. For general instructions, see the handout "A Good Paper in This Course," downloadable from the website. 1. How many children had Lady and Mr ...

SIU Carbondale, PSYCH 233

Excerpt: ... 26Sep07 Monday, October 08, 2007 4:52 PM Homew ork o Cha pter 1 Cue Column Today's Topics o The Study of Gender Lecture Topic SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY Focuses on observable events and their consequences (rather than on unconscious motives and drive ...

FSU, MUH 2019

Excerpt: ... Dr. Frank Gunderson MUH2019 19 November 2007 When the Line between Genders Blurs, Music Legends Are Made Music is ones soul personified in the form of self expression. It is the universal sound of what we can not readily express. It is the sound of o ...

UVA, MDST 201

Excerpt: ... MMORPG & Society April 10 2008 What are MMORPG's? Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games What's the big deal? Over 4 million Americans play World of Warcraft alone (2006) WoW revenues for 2007 estimated at $1.5 billion Part of a gaming ...

Johns Hopkins, V 048

Excerpt: ... r as necessarily definable monolithic categories,14 Cavendish participates in more than gender bending , instead demonstrating how her characters can resignify their position, in Butlers terms, from abject to self-sufficient subjects.15 Not only do the women have the means to repudiate compulsory heterosexuality, as Bowerbank and Mendelson rightly observe,16 but they also contest the idea of stable, bodily identity. What at first seems to be a specifically female, oppositional space to heteronormativity, the convent becomes, with closer analysis, a rapidly changing environment that transforms with the language that creates it. Its resistance to stabilizationits curiously immaterial spacesuggests that the subversive power of identity exists not merely in bodies, but in the discourse that produces those bodies. Recently, queer theorists have examined this very subversiveness of the play. Theodora A. Jankowski, for instance, argues that although virginity is traditionally excluded from the ...

UMBC, MUSC 217

Excerpt: ... round is centerpiece Transvestite s, belly dancers Sadomasoch istic activity Films/light show shown during performance Interview/fil med audience reaction First performance 1/66, for NY Society for Clinical Psychiatrists Velvet Underground viewed critically as the progenitor of a new subcultural style whose focus is unconventionality, based on o ` o 1) lyrics dealing with forbidden subjects of drugs, homosexuality, sadomasochism, etc 2) deliberate amateurish performances 3) unconventional performance dress 4) unconventional stage demeanor: sullen, unsmiling, undynamic, aloof-all saying "keep your distance" Other The Stooges DetroitIggy Pop Early work Sound (but his is more hard rock) Themes (anthems to frustration) Outrageous stage antics, tales of o mutilation with beer bottles o stage (and audience) o fan's outstretch hands Glam Rock US and UK genre spanning '72-`75 Chief elements o traditional images of gender distinction ( gender bending ) o g offensive subject matter Confusing Incorporatin SelfVomit ...

UCLA, HIST 1

Excerpt: ... n, movie musicals k) Glam Rock- nostalgia meets glitters i) Musicians take on unique character for performances (1) David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust (2) Large special effects (3) Wear dramatic, gender bending costumes, makeup (4) Musical AAB 1950's retro (5) Lyrics- nonsensical chance to escape l) Mark Bolan, T-Rex- "Bang a Gong" m) Elton John releases Don't Shoot Me, I'm only the Piano Player i) "Crocodile Rock" 1970 (1) Lyrics by Bernie Taupin (2) References "Rock around the clock" n) David Bowie as "Ziggy Stardust" 1972 o) Alice Cooper (b Vincent Fourier) i) "Billion Dollar Baby" 19974 p) The New Your Dolls i) Glam/Punk transition, "Personality Crisis" 5) Southern Rock a) The Eagles i) 1976- Eagles greatest hits (1) "Hotel California" Disillusionment of the 1960's (2) 2 verses, chorus (3) Lengthy instrumental chourus at end b) Leonard Skynard i) "Sweet Home Alabama" (1) Response to Neil Young's "Southern Man" (2) 2 bar riff (3) Underlying harmony is interchanging c) Governor George Wallace 6) Funk and Disco a) ...

Pittsburgh, SLAVIC 2094

Excerpt: ... ow is she rewarded for her wisdom? How might feminist critics regard such a resolution? Vasilisa, the Priest's Daughter Gender bending Vasilisa or Vasily? Vodka and gender "Womanish fiddlefaddle" King Barkhat (= "King Velvet") King Barkhat ( "King Velvet") "The little old back yard witch" What does Vasilisa look like, and when do we learn about her appearance? Does Vasilisa live happily ever after? Fairy Tales and Genre How does the same anecdote of the spinning function differently in "Peter and Fevronia" and "The Wise Little Girl"? How is Fevronia the same as the "wise little How is Fevronia the same as the wise little girl" and how is she different? How are the texts different? Plot, character, function, genre 5 Some Features of Bad Wives Disobedient Adulterous Ungrateful Gossipy Bossy Greedy/selfish Gullible/stupid Stubborn Unruly/untamed Dishonest Defiant Sneaky Structure of Bad Wife Tales Misogynistic portrayal of women Anecdotal Differe ...