UT Dallas, HIST 1302

Excerpt: ... HIST 1302: U.S. History Survey from the Civil War Spring 2008 Exam 1 Review Sheet Be prepared to define and give the significance of the following terms: Ghost Dance Populists White Man's Burden 14 Points Scopes Trial Emma Goldman Marcus Garvey Lost ...

Cornell, NR 220

Excerpt: ... Lecture 22 outline March 15 Lecture 22 Monday March 15, 2004 Anthracite (continued), then film and photography _ Announcements: (1) The handouts today: Dead River Rough Cut (2) The theme for this week: art, literature, and film. Read "The Ledge" (3) Term paper proposals due the Friday after break: April 2 I. Modern day environmental consequences of anthracite, conclusion: 1.) Centralia mine fire history Centralia Pennsylvania, Columbia County. 2.) Acid mine drainage 3.) Bat conservation II. Art, literature, film, and term papers It's never too early . . . . 1.) Literature: John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath William Faulkner, Big Woods Willa Cather, O Pioneers! 2.) Interactions with film and/or photography: Alan Huffman, Ten Point: Deer Camp in the Mississippi Delta Glenda Riley, The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prarie and the Plains 3.) Women and hunting: Carol Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat Pam Houston, ed., Women on Hunting Ma ...

Union College, SOC 083

Excerpt: ... Sexuality Relationship between gender & sexuality Social construction of sexuality Sexual Politics Relationship between Gender & Sexuality Homophobia maintains our gender system Social Construction of Sexuality Historical and cultural variation Tied to construction of gender Sexuality is learned (Pogrebin) Social Construction of Sexuality Privilege Heterosexism institutionalized set of behaviors and beliefs that presume heterosexuality to be the only acceptable form of sexual expression Social Construction of Sexuality Homophobia fear and hatred of homosexuality Social Construction of Sexuality Trevor Confidential Suicide Hotline 866-4-U-TREVOR (866-488-7386) Sexual Politics Link between sexuality and power Power = ability to influence groups and individuals Sexism, racism and classism are perpetuated through sexual politics ...

Purdue, IDIS 280

Excerpt: ... Sexuality Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:54 PM Why the focus on women? Long history of sexual control - controlling female sexuality allows you to control society Varying social perspectives: Tolman Study on the development of adolescent sexuality Suggests that girls suffer social pressure to repress desire Fear of consequences, both physical and social There is no discourse of sexuality for or among females due to this repression - possibly results in more danger Varying perspectives: Risman/Schwartz Study on gender politics and teen dating Suggests reports of decreasing teen sexual activity are inaccurate Relationship sex more common than sex with a few "bad girls" Distinction: love equals desire Interesting dichotomy: culture that punishes sexuality, yet uses sex to market every product Varying Perspectives: Collins Study on black sexual politics Suggests the construction of racialized difference with "wild sexuality" of black women How can a "hypersexualized" culture be repressive Infor ...

UWO, CLC 023

Excerpt: ... (Power) Relations a part (or any aspect of a part) represents, symbolizes, epitomizes, the whole This connection also works in reverse: Slide 42: Political Relations > Sexual Relations Sexual Relations <- a metaphor for <-Political (Power) Relations the whole provides an ideologically prescriptive model for any of its parts What Castiglione discovers in the Neoplatonic adaptation of Socratic eroticism to the urbane humanist culture of Renaissance courtiers is what we would nowadays call -> SEXUAL POLITICS He was led in this direction by the Mars/Venus combinations in Renaissance painting. Female erotic challenges to male dominance were acknowledged by the painters, who nevertheless (as we saw last day) "offset" or "balanced" what was regarded as the civilizing influenced of female power with affirmations of male control in the physical/moral/military/political realm _ Supplementary Only (no time for this sec ...

UWO, CLC 023

Excerpt: ... ONA PERSONA Dominatrix Barbie Cleopatra Scarlett as viewed by OHara Shakespeares Roman soldiers and senators in Antony & Cleopatra Liz Taylor Angelina as Maggie Jolie The Cat in (pre-Pitt) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Slide 13: Sadeanized Barbie A key impulse behind Sades erotic philosophy is the DESECRATION of sacred icons. These pix of Barbie suggest that the icon of Blonde Venus has been destroyed and replaced by a dark antitype: Dom Barbie The innocence associated with a childhood toy has (comically) yielded to the sexual experience of Barbies evil twin, a domineering leather mistress Note Barbies dungeon with the further hints at the Sexual Politics behind the scene: Barbie with a strap on, Babie with a whip, Barbie in a sling, Barbie as Catwoman! A good century and a half before Sade, Shakespeare was exploring this dark erotic domain > consider Shakespeare in some ways a Sadean Prophet, a forerunner RECALL the sonnet Beshrew that heart from the Da ...

East Los Angeles College, TH 245

Excerpt: ... TH 245 Gender in Performance Further Recommended Reading: The Homecoming Cahn, Victor L. Gender and Power in the Plays of Harold Pinter. Hampshire and London: Macmillan, 1994. Raby, Peter. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. See especially chapter 12, Drew Milne, `Pinter's Sexual Politics '. [PR. 6031. 152C2] Scott, Michael (ed.) The Birthday Party; The Caretaker; The Homecoming: A Casebook. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986. Cloud Nine Aston, Elaine. Caryl Churchill. Plymouth: Northcote House, 1997. Clum, John M. ` "The Work of Culture": Cloud Nine and sex/gender theory', in P.R. randall (ed.), Caryl Churchill: A Casebook. New York: Garland Publishing, 1989. Cousin, Gerladine. Churchill the Playwright. London: Methuen, 1989. Fortier, Mark. Theory/theatre. London and New York: Routledge, 1997; pp. 117-20. Godiwala, Dimple. Breaking the Bounds: British feminist dramatists writing in the mainstream sicne c. 1980. [Online book] New York: P. Lang, 2003. Godiwala ...

Middlebury, S 0500

Excerpt: ... SOAN 0262 Mobile Women: Transnational Work Patterns HIST 0372 The Civil Rights Revolution RELI/SOAN 0273 American Religious Communities RELI/AMST 0370 Religion and Social Change in Modern America Representing the Nation AMST 0220 The Orient in American Popular Culture HIST 0405 The Civil War and American Historical Memory AMCV/HARC 0408 American Art in Context: Art and Life of Winslow Homer RELI 0371 From Puritanism to the Gospel of Wealth HARC/AMST 0245 American Landscape AMST 02XX The West in the American Imagination Culture and Identity Formation SOAN 0271 Sociology of Culture AMST 02XX American Identities, American Dreams AMST 0377 African-American Critical Thought RELI/SOAN 0273 American Religious Communities HIST 0371 African American History HIST 0372 The Civil Rights Revolution HIST 0373 History of American Women ENAM 0355 African American Narrative SOAN/WAGS 0191 Introduction to the Sociology of Gender SOAN/WAGS 0311 Sociology and Sexual Politics ...

UC Riverside, HIST 20

Excerpt: ... Sexual Politics , argued that the black, youth, and womens movements were not only linked with each other, but also with Third World movements against oppression and poverty. In the mid to late 1960s, gay rights activists began to raise similar concerns about oppression against people who were marginalized in mainstream society. Lesbians and gays were urged to "come out, publicly revealing their sexuality to family, friends and colleagues as a form of social activism and liberation. In order to achieve such liberation, consciousness raising and direct action were employed, activities that were very similar to those encouraged by the womens liberation movement. July 31, 1969, the Gay Liberation Front was formed in New York City. The group self-consciously took its name from the National Liberation Fronts in Algeria and Vietnam, and like the Black Power movement, now argued for Gay Power. By the end of the year, there were over a dozen gay liberation groups around the Unit ...

Brookdale, PHIL 2160

Excerpt: ... ion go together leaders.) sensitivity to sexual politics sensitivity The idea is that lack of privilege gives insight not just into oppression but also into the way the world works oppression There is still diversity in how Black women react to these There core themes. Just because there is such a standpoint does not mean that Black women appreciate its significance of potential to prompt social change. prompt Start with Black womens everyday or common knowledge everyday (indicative of their standpoint, but unarticulated and underdeveloped). underdeveloped). The role of Black feminist intellectuals The Connection of what one does and how one thinks. A consciousness that is both Afrocentric and feminist. consciousness Afrocentric This is the fundamental basis, the foundation, of Black feminist thought Black feminist intellectuals can articulate and investigate the Black standpoint, creating Black feminist thought. This may in turn, inform the consciousness of Black women, creating a c ...

UC Riverside, PSYCHOLOGY 160

Excerpt: ... Adolescence: Psychosocial Development Identity Who am I? Erikson: Primary crisis of adolescence Identity vs. diffusion Look at combination of commitment and exploration for statuses Four Identity Statuses (Marcia) Achieved: understand self ...

Colorado, WMST 1016

Excerpt: ... s, and sexuality, prompting society as a whole to buy into the hegemonic system that keeps individuals in their culturally designated roles and thus maintains the social status quo (Walden 2008). 2 References Collins, Patricia Hill. 2005. Black Sexual Politics . NY Routledge. Sage Hill, Stuart. 1997. Representations: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. Publishers, Inc. Kilbourne, Jean. 2000. "Killing Us Softly: Part 3." McIntosh, Peggy. 1995. "White Privilege and Male Privilege." Race, Class, Gender: An Anthology. Pp. 76-87. Walden, Glenda. 2008. Unpublished lecture material. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado. 3 ...