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Quotes
• Maccoby
& Jacklin
• Drew
Barrymore
• Camille
Paglia
• John
P.Scott
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Norbert Elias
• Dennis
Miller
Readings
• V, ch. 9, 'The biology of violence.'
Viewings
• * 2001:
Monolith Murder
• *
Lawnmower Man
• Hollow Man
• * The Birds: Jungle
Gym Scene
[See Also Wolf, Wolfen, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde]
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Readings • Eleanor Maccoby & Carol Jacklin - 'Summary and conclusions' from The Psychology |
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| • Erving Goffman -' Genderisms,' Psychology Today, Aug. 1977, 19-23. | |
| • Simone de Beauvoir - `Introduction' from The Second Sex (Vintage,1974), xv-xxiv. | |
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• (optional) Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice (Portia's courtroom scene). |
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Viewing *Tootsie. |
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Quotes
•L.
Tiefer
•Norman
Elias
•Chrissie
Hynde
2. Psychological
Theories: Learning and Development
(1.31)
| Readings | |
| • Carol Gilligan - 'Woman's place in man's life cycle,' Harvard Educational Review, 1979. | |
| • Erving Goffman - `Genderisms,' Psychology Today, Aug. 1977, 19-23. | |
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| • William Pollack - `Inside the world of boys: Behind the mask of masculinity' | |
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Viewings Quotes |
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Readings
• Janet
Sayers -`Social learning,' from Sexual Contradictions (Routledge
1992)
Viewings
• River
Runs Through It [Plot Summary]
• Shine
[Plot Summary]
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* Boys
Don't Cry
[Fight in bar]
• * Boyz
'n the Hood
C. Development
Reading:
•Janet
Sayers - `Cognitive theories' from Sexual Contradictions.
•Lawrence
Kohlberg & Dora Ullian - `Stages in psychosexual roles.'
•Optional: John Broughton - `Women's rationality and men's
virtues,' Social Research, 1983, 597-624.
Video:
Alice in Wonderland
Tumbleweeds
*Welcome to the DollhouseRape Threat, Rape Threat Part 2]
3. Psychoanalytic
Theories: Freud and Lacan
(Wed, 5.30)
A. Freud
II. VIOLENCE
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5. AGGRESSION and GENDER (2.21)
| Readings |
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William Shakespeare - Othello, Act , Scene 2.
Dana Crowley
Jack - `The puzzle of aggression' from Behind the Mask: Destruction
and Jean Baker Miller
& Janet Surrey - `Rethinking women's anger' in Judith Jordan
(ed.), Women's Growth in Diversity (Guilford 1997), 199-216. Ginger Goldner, Peggy Penn, Marcia Sheinberg & Gillian Walker - "A feminist relational view of battering" (from `Love and violence: gender paradoxes in volatile attachments' in Mary Gergen & Sara Davis (eds.),
Toward a New Psychology of Gender, pp.575-601 (Routledge, 1996),
pp.575-579 optional. Review "JFa"
material Optional: Royster murder reports, New York Times John Broughton - Interview re `Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' 12/98. Albert Bandura & Gerald Walters - from Social Learning and Development |
Viewing
RAPE -
The Accused,
Welcome to the Dollhouse scene one
Welcome to the Dollhouse scene two,
Basic
Instinct
ABUSE -
What's Love Got To Do With It
VIOLENCE -
*Raging
Bull
AGGRESSION -
Girl Interrupted; Something Wild (Demme)
Spellbound(Hitchcock)
Thelma and Louise (Scott)
What Planet Are You From? (Mike Nichols 2000).
LEARNING:
Hope and Glory*.
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`Homophobia and the fear of unmanliness,' SM, 16-22. Abelard - `Historia calamitatum' from The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin 1974) 65-68. Laurie
Mandel & Charol Makeshift - `Heterosexism in middle schools,'
in Wilhelm Reich - `The institution of compulsory marriage as the basis of contradictions in sexual life,' from Sex-Pol (1936), 34-39. Adrienne Rich - `Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence' Signs, 1980, 5, 631-660, reprinted in Ann Snitow (ed.), Powers of Desire (Monthly Review Press, 1983), 177-205.. |
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Viewing SEXISM: CODEPENDENCY: REVERSE SEXISM: Great Expectations. HOMOPHOBIA - American Beauty; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert;*Boys Don't Cry; Before Night Falls. REICH: Visit to Organon. Quotes |
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IV. SEXUALITY
Quotes
•
John
Ashbery
•
Joan
Riviere
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Kenneth
Burke
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Jack
Nicholson
•
New
York Times
•
Kaia
Wilson
7. MASCULINITY (3.7)
| Readings |
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Michael Kimmel - `Masculinity as homophobia,' in Mary Gergen &
Sara Khaula
Murtadha-Watts - `Theorizing urban black masculinity construction Steve
Neale - `Masculinity as spectacle,' Screen, 1983, 24(6), 2-16. **Klaus
Thewelweit - `Foreword' (Barbara Ehrenreich) from Male Constance
Penley - `The cabinet of Dr.Pee-Wee: Consumerism and sexual Optional: John Broughton - `Anality and gender in the Gulf War' (unpubd.) John Broughton - excerpt from `Dialog of imaginary and symbolic aggression in the father-son relationship' to appear in C.E.Robins & Maria Taruzzi-Goldman (eds.), Lacan and War (Nomos). |
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Viewings Gladiator* Pee-Wee's Playhouse Ice T - MTV biography *Affliction *Star Wars *The Quick and the Dead *Robocop *Three Kings *The Cell
*Everything You Ever Wanted |
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(Sexism)
• La Strada • Lulu •* Reservoir Dogs • Celebration • * The Sweet Life • * Journey to the Center of the Earth • * Thelma and Louise [Explosion] • * What Planet Are You From? (not available) • Wayne's Word • * Nurse Betty • Beyond the Clouds • Bridget Jones' Diary • G.I. Jane • Who's Talking Now? • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex |
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8.HOMOSEXUALITY and QUEER THEORY (3.14)
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| Readings | |
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Kaja
Silverman - `A woman's soul in a man's body: femininity in male
homosexuality' from Male Subjectivity at the Margins (Routledge,
1993), 339-347. Judith
Halberstam - `Transgender butch,' from Female Masculinity (Duke
1998), 141-173. (maybe also: `Looking butch: a rough guide to butches
on film,' 175-230. Judith
Butler - `Imitation and gender insubordination', from Diana William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice. |
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(Gay) - Rock Hudson's Home Movies; Querelle;Menage. (Lesbian):*Heavenly Creatures; Relax, It's Only Sex (P.J.Castellaneta,
1999);*Chasing Amy;*High Art; Mercy. (Homophobia): Looking for Mr Goodbar; Public TV program on Homophobia.
(Homosexuality and death): Rope; High Art; Bound. (Homoeroticism and suicide): Thelma and Louise*; (Butch): Aliens; The Killing of Sister George; Touch of Evil; Caged Heat. |
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Quotes
•
Disneyana
•
Wayne
Fontana and the Mindbenders
•
E.
Bene
•
Ellen
Degeneres
Quotes
•
Lennon/McCartney
•
Kenneth
Burke
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Marianna
LaFrance
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Wallace
Stevens
•
Judith
Butler
9. HETEROSEXUALITY and its FAILURES (3.28)
| Readings |
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Harold
Pinter - The Comfort of Strangers (from novel of same name by Ian Ian
McEwan - Enduring Love (Vintage 1998), 1-16, 216-219. Sigmund
Freud - `The psychology of love,' S.E. Jacqueline
Rose (eds.), Feminine Sexuality (Norton 1983). Slavoj
Zizek - `Why does the phallus appear?' from Enjoy Your Symptom (Routledge,
1992), 113-146.
Optional: Diane Diasse - Hothead Paisan; SM, 134-167. Daniel Clowes - Ghost World (comic book).• Amina Mama - 'Psychodynamics' in adult subjectivity' and 'Black femininity' from |
Viewings
(Courtship) - The Birds; Notorious; Out of Sight; Happiness.
(Fantasy)- Moulin Rouge; If; Billy Liar; Brazil*; Ghost World.
(Love) - Elvira Madigan; Betty
Blue; Moulin Rouge; Enfants du Paradis.
(Sex) - Reservoir Dogs*?
(Violent masculinity) - Basic
Instinct*; The Man Who Cried; Marnie*; The Man Who Knew Too Much 2.
(Domestic femininity) - Happiness.
(Infidelity) - An Unmarried
Woman.
(Betrayal) - North by Northwest.
(Impotence) - Bonnie and Clyde;
Schizopolis; sex, lies and videotape*.
(Castration): Blood of the
Poet*.
(Frigidity) - Marnie*.
(Failure): Eye of the Beholder;
North by Northwest; Pearl Harbor; Scenes from a Marriage; Wild Strawberries;
(Death): Name of Female Tightrope
Walker beginning with E; Bonnie
and Clyde.
Quotes
•
Michael
Hoffman
•Marcuse
•Robert
Paul Wolff
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Philip
Abrams
•C.
Wright Mills
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Hannah
Arendt
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R.
Slotkin
•
Abdul
Jabbar Muhsin
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Ella
Sharpe
•
David
Caroll
•
Celeste
Olalquiaga
•
Blanchot
•
J.W.
Fulbright
•
V.
Propp
| Readings |
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Lynne Segal - `Queer theory and gender sabotage,' in Kathryn Woodward (ed.), Identity and Difference (Sage/Open University 1997), 214-224. Karen
Horney - `The flight from womanhood: the masculinity-complex in Judith
Halberstam - `Looking butch: a rough guide to butches on film,'
from Female Masculinity (Duke 1998), 175-230. Judy
Butler - `Gender is burning,' from Bodies that Matter (Routledge, Constance
Penley - `The cabinet of Dr.Pee-Wee: Consumerism and sexual William
Shakespeare -The Merchant of Venice.
Optional John Broughton - Review of `In a Year of 13 Moons,' Psych Critique Newsletter, 1982, 2, and Review of `Ma Vie en Rose,' Bank Street College of Education Occasional Papers, 2002 |
Viewing
(Cross dressing): Everything
You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex;
Tootsie*; Pee Wee's Great Adventure (Tim Burton); Some Like It
Hot (Wilder); *Psycho.
(Drag): Priscilla; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie
Newmar; Paris is Burning (Jenny Livingstone);
(Camp): Pee Wee's Playhouse;
Hairspray (Waters).
(Transgender): M.Butterfly;
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan);
Ma Vie en Rose (Alain Berliner); Myra Breckenridge;
(Mother): White Heat.
(Transsexual): The World According
to Garp (George Roy Hill);
Twin Peaks (David Lynch).
(Violence): Dressed to Kill
(DePalma); Silence of the Lambs
(Jon Demme); Silence of the Hams (Mel Brooks?)
Quotes
•
Protesters
picketing Time Warner to protest "Cop Killer"
•
Chrissie
Hynde
Reading
Sigmund Freud - `A child is
being beaten,' Collected Papers, vol.2,
172-186.
Jessica Benjamin - `Rational
violence and erotic domination,' Feminist Studies, 1980.
Anne McClintock - `Culwick and Munby' from Imperial Leather.
Review:
John Broughton - `Theses on
violence' (appropriate sections).
Optional:
`Towards the death instinct'
from Freud for Beginners, 144-152; Tobias Wolff - `Bullet in the brain,'
New Yorker, 82-83.
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Viewing |
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Quotes
12. HISTORICAL and POLITICAL (4.18)
| Readings |
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Sigmund Freud - excerpts from Civilization and its Discontents.
Herbert
Marcuse - Aggressiveness in advanced industrial society. In Negations
(Beacon, 1968), 248-268. Franz
Fanon - `Concerning violence,' from The Wretched of the Earth, 35-59. William
Palmer - `The terrorism film texts,' from The Films of the Eighties
(Southern Illinois, 1993), 114-178. Optional: Walter
Benjamin - `Critique of violence,' in Reflections |
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Viewings (Political) - Passage to India; Burn.
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13. THE BODY, DAMAGE and the GROTESQUE (4.25)
| Readings |
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Mikhail Bakhtin - from Rabelais. Linda
Kauffman - `Cutups in beauty school,' `Scrambling the codes: "Videodrome",' and `J.G.Ballard's "Atrocity Ehibitions"' from Bad Girls and Sick Boys (California 1998), pp. 50-80, 128-135, & 149-192. |
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Viewings *; Zed and Two Noughts*
Crash Jeepers Creepers. |
| Readings |
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Gillian Skirrow - Hellivision (gender and fantasy in video games. In Colin McCabe (ed.), High Theory / Low Culture (Manchester University Press, 1986), 115-142. Carol
Clover - `Her body, himself: gender in the slasher film,' from Men,
Women and Chainsaws. Optional: Review Miller reading above. |
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Viewings BETRAYAL - The Crying Game (funfair); Betrayal; Silent Rapture. SLASHER - Texas Chainsaw
Massacre. VIOLATION - Straw Dogs;
Prince of Tides. RAPE/REVENGE - I Spit
on Your Grave. VGs and VR - Mortal Kombat; Strange Days; Ghost in the Machine; Virtuosity. |
15. SCHOOLS, GENDER and VIOLENCE (5.9)
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Quotes |
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Pierre
Bourdieu - `Pedagogical violence,' from Reproduction. Alan Block - `School as the product of the adult fantasy of a world without children,' from I'm Only Bleeding: Education as the Practice of Social Violence Against Children (Lang 1997), 121-146. Pedro
Noguera - `Preventing and producing violence: a critical analysis
of responses to school violence,' Harvard Educational Review, 1995
65(2), 189-212. John
Perez - `Shoot' (comic strip). Ursula Kelly - `Schoolgirl exotica' from Schooling Desire (Routledge, 1997), 91-97. |
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Viewings The Meaning of Life (Pt 2: `Growth and Development' - domination of wife, via domination of students to waging war) Dangerous Minds Dead Poets Society *Welcome to the Dollhouse if... *Basketball Diaries. |
Presentation of final projects