Gender: Focus on femininity

·       ANNA KESZEG. “What Their Clothes Tell Us About Those Girls,” 243-251

·       Before class watch clip of Lena Dunham on Hannah’s fashion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kZLKbjx9FA and/or an episode of “Girls.”

·       Credit Card Barbie photo, 102

·       MARIAH BURTON NELSON. “I Won. I’m Sorry,” 553-559

·       In-class video: “Miss Representation” (2011)

Gender: Focus on masculinity

·       STEVE CRAIG. “Men’s Men and Women’s Women,” 167-179

·       Siphiwe Ignatius Dube. “‘Toys R Us’: Toy Story 2 and the Re-Inscription of Normative American Masculinities.” Social Alternatives (2016) 35.3, 44-49. Handout

·       Before class watch clip of Buzz and the gang trying to save Woody from Toy Story 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI7-58sreqI

·       In-class video: “Tough Guise 2” (2013)