About the Course

Description:
Women's bodies are at once everywhere and out of sight: fueling global economies through labor and consumerism and shaping ideologies of dominance as displayed on billboards, in magazine ads, on movie screens, in music videos, in the art gallery, or on the Internet. Moreover, their bodies signify diverse meanings when race is taken into context. This course will subsequently explore how intersections of race, gender, class, nationality, sexuality, age, and (dis)ability shape representations in mass media and popular culture. We will also develop a feminist media analysis, leading us to consider possible means of creative resistance against sexual objectification and societal domination.

Required Texts:
Dines, Gail and Jean M. Humez, eds. 2002. Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text-Reader. 2nd edition. New York: Sage. (hereafter abbreviated as GM)
Jones, Amelia, ed. 2003. The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. New York: Routledge. (hereafter abbreviated as FV)
Nelson, Alondra, Thuy Linh N. Tu, and Alicia Headlam Hines, eds. 2001. Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life. New York: NYU Press. (hereafter abbreviated as TC)
Course Packet (hereafter abbreviated as CP).

These books are available for purchase at Mary Jane Books and the Book House in Stuyvesant Plaza. Additional readings are available in the course packet, which can be purchased at Shipmates, also in Stuyvesant Plaza.