COMN 3590 Lecture Notes - B-Boying, Dj Kool, Intersectionality
5 Oct 2013
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Thinking about gender and why it matters. Gender as a mechanism that structures material and symbolic worlds and our society. While feminism itself can be problematic, although those two things are always working together no matter what theoretical approach they are using. Interesting fact: 1989 barbie came out with talking barbie, when you pressed her math is hard lets go shopping . Around the same time, talking g. i joe vegence is mine . Barbie liberation organization changed the voice boxes in the toys, switched the, and put them back in the boxes. Code: a shorthand language that everyone shares a set of rules a code of behaviour. Gender is socially constructed and how we identify ourselves is how we look at each other culturally. Presentations: brief summary 10mins & 3 discussion questions. Role of women"s magazines in perpetuating the myth that. Long history of feminist critiques of media. The feminine mystique (betty friedan) women were satisfied as homemakers (doctors,media,psychiatrists, etc)
