Femininity in America

Presentation: Masculinity in America

Reading for Tuesday, April 27

Here's a link to the reading for next Tuesday - this was pushed back from the original date of today. We'll finish up the discussion and presentation about "From Mama's Boy to He-Man" today in class, and then move on to this paper next week.

This is an excerpt from a debate at Harvard University. If you want to read, watch, or listen to the entire debate, go here: Science of Gender

Photo (c) John A Beal, PhD
Dep't. of Cellular Biology & Anatomy, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport under Creative Commons

Midterm Self Assessment Project

A test is always a good opportunity to think about what you're doing right, and what you can work on, in a class. Please take some time to fill out the survey, below. It will help you think about what you can do to achieve your goals in the class, and help me to see what I can do to help you.

Reading for Tuesday

Because I put this up so long ago, it's buried several pages deep on the blog, now. I thought I'd repost so you can get to it easily.

Here's the link for the reading due on Tuesday: From Mama's Boy to He-Man

To flip the pages, click on "download" and then open the file in preview. Then go to "view" and have it rotate the page.

Grade Updates

Here's a newly updated grade form. Look your grades up by Student ID number (excel drops the 0's off of the front of numbers, so if your student ID starts with any zeros, drop them to find your ID).

The first three pages show your overall grade thus far. The farthest column to the right shows your current percentage grade (as a decimal - .74368574 would be a 74%, or C). Each set of three pages after that gives you a breakdown of an individual part of your grade - short papers, group project, quizzes, etc., so you can see what you've gotten on each assignment, if you're missing any assignments, etc. Let me know if you think there are mistakes right away! It's much easier to fix things now before anything is officially posted.

If you owe me assignments, get them to me right away. All of the assignments are posted on the blog. Some of you are missing the latest assignments: the short paper on Sex and Culture, or the group project on Sex and Culture. There's a make-up assignment for that group project posted on the blog, for those of you who missed it. Be sure to read the make-up assignment carefully! There are multiple readings and videos for you to watch in preparation for the writing portion of the assignment. You're making up for 10 - 12 hours of work, so it's a multi-part assignment.

Let me know if you have questions. See you tomorrow!

Midterm Review Tuesday

Hope you had a lovely Spring Break! I'm sure you're all eagerly waiting to get back to classes, so I'll see you bright and early on Tuesday.

Here's a link to the Midterm Review sheet. Don't forget to go over all of your notes, readings, and the presentations and to come to class on Tuesday with questions.

The Midterm is Thursday. You will need a functioning pen or pencil, 8-1/2 x 11" paper (for the short answer section of the test), and your notes and articles. You will have the whole class period on Thursday to complete the Midterm.

Alternative Assignment - Missed Group Project

Part one - research and background.

Watch John Berger's Ways of Seeing - Final Episode on YouTube (the first part of the final episode in embedded below - go to YouTube for parts 2-4)



Then read the linked article about subject, object, and the gaze: Scopophilia, voyeurism, the gaze
objectification, fetishism

Then read the linked article about objectification of people in the media: Objectification and Dismemberment

Part Two: Application and Analysis

Now, choose a contemporary commercial and apply what you've learned from the resources above:

Write a 4-page paper in which you apply what you've learned about media and objectification to a particular example. Your paper should be double-spaced, in 12-point font, and should include parenthetical citations and a Works Cited page.

Submit the paper to me electronically, with links to a copy of the commercial you're analyzing.

Papers missing citations and/or works cited pages won't be accepted.