Gender/Sexuality

(Select 4-6 hours/week from the following. You may also choose resources of your own, with instructor approval. Post your reflections in the WebCT discussion topic, citing which resources you have used.)

Readings:

Jo B. Paoletti, "The Gendering of Infants' Clothing in America" in The Material Culture of Gender: The Gender of Material Culture, University Press of New England and Winterthur Museum, 1997.

Jane Dusselier, "Bonbons, Lemon Drops, and Oh Henry! Bars: Candy, Consumer Culture, and the Construction of Gender, 1895-1920" in Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race, Sherrie Inness, ed., University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001

"American Experience: Miss America", http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/missamerica/

Austen Silver, "Men Love looking Good, Too", AskMen.com, http://www.askmen.com/fashion/austin/22b_fashion_style.html

Byronn Rempel, "Men's Body Image - The Brad Pitt Syndrome". AskMen.com, http://www.askmen.com/fashion/austin/38_fashion_style.html

Sharon Rubinstein and Benjamin Caballero, "Is Miss America an Undernourished Role Model?" Journal of the American Medical Association. http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v283n12/ffull/jlt0322-6.html

Marcua Bullard, "Judging Miss America", WomenOf.com. http://www.womenof.com/Articles/sp031297.asp

Moises Kaufman, The Laramie Project. Dramatist's Play Service; ISBN: 0822217805; (September 2001)

"The Laramie Project", Time.com, http://www.time.com/time/classroom/laramie/

The Laramie Project Archives, http://www.nytimes.com/ads/marketing/laramie/

Multimedia:

The Official Site of the Miss America Pageant, http://www.missamerica.org/

Miss America Pageant 2003, ABC Saturday, September 21, 2002 at 8PM

Radio Interview: The Black Female Body May 1, 2002 http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/tavis/20020501.tavis.04.ram

Virtue and Beauty, November 24, 2001 http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/watc/20011124.watc.10.ram

The Laramie Project, PN1997.L3325 2002 (Nonprint Media Collection, Hornbake Library)

Exhibits/Activities:

Compare/contrast a few of the "gendered objects" such as those from our in-class exercise and prepare a small exhibit for the Centerville South display case.

Visit a mall or department store and look for gender differences in architecture/interior design. (hint: bathrooms, clothing displays, music). Post your observations in WebCT.

Attend a performance of The Laramie Project

Select a segment of The Laramie Project to present in class as readers' theater. Contact