Week
1: Introduction: Girls on Film
Course goals, parameters, requirements, and materials.
Week 2: Interrogating
the Third Wave
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards,
"What is Feminism" in Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and
the Future
Gayle Wald, "Just a Girl? Rock Music, Feminism, and the Cultural
Construction of Female Youth"
Cathryn Bailey, "Making Waves and Drawing Lines: The Politics of
Defining the Vicissitudes of Feminism"
Catherine M. Orr, "Charting the Currents of the Third Wave"
Leslie Heywood and Jennifer Drake, "Introduction" to Third
Wave Agenda
Carolyn Sorisio, "A Tale of Two Feminisms: Power and Victimization
in Contemporary Feminist Debates" from Third Wave Agenda.
Week 3: Alpha Girls?:
Race, Class and the 90s’ Dumb Blonde
Clueless
Gayle Wald, "Clueless in the Neocolonial World Order"
Angela Curran, "Consuming Doubts: Gender, Class, and Consumption
in Ruby in Paradise and Clueless"
Leslie Heywood and Jennifer Drake, "We Learn America like a Script:
Activism in the Third Wave, or, Enough Phantoms of Nothing" in
Third Wave Agenda
Katherine Bayerl, "Mags, Zines, and gURLs: The Exploding World
of Girls’ Publications" (Handout)
Library Workshop: Green Library Workshop with Kathy Kerns to uncover
resources related to research on women and gender, film, and cultural
studies.
Week 4: Reality
Bites: 2 miles away in L.A.
Chain Camera
Wheeler Winston Dixon, "‘Fighting and Violence and Everything,
That’s Always Cool’: Teen Films in the 1990s"
Catherine L. Preston, "Hanging on a Star: The Resurrection of the
Romance Film in the 1990s"
Michelle Sidler, "Living in McJobdom: Third Wave Feminism and Class
Inequity" from Third Wave Agenda
Lynn Philips, "Framing Gender, Identity, and Adolescence"
from The Girls Report.
Week 5: Urban Girls
I: Education and Aspiration
Just Another Girl on the
I.R.T.
Jennifer Pastor, Jennifer McCormick, and Michelle Fine, "Makin’
Homes: An Urban Girl Thing"
Tricia Rose, "Race, Class, and the Pleasure/Danger Dialectic: Rewriting
Black Female Teenage Sexuality in the Popular Imagination"
Andre Willis, "A Womanist Turn on the Hip-Hop Theme: Leslie Harris’s
Just Another Girl on the IRT"
Lynn Philips, "Schooling" from The Girls Report
Web Workshop: Meyer Media Lab Workshop to construct the class website.
Placing students’ bibliographies on the web.
**Bibliographic Assignments Due**
Week 6: Urban Girls
II: Ethnicity and Identity
Girl Fight
Aaron Baker, "A New Combination: Women and the Boxing Film. An
Interview with Karyn Kusama"
B. Ruby Rich, "Take It Like a Girl"
Rosa Linda Fregoso, "Re-imagining Chicana Urban Identities in the
Public Sphere, Cool Chuca Style"
Lynn Philips, "Violence" and "Economic Realities"
from The Girls Report
Week 7: Boys Don’t
Cry: Sexuality and Violence in Rural America
**GUEST SPEAKER: Susan Stryker**
Read the Stanford
Daily article on her visit!
Readings to be announced
Week 8: The Curse
of Ophelia: Girl Interrupted
Girl Interrupted
Julia Kristeva, Black Sun
Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Lynn Philips, "Health" in The Girls Report
Dawn A. Obeidallah and Felton J. Earls, "Adolescent girls: the
role of depression in the development of delinquency."
Oral Communication Workshop with Center for Teaching and Learning.
**Working Drafts of Final Papers Due
for Peer Review**
Week 9: Test Case
Buffy: Postmodern Appropriations?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Helene A. Shugart, Catherine Egley Waggoner, D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein,
"Mediating Third-Wave Feminism: Appropriation as Postmodern Media
Practice"
Mark Dery, "Have an Angst Day: The Scream Meme" in the pyrotechnic
insanitarium: american culture on the brink
Anne Millard Daugherty, "Just a Girl: Buffy as Icon"
Week 10: Thanksgiving
Week 11: Class
Conference
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