WS 308U Topics in Gender, Literature, and Popular Culture

Explores media, popular culture, and/or literature from a feminist perspective which focuses on how gender and other dimensions of power relations are expressed, reproduced, and challenged within cultural expression. Topics may include gender and popular music; girls’ studies through media; class and gender in contemporary literature; depictions of masculinities in films/televison; gender and the internet/social networking.  This course may be repeated with different topics.