Women's Studies
320: Popular Culture/Feminist Culture Home Page: (Domestic Space, Housekeeping, Etc.) |
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![]() Feminist Public Spheres and the Politics of Location In this half-year course, you will bring your diverse intellectual skills, emotional knowledge and lived experience to the study of feminist cultural theory and popular culture texts. These electronic web-page documents include a homepage for your course, as well as web documents for distributing readings, notes, and syllabus information. We will explore selected topics and texts in popular and feminist cultures through a critical lens focussing our attention on "the politics of location." Our work will be informed by our own histories as consumers of popular culture as well as our readings in feminist cultural studies. The objective of this course is to help you to develop and extend your critical understanding of the everyday world you live in as well as the popular representations in circulation around you. We will discuss the production, distribution, and consumption of popular culture. In addition, you will be introduced to a number of feminist and feminist-inspired works that will help you think about how various feminist revisionary cultural practices provide alternatives to and critiques of popular culture.
My interest in teaching is in ensuring that each one of you derives intellectual
stimulation from our readings and discussions. Some of the readings are more
challenging than others. A selection of study questions is available for
selected readings on the page described as ''NOTES". Your responsibility
is to prepare for class by keeping up with the reading and by reading actively.
That is, as you read, keep a running list of questions and comments in order
to prepare yourself for in-class discussion. If you have suggestions concerning
how we might improve your learning process, please let me know. An informal
teaching evaluation that will enable you to comment both on your perception
of the effectiveness of my pedagogic methods and on your individual needs
will be solicited midway through the course in the form 3 simple questions:
Stop? Go? Continue? In addition there will be a formal Faculty of Arts teaching
evaluation administered at the end of the course. These responses are
confidential and not made known to me until after the final marks have been
submitted.
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© Janice Williamson, 1997
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