COMM 3250U Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Female Promiscuity, Cyborg

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21 Jun 2018

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1. Human Sexuality

Sexuality and Popular Culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsVcUzP_O_8

What it Feels Like for a Girl

Sexual and cultural scripts à female promiscuity in need of policing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_8y0WLm78U&vl=en

“Respectable” women are sexually chaste, and passive

1. Media as a site for reproduction and disruption of sexual deviance discourses

2. Circle model of media

3. Dowler and Ferris – explore media accounts of rape and sexual violence “the

lone street walker” à prostitution as a site of policing

Use of derogatory gendered words à reclaiming

4. Women and violence à how does popular culture portray this?

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYwgG2oyUbA

Reading Questions

Marsh uses Donna Haraway’s conception of the ‘cyborg’ to explore Madonna’s challenge of

gender roles. Explain the idea of the cyborg.

What does Madonna’s career tells up about gender roles for girls and women.

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