Course Description

At the core of the course is the question how feminism has become a demonized and ridiculed “F-word” in an age when issues of gender and sexuality are at the center of constant, often explosive political debates. These debates often connect media representation and political representation but tend to do so in simplistic ways that bypass or distort decades of sophisticated feminist theory and practice. We will trace back such representations through the decades around case studies that encompass film, video, television and new media practices. The case studies come from the United States and beyond, taking into full account the global interconnectedness of media production and consumption as well as the transnational travel of feminist ideas. The main goal of the course is to evaluate how useful feminist thinking is to understanding the relays between media and political representation; and to develop a lasting critical apparatus to analyzing the politics of gender and sexuality in the media.


Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Article

I'm sure a lot of you have seen this, as it's been popping up on Facebook for the last week or so. For those who haven't, this is a horrific article about the positive reasons to date girls who suffer from eating disorders. The article concludes with the sentence, "Say what you will, a girl with a mild-to-moderate eating disorder- that hasn't excessively marred her appearance- is today's best-busy in the West's rapidly plummeting dating market." There are a million things to be said about that sentence alone, let alone the article in its entirety and the incredibly backwards state our society is clearly in.

Here is the article:
http://www.returnofkings.com/21313/5-reasons-to-date-a-girl-with-an-eating-disorder

And here is the petition to get it removed from the internet:
http://www.change.org/petitions/www-returnofkings-com-remove-the-article-5-reasons-to-date-a-girl-with-an-eating-disorder?share_id=kykkqxGjxS&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition



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