"Tough Guise" Study Guide

"Tough Guise" Study Guide is here.  It is a big document, do not attempt to print!

Look over for Monday/Friday class

Power and Control Wheel, Equality Wheel - Healthy Relationships

Reminder: No Class Wednesday 4/23

Our first day back from Spring Break will be Thursday 4/24

Midterm Review

Weekday class midterm: Thursday 4/10
Friday: 4/25

History 66-Midterm 1

Things to Review:

bell hooks
McIntosh

Beauvoir

“Other”

Marginalized vs. dominant spheres

Venker’s “War on Men”

Master’s tools

Audre Lorde

Killing us softly 4

media literacy

beauty standards

“toxic cultural environment”

Women’s rep in the media

1st Wave feminism

2nd wave feminism and how it relates to Lorde

19th amendment

privilege

dichotomy

gender vs. sex

masculinity and femininity

morally suspect

women perceived as “crazy” (my lecture for disability awareness week)

sex trafficking lecture
Freedom Riders

"Women and madness" lecture

Extra Credit opportunity

Watch one of these videos from the 2014 Women in the World Summit and write a reflection paper on it (the same as the extra credit guidelines).

HW# 6

Weekday class: Due Monday 4/7
Friday Class:  Due TBA

Answer the following questions relating to the film  "Killing Us Softly 4"--LINK TO KEY POINTS LIST

1.According to Jean Kilbourne advertising sells more than just products. What else does it sell?

2.What impact does the use of computer technology have on consumers?

3.According to Kilbourne how does advertising use a woman’s body and what might this lead to?

4.How are African American women depicted in advertising? What is the consequence of such depiction?

5.How does advertising use man’s body? Do men face the same consequences as women? Why? Why Not?

6.How realistic is the concept of thinness in advertising? Explain briefly. What effect might this have on young girls?

7.In what ways does advertising help to construct gender of women?

8.How does the sexualization of kids / teenagers help the advertising industry?

9.What does the sexualization of teenagers/kids lead to?

10.  At the end of the lecture what conclusion does Kilbourne reach in terms of femininity and masculinity?

Sex trafficking: FYI

"You'll Never See this Side of the Super Bowl on TV"

"Inside Lives of American Sex Slaves" short film