This course introduces critical skills and a theoretical framework or "toolkit" in feminist popular cultural studies in order to facilitate more critically aware participation, analysis, and production in/of popular culture. It is a feminist examination, using various popular cultural and media forms, of how normative and revolutionary social relations of power are/may be constituted in and through popular culture. Students may not hold credit for both WOMN 2620 and the former WOMN 2570 [3 credits]
This course introduces critical skills and a theoretical framework or "toolkit" in feminist popular cultural studies in order to facilitate more critically aware participation, analysis, and production in/of popular culture. It is a feminist examination, using various popular cultural and media forms, of how normative and revolutionary social relations of power are/may be constituted in and through popular culture. Students may not hold credit for both WOMN 2620 and the former WOMN 2570 [3 credits]