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Gender and

Sexuality Popular

Culture I

Feminist Theory and Depictions

of Gender in the Pop Culture

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What is Feminist Theory?

• is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender Tania Modleski (born 1949)^ inequality. In Feminism Without Women , Modleski argued that "male power frequently works to efface female subjectivity by occupying the site of femininity", and that the writer has a responsibility to re-articulate women's shared experience.

Reading Romance of

Modleski

- Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women. London: Methuen, 1982 - The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and feminist theory. New York: Methuen, 1983

• (ed.) Studies in entertainment: critical approaches to mass culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. - Feminism Without Women: Culture and Criticism in a "Postfeminist" Age. New York: Routledge, 1991. - Old wives' tales, and other women's stories. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Feminisms

One of the most striking changes in

the humanities in the 1980s has

been the rise of gender as a

category of analysis

Feminism and Culture

• Feminism can be sight of praxis
• Exploring of gender and sexuality within multiple mediums of popular culture
• Major interest area of Women’s Students

Men’s and Masculinity Studies

Masculinity is a construct and

gender norm engrained within

our culture

Although men may not live the

myth presented, they cannot

escape its power as it is

present within the media, and

our heads(159)

Masculinity Dirty Dozen