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M 87M C M edia Audiences M afalda Stasi Gemma Commane Syllabus 2014-15 Date Topic Tue 20 Jan Introduction Tue 27 Jan Screening Tue 3 Feb Audiences and Gender Tue 10 Feb Audiences and Sexuality Tue 17 Feb Audiences and Ethnicity

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M 87M C M edia Audiences

M afalda Stasi Gemma Commane

Syllabus – 2014-15

Tutorials Tue 14 Apr STUDY BREAK

Date Topic

Tue 20 Jan Introduction Tue 27 Jan Screening Tue 3 Feb Audiences and Gender Tue 10 Feb Audiences and Sexuality Tue 17 Feb Audiences and Ethnicity Tue 24 Feb Subcultural Audiences Tue 3 Mar Adoring Audiences Tue 10 Mar Celebrity Audiences Tue 21 Apr Tutorials Tue 28 Apr Due Date

Tue 11-12.30pm ETG34

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Today’s Lecture

Audiences and gender

Femininities and masculinities Performativity Technologies of gender Drag

FeminismSSS

19th c. equality struggles 20th c. identity, rights, recognition

classic “ second wave”
non-white, non-straight feminism
post-feminism
new online feminism (?)

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Gender is a social role, constructed culturally, acquired through social conditioning There’s no such thing as “essential femininity”—it’s a patriarchal myth justifying women’s oppression Women defined only as ‘other’ to men rather than in its own right identity is (hierarchically) relational

(De Beauvoir 1949)

“one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman”

M asculinities

Embodied social performance of gender Hegemonic masculinity: distancing

neself from the non-masculine

M ysoginy and homophobia police homosocial borders

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Important parts of identity, such as sexuality or gender, are constructed in a performative way:

“ gender is a kind of persistent impersonation that passes as the real” Identity is created "through language, gesture, and all manner of symbolic social sign" Butler, J. (1990) Gender Trouble

“ Gender is always a doing” The doing is constitutive: no identity before or outside performance The doing is always imperfect, which reveals the insubstantiality of gender The performance attracts attention to itself

Performativity

“ There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results” (Butler 1999: 33).

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Technologies of Gender

Gender as a product of diverse social power relations De Lauretis’ technology of gender

draws on Foucault’s technology of the self women are engendered differently by their specific socio-historical situations, including the abstract cultural representation of “ Woman”

Feminism and theories of gender are also technologies of gender

Drag:

An intentional performance A show drawing attention to the artificiality of gender A hyperfeminine ‘masquerade’

Trans:

Trying to ‘pass’ A performance that seeks to conceals itself Contested social and cultural ‘knowing’

The Politics of Passing

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Readings

Butler, J. (1990) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of

Identity. Ch. 1 “ Subjects of

Sex/ Gender/ Desire” pp.1-34. Halberstam, J. (1998) Female M asculinity. Ch.7 “ Drag Kings: M asculinity and Performance” pp.231-266. On the blog unless otherwise stated

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