lbrooten@siu.edu and lisabrooten@gmail.com
Distance learning March 20 through May 12, 2023
This class will critically examine the role and potential impact of the media in enabling, facilitating, and challenging social constructions of gender in U.S. society and elsewhere around the world. We will go far beyond the common discussions of problematic representations of female beauty and male violence (although we will talk about these, too) to discuss issues of gender and identity and gender-based violence, and to explore how objects, social practices, government policies and even nations can be gendered. Global in scope, this class will enable us to look within but also well beyond the US to better understand the impact of specific ways of gendering and the media’s role in this process.