Agenda for 6/9 - The FINAL CLASS!

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1. What the Stanford rape victim said to her attacker in court at his sentencing hearing...

2. Do we live in a "Domestic Violence" culture?

3. Yet the first question victims of domestic violence are often asked is "So why doesn't she just leave?"

4. What effect does Gender have on suicide?

5. The Gender Inequality Of Suicide: Why Are Men At Such High Risk?

Agenda for 6/7 and 6/8

1. So what might be some of the effects of a media that regularly show women as passive, subordinate, powerless, dependent, sexualized (seen only as sexual objects), and sexually vulnerable? 

2. Back to advertising...What is the hidden message of this ad for Axe body spray? Or this one?

3. And this music video?

• Here are the lyrics...

4. So should we be surprised this happens?

5. Or that some in the news media react this way?

6. And from the news this week...

HW - Finish Final Essay - due Thursday 6/9 at 8:00 am.

Agenda for 6/3

Hello Everyone,

I'm not in today. You have today's class to work on your Final Essay. It is due on Thursday 6/9!

Click here for the Final Essay assignment descriptor

See you on Tuesday!

Mr. Parise

Agenda for 6/2

1. Advertising and the Reinforcement of Gender Roles 

• Dove Real Beauty Sketches
• Dockers Ad 

2. Begin "Codes of Gender"

• Complete the "Codes of Gender" T-Chart 

Agenda for 6/1

1. "Posing Guide" for Women

2. Continue "Codes of Gender"

• Complete the "Codes of Gender" T-Chart

3. Finding the Codes of Gender in Magazines 

Agenda for 5/31

1. Follow gender stereotypes or...you can't go to school?

2. Review - Gender Terms 101

3. Gender as a spectrum, rather than a binary.

4. And Biological Sex may not be as cl
ear as most people think. 

• "This is What Intersex Means"
• What are some examples of intersex conditions? 

• "Should we 'fix' Intersex Children?"

5. Beyond the Gender Binary: This Indonesian community has 5 genders

HW - Work on Final Essay - due Thursday, June 9th.

• Click here for the assignment descriptor

Agenda for 5/27

1. Beyond the Gender Binary: This Indonesian community has 5 genders

2. Advertising and the Reinforcement of Gender Roles 

• Dove Real Beauty Sketches
• Dockers Ad 

3. Begin "Codes of Gender"

• Complete the "Codes of Gender" T-Chart