Monday, September 29, 2014

Agenda for 9/30


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1. My Father Was James Brown. I Watched Him Beat My Mother. And Then I Found Myself With Someone Like Dad.

2. Leadership Characteristics Activity

3. Defining Masculine and Feminine - using advertising and Explain Everything
  • Slide 1 - Find three advertisements/images that display masculinity and list the essential masculine traits
  • Slide 2 - Find three advertisements that display femininity and list the essential feminine traits
4. Revisiting Leadership and Gender

5. The Gender Binary

6. The Gender Spectrum

7. Huggies Advertisement

8. Assignment # 7. Kids toys and the Gender Binary

Toys R' US 
Babies R' US

  • 1. Take a look through the offering for girls and boys
  • 2. What kinds of things do you think clothes and toys teach children about gender? How do they teach them to be a boy or a girl?  
  • 3. Based on your findings with respect to clothing and toys, what does it mean to be a boy or a girl? What kinds of messages do clothes and toys provide children about what it means to be a boy or a girl? In other words, what do boys and girls look like, act like, enjoy doing, and so forth? 
  • 4. Are there any ways in which toys and clothing encourage girls and boys to be similar to each other? Explain.
 9. Beyond the Gender Binary

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