Watch Fiona Apple, Lil' Kim and Avril Lavigne videos at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTpvjNn2BUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2eUCfREAbw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrDIlVsUmK4>
Read "Barbies without Ken: Femininity, Feminism, and the Art-Culture System" from Welcome to the Dreamhouse by Lynn Spigel
Read "American Popular Culture: Should We Integrate It Into American Education?" by Thomas Fain Jr.
Create a lesson plan that deals with popculture representations of gender (men/women or both) that brings students into dialogue so they think critically, thoughtfully, not denying the pleasure of pop culture but putting it into perspectivewith other discourses in contemporary culture, social, political, etc....
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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