PMA 1180

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PMA 1180
FWS: Femininities: Representation, Performance and Politics

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Is beauty, sexiness, Barbie, or the color pink feminine? What or who defines femininity? In our contemporary culture, such ideas are complicated by the performances of drag queens, sex workers, divas, and queer/trans artists of color. By exploring programs like the Real Housewives series, the film Hustlers, spoken word poetry, visual art, and related critical materials by such writers as bell hooks and Audre Lorde, this class will help you better understand the cultural politics of femininity in its relations to race and feminism. Gender expression and our responses to it are shaped by social and political forces that include race, migration, colonialism, and sexuality. Engaging such perspectives, we will write about our favorite divas, make zines, and analyze together films and other popular media forms.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (WRT-AG)
Satisfies Requirement First-Year Writing Seminar.

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20165 PMA 1180   SEM 101

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    • MW
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Yoon, J

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.