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<SUBJECT ID="106-295" CODEUSED="106-295/395">
<TITLE>FEMINIST CULTURAL STUDIES: LET'S GO SHOPPING</TITLE>
<POINTS>16.7 2nd and 3rd year
<COORDINATOR>Sue Martin and Jeanette Hoorn.
<SEMESTER>First semester
<CONTACT>One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
<OBJECTIVES>Students who complete this subject successfully will be:
<ul>
<li>skilled in reading a variety of cultural practices and formations from feminist perspectives;
<li>able to demonstrate an understanding in writing and discussion of contemporary theoretical debates in the field;
<li>aware of the interdependence of sites of cultural production and practices of consumption.
</ul>
<CONTENT>This subject aims to familiarise students with some of the major debates in contemporary feminist cultural studies. It focuses on roles and practices conventionally coded as feminine, such as shopping practices, the fashion industry and daytime television - reading them as sites of both repression and resistance.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
<PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Course reader available from the department
<ATEXT>Brown M E <i>Television and Women's Culture: The Politics of the Popular </i>Currency
<ATEXT>Modleski T <i>Studies in Entertainment </i>Indiana U P
</PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
</SUBJECT>
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<SUBJECT ID="106-295" CODEUSED="106-295/395">
<TITLE>FEMINIST CULTURAL STUDIES: LET'S GO SHOPPING</TITLE>
<POINTS>16.7 2nd and 3rd year
<COORDINATOR>Sue Martin and Jeanette Hoorn.
<SEMESTER>First semester
<CONTACT>One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
<OBJECTIVES>Students who complete this subject successfully will be:
<ul>
<li>skilled in reading a variety of cultural practices and formations from feminist perspectives;
<li>able to demonstrate an understanding in writing and discussion of contemporary theoretical debates in the field;
<li>aware of the interdependence of sites of cultural production and practices of consumption.
</ul>
<CONTENT>This subject aims to familiarise students with some of the major debates in contemporary feminist cultural studies. It focuses on roles and practices conventionally coded as feminine, such as shopping practices, the fashion industry and daytime television - reading them as sites of both repression and resistance.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
<PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Course reader available from the department
<ATEXT>Brown M E <i>Television and Women's Culture: The Politics of the Popular Currency. </i> Modleski T <i>Studies in Entertainment</i> Indiana U P
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<SUBJECT ID="106-295" CODEUSED="106-295/395">
<TITLE>FEMINIST CULTURAL STUDIES: LET'S GO SHOPPING</TITLE>
<POINTS>16.7
<COORDINATOR>Sue Martin and Jeanette Hoorn.
<SEMESTER>First semester.
<CONTACT>One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week
<OBJECTIVES>Students who complete this subject successfully will be:
<ul>
<li>skilled in reading a variety of cultural practices and formations from feminist perspectives;
<li>able to demonstrate an understanding in writing and discussion of contemporary theoretical debates in the field; and
<li>aware of the interdependence of sites of cultural production and practices of consumption.
</ul>
<CONTENT>This subject aims to familiarise students with some of the major debates in contemporary feminist cultural studies. It focuses on roles and practices conventionally coded as feminine, such as shopping practices, the fashion industry and daytime television - reading them as sites of both repression and resistance.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
<PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Course reader available from the department
<ATEXT>Brown M E <i>Television and Women's Culture: The Politics of the Popular</i> Currency
<ATEXT>Modleski T <i>Studies in Entertainment</i> Indiana U P
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