Class Syllabus

May 17 - June 27

I. Introduction
Sex Roles and Aggression -- The Biological Background
1. Sex Roles

Readings

  • Eleanor Maccoby & Carol Jacklin - 'Summary and conclusions' from The Psychology of Sex Differences (Stanford, 1974), 349-355
  • Simone de Beauvoir - `Introduction' from The Second Sex (Vintage,1974), xv-xxiv.

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I. Introduction (continued)
 2. Aggression

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II. Gender
Pyschological Theories: Learning and Development
1. Learning and Development

Readings

  • Janet Sayers - 'Cognitive developmental theory' and 'Social learning' from Sexual Contradictions (Routledge 1992), 12-31.

  • William Pollack - `Inside the world of boys: Behind the mask of masculinity' from Lost Boys: Rescuing our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood (Holt 1998), 3-19.

  • Susan Pollak & Carol Gilligan - `Images of violence in TAT test stories,' Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1982, 42(1), 159-167.

Optional Readings

  • Lawrence Kohlberg & Dorothy Ullian - 'Stages in the development of psychosexual concepts and attitudes, ' from Friedman, R., Richart, R. & Van Weiler (eds.) - Sex Differences in Behavior (John Wiley & Sons 1975), 209-222.
  • John Broughton - `Women's rationality and men's virtues,' Social Research, 1983.

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Psychodynamic Theories: Freud and Jung
II. Gender (continued)

 		1. Freud

Readings

  • Sigmund Freud - `On the consequences of some anatomical differences between the sexes,' S.E.
  • Janet Sayers - `Freudian theory,' from Sexual Contradictions.
  • John Hesley & Jan Hesley - `What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' from Rent Two Films and Call Me in the Morning (Wiley 1998), 157-160.

Optional Readings

  • William J.Richardson's paraphrase of the Lacan article
  • `Asserting phallic mastery,' and `The limits of Lacan,' SM, 83-103 & 89-94
  • Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice.

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II. Gender (continued)

 		2. Jung (2.1)

Readings

  • Carl Jung - `Syzygy' from Collected Works

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II. Gender
Object Relations Theory and Lacan (2.8)
(continued)

 1. Object Relations Theory

Readings

  • Janet Sayers - `Post-Freudian psychoanalysis' from Sexual Contradictions (Tavistock 1986), 33-78.
  • Nancy Chodorow - `Oedipal asymmetries and heterosexual knots,'Social Problems, 1976.
  • Janet Sayers - `Lacanian perspectives' from Sexual Contradictions(Tavistock, 1986), 79-96.
  • Jacques Lacan - `The meaning of the phallus,' from Juliet Mitchell & Jacqueline Rose (eds.), Feminine Sexuality (Norton 1983).

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II. Gender 2. Lacan
(continued)

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III. Violence
Psychological and Psychodynamic Approaches
1. Psychological Approaches

Readings

  • Albert Bandura & Gerald Walters - from Social Learning and Development

  • Jean Laplanche & J.-B.Pontalis `Aggressiveness' from The Language of Psychoanalysis (1973), 17-21.

  • Donald Winnicott - `Aggression in relation to emotional development,'(1950-55) in Through Pediatrics to Psychoanalysis (Brunner/Mazel, 1992).

  • John Broughton - "JFa" interview.

  • Daniel Clowes - Ghost World (comic book).

  • Also see: John Broughton - `Theses on violence' (unpubd).

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III. Violence 2. Psychodynamic Approaches
(continued)

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III. Violence
Aggression and Gender
(continued) 1. Aggression

Readings

  • William Shakespeare - Othello, Act , Scene 2.
  • Timothy Beneke - `Rapist: Chuck' from Men on Rape (St Martins, 1982), 71-81.
  • Dana Crowley Jack - `The puzzle of aggression'from Behind the Mask: Destruction and Creativity in Women's Aggression (Harvard 1999), 11-51.
  • Jean Baker Miller & Janet Surrey `Rethinking women's anger' in Judith Jordan (ed.), Women's Growth in Diversity (Guilford 1997), 199-216.
  • Ginger Goldner, Peggy Penn, Marcia Sheinberg & Gillian Walker - "A feminist relational view of battering" (from `Love and violence: gender paradoxes in volatile attachments' in Mary Gergen & Sara Davis (eds.), Toward a New Psychology of Gender, pp.575-60 (Routledge, 1996), pp.575-579 optional.
  • Review "JFa" material

Optional Readings

  • Royster murder reports, New York Times
  • John Broughton -Interview re `Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' 12/98.

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III. Violence 2. Gender
(continued)

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Viewings (Rape)

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III. Violence
Domination:
Sexism, Heterosexism and Homophobia
(continued) 1. Sexism

Readings

  • Abelard - `Historia calamitatum' from The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin 1974) 65-68.

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III. Violence Domination:
2. Heterosexism
(continued)

Readings

  • Wilhelm Reich - `Compulsive heterosexuality,' from Sex-Pol.
  • Adrienne Rich - `Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence'in Ann Snitow (ed.), Powers of Desire (Monthly Review Press,1983), 177-205.

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III. Violence Domination:
3. Homophobia
(continued)

Readings

  • 'Homophobia and the fear of unmanliness,' SM, 16-22.

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III. Violence Domination: Race and Aggression (Ethnicity?)
(continued) 1. Race

Readings

  • Lynne Segal - `Black masculinity and the white man's black man,' Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men (Virago 1990),168-181.

  • Amina Mama - `Psychodynamics in adult subjectivity' and `Black femininity' from Behind the Masks (Routledge 1996), 188-204 (168-187 optional).

  • Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo & Michael Messner, "Mexican immigrant men" (from `Gender displays and men's power') in 
    Mary Gergen & Sara Davis (eds.), Toward a New Psychology of Gender, pp.503-520 (Routledge, 1996), read only 514-520.

  • Michelle Fine & Lois Weis - `Crime stories: a critical look through race, ethnicity and gender,' Qualitative Studies in Education,1998, 11(3), 435-459.

  • Andrew Ross - `The gangsta and the diva,' from Nicholas Mirzoeff (ed.), Visual Culture Reader (Routledge 1998), 344-349.

Viewings

Listening

  • The Crystals - `He Hit Me (And it Felt Like a Kiss)'(P.Spector), 1962
  • Britney Spears - `Baby, Hit Me One More Time'

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III. Violence Domination: 2. Aggression
(continued)
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IV. Sexuality
Masculinity

Readings

  • Michael Kimmel - `Masculinity as homophobia,' in Mary Gergen & Sara Davis (eds.), Toward a New Psychology of Gender (Routledge,1997), 223-242.
  • Klaus Thewelweit - 'Foreword' (Barbara Ehrenreich) from Male Fantasies Vol. 1 (Minnesota 1987), xvii-xxii, and 'Battle and the body' from Male Fantasies, Vol. 2 (Minnesota 1989), 176-223.
  • Karen Horney - `The flight from womanhood: the masculinity-complex in women as viewed by men and women' from Feminine Psychology (Norton 1967), 54-70.

Optional Readings

  • John Broughton - `Anality and gender in the Gulf War'(unpubd.)
  • John Broughton - excerpt from `Dialog of imaginary and symbolic aggression in the father-son relationship' to appear in C.E.Robins & Maria Taruzzi-Goldman (eds.), Lacan and War (Nomos).

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IV. Sexuality
Sadism/Masochism: Morbid Pleasures
(continued)

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IV. Sexuality
Alternatives, Reversals, Paradoxes
(continued) 1. Gender Instability

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IV. Sexuality 2. Heterosexual Failure
(continued)

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IV. Sexuality 3. Unorthodox Sexualities
(continued)

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V. Cultural Violence
Historical and Political
1. Historical

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V. Cultural Violence
(continued)
2. Political

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V. Cultural Violence
(continued)
Gender and Violence in the Media
1. Gender in the Media

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V. Cultural Violence
(continued)
2. Violence in the Media

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VI. Gender and Violence
Schools, Gender and Violence
1. Schools

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VI. Gender and Violence
(continued)
2. Gender and Violence

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