Class Syllabus

May 21- June 27

Introduction 5/21 I Gender 5/23-6/4 II Violence 6/6-6/11 III Sexuality 6/13 - IV Violations and Transgressions V Cultural Violence
	1. Introduction Sex and Aggression -- the Biological Background (Mon, 5.21)
	Quotes • Maccoby & Jacklin • Drew Barrymore • Camille Paglia • Elayne Boosler
	A. Biology
	Readings • V, ch. 9, 'The biology of violence.' Viewings • * 2001: Monolith Murder • * Lawnmower Man • Hollow Man • * The Birds: Jungle Gym Scene [See Also Wolf, Wolfen, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde] Quote • Dennis Miller
	B. Sex Differences
	Readings • Eleanor Maccoby & Carol Jacklin - 'Summary and conclusions' from The Psychology of Sex Differences (Stanford, 1974), 349-355. • Erving Goffman -' Genderisms,' Psychology Today, Aug. 1977, 19-23. • Simone de Beauvoir - `Introduction' from The Second Sex (Vintage,1974), xv-xxiv. • (optional) Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice (Portia's courtroom scene). Viewing • Victor/Victoria *Tootsie.
I. GENDER
	2. Psychological Theories: Learning and Development (1.31)
	A. Roles
	Readings • Carol Gilligan - 'Woman's place in man's life cycle,' Harvard Educational Review, 1979. • 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. Viewings • * Something Wild • *Tootsie  • * Forces of Nature • *Rebecca (no video) • We Remember Marilyn [See also Forces of Nature] Quotes • L. Tiefer •Chrissie Hynde
	B. Learning
	Readings • Janet Sayers - from Sexual Contradictions (Routledge 1992) Viewings • River Runs Through It [Plot Summary] • Shine [Plot Summary] • * Boys Don't Cry [Fight in bar]  • * Boyz 'n the Hood
	C. Development
	Readings • Lawrence Kohlberg & Dora Ullian - 'Stages in psychosexual roles.' • (optional) John Broughton - `Women's rationality and men's virtues,' Social Research, 1983. Viewings • Alice in Wonderland • Tumbleweeds • * Welcome to the Dollhouse [Rape Threat, Rape Threat Part 2]
	3. Psychoanalytic Theories: Freud and Lacan (Wed, 5.30)
	A. Freud
	Readings • Sigmund Freud - `On the consequences of some anatomical differences between the sexes,' S.E. • 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) Janet Sayers - `Freudian theory,' from Sexual Contradictions. • (optional) John Hesley & Jan Hesley - `What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' from Rent Two Films and Call Me in the Morning (Wiley 1998), 157-160. Viewings • *What's Eating Gilbert Grape [Gilbert's Family , Store in Trouble , Cheating Heart ] • Bagdad Cafe [Whoring daughter] • *Boogie Nights (no audio) [Dirk's Bedroom] • *Welcome to the Dollhouse [Grade Grubbing] • *Little Odessa  • *Affliction • *The Grifters  • * The Birds [ Mother's Approval] • "Sopranos" III-10 Quote • Karen Horney
	B. Lacan
	Readings • Jacques Lacan - `The meaning of the phallus,' from Juliet Mitchell & Jacqueline Rose (eds.), Feminine Sexuality (Norton 1983). • Janet Sayers - `Lacanian perspectives' from Sexual Contradictions (Tavistock, 1986), 79-96. • (optional) William J.Richardson's paraphrase of the Lacan article • (optional) SM: `Asserting phallic mastery,' and `The limits of Lacan,' SM, 83-103 & 89-94. Viewing • * Parenthood • * Mulan •* Robocop •Lawn Dogs •* High Art [Change of Plans , Lucy's Apartment] • sex, lies and videotape [Conversation in bar] • Capadonna MTV Video Quote • Client in psychoanalytic therapy
	NO CLASS on MEMORIAL DAY
	4. Jung and Object Relations Theory (Mon, 6.4)
	A. Jung
	Readings • Carl Jung - `The syzygy: animus and anima,' from The Portable Jung (Viking, 1971),148-162. • Susan Pollack & Carol Gilligan - 'Images of violence in TAT test stories,' Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1982, 42 (1), 159-167. Viewings • *Something Wild (Abducted by Luln) • Julia • Victor/Victoria
	B. Klein
	Reading • Gillian Skirrow - Hellivision (gender and fantasy in video games. In Colin McCabe (ed.), High Theory/Low Culture (Manchester, 1986), 115-142. Viewings • Alien • Army of Darkness • * Fantastic Voyage
	C. Chodorow
	Readings • Nancy Chodorow - 'Oedipal asymmetries and heterosexual knots,' Social Inquiry, 1976, 4, 454-468. • (optional) Janet Sayers - 'Post-Freudian psychoanalysis' from Sexual Contradictions (Tavistock 1986), 33-78. Viewings • Tumbleweeds • Anywhere But Here • *Boogie Nights (no audio) [ Dirk and Mother] • Exotica • High Art • * sex, lies and videotape
II. VIOLENCE
	Quotes • Rawley Silver •John Dollard • Donald Winnicott • Carl Jung • Karen Horney • Melanie Klein • Selma Fraiberg • Langston Huges • Christopher Huvos • Michel Serres • Robin Morgan • Stephen King
	5. Psychological and Psychodynamic Approaches (Wed, 6.6)
	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. • (optional) Daniel Clowes - Ghost World (comic book). • (optional) John Broughton - `Theses on violence' (unpubd). Viewing • * Hope and Glory • * Raging Bull  • * Psycho (Shower scene)
	6. Aggression and Gender (Mon, 6.11)
	Readings • William Shakespeare - Othello, Act , Scene 2. • Timothy Beneke - `Rapist: Chuck' from Men on Rape (St Martins, 1982), 71-81. • William Pinar - 'The gender of violence' from The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America (Land 2001), 815-824. • Jessica Benjamin - 'Rational violence and erotic domination,' Feminist Studies, 1980, 6 (1). • 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) Jean Baker Miller & Janet Surrey `Rethinking women's anger' in Judith Jordan (ed.), Women's Growth in Diversity (Guilford 1997), 199-216. • (optional) Royster murder reports, New York Times • (optional) John Broughton -Interview re `Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' 12/98. • (optional) Pinar - 'Straight men rape women' and 'Straight men rape men,' ibid., 834-847. Viewing (Female Rape) • Clockwork Orange • The Accused • *Welcome to the Dollhouse [Rape Threat Part I, Rape Threat Part II ] • Marnie • * Basic Instinct (Male Rape) • Deliverance • Lawrence of Arabia • Boys Don't Cry (Abuse) •What's Love Got To Do With It • Godfather 2 (Aggression) •Girl, Interrupted •  Something Wild • Spellbound (Hitchcock) • * Thelma and Louise (Scott) [Explosion, Pulled Over] • What Planet Are You From? (Mike Nichols 2000). Quotes • Tina Turner • NWA • Adam Jukes • Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo & Michael Messner • Pierre Bourdieu • Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer • Jean Baudrillard • Othello • James Gilligan • P.J. Harvey
III. SEXUALITY
	Quotes • John Ashbery • Joan Riviere • Kenneth Burke • Jack Nicholson • New York Times • Kaia Wilson
	7. Masculinity: Straight or Gay (Wed, 6.13)
	Readings • 'Homophobia and the fear of unmanliness,' SM, 16-22. • Ronin Ro - 'All they found was his wallet,' and 'Mom, one day I'm gonna live in ahouse with a second storey,' from Have Gun Will Travel: The Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records (Doubleday 1998), 1-20. •William Pinar - 'Boy culture during the lynching era,' Homophobia,' 'Black men: A crisis of black masculinity?,' 'Black masculinity today,' Demasculinized superstuds,' and 'Compulsive masculinity,' from Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America (Lang 2001), 384-390, 848-860, 876-888, & 906-923. •William Pinar - 'The crisis of white masculinity,' 'The end of romantic friendship,'and 'Hysteric white men,' from The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America (Lang 2001), 321-348 & 411-416. • (optional) John Broughton - `Anality and gender in the Gulf War' (unpubd.) Viewings (Macho) • * Affliction • * Star Wars • * The Quick and the Dead • *Robocop  • *Gladiator • * Three Kings  • *The Cell • *Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex (Sexism) • La Strada • Lulu •* Reservoir Dogs • Celebration • * The Sweet Life • * Journey to the Center of the Earth • * Thelma and Louise [Explosion] • * What Planet Are You From? (not available) • Wayne's Word • * Nurse Betty • Beyond the Clouds • Bridget Jones' Diary • G.I. Jane • Who's Talking Now? • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex (Competition) • Keeping the Faith (Homophobia) • American Beauty • Priscilla, Queen of the Desert • * Boys Don't Cry • Before Night Falls • Looking for Mr Goodbar • Hate, Homophobia and Schools (Homosocial) • Ken Russell - Women in Love • Ridley Scott - Bladerunner • Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull, Casino • Smoke • Interview with the Vampire (Jordan) • * Gladiator (Gay) • Poison • Pulp Fiction • Happiness • Heidi Chonicles • Edward 2 • Before the Night Falls • Maurice • Live and Die in L.A. • The Trial of Oscar Wilde • Peter's Friends • Unzipped • * Rock Hudson's Home Movies • * Velvet Goldmine • Wings of Desire
	8. Heterosexism and Female Homosexuality ( )
	Readings • Wilhelm Reich - `Compulsive heterosexuality,' from Sex-Pol (1936), 34-39. • Adrienne Rich - `Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence' in Ann Snitow (ed.), Powers of Desire (Monthly Review Press,1983), 177-205. • Judith Butler - 'Imitation and gender insubordination', from Diana Fuss (ed.), Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories/Gay Theories (Routledge, 1991), 637-648. • (optional) Diane Diasse - Hothead Paisan • SM, 134-167 Review Daniel Clowes - Ghostworld. Viewings (Codependency) • All in the Family • Keeping the Faith • Nurse Betty • Bridget Jones' Diary (Reverse Sexism) • Great Expectations • Disclosure (Reich) • Visit to Organon (Lesbian) • Boy's Don't Cry • Being John Malkovich • *High Art [Change of Plans , Lucy's Apartment] • Bound • * Heavenly Creatures • Relax, It's Only Sex (P.J. Castellaneta, 1999) • * Chasing Amy • Mercy • Sirens • Friends and Neighbors (Ben Stiller/Catherine Keener) (Homosocial) • Glengary Glen Ross • * Pulp Finction • * Reservoir Dogs • Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer • Deliverance • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Quotes • Disneyana • Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders • E. Bene • Ellen Degeneres
IV. VIOLATIONS & TRANSGRESSIONS
	Quotes • Lennon/McCartney • Kenneth Burke • Marianna LaFrance • Wallace Stevens • Judith Butler
	9. Identity Conflict, Gender Instability, and Heterosexual Failure ( )
	Readings • Amina Mama - 'Psychodynamics' in adult subjectivity' and 'Black femininity' from Behind the Masks (Routledge 1996), 188-204 (168-187 optional). •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 • Carol Clover - 'Her body, himself: gender in the slasher film,' from Men, Women and Chainsaws. • Geoffrey Hartmann - 'Decline in "North by Northwest" • William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice. • (optional) John Broughton = 'Theses on violence' (unpubd) Viewings (Hetero failure) • Chicken run • Pelican Brief • The Cell • The Sopranos (III-10) • Wings of Desire • What Planet Are You From? • American Beauty • Strangers on a Train • Viewing (Cross-dress) • Pee Wee's Great Adventure • Wind in the Willows • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex • Dressed to Kill • Silence of the Lambs (Transgender) • Myra Breckenridge • Year of 13 Moons (Fassbinder) • Juggling Gender (Tami Gold, 1992) • Priscillia: Queen of the Desert • Paris is Burning • Kiss of the Spider Woman • * Silence of the Lambs (Demme) (not available) • * Tootsie (Pollack) • Year of Living Dangerously •Glen and Glenda •Victor/Victoria (Intersex) • ET • Androgynous Pat (Betrayal) • The Crying Game (funfair) • Betrayal • Silent Rapture (Slasher) • Texas Chainsaw Massacre • I Spit on Your Grave Scenes: Bisexual Basic Instinct (Verhoeven); Sunday, Bloody Sunday; Nowhere; Heavenly Creatures; Chasing Amy; Velvet Goldmine Scenes: Transgender Rocky Horror Picture Show (Tim Curry); Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Steve Oederkerk); World According to Garp; Twin Peaks; Boogie Nights; Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex (Allen); Total Recall (Verhoeven); Pee Wee's Great Adventure (Burton); Just Like a Woman (Fassbinder); Kiss of the Spider Woman; The Holy City and Santa Sangre (Jodorowski); The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen (black man finds inner woman, 1.08).
V. CULTURAL VIOLENCE
	Quotes • Michael Hoffman •Marcuse •Robert Paul Wolff • Philip Abrams •C. Wright Mills • Hannah Arendt • R. Slotkin • Abdul Jabbar Muhsin • Ella Sharpe • David Caroll • Celeste Olalquiaga • Blanchot • J.W. Fulbright • V. Propp
	10. Gender and Violence in the Media (Mon, 6.18)
	Readings • Jyotsna Kapur - 'Out of control: television and the transformation of childhood in late capitalism,' in Marsha Kinder (ed.), Kids' Media Culture (Duke 1999), 122-136. • Slavoj Zizek - 'The thing from inner space,' in Renata Salecl (ed.) - Sexuation (Duke 2000), 216-240 & 255-258. • Andrew Ross - 'The gangsta and the diva,' from Nicholas Mirzoeff (ed.), Visual Culture Reader (Routledge 1998), 344-349. • Review of Goffman's 'Genderisms' from sex roles readings, above • (optional) Eliot Daley - 'Is TV brutalizing your child?' Look, 1969, Dec. 2nd, reprinted in David Riley (ed.), Freedom of Dilemma: Critical Readings in the Mass Media (Scott Foresman 1970), 50-54. Viewing (VGs and VR) • Mortal Kombat • Strange Days • Ghost in the Machine • Virtuosity (Effects on children) • Hope and Glory • Witness • The Beach • Forbidden Games (Mean World) • Peter Pan • Jungle Book • Mulan • Bearenstain Bears Learn About Strangers • * Welcome to the Dollhouse (don't talk to strangers lecture) [Grade Grubbing, Rape Threat Part I , Rape Threat Part II, Spitball ] • Driver's Ed Scare Films, Vol. 1 (0.02). Quotes • Protesters picketing Time Warner to protest "Cop Killer" • Chrissie Hynde
	11. Schools, Gender and Violence (Wed, 6.20)
	Readings • Jane Kenway & Sue Willis - 'Power' from Answering Back: Girls, Boys and Feminism in the Schools (Routledge 1998), 96-113. • Jennifer Pastor, Jennifer McCormick, & Michelle Fine - 'Makin homes: an urban girl thing,' in Bonnie Leadbeater & Niobe Way (eds.), Urban Girls (NYUP), 15-34. • Pierre Bourdieu - 'Preventing and producing violence: a critical analysis of responses to school violence,' Harvard Educational Review, 1995 65 (2), 189-212. Viewing • The Meaning of Life (Pt 2: 'Growth and Development' - domination of wife, via domination of students to waging war) • Dangerous Minds • Dead Poets Society • * Welcome to the Dollhouse [Grade Grubbing , Rape Threat Part I , Rape Threat Part II , Spitball ] • If... • * Basketball Diaries • Free (Susan Cowles) • Hate, Homophobia, and Schools Quotes • Jules Henry • Anna Freud & Dorothy Burlingham • Third Eye Blind
Presentation of Final Papers