SP. 401 Fall 2010 Class #15 – Lecture Outline – Essay #2 Review: Strategies for Ques. #2. Gender, Media and Education; Sexualities and Gender 1. Conceptualizing Equality in Popular Visual Media: Proportionality? Attention to Gender Issues? Sex/gender as “mere circumstance”? 2. Conceptualizing Gender Equality in Education: Issues of Sameness and Difference 3. Student Presentation 4. From Women’s Studies to Women’s and Gender Studies: Intersection of Feminism and Gay/Lesbian Rights Discourse; Similarities and Differences Between Movements- 5. Rights of Sexual Self-Determination and the Second Wave of American Feminism: Right to Contraception, Rights to Cohabitation Outside of Marriage, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Rights, Transgender Rights 6. Historical/Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Same-Sex Sexuality: Rupp 7. The Emergence of Homosexual Identity in the U.S. *medical/psychiatric discourses—mainstream and alternative *growth of lesbian/gay communities- urban mobility and “safe spaces” John D’Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities 8. The Emergence and Development of a Gay Rights Movement *factors leading up to birth of a large-scale movement- 1950s gay/lesbian groups, 1969 Stonewall Riots *civil rights agenda- *reversing the diagnosis” - identifying homophobia *discourses of social construction and biological essentialism *Interconnections with women’s movement *spheres of social reform: public safety, housing, education, healthcare 7. The Movement’s trajectory --- focus on right to same-sex marriage . Why marriage? Goodridge decision- Massachusetts, 2003. 8. Oral Presentation 1MIT OpenCourseWarehttp://ocw.mit.edu SP.401 / WGS.401 Introduction to Women's and Gender StudiesFall 2010 For information about citing these materials or our Terms of Use, visit:
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