Discourse & Identity I & II (Discussion)

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Television emphasizes three components of feminism:

  1. "Image of women" feminist criticism
  2. gendered viewing (ethnography)
  3. gender identity
  4. third-wave feminism

Group 1: Explain the basic principles of the "image-of-women" approach to analyzing TV. If you were an analyst using that approach, what would you have to say about the episodes of Designing Women and The Real World and the Justify My Love music video?

Group 2: Explain the basic principles of the "gendered viewing" approach to analyzing TV. If your group were using that approach, what would you have to say about the episodes of Designing Women and The Real World and the Justify My Love music video?

Group 3: Explain the basic principles of the "gender identity" approach to analyzing TV, specifically Judith Butler's idea of gender identity as "performative." If you were an analyst using that approach, what examples of this would you draw from the episodes of Designing Women and The Real World and the Justify My Love music video?

Group 4: Explain the basic principles of "third wave feminism" as it might apply to TV analysis. If you were an analyst using that approach, what would you have to say about the episodes of Designing Women and The Real World and the Justify My Love music video?

Real World main cast

  • Julie
  • Heather
  • Becky
  • Andre
  • Norman
  • Kevin
  • Eric

Group 1

  1. You are a liberal/bourgeois feminist. Analyze the Jamaica trip episode of The Real World. What is your opinion of it? From your perspective, what does it say about gender relationships? Does the ep have a moral or "message"? Do you approve of it? Refer to specific lines of dialog or actions that support or are contrary to liberal feminism.

Group 2

  1. You are a Marxist feminist. Analyze the Jamaica trip episode of The Real World. What is your opinion of it? From your perspective, what does it say about gender relationships? Does the ep have a moral or "message"? Do you approve of it? Refer to specific lines of dialog or actions that support or are contrary to Marxist feminism.

Group 3

  1. You are a radical feminist. Analyze the Jamaica trip episode of The Real World. What is your opinion of it? From your perspective, what does it say about gender relationships? Does the ep have a moral or "message"? Do you approve of it? Refer to specific lines of dialog or actions that support or are contrary to radical feminism.

Group 4

  1. You are a post-structural feminist. Analyze the Jamaica trip episode of The Real World. What is your opinion of it? From your perspective, what does it say about gender relationships? Does the ep have a moral or "message"? Do you approve of it? Refer to specific lines of dialog or actions that support or are contrary to post-structural feminism.

All groups

  1. What does Kate Millett's term, "sexual politics", mean? What are the sexual politics of The Real World episode we viewed?


Bibliography

  1. Jeremy G. Butler, Television: Critical Methods and Applications (NY: Routledge, 2011).

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