Images of Gender in Popular Culture

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This course examines the concept of gender as it is rhetorically constructed in contemporary popular culture. Students will analyze how various cultural texts (such as advertisements, popular songs, television shows, or video games) communicate what it means to be masculine and feminine in U.S. culture. The course will examine how these images have changed historically and how depictions of race, class, and sexual identity also contribute to our understandings of gender in popular culture.