Popular Culture and Gender Construction

Catalog description

This performance based course examines the influence of different forms of popular culture, such as film, music, fashion, and sport on the construction of gender ideals in a particular culture. As part of the course, students explore theories that explain how popular culture is formed generally, and focus on the ways females and males are portrayed in specific images and roles specifically. In this process, the changes in images and roles with regard to gender, including androgyny, are also considered.