ENG 2 Love & Sexuality Spring 2018
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Syllabus
Readings
“Against Love” by Lara Kipnis and “Monogamy” from This American Life
Excerpt from Kate Bornstein’s Gender Outlaw and “We Should All Be Feminists” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi
“‘The Bachelor’ Is Killing Romance in America” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and “Romance” from Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch
Her (dir. Spike Jonze); “Becoming Human: On Spike Jonze’s Her” by Jessica Gross
“Toolbox” from Stephen King’s On Writing and “Is Everyone Qualified to be a Critic?” by Adam Kirsch and Charles McGrath
“Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian; “People Are Slut-Shaming the Protagonist of “Cat Person” & It Proves a Disappointing Point” by Lucia Peters; “Aziz Ansari, Cat Person, and the #MeToo Backlash” by Anna Silman
Excerpt from The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti
“Is ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ the Most Radical Show on TV?” by Jenna Wortham
“Screwing the Patriarchy” by Caroline Blanton and “Making Sense of Modern Pornography” by Katrina Forrester
Essay Prompts
Short Essay
(Re)definitions
Gender & Sexuality On Screen
Pure / Whore
Love & Sexuality in the Digital Age
Resources
Co-teaching
Expectations and Texts
Claim your co-teaching topic
Conference Schedule
Conference #1 – Wednesday, February 7, in Tower Cafe
Assignment Resources
Building a detailed outline
Quoting Effectively
Annotated Bibliography
Conference Schedule
