ENG 2 Love & Sexuality Spring 2018

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

Short Essay

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