Two lectures per week on Mondays and Wednesdays. The course will take a triangulated approach to femininity and visual culture. We will study girls and women as producers, as images, and as spectators of particular kinds of femininity. The films to be studied will help to make sense of ways visual culture not only reflects but constitutes female identities in their multicultural environments. A combination of lecture and discussion.
Regular attendance is required.
This class aims to make sense of these answers and go beyond them by exploring the complex relationships between body, sex, gender, and the built environment. Through lectures and readings, we will explore how the physical and social aspects of sex, gender, and sexuality have been discussed in relation to architectural practice and the experience of buildings and cities. Reading narratives of twentieth-century American immigration, in this course we will pay particular attention to how race, gender, class and sexuality as well as the changing character of American cities shape the immigration experience. Or, students may choose to actively write and revise their own migration narratives, culminating in 30 pages by the end of the semester. Open to both undergraduates and graduates.