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GENDRST 1A03

GENDER, RACE, CULTURE, POWER

Undergraduate

Fall 2026 · C01

Topics

  • Introductions and Expectations; Introducing our Keywords
  • Szorenyi, Anna. “ Judith Butler: their philosophy of gender explained .” The Conversation 19 Oct. 2022. Web.
  • Keyword: Power
  • Keyword: Culture
  • Jacobs, Nicholas F. “ What Liberals Get Wrong About ‘White Rural Rage’ — Almost Everything. ” Politico 5 April 2024. Web.
  • Knowledge: How do we know what we know?
  • Hedva, Johanna. “ Sick Woman Theory .” Topical Cream 12 March 2022. Web.
  • Choice Feminism and Post-Feminism
  • Ahmed, Sara. “The Organisation of Hate.” Law and Critique 12: 345-361 (2001).
  • “I’ve been red-pilled”: The Manosphere
  • ACLU, “ Fast-Growing Company Flock is Building a New AI-Driven Mass-Surveillance System .” ACLU.org. 1 March 2022. Web. Flock Safety. Homepage . Web.
  • “It’s a bit lonely”: Girlhood Horrors and Cinema
  • Compulsory Heterosexuality and other Norms

Readings

  • All texts are provided as PDFs on A2L.
    Required
  • Philosophy Overdose. “ Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Power vs. Justice (1971) .” YouTube.
    See source
  • Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” in Dialectic of Enlightenment (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press). 2020.
    See source
  • Lorde, Audre. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,” in Sister Outside (Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press, 1984), 110-114.
    See source
  • Gill, Rosalind. “Postfeminist media culture: Elements of a sensibility.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 10.2 (2007): 147-166. A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein. “Sydney Sweeney and the Outrage Machine.” 22 August 2025. Podcast.
    See source
  • Botto, Matteo and Lucas Gottzén. “Swallowing and spitting out the red pill: young men, vulnerability, and radicalization pathways in the manosphere.” Journal of Gender Studies 33:5 (2024): 596-608.
    See source
Sources