WEEK SIX: Sex, Gender and Sexuality

The theme for this week is "Sex, Gender and Sexuality."  We will be considering two primary films this week, Lolita (screened last Sunday) and But I'm A Cheerleader.  The readings for this week are not in your textbook, so I have provided links to all three essays below:

• Michel Foucault, "We Other Victorians" and "The Repressive Hypothesis" (pp 1-36 of The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 here)

• Catherine MacKinnon, "Sexuality, Pornography and Method: Pleasure Under Patriarchy" 

• Judith Butler, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution"

Please be reminded that we will screen the 1999 parody But I'm A Cheerleader on Sunday, February 24 at 5:00pm in Buckman 108. The trailer for the film follows: