Gender, the Body, and Sexuality
- John Berger, Chapter 3 of Ways of Seeing, New York: Penguin/BBC, 1972, pp. 45-64.
- Rachel Bowlby, Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing, and Zola, NY: Methuen, 1985, pp. 1-34.
- Excerpts from Janice Radway, Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature. Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 1984: pp. 11-12, 86-118.
- Banet-Weiser‘ and Portwood-Stacer, “‘I just want to be me again!’: Beauty pageants, reality television and post-feminism,” Feminist Theory. 2006; 7: 255-272.
- Optional (not available on electronic reserve):
- Lynn Spigel, 'Barbies without Ken: Femininity, Feminism, and the Art-Culture System' in Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs, Duke University Press, 2001