SOCY 3678 - Pop Culture Tough Women

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Stockton University

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A study of tough women in TV, movies, comics, video games, and novels. Looks at the changing construction of gender, feminist definitions of 'appropriate' gender behavior, the place of sex and violence in women's resistance, and the use by women of capitalist and male-created culture. Includes: an Eve Dallas novel, "Witchblade", "Xena", "La Femme Nikita", "Alias", "Wonder Woman", "She-Hulk", "Alien", "Basic Instinct", a Pam Grier movie, a Chinese martial arts film, and "Blue Steel". Faculty: E. LERNER 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.stockton.edu

Phone Number:

(609) 652-1776

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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