Bad Girls: Postfemnism and Popular Culture

Course Texts

Required:

Novels and Short Story Collections

Oates, Joyce Carol. Foxfire.

[texts on reserve and handouts]

Films

Cameron, James. Aliens.

Dahl, John. The Last Seduction.

Wachowski, A & L. Bound.

Theory

Pearson, Patricia. When She Was Bad . . . :  Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence.

Wolf, Naomi.  Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How to Use It.

Bad Girls Theory: Violence, Sexuality and the Body.  (course packet available through UWO Bookstore)

the packet includes selections from:

Foucault, Michel.  History of Sexuality.

Paglia, Camille. Vamps and Tramps: New Essays.

Grosz, Elizabeth. Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism.

Heilbrun, Carolyn, Nan B. Maglin, Donna Perry, eds.   Bad Girls/Good Girls: Women, Sex and Power in the Ninetees.

Television

Chung, Peter/MTV.  Aeon Flux.

Tapert, Rob and Sam Raimi/Renaissance Pictures-Universal Television.  Xena: Warrior Princess.

Comics

For Jan 11, try Wonder Woman, Kabuki, Tank Girl (if you can find it), Barb Wire (if you can find it), Xena, Shi, Lady Death, the Vertigo line. 

For March 24, try various Japanes Mangas, eg. Ranma.

Music

Many artists, including: Madonna, Courtney Love, Sinead O'Connor, Bikini Kill, Tribe 8, Salt-n-Pepa

Web Pages

Various sites on links page

Recommended but not required:

O'Dair, Barbara, ed.  Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock.

Extensive bibliography and resources will be provided in class.

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