Objectification

Hi Y13
In the last few lessons we have looked at feminism in detail. You have created posters that demonstrate your knowledge of:

• the waves in Feminism
• different types of feminism
• key concepts in feminism and 
• post-feminism

All of these aspects should have been covered on your posters.

We also looked in detail at Objectification - a key concept in Feminism. For this we looked at this guy on YouTube. This useful to consider the hyper-sexual objectification in recent years.

We also watched the second episode of John Berger's Ways of Seeing. Although this is about Art, it is an excellent episode that can be directly applied to Literature. It's really useful for looking at context too and representation of women as a sexual object through history. The Adam and Eve aspect of this is crucial as women are to blame for their nakedness (literally, since the beginning of time!); this could be seen to account for their objectification.

Your homework was to read the handout I gave you. I expect you to be able to talk about this on Monday.

Ms

Feminism and the Critical Anthology

Hi all
This week have started our consideration of Feminism and we will move to look at texts from a Feminist perspective.
We have evaluated spoken language and how this perpetuates stereotypes in society and, as I am sure you have gathered, looking at a text from a feminist perspective is doing a similar thing.
Here's today's lesson; ensure you answer the questions on the final slide. You must read and re-read the article in the Critical Anthology. Let me know if you have any problems.
THE FINAL QUESTION IS HARD TO SEE. It says:Why are female characters in literature considered to be constructions?

Best wishes,
Ms