Gender and Feminism - Part 2


WEEK 6

 

 

For Tuesday

1. Mad Men 1x6 and watch Episode 5 and Episode 6

Mad Men 1x6 - Babylon.pdf (script cover says 105)

2. Friedan, Ch 1-3.

The Feminine Mystique-from Ch1.pdf

The Feminine Mystique-from Ch3.pdf

 

For Thursday

1. Mad Men 1x8 and watch Episode 7 and Episode 8

Mad Men 1x8 - Hobo Code - says 107.pdf

2. Second Sex, selections from Chapter 14

 

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Additional Material for Mad Men

 

Mad Men — The Art of Character Arcs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF5CrPXMqjQ

 

Mad Men: The Tragedy of Betty Draper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrnNwrz5TU

 

Mad Men: Joan Holloway, A Subversive Venus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNGs4IW8ruo

 

Mad Men: Who is Don Draper?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RcBWhTyffI

 

Mad Men: We Are All Pete Campbell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4uZPwRL6PQ

 

Mad Men: Roger Sterling, The Mad Man in Decline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2ywvsRPMYY

 

Mad Men: Peggy Olson, the New Girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKVACKDTVs

 

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Advice for First Drafts

 

Most of you writers have probably settled on something to examine, which we will call a “subject of interest.” The theme of marriage, the idea of monogamy, the role of women, relations between men and women, the inner life versus the outer life, etc.

 

Now the central question is: Through WHAT will you examine your subject of interest. You need to TRACK something—an element—that has to do with the construction of the stories, their engineering, the way they are built.

 

Here are some examples of elements you might TRACK to try and uncover insights regarding your subject of interest. Some of these are redundant. Forgive me in advance for that.

 

 

Remember to confine, limit, restrict your investigation to tangible patterns that you can track IN THE WORKS we studied. If you do this you will save yourself a lot of trouble, because your task will be defined, which is to go through the material, the actual physical materials, and gather data, make a chart, or groupings. Then analyze that data.

 

Then, your thesis will emerge as a natural conclusion of this process! As a writer, the leg work is in your concrete investigations. The big thoughts follow.

 

Good Luck and THANK YOU for working so hard!