Tags: children/youth, discourse/language, emotion/desire, foucault, gender, lgbtq, marriage/family, religion, sex/sexuality, social construction, discipline, heteronormative, femininity, masculinity, norms, socialization, purity ball, virginity pledge, 00 to 05 mins Year: 2008 Length: 1:23 Access: YouTube Summary: This clip describes and visually portrays an example of a purity ball, a formal ritual/party in which girls take a purity pledge (a.k.a. "virginity pledge") in front of their family and friends and, most prominently, they make this pledge to their fathers. I use this clip when introducing Foucault to my students, and I ask them how Foucault might make sense of purity balls and virginity pledges as a social and cultural phenomenon. Submitted By: Valerie Chepp
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Tags: biology, bodies, children/youth, gender, lgbtq, marriage/family, sex/sexuality, social construction, sex reassignment surgery, socialization, subtitles/CC, 21 to 60 mins Year: 2001 Length: 24:00 Access: no online access Summary: This lighthearted and poignant documentary profiles three sisters, ages 6, 9 and 11, struggling to understand why and how their Uncle Bill is becoming a woman. These girls love their Uncle Bill, but will they feel the same way when he becomes their new Aunt Barbara? With just weeks until Bill's first visit as Barbara, the sisters navigate the complex territories of anatomy, sexuality, personality, gender and fashion. Their reactions are funny, touching, and distinctly different. This film offers a fresh perspective on a complex situation from a family that insists there are no dumb questions (description from the film's website). Submitted By: Valerie Chepp Tags: class, gender, intersectionality, marriage/family, race/ethnicity, representation, welfare, 00 to 05 mins Year: 2010 Length: 5:01 Access: YouTube Summary: This is Beyoncé’s music video for the song “Why Don’t You Love Me.” The video depicts Beyoncé as a “traditional” homemaker from the 1950s. While the video might be seen as just another sexist attempt to pair women with homemaking, a deeper analysis would pay attention to the way this misogynistic performance seems to be done tongue-in-cheek. The fact that the performance comes from a Black woman in a reasonably affluent suburb might be interpreted to suggest that media representations, which typically link Blacks to poverty, are being subverted in the clip. This clip works well with Sade’s video "Babyfather," (here) which similarly depicts an affluent black woman homemaker in 1950s America. Submitted By: Lester Andrist |
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