In this half-year course, you will bring your diverse intellectual skills, emotional knowledge and lived experience to the study of feminist cultural theory and popular culture texts.

These electronic web-page documents include a homepage for your course, as well as web documents for distributing readings, notes, and syllabus information.

We will explore selected topics and texts in popular and feminist cultures through a critical lens focussing our attention on "the politics of location." Our work will be informed by our own histories as consumers of popular culture as well as our readings in feminist cultural studies. The objective of this course is to help you to develop and extend your critical understanding of the everyday world you live in as well as the popular representations in circulation around you. We will discuss the production, distribution, and consumption of popular culture. In addition, you will be introduced to a number of feminist and feminist-inspired works that will help you think about how various feminist revisionary cultural practices provide alternatives to and critiques of popular culture.

My interest in teaching is in ensuring that each one of you derives intellectual stimulation from our readings and discussions. Some of the readings are more challenging than others. A selection of study questions is available for selected readings on the page described as ''NOTES". Your responsibility is to prepare for class by keeping up with the reading and by reading actively. That is, as you read, keep a running list of questions and comments in order to prepare yourself for in-class discussion. If you have suggestions concerning how we might improve your learning process, please let me know. An informal teaching evaluation that will enable you to comment both on your perception of the effectiveness of my pedagogic methods and on your individual needs will be solicited midway through the course in the form 3 simple questions: Stop? Go? Continue? In addition there will be a formal Faculty of Arts teaching evaluation administered at the end of the course. These responses are confidential and not made known to me until after the final marks have been submitted.

• Class times: Wednesdays 6:30-9:30
• Study questions are provided to assist you in preparing for the classes by developing approaches to the works we are studying. They are intended to be introductory, not exhaustive.
• All texts are available at Orlando Books. 10640 Whyte Avenue (492-7633)
• A fee will be charged for copies of articles. The price will be determined on a simple cost recovery basis.