Normal

How does the media create and enforce narrow cultural norms?

How does our society normalize and even encourage sexual violence against girls and women?

Anchor Texts

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

Introduction: What is normal? Who gets to decide?

Worksheet: What is normal? Who gets to decide?

best done after Gladwell & Gilligan readings

Readings & Resources

Red Stocking Manifesto

The Second Sex , excerpts

The Poem as Mask, Muriel Rukeyser

Mad Men, Season 1, ep. 6, "Babylon" opening ~8 minutes