Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

1. How do binary ways of thinking about the world shape one's understanding of the three major themes involved in this program?

Rubric:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the term binary. Know what the three major themes of this program are. Be able to discuss in detail the relationship between the citizen, the self, the subject and binary modes of thinking about them. 

Question:

2.Does the method or medium in which different ideas are discussed effect how they are recieved or understood? Please discuss your reasoning and give an example. (You are not limited to one example. The more the merrier!)

***For example: Gender and identity are concepts that we have explored in several different manners, such as film (Southern Comfort) performance (127 Easy Steps to Becoming a Man) and many our readings (My Gender Workbook, The Technology of Gender).

Rubric:

2. Know how to distinguish difference in medium. Exhibit an understanding of the materials that they are discussing. Stay away from hollow or lengthy quotes. If employing quotes really break them down and give them purpose.

Question:

3.Kate Bornstein, in My Gender Work Book describes a gender/identity/power pyramid that is constructed to demonstrate a function of power in which the perfect gender would claim the top of the pyramid. How does the pyramid help or hinder your understanding of the gender/identity/power system?

Rubric:

3. Clearly display an understanding of the reading. Be able to express this understanding in connection with a sound estimation of the purpose of the pyramid and its power relations.