Supplementary Material: Gendered Language (1 Viewer)

[McLake]

I am starting threads that will contain a definitive list of supplmentary material. Feel free to add to the list. NO QUESTION IN THIS THREAD PLEASE, only suggestions.

From now on all "what texts should I use?" threads will be DELETED.

Gendered Language Supplementary Material:

(Tell me what texts type subheadings I need please!)

-- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
-- The Importance of Being Earnest
-- Tess of the d'Urbevilles
-- Pygmalion
-- A Doll's House
-- Heat and Dust (I think it was called that)
-- Amy Mann song - Long Shot (can be found on net)
-- Looking for ALibrandi
-- Erin Brocovich
-- Romeo and Juliet
-- Sonnets from and Ungrafted Tree

 

[blah says she]

edit: I found notes on these and I'm sorry, I got a bit confused with the names of things.

Last year we did seminar type things and different people presented a text they'd studied for supplementary material. Ones I can remember:

Plays:
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee
- Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
- Educating Rita - Willy Russell
- The Club - David Williamson
- Top Girls - Caryl Churchill
- A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen

Novels:
- Tess of the d'Urbevilles - Thomas Hardy
- Heat and Dust (I think it was called that) - Ruth Prawer

 

[MissSavage29]

- Amy Mann song - Long Shot (can be found on net)
- Looking for ALibrandi
- Erin Brocovich
- Romeo and Juliet
- Sonnets from and Ungrafted Tree


I thought of another one whilst watching it on tv tonight - i dont know how 'sophisitcated it is' but it was Tannen to a dot point - All Saints - i think u would have to have watched it tonight - or next weeek but there is a convo goign on b/w two of them (i'm not good at names - i'm not a big fan) but i think its Vincent? and one of teh girls

She's complaining becuase he refuses to share what is wrong with him - typical Male behaviour according to Tannen... the women wanting to engage in 'trouble talk'
So if anyone is looking for something a bit more modern to relate to text - that woudl be an excellent senario

 

[jarbsy]

- Brokeback Mountain
- Thelma and Louise

 

[merrymadi]

- Bridget Jones' Diary
- Hamish & Andy (good for analysing male conversations)
- the Bible (all the He, brothers, sons etc. Good to link in with language changes in society)

 

[CopperBoom]

The Devil Wears Prada is also a good one.
Because Miranda Priestly transgresses typical female genderlect etc etc.
And because Andrea changes her personality throughout, just to fit in at her job, it makes a comment about societies values.

 

[dannynsw]

Also the movie "Clueless" by Amy Heckerling.
The exchanges between Murray and Dion are worth noting, the is a lot of good stuff in this movie.