Sample student group project
Here's the video that my Feminist Thought and Theory students made for their final a few years back. Although it was a different class, a similar project could be made for this course. Lots of potential in the Mall of America.
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A few years back my students from WoSt 3102 - Feminist Thought and Theory gave my daughter a makeover at Club Libby Lu . They filmed the whole thing, edited a video, and wrote really smart papers about girl culture, heteronormativity, whiteness, girl power movement, the gaze, and all those concepts important to Women's Studies. Theorizing the MofA is a very fruitful exercise!
Here's the video (forgive the hiccup in the middle of the clip. i can't find the student's final edit & i don't have time to pull out clips of just T, but you can get the point from it anyway):
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Did you catch the clip of me with a weave-o-rama? Yup. Too much fun!
Well, one of my girl's best friends had a Club Libby Lu b-day party this weekend. Her rock star makeover:
What's really scary is so much of the stuff for sale in the store (as you can see in the video), and if you get the deluxe makeover package you get a great bag (it's a gir thing!) filled with all kinds of heteronormative gender binary enforcing princess power.
See Club Libby Lu's website for yourself.