Dr. Elizabeth Long
Sexuality, the Body, and Appearance
in the Second Wave Women's Movement
The popular image of the second wave women's movement
is of bra-burning women who thought all sex was oppressive.
This collective memory comes to us thanks to the media,
and to theorists such as Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon,
whose views have come to stand for a much more complex and
interesting history. I will, in this new project, be searching
for ways to reconstruct that history, and to understand
how it figures in the imagination of younger women. I also
anticipate researching how those themes have been expressed
by Third Wave feminists. This is a new research project,
so the student would be involved in developing a bibliography
and finding sources among media, novels, and scholarly writing,
as well as developing and refining the research questions,
and possibly in interviewing.
Books into Movies: Gender in the Transformation
of Cultural Media
If you have ever found it fascinating to see what happens
to a book you love (or hate) when it gets made into a movie,
this project may be interesting to you. We are studying
what happens to portrayals of gender (including, for example,
male and female characters, family/marriage/sexuality issues)
when a novel becomes a mass-marketed movie. Examining a
sample of top-grossing films from the 1950's, 1970's, and
1990's that "began life" as books, we will use both qualitative
and quantitative methods to understand systematically what
people who have read the book, then seen the movie have
talked about ever since Hollywood realized that novels like
Gone with the Wind would probably make it big on the silver
screen.
New Social Movements
Interested in understanding the environmental movement,
or anti-globalization, or the women's movement, fundamentalist
religious movements, the peace movement -- or all of the
above? Help a sociology professor organize a research seminar
on what are often called New Social Movements -- to differentiate
them from "classic" social movements such as the
labor movement of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
or movements organizing to achieve voting rights. Work would
involve finding important and readable articles/books and
examining/critiquing other scholars' syllabi, as well as
discussing the theoretical and empirical issues of researching
these important social phenomena in the context of formulating
a new Rice-specific course.
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