Prescribed text:

Elizabeth, Shekhar Kapur

Poems:           

Ariel – A Selection, Sylvia Plath                   

Short Stories:

The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

Am I Blue? Marion Bauer

Fabric Crafts, Anne Fine

The Story of the Eldest Princess, A.S. Byatt

He’s Coming at Seven, Kathy Lette

Television Programs:

Ally McBeal

Californication

Men Behaving Badly

Queer as Folk

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

Sex and the City

Films:

Boys Don’t Cry

But I’m a Cheerleader

Girl, Interrupted

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

The Birdcage

The Crying Game

The Silence of the Lambs

Thelma and Louise

Newspapers

Magazine Articles

Online resources

Music lyrics and music video clips

Locate current articles; gender issues appear on a daily basis in newspapers and magazines; ‘Google’ search.

Critical Readings:

Boys are Beautiful, Glyn Parry

Gender, Genre and Children's Literature, John Stephens

Language and Gender, Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet

Review Essay: Selling the apolitical, Senta Troemel-Ploetz.

Feminist Perspectives on Language, Margaret Gibbon

Feminist Literary Theory, Edited by Mary Eagleton

The End of Equality, Anne Summers

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, Edited by Margeta de Grazia and Stanley Wells

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film .Edited by Russell Jackson

Language: The Social Mirror, Elaine Chaika

Literary Terms. A Practical Glossary, Brian Moon

Shakespeare: Texts and Contexts. Edited by Kiernan Ryan

Shakespeare. An Oxford Guide,  Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin

Shakespeare's Women, Arnot

Gendered Fictions, Wayne Martino and Bronwyn Mellor

Your Language: Three, Maura Healy

The Theory of Criticism, Edited by R. Selden

Media and Society, Michael O'Shaughnessy.

What does it mean? Discourse, Text, Culture. An Introduction, Emma Robinson and Sophie Robinson.

What it Means to be a Man: Reading the Masculine, Phillip Butteress

Linguistic Process in Socio-Cultural Practice, Gunther Kress Deakinllin

Discourse and Society. Is there any ketchup Vera? Gender, Power and Pragmatics, Deborah Cameron

Communication and Culture: An Introduction, Edited by Gunther Kress

Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film, Jude Davies & Carol Smith

Feminism and Linguistic Theory, Deborah Cameron

Language and Gender, Istitla Singh