KIN 249: Lecture 7.3

Table of Contents

1. Lecture 7.3: Gender and Sport
2. Objectives
3. Sex and Gender
4. Playing Unfair . . . you tell me
5. Feminism: A BRIEF History
6. Title IX
7. High Wheel vs. Safety Bicycle
8. Susan B. Anthony (1896)
9. What are the Main Points?
10. Same Old Messages?
11. Advertisements
12. Formula: Gendered Spheres
13. What is the Role of Fiction?
14. Bicycle Fashion
15. How Should We Define Technology?
16. Bicycle as Technology
17. A Few Notes
18. Nike Women . . . Be Transformed?
19. Sources
20. Sources, cont.

Lecture Notes

Today, we looked at a historical narrative about bicycles to help us better understand the complex relationship between gendered bodies and modern society. When you watch Playing Unfair, see if you can uncover some of the ideologies at play in women's contemporary sports. I'll leave you with a link to a Nike advertisement for spinning gear. The link is also available on the Readings and Lectures page for the week. What kinds of ideologies are behind this ad? How are technologies being used? What's going on with gender? You should be better equipped to answer each of these questions now.