• Readings: Hunter College Text: Chapters 8 & 9
• Response Paper # 5: Watch one of the above films which depicts women in families. What are ways in the film which depict women in their families as positive (self-affirming), as negative (self-destructive)? What are the assumptions exhibited in the film about women's familial role(s)?

Joy Luck Club
Sense and Sensibility
Beloved
Little Women
Picture Bride
Like Water for Chocolate
Kama Sutra
Dancing at Lughansa
Mildred Pierce
Practical Magic

Social Construction

Three ways of appreciating reality, a.k.a. "truth": 

Objective: Nature doesn't care what anyone thinks.
Scientific measurement shows broccoli is good for us. 

Subjective: What I think matters. 
I don't like broccoli 

Intersubjective: What we think matters. 
Everybody knows broccoli is good for us 
It is ok to eat cows and chickens. Maybe pigs. Not horses or cats. 
It is not ok to eat people (Jeffrey Dahmer)... but ok to eat dead ones if we get hungry enough: soccer team after plane crash in the Andes. 
It is not ok to kill people... Except criminals, enemies in wars, etc? 
It was once ok to kill wolves, now it isn't. 
It was once ok to enslave people. Now it isn't.

UN report of State of World's population:
http://sociology.about.com/science/sociology/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unfpa.org%2Fswp%2Fswpmain.htm