What gender assumptions are embedded in the cartoon/meme/joke?

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Option 2: Humor targeted toward or directed against women
For this exercise, you are required to find a cartoon or a joke that is either targeted toward women
(where women are meant to identify with the humor and find it funny) or directed against women (where women are the brunt of the joke/meme/cartoon). You must include the cartoon/meme/joke with your assignment. You are to focus on the gender assumptions implied by the humor.
Your analysis should be organized as follows:
a.) Where did you see/hear this meme/cartoon/joke?
b.) What is it about the joke/meme/cartoon that makes you think it is directed either toward or against
women? Is it also directed toward or against particular groups of women (e.g., women of color,
lesbians or bisexual women, poor women, disabled women, etc.)? If so, describe how.
c.) What gender assumptions are embedded in the cartoon/meme/joke? In other words, what gender
norms are being represented (or violated)? If the cartoon/meme/joke also concerns assumptions regarding race, class, sexual orientation, etc., discuss these assumptions as well.
d.) How do the assumptions regarding gender, race, class, sexual orientation, etc. that are embedded
in the joke/cartoon benefit certain groups while disadvantaging other groups? How does the cartoon/meme/joke either reinforce or challenge the gender system?
e.) Drawing from assigned readings and class discussions, discuss how the work of at least four of
the scholars on the list above (see top of page) can be used to analyze the gender assumptions of the
joke/meme/cartoon. In other words, how does their work help you better understand the meaning and
consequences of the gender assumptions embedded in the cartoon or joke? How do these authors
help you think about gender in more complex ways–i.e., as not simply consisting of norms about
femininity and masculinity but as a process, a stratification system or structure, and an institution in
and of itself? Finally, how do these authors help you understand gender, race, class, and sexual
orientation as interlocking systems of oppression?
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These are the authors that your information should comne from.
Judith Lorber R.W. Connell
West & Zimmerman White & Jenkins
Allan Johnson Fausto-Sterling
Patricia Hill Collins
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