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The Art World

1. According to Nochlin, why have there been no great women artists? How do (or don't) recent all-women exhibitions refute this notion?

2. Who are the Guerrilla Girls? What impact have they had on the art world?

The Gaze

1. Why does Prager say "a lot of things made sense" to her after she learned Barbie was designed by a man?

2. How do Madame Alexander dolls (or American Girl dolls) differ from Barbies? How does what they say about gender differ?

3. Think of a toy you played with as a child, and create an analysis of it, using Prager's essay as a model. Be sure to consider differences between your childhood response to the toy and your current response.

4. Why is gender so central to cinema, in Mulvey's view? What is it about sexual difference that helps to explain why cinema looks and works the way it does?

5. What's the difference between the scopophilia of the cinema and that of other patriarchal art forms (e.g., a striptease or dramatic play)? Why is narrative film particularly suited to serving the needs of patriarchy?

6. According to Kilbourne, What are some of the potential effects (physical, emotional, mental) on girls and women of trying to live up to our culture's ideal image of beauty? What is the relationship between cultural ideals of thinness and the cultural obsession with dieting? With eating disorders?

7. More men are reporting dissatisfaction with their bodies than did a decade ago, and eating disorders among men are on the rise. In what ways, might the objectification of men in advertisements affect the way that men feel about their own bodies?