Comments on: Course outline

By: melgregg

melgregg — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:43:51 +0000

Hi Jess, Nice to see you here! I used that article in my tutorials last week, so good to see we are on the same wavelength

By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:25:22 +0000

Hope it’s not too strange for your students to have read this – found it while researching Berlant.

I’ve really enjoyed your course so far.

Just want to suggest this article for next time:

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/weddings-i-prefer-funerals–theyre-far-more-real-20090915-fplv.html

By: melgregg

melgregg — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:24:40 +0000

Adrian, thank you as always for such inspiration! I will see what I can do!

Sadly, I don’t think Professor Streisand had to spend much time begging for more than 8 tutorials to teach 248 students… which has been my challenge this past fortnight?!

By: Adrian Martin

Adrian Martin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:57:55 +0000

Melissa, I hope you will be devoting quality time in class to the scene in THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES where Prof. Barbra Streisand delivers an extraordinary lecture to her uni students on love and eroticism! Many useful tips on lecturing style can be gleaned from this spectacle (inc. leaving the podium and walking theatrically among the seated students, like Moses parting the waters!!) Within the plot, a neat twist: Jeff Bridges is present only for the bit he misconstrues as the sober ‘critique of romantic love’, and doesn’t hear the rest !! It is the ultimate university movie … but ammunition for your course can also be found in the dire THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE (Kevin Spacey summarises, in about 30 seconds flat, the Lacanian theory of love! – well, how many more seconds do you need?), and the amazing Aussie curio GROSS MISCONDUCT (1993), where Jimmy Smits dazzles impressionable teen student Naomi Watts (!) with his seductive philosophical rap on the links between love, sex and knowledge!! Not that you need to learn anything about that … ?!?!?!?!

By: Anna Hickey-Moody

Anna Hickey-Moody — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:58:01 +0000

Hi Mel,

This course looks wicked.

Look, this isn’t an overly ‘academic’ suggestions but could well be coupled with other material and is a really interesting read:
MARTHA ALBERTSON FINEMAN’s ‘The Autonomy Myth
A [positive] Theory of Dependency’

http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1012

I read it last summer and it did a lot for my state of mind. Its celebratory about love and marriage from a gender studies/ legal studies perspective.

By: melgregg

melgregg — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:37:38 +0000

Thanks so much, all of you. I went away for a break and came back to all these goodies! I will try to share what happens as all this takes further shape.

By: kate

kate — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:26:41 +0000

Lesbian Dad writes about marriage, including her own (in California, with all the legal ups and downs). It’s blog writing, but from someone with an intellectual background. She’s written about her relationship, commitment ceremony and legal marriage a few times http://www.lesbiandad.net/2008/07/11/groom/ might be a nice start though.

By: Rachel O'Reilly

Rachel O'Reilly — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:59:31 +0000

Er – in addition to email, I forgot Jeremy
Crampton, The Political Mapping of Cyberspace. Esp. chapters 3,4,5,7, on authenticity, parhhesia, privacy, positivity.
Probably covers some of what you think is missing in terms of “recent / relevant” work within media and cultural theory?

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:36:47 +0000

A couple of references, both archived at the University of Leeds CAVA Group:

SHelley Budgeon & Sasha Roseneil, ‘Cultures of Intimacy and Care Beyond “The Family”: Friendship and Sexual/Love Relationships in the Twenty-First Century’- http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cava/papers/culturesofintimacy.htm

Sasha Roseneil, ‘Why We Should Care About Friends: An Argument for Queering the Care Imaginary in Social Policy’, _Social Policy and Society_ 3:4 (October 2004), 409-20. [Earlier CAVA version available as: ‘Why We Should Care About Friends: some thoughts (for CAVA) about the ethics and practice of friendship’ – http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cava/papers/paper22sasha.htm

There are further papers from a 2002 seminar on ‘friendship and non-conventional partnership’ here: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cava/papers/intseminars.htm

Hope these are useful! – Richard

By: LB

LB — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:11:30 +0000

I don’t know about “recent, non-cynical, even celebratory about love and marriage from a gender or cultural studies perspective” but I’d look at Jane Gallop’s work. She says some amazingly unambivalent things about loving men in the interview I did with her called “Loose Lips” (sorry I don’t have a pdf now). It is in the “Our Monica Ourselves” book. Let me know if you want me to dig that out. I ought to know where it is!! Also Katherine Franke’s two essays, Longing for Loving and (especially) Theorizing Yes.
LB