College will offer a class titled 'Dead White Women' to study society's 'obsession with the death of white women' through the lens of 'feminist students and critical race studies.'
A general view during the college commencement ceremony for Westminister College on June 1, 2013 in Salt Lake City Utah. Students will ponder question such as,"What is so attractive about watching dead white women?,""What is it about white women's deaths that peeks our voyeuristic instincts?,""Do we as a culture find pleasure at the horrifying deaths of white women at the hands of abusive lovers and husbands?" and"What is so titillating about these TV series?" The course will be offered by both the Film and Gender Studies departments and will be taught by Associate Theatre Professor Stephanie Stroud and Eileen Chanza Torres, the reported program chair of the English and gender studies departments at the college.
The class description clarified that it would be"erroneous to assume that the ID channel only sets out to tell the story of white women," but that most of the programming does surround the deaths of white women. A general view during the college commencement ceremony for Westminister College on June 1, 2013 in Salt Lake City Utah. about the murder of beauty queens, southern belles and the young white woman last seen walking home from school, the ID channel also includes series of white women as murderers," the description adds."But what the programming does not include, unless it is at the hands of hysterical or evil white women, are the deaths of men."
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