I'm going to >take another look at 'Waiting to Exhale' but if anyone has any other >suggestions, I'd be grateful. I suggest that you assign the following essay: *Mock Feminism: Waiting to Exhale.* by bell hooks in *Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies.* (1996). 52-59. Another important text: *Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader* edited by David Theo Goldberg (1994). Gloria Monti ______________________________ gloria monti director of undergraduate studies film studies program, yale university 53 wall st., #116, new haven, CT 06510 voice mail: 203-432-0152 fax: 203-776-1928 e-mail: [log in to unmask] http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~godard/index.html "Jean-Luc Godard, that glorious nut. No art form should be without one." Newsweek, 1964 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite