1. Bunny boilers Learning objective: to explore issues and subtexts in the Laboratory.

2. ‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’ What does this mean? Are women more unbalanced than men?

3. Imagine... Your boyfriend dumps you for another girl. What do you do? Who do you blame and why?

4. Fatal Attraction A film about a woman who can’t get over a man and tries to kill his wife: written and directed by a man. What is the subtext? http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?hl=en&q=fatal%20attraction&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#hl=en&q=fatal+attraction&um=1&ie=UTF- 8&sa=N&tab=wv&start=0

5. Belittling women... This is a right-wing t- shirt attacking Hilary Clinton (who tried to be the first female US president). What is it saying about her?

6. I. Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly, May gaze thro' these faint smokes curling whitely, As thou pliest thy trade in this devil's-smithy--- Which is the poison to poison her, prithee? II. He is with her, and they know that I know Where they are, what they do: they believe my tears flow While they laugh, laugh at me, at me fled to the drear Empty church, to pray God in, for them!---I am here.

7. III Grind away, moisten and mash up thy paste, Pound at thy powder,---I am not in haste! Better sit thus, and observe thy strange things, Than go where men wait me and dance at the King's. IV That in the mortar---you call it a gum? Ah, the brave tree whence such gold oozings come! And yonder soft phial, the exquisite blue, Sure to taste sweetly,---is that poison too?