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Links and Resources for Images of Women
For Further Reading (or listening): Reproductive Politics Around the World: NPR interview from the program Fresh Air, with the author of a new book on how America's reproductive policies and cultural attitudes are affecting politics and women's health globally. The book is The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World by Michelle Goldberg.
Sperm: The NPR program Radiolab tackles the scientific nature of sperm; what the hosts of the show find out is fascinating (and often hilarious).
Why Women Stay: a professor's blog post about the psychological reasons women stay in abusive relationships.
The porn controversy at the University of Maryland has sparked the Media Education Foundation (the organization that produced Tough Guise) to offer its documentary about the porn industry for free to college campuses. Read the press release about this decision here. News coverage of the porn screening abounds; a simple Google search will turn up many, many articles if you're interested.
The Real Story of Unplanned Pregnancy: Self Magazine ran a story last month on unintended pregnancy for women in their 20s.
Columbine Revisited: A USA Today piece claiming to revise some of the myths of Columbine. It's a great example of the kind of coverage Jackson Katz talked about in Tough Guise: even 10 years later, gender is not mentioned once.
The Reveille Does Gender: Check out this column and the responses to it for one writer's take on women's roles; here's another piece that suggests Playboy as a useful ambition for young women (interestingly, that had no comments at the time of this posting); and, finally, one writer calls Twilight "girl porn," eliciting both ire and praise from readers in the comments.
"White Privilege and Male Privilege" by Peggy McIntosh: I'll mention this article in class at some point; McIntosh lists and then elaborates on privileges afforded to her because of her skin color.
"Surprise! Dove's 'Campaign for Read Beauty" ads actually kind of fake": A Business Week post that links to the New Yorker profile where the re-toucher admitted his work on the pictures.
"When Tush Comes to Dove": Slate's Seth Stevenson's take on the campaign when it first launched in 2005.
"Employees: 'Hierarchy of Hotness' Rules at Abercrombie & Fitch": About a ranking system of hiring and employee management.
"The Incredible Shrinking Model": An article about working conditions for models in the fashion industry.
"For Girls, It's Be Yourself, and Be Perfect, Too": A New York Times piece on the societal pressures on girls, particularly in education.
Texts You Might Find Interesting: PETA's banned Super Bowl ad: You'll have to have a YouTube account to view this ad and indicate that you're over 18 (which should tell you something about how offensive it is). (Thanks for pointing this out, Nicky!)
Ellen's Cover Girl commercial: Is she making fun of the industry she's advertising for? Does the parody work, or does it make you want to go buy some make-up? (Thanks to Beth for sending this along)
Around the Web: Harvard's Project Implicit: Tests created to tap into what implicit associations you have in your schema. (Thanks, Meghan)
Possible Project Resources: Excerpts from interviews with WWII-era women, from a documentary called The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter. Apologies for the poor quality of the scan -- if you'd like to borrow the book I scanned from, shoot me an email.
Research: Other than books, our library has a pretty good collection of journals and magazines bound on the shelves; many of the collections reach back to the publications' earliest dates. As long as they also appear in print, journal and magazine articles accessed online also count as print sources. The Indexes and Databases section of the library's website is organized by topic: the History and Women's Studies headings might be good leads.
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Do you know of something I should add? Email me and let me know!
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