Ch.
8 Gender |
Stephen
J. Gould, Women’s Brains |
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[text] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jan/12/gender.uk |
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Elaine Morgan on her
feminist work in the 60s and 70s, and where the movement has gotten women
today. |
Virginia
Woolf, Professions for Women |
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[text] http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/thackeray/angel.html |
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Background information on Coventry Patmore’s
“The Angel in the House,” along with a short excerpt. |
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[text] http://www.moxiemag.com/moxie/articles/perspectives/angelhouse.html |
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An essay by Barbara Wahl Ledingham outlining Virginia Woolf’s personal
issues with the notion of femininity expressed in “The Angel in the
House.” |
Ben
Franklin, The Speech of Miss Polly Baker |
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[text] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/opinion/24lepore.html |
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New York Times opinion piece about Benjamin Franklin’s sister and the gender
inequalities that made her life miserable. |
John and
Abigail Adams, Letters |
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[text &
videos] http://blogs.forbes.com/shenegotiates/2011/07/03/women-of-the-american-revolution-exercised-consumer-power/ |
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A brief overview of women’s contributions to the American revolution,
followed by two videos about the subject. One dramatizes Abigail Adams’s
influence on her husband. In the other, we hear from a historian about
women in the revolutionary efforts. |
Judy
Brady, I Want a Wife |
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[text] http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0D1FFD385F0C728DDDA10894DF404482 |
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New York Times article about competition
between genders in the workplace and the influence of spousal support. |
Brent
Staples, Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public
Space |
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[video] http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2009/07/23/bia.henry.gates.cnn?iref=videosearch |
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CNN talks with professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. about the circumstances of
racism surrounding his arrest. |
Judith
Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman:
I Just Met a Girl Named Maria |
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[video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxw0QUZtDcM |
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Judith
Ortiz Cofer responds to the question of why she became a writer. |
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[text] http://www.uhu.es/antonia.dominguez/latinas/coferinterview4.pdf |
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1990
Interview of Judith Ortiz Cofer by Rafael Ocasio. Ortiz Cofer explores her
bicultural self and comments on her work as a Latina writer in the United
States. |
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[text] http://www.uhu.es/antonia.dominguez/latinas/coferinterview5.pdf |
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1997
Interview of Judith Ortiz Cofer by Stephanie Gordon. Ortiz Cofer discusses her
writing and heritage. |
Deborah
Tannen, There Is No Unmarked Woman |
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[video] http://www.cc.com/video-clips/zlpayq/the-colbert-report-deborah-tannen |
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Stephen Colbert invites Deborah Tannen onto his show to speak about her book, and about the challenge
Hillary Clinton faces of always being “marked.” |
Matthias
R. Mehl et al., Are Women Really More
Talkative Than Men |
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[audio & text] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12633456 |
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NPR talks with Deborah Tannen, Amy Dickenson, and listeners about the
results of Mehl’s study. |
Marge
Piercy, Barbie Doll |
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[text] http://www.kennesaw.edu/themagazine/Vincent2.htm |
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An
essay about the influence and implications of Marge Piercy’s poem. |
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[text] http://musingsfromtheglobe.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/response-to-marge-piercys-barbie-doll/ |
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A
number of short blog posts in which students were made to take on different
roles and respond accordingly to Piercy’s poem. |
Charles
Le Brun, Chancellor Séguier at the Entry
of Luis XIV into Paris in 1660 (painting) |
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[text] http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/chancellor-seguier-entry-louis-xiv-paris-1660 |
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Description
and background information about Le Brun’s painting, provided by the Louvre. |
Kehinde
Wiley, The Chancellor Séguier on
Horseback |
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[text] http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/recognize/paintings.html |
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The National Portrait Gallery’s page on "RECOGNIZE!", and exhibit of Kehinde Wiley's work. |
Leonard
McCombe, Marlboro Man (photo) |
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[text] http://reelfoto.blogspot.com/2011/04/leonard-mccombe-and-marlboro-man.html |
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Blog
post providing a brief history of the Marlboro Man ad campaign. |
Paul
Theroux, Being a Man |
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[text] http://www.tarleton.edu/Faculty/sword/Short%20Story/The%20Short%20Happy%20Life%20of%20Francis%20Macomber.pdf |
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Ernest
Hemingway’s “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” Hemingway writes about
lion hunting in a way that Theroux argues creates a detrimental image of
masculinity. |
Gretel
Ehrlich, About Men |
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[text] http://gretel-ehrlich.com/bio.html |
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Author’s
personal website. Contains records of her publications and current projects as
well as her history. |
Rebecca
Walker, Putting Down the Gun |
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[text] http://www.rebeccawalker.com/work/what-makes-a-man |
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The New York Times interviews
Rebecca Walker about her book, What
Makes a Man. |
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[text] http://www.rebeccawalker.com/v1/article_2004_Mom_I_need_to_play_sports.htm |
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Excerpt
for What Makes a Man in which Rebecca
Walker reflects upon the pressure that society imposes on boys who aren’t
“masculine” enough. |
Mark
Bauerlein and Sandra Stotsky, Why Johnny
Won’t Read |
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[text] http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/28/boys-closing-reading-gap-girls |
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Article
speculating that the gender divide in reading ability might actually be
closing, according to recent evidence. |
David
Brooks, Mind Over Muscle |
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[audio] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4492617 |
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Laura Bush talks about the efforts being made in schools to make the education
system more effective for boys. |