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Resources. Psychology of Gender.
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From time to time, Dr. Weir provides links to diverse gender-themed articles and videos that might be particularly useful or interesting. Many of these articles and videos were used to provide diverse perspectives in the teaching of a Psychology of Gender course.
Articles
Out of desperation, North Korean women become breadwinners
When there’s a baby between you and the glass ceiling
What is means to be gendered me. Betsy Lucal
http://www.old.li.suu.edu/library/circulation/Gurung/soc2370sgWhatItMeansToBeGenderedMeFall11.pdf
Why women still can’t have it all. Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020/
Why women shouldn’t want to have it all. Keli Goff.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keli-goff/anne-marie-slaughter_b_1623956.html
The Story of X. Louis Gould.
http://www3.delta.edu/cmurbano/bio199/AIDS_Sexuality/BabyX.pdf
Can surgery for intersex babies be justified? Latesha Switzer
http://www.york.cuny.edu/scholar/volume-2-1/l_switzer.pdf
What is the agenda of the intersex patient advocacy movement?
http://www.isna.org/pdf/gubbio.pdf
The Story
Resisting medicine, re/modeling gender. Dean Spade
http://visuality.org/feministtheories/spade_resisting.pdf
What’s so bad about a boy who wants to wear a dress? Ruth Padawer, The New York Times.
Saudi Arabia's unsolicited monitoring of women's travels draws activists' outrage. Mohammed Jamjoom.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/25/world/meast/saudi-arabia-women/index.html?hpt=hp_t4
Progress of the world’s women 2011-2012: In pursuit of justice. United Nations.
http://progress.unwomen.org/pdfs/EN-Report-Progress.pdf
Videos
Highly Sensitive Boys and Men - An Interview with Ted Ziff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn6pTpJytgU
Women who make America: PBS documentary
Lana Wachowski: HRC Visibility Award Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crHHycz7T_c
black./womyn. Leah on gender/race/sexuality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCWODR_bnCs
black./womyn. KIN on...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y4AvmR2txw
black./womyn. stacyann on...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnSVZlZomIM
black./womyn. helen on...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyMkrm-pVaU
I am a man: Black masculinity in America
http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=227
Tough Guise. Violence, Media, and the Crisis of Masculinity.
http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=212
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3exzMPT4nGI
Inside Pregnancy: Girl or Boy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuWoXFIcgCg
Women with male DNA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETIxoQGVjos
Gender development and early childhood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5LLvax4UuU
Gender roles - interviews with kids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VqsbvG40Ww
Intersex. Part 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ITuuxmlfqs
Intersex Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQESPaEj8dk
XXXY
http://www.isna.org/files/xxxy.mov
Intersexuality: redefining sex, Part 1 of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCo-zD9Bt7U
Intersex 20/20 Part 1 of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv1yk2Va9qc
Intersex 20/20 Part 2 of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHbBTEeayEU
Tony Porter, TED Talk, What does it mean to “be a man”
http://www.visualnews.com/2010/12/29/ted-talks-what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-man/
Sexism, Strength, and Dominance: Masculinity in Disney Films.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CWMCt35oFY
The Secret Life of Boys, 20/20. 24 min.
http://digital.films.com/play/D3QJRP
Misrepresentation trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5pM1fW6hNs&feature=related
You can’t be a princess
Please note that these resources listed above are provided for informational purposes only.
This agency is not responsible for the claims, content, or representations in these websites.
