| Ch. 8 Gender | ||
| Stephen J. Gould, Women’s Brains | ||
| • | [text] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jan/12/gender.uk | |
| Elaine Morgan on her feminist work in the 60s and 70s, and where the movement has gotten women today. | ||
| Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women | ||
| • | [text] http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/thackeray/angel.html | |
| Background information on Coventry Patmore’s “The Angel in the House,” along with a short excerpt. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.moxiemag.com/moxie/articles/perspectives/angelhouse.html | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [text] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/opinion/24lepore.html | |
| New York Times opinion piece about Benjamin Franklin’s sister and the gender inequalities that made her life miserable. | ||
| John and Abigail Adams, Letters | ||
| • | [text & videos] http://blogs.forbes.com/shenegotiates/2011/07/03/women-of-the-american-revolution-exercised-consumer-power/ | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [text] http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0D1FFD385F0C728DDDA10894DF404482 | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [video] http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2009/07/23/bia.henry.gates.cnn?iref=videosearch | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxw0QUZtDcM | |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer responds to the question of why she became a writer. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.uhu.es/antonia.dominguez/latinas/coferinterview4.pdf | |
| 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. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.uhu.es/antonia.dominguez/latinas/coferinterview5.pdf | |
| 1997 Interview of Judith Ortiz Cofer by Stephanie Gordon. Ortiz Cofer discusses her writing and heritage. | ||
| Deborah Tannen, There Is No Unmarked Woman | ||
| • | [video] http://www.cc.com/video-clips/zlpayq/the-colbert-report-deborah-tannen | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [audio & text] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12633456 | |
| NPR talks with Deborah Tannen, Amy Dickenson, and listeners about the results of Mehl’s study. | ||
| Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll | ||
| • | [text] http://www.kennesaw.edu/themagazine/Vincent2.htm | |
| An essay about the influence and implications of Marge Piercy’s poem. | ||
| • | [text] http://musingsfromtheglobe.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/response-to-marge-piercys-barbie-doll/ | |
| 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) | ||
| • | [text] http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/chancellor-seguier-entry-louis-xiv-paris-1660 | |
| Description and background information about Le Brun’s painting, provided by the Louvre. | ||
| Kehinde Wiley, The Chancellor Séguier on Horseback | ||
| • | [text] http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/recognize/paintings.html | |
| The National Portrait Gallery’s page on "RECOGNIZE!", and exhibit of Kehinde Wiley's work. | ||
| Leonard McCombe, Marlboro Man (photo) | ||
| • | [text] http://reelfoto.blogspot.com/2011/04/leonard-mccombe-and-marlboro-man.html | |
| Blog post providing a brief history of the Marlboro Man ad campaign. | ||
| Paul Theroux, Being a Man | ||
| • | [text] http://www.tarleton.edu/Faculty/sword/Short%20Story/The%20Short%20Happy%20Life%20of%20Francis%20Macomber.pdf | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [text] http://gretel-ehrlich.com/bio.html | |
| Author’s personal website. Contains records of her publications and current projects as well as her history. | ||
| Rebecca Walker, Putting Down the Gun | ||
| • | [text] http://www.rebeccawalker.com/work/what-makes-a-man | |
| The New York Times interviews Rebecca Walker about her book, What Makes a Man. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.rebeccawalker.com/v1/article_2004_Mom_I_need_to_play_sports.htm | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [text] http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/28/boys-closing-reading-gap-girls | |
| Article speculating that the gender divide in reading ability might actually be closing, according to recent evidence. | ||
| David Brooks, Mind Over Muscle | ||
| • | [audio] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4492617 | |
| Laura Bush talks about the efforts being made in schools to make the education system more effective for boys. | ||