Gender

Supplementary material



Sex, gender & constructivism
Short video: BBC History of Ideas on Feminine Beauty: a Social Construct?
Website: WHO: What Do We Mean By Sex and Gender?
Website for a workshop I ran on decoding gender in the media (what do these items tell us about gender? How are women and men portrayed?)

Feminism
Podcast: BBC Radio 4 on Feminism
Podcast: BBC Radio 4 on Mary Wollstonecraft
Website: Vice (2014) Why Can't Men Be Feminists Too? (some of discussion on this topic can get a little heated - this is an excellent nuanced article)
Archive: University of Bristol radio show: Fem FM podcasts

Anti-feminism
Website: Tumblr - Women Against Feminism
Website: Tumblr - Confused Cats Against Feminism
Website:  The Guardian (2014) Punching Gloria Steinem: Inside the Bizarre World of Anti-feminist Women
Website: Salon (2014) Ben Carson Suggests Feminists Are Partly Responsible for Ferguson 
Website: The Telegraph (2014) Dr Matt Taylor’s Shirt Made Me Cry, Too – With Rage At His Abusers
Website: Breitbart (2014) The Men Giving Up on Women and Checking Out of Society

Intersectionality
Website: The Telegraph (2014) 'Intersectional Feminism'. What the Hell Is It? (And Why You Should Care)
Website: The Guardian (2013) As a Black Feminist, I See How the Wider Movement Fails Women Like My Mother
Website: The New Statesman (2014) Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality: “I Wanted to Come Up With an Everyday Metaphor That Anyone Could Use”
Website: Everyday Feminism (2014) 7 Reasons Why Class is a Feminist Issue
Video: Laverne Cox Explains the Intersection of Transphobia, Racism, and Misogyny (And What to Do About It)

Performativity, queer theory and transgender issues
Youtube: Prof. Judith Butler on gender and performativity
Website: Judith Butler explained with cats
Youtube: Prof. Paul Fry (Yale) on queer theory and gender performativity (including discussion of power and Foucault)
Website: Huffington Post (2014) Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism: What Exactly Is It, And Why Does It Hurt?
Youtube: TED Talk, Beyond the Gender Binary: Yee Won Chong

Masculinities
Google Books: Raewyn Connell (2005) Masculinites (note the plural)
Website: Raewyn Connell's website (has a lot of good material on masculinities and other things)
Article: Barrett, F (1996) ;The Organizational Construction of Hegemonic Masculinity: The Case of the US Navy,' Gender, Work & Organization, 3 (3): 129–142.
Website: The Spectator (2014) Save the Male! Britain's Crisis of Masculinity 
Website: BBC News (2013) Diane Abbott to Warn of British 'Masculinity Crisis'
Website: The Guardian (2014) International Men's Day: What Are We Celebrating? (post by Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University, New York)
Youtube: Terry Crews: Manhood, Feminism & the Mindset that Leads to Rape   
Website: The Spectator (2014) Grayson Perry: The rise and fall of Default Man 

Videos
Trailer: Boys Don't Cry
Short film: Majorité Oprimé (Oppressed Majority) (contains some nudity - deconstruct why this seems nonsexual here)

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