Women and Gender Studies E-Library

Here you can find news clips, readings and other literature focused on Gender in society.

DISHING GENDER LUNCHES

At our first Dishing Gender lunch, we discussed pop music and rape culture – here’s an article discussing Robin Thicke’s new song “Blurred Lines”:

•        http://msmagazine.com/blog/2013/09/18/what-rapists-say-echo-the-lyrics-of-blurred-lines/

• READINGS for Trayvon Martin Discussion ( October 7th in the Writing Center Lounge, COMMON HOUR)
  • FROM JET (bell hooks on Zimmerman)
    http://jetmag.com/life/living/bell-hooks/
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    FROM EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY
    http://www.equaljusticesociety.org/2013/07/15/george-zimmerman-and-me/
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    FROM THE NATION
    http://www.thenation.com/blog/175270/domestic-violence-and-george-zimmermans-defense#axzz2Z8ShNX3L
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    FROM THE GUARDIAN
    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/12/trayvon-martin-female?CMP=twt_gu
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    FROM GAWKER
    http://gawker.com/for-black-people-and-women-very-little-ground-left-to-778248497?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook

• READINGS for Burka Avenger Discussion ( October 28th in the Writing Center Lounge, COMMON HOUR)
  •  Press Release Describing Backlash and Criticism
  • Veiled Meanings

• READINGS for Slutwalk/Slutshaming Discussion ( November 18th in the Writing Center Lounge, COMMON HOUR)
  • slutwalk/slutshaming Word Document

OTHER LINKS/INFORMATION

Call for Proposals: American Men’s Studies Association (PDF)

Girl Rising Poster (PDF)

Articles, Readings and Feminist Discourse

Some bell hooks

1. Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance
2. Killing Rage pdf
3. Understanding Patriarchy
4. Postmodern Blackness
5. Choosing the Margin As a Space of Radical Openness
6. if you would like to read more, please search for ‘we real cool’ (there’s a pdf) and ‘Where We Stand: Class Matters’ (there’s an entire pdf for that too!

Some Audre Lorde

1. Sexism in Blackface
2. The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House