I'm teaching a great course to high school seniors (17 and 18 year olds) called "Women in Literature". What essays, poems, short stories should I definitely do? Video/lecture clips are good too. I want to blow their minds with awesomeness.

Hey cool people, I'm sorry if this isn't the right place, but I was hoping for some advice.

I need to compare two 200 word extracts from two alternating speeches about a social injustice, then discuss transitivity from the two of them. I wanted to focus on victim blaming, and the culture of rape apology that we endure. That said, I'm unfortunately ignorant on good Feminist activist or politician speeches, and don't really know where to find an interesting (from a transitivity analysis perspective) speech which encourages or reinforces victim blaming culture.

I was hoping to talk about Todd Akin's 'Legitimate rape' comments for one, but it isn't really long enough.

Thank you for your help, and I'm sorry if I'm asking too much. If someone could point me in a direction to start looking for relevant speeches, I would happily do so!

I'm an undergrad and I was invited to be the token student on a faculty panel discussing a showing of the documentary Tough Guise. What are some resources for feminist perspectives on masculinity that aren't written by MRAs, etc.?

I discovered Carol Gilligan's book via this podcast and was impressed. It is a feminist best-sellers that sparked many discussions and changed things !

Book Summary:

This is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day, in the academic world and beyond. Translated into sixteen languages, with more than 700,000 copies sold around the world, In a Different Voice has inspired new research, new educational initiatives, and political debate—and helped many women and men to see themselves and each other in a different light.

Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women—their motives, their moral commitments, the course of their psychological growth, and their special view of what is important in life. Here she sets out to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus its view of female personality. The result is truly a tour de force, which may well reshape much of what psychology now has to say about female experience.

Preface:

You can read the preface, here ! She talks about her book twenty years after its publication and provides great insights. I was personally impressed about its accuracy (as far as I can relate).

Excerpts:

For those who don't want to read the whole thing.

She speaks about her own voice and the discussion around her book:

In listening to people's responses to In a Different Voice, I often hear the two-step process which I went through over and over again in the course of my writing: the process of listening to women and hearing something new, a different way of speaking, and then hearing how quickly this difference gets assimilated into old categories of thinking so that it loses its novelty and its message: is it nature or nurture? are women better than men, or worse? When I hear my work being cast in terms of whether women and men are really (essentially) different or who is better than whom, I know that I have lost my voice, because these are not my questions. Instead, my questions are about our perceptions of reality and truth: how we know, how we hear, how we see, how we speak. My questions are about voice and relationship. And, my questions are about psychological processes and theory, particularly theories in which men's experience stands for all of human experience-theories which eclipse the lives of women" and shut out women's voices. I saw that by maintaining these ways of seeing and speaking about human lives, men were leaving out women, but women were leaving out themselves. In terms of psychological processes, what for men was a process of separation, for women was a process of dissociation that required the creation of an inner division or psychic split.

She speaks about women's choices and how it happens.

Many women became aware of the strength of an internal voice which was interfering with their ability to speak. That internal or internalized voice told a woman that it would be "selfish" to bring her voice into relationships, that perhaps she did not know what she really wanted, or that her experience was not a reliable guide in thinking about what to do. Women of ten sensed that it was dangerous to say or even to know what they wanted or thought-upsetting to others and therefore carrying with it the threat of abandonment or retaliation. In the relational context of my research, where conversations with women were protected by confidentiality agreements, and where the usual structure of authority was reversed in that I had come to learn from them, many women in fact did know what they wanted to do and also what they thought would be the best thing to do in what of ten were painful and difficult situations. But many women feared that others would condemn or hurt them if they spoke, that others would not listen or understand, that speaking would only lead to further confusion, that it was better to appear "selfless," to give up their voices and keep the peace.

About her interviews:

If it is good to be responsive to people, to act in connection with others and to be careful rather than careless about people's feelings and thoughts, empathic and attentive to their lives, then why is it "selfish" to respond to yourself, I would ask women, counterposing the logic of my question against the force of their self-condemnation, the readiness of their self-abnegation and self-betrayal. "Good question," many women replied.

And about girls' voice:

This psychological seclusion of girls from the public world at the time of adolescence sets the stage for a kind of privatization of women's experience and impedes the development of women's political voice and presence in the public world. The dissociation of girls' voices from girls' experiences in adolescence, so that girls are not saying what they know and eventually not knowing it as well, is a prefiguring of many women's sense of having the rug of experience pulled out from under them, or of coming to experience their feelings and thoughts not as real but as a fabrication.

But honestly read the whole thing. It isn't so long and it's pretty amazing ! Then you can go on Amazon and get the book if you want :)

Good evening (or morning, day, or night), all! I have never posted to this sub before though I do read it regularly. I need the help of the fempire!

I'm writing my final thesis-lite (30-50 pages) on the title of this post. In particular I'm looking at distributive and procedural justice and applying the framework to a case study of a project in Liberia (for which I have access to data and other information via my internship).

Tonight everyone in my cohort met as a class and we broke out into groups to look at our short summaries of what we aim to look at. After discussion and a few hours of revision I have arrived at a point where I'm more comfortable but not wholly satisfied. I basically want to develop a "map" of where to take it from here including what sort of sources I will need.

Now, I'm not sure if it's allowed to post original academic writing here? If it is, I can edit this message (it is five paragraphs). But if it is not allowed, may I enlist the help of a couple SRSters to take a quick look at it? I need to be more confident in my approach before I procede.

Thank you in advance!

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Commenters link to some different sources discussing the perpetuation of harmful stereotypes/tropes.

I'm looking for some academic sources of positive masculinity, or how to use stereotypical masculine traits for good (basically in the prevention of sexual assault/domestic violence?).

I have access to a number of databases but I can't seem to find anything positive. :-/

I want to do more reading on the cultural theory side of disability studies, but not having much luck finding anything. Any journals I should be looking for? Or authors? Anything would be most appreciated!

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I'm starting to collect sources for my Giant Final Paper of Doom. I'm planning on writing on Eating Disorders and the gendered cultural reasons for their rise. (FTR I have EDNOS).

I want to talk about how culture influences the rate of eating disorders, why it's becoming more prevalent and also why we're seeing a rise of men with EDs (or could the argument be made that we're just more aware of them?). Why EDs as opposed to other coping mechanisms, and also why do so many women and girls develop such dangerous methods of control.

thanks in advance <3