Friday, September 30, 2011
Comic Strip Regarding Gender Roles
Stay at home dad
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Gender Roles Changing
Monday, September 26, 2011
Gender Roles and Women
The Third Gender Option
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/15/australian-passports-third-gender-option
Beauty In the eye of the beholder (week 6)
Runaway Groom
Sunday, September 25, 2011
From Chastity to Chaz Bono
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2011/09/chaz-bono-gender-transformation-through-years-photos
male vs female
i found this article about gender conflict as an evolutionary force, so i hope you enjoy it.
Women in Saudi Arabia are allowed to vote
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Single-Sex Education in Schools
Foot Binding in China
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8966942
Friday, September 23, 2011
Unbending Gender
I came across a very interesting book called Unbending Gender: why family and work conflict and what to do about it by Joan Williams. This book adresses the issue of how gender effects men, women, and children. Although this book discusses many different topics, it focuses mainly on feminism. It gets described that the workplace revolves around men and women get discrominated against. This book challenges assumptions on gender roles. It shows how workplaces are designed around men and the impact it has on the family system. She wants women and bed to live a healthier, more productive work life and therefore proposes a set of policies.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Anorexia Recovery
History of Eating Disorders
Monday, September 19, 2011
PETA Porn campaign
Holy anorexia
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Abortion
holy anorexia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2004/mar/04/mentalhealth.health
Cheers and Jeers
Halfbortion?
Couples Throw "Reveal Parties" to Divulge Unborn Baby's Gender
I found an article on USA today that is very inspiring. It is called Mountain 2 Mountain by James Mills. This article is about a fascinating woman, Shannon Galpin, who was tired of hearing about the gender equality problems that exist in Afghanistan so she decided to take action. She sold her house and started a non-profit organization called Mountain 2 Mountain. It provides education opportunities that “empower women to take control of their lives”. Her way of looking at it is, if boys and girls go to school, how much more likely is peace foreseeable in the future. Shannon said, “I want to see ripple effects in Afghanistan that effect the ability of women to have control over their destiny.”
(http://travel.usatoday.com/alliance/destinations/venturethere/post/2011/01/Mountain-2-Mountain/140638/@~partnerLink)
About Freud
It is pretty interesting since the video includes Freud's personality, his theory and other people's comments on him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7emS3ye3cVU
Thomas Beatie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jho1UCPDqXg
Friday, September 16, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
3 Years After His First Baby...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019579/Worlds-pregnant-man-Thomas-Beatie-unveils-muscular-body-3-babies.html
Friday, September 9, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Gender in School Social Life
Who Has the Power in School Social Life?
By SHANNON DOYNE and HOLLY EPSTEIN OJALVOIn the Motherlode blog column “After Class, Skimpy Equality,” Lisa Belkin observes that in the classroom, female students are often confident, but socially, “equality, respect and self-worth” often go out the window. Is the gender dynamic at your school or college like this?
In the column, Ms. Belkin describes the gender dynamic at Princeton and other colleges, starting with an anecdote:
At Duke University last fall, members of the Sigma Nu fraternity e-mailed 300 of their female classmates about an off-campus Halloween party. “Hey Ladies,” the invitation leered, complete with a misspelling, “Whether your dressing up as a slutty nurse, a slutty doctor, a slutty schoolgirl or just a total slut, we invite you …”
Yes, there was outrage: in the form of fliers plastered around the Duke campus reprinting the offending e-mail and asking, “Is this why you came to Duke?” And there was official indignation: The recently formed Greek Women’s Initiative will be tackling the subject of gender relations.
But a less-noted fact remains: hundreds of Duke women went to that Halloween party and many dressed as they had been asked.
As parents around the country send their children to campuses for the start of another academic year, what are we to make of the fact that lessons of equality, respect and self-worth have been heard when it comes to the classroom, but lost somewhere on the way to the clubs? Why has the pendulum swung back to a feeling that sexualization of women is fun and funny rather than insulting and uncomfortable? Why are so many women O.K. with that?
Students: Give us your take on this column. Based on your own experience, do you agree with Ms. Belkin’s observation that girls’ equality, respect and self-worth are often suspended when it comes to socializing? And why do you think this happens? Is it, as one female student put it, “just a generational difference”? Or do you agree with another young woman, who said, “I think when I grow up I will look back and think it’s unhealthy. Because it’s animalistic”?