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Introduction to Sociology - Online
Reading Assignments, Lecture Notes, Videos & Web Sites
Unit 8: Gender and Gender Stratification
Readings:
(1) Macionis, Society: The Basics, chapter 6 ("Sexuality and Society") & chapter 10 ("Gender Stratification")
(2) Kristi Walker, Kristen Bialik and Patrick van Kessel, "Strong Men, Caring Women: How Americans Describe What Society Values (and doesn't) in Each Gender," Pew Research Center, Social & Demographic Trends, July 24, 2018
(3) Philip Cohen, "The Banal, Insidious Sexism of Smurfette" , The Atlantic, August 9, 2013
(4) Lisa Hix, "War on Women, Waged in Postcards: Memes From the Suffragist Era,"
Collector's Weekly, November 1, 2012(5) "Americans Split Over New LGBT Protections, Restroom Policies," Gallup Poll, Politics, May 18, 2017
(6) Lisa Wade, "Gender and the Body Language of Power", Sociological Images, December 27, 2013
(7) Lisa Wade, "Sex and Love in and After College: Q & A Exchange with Sari Cooper," The Society Pages, May 3, 2017
(8) Michelle J. Cera, Jessie Ford, and Paula England, "college women: seen as a “slut” if they have sex on a hookup, “bitch” or “prude” if they don't," Contexts, August 7, 2017
(9) George W. Crane, "Marital Rating Scale - Husband's Chart"
(10) George W. Crane, "Marital Rating Scale - Wife's Chart"
Web Interactive:
How do your views on gender compare with those of other Americans?, Pew Research Center Fact Tankn December 5, 2017
View this documentary:
The Makers: Women Who Make America, Part 1, Awakenings (57 minutes)
View these brief videos:
Jimmy Carter, “Why I Believe the Mistreatment of Women is the Number One Human Rights Abuse,” TedTalk, May, 2015
Alice Stokes Paul: The Women's Suffrage Movement
Dustin Hoffman: The Making of the Movie Tootsie
Sheryl Sandberg (chief operating officer of Facebook): Why we have too few women leaders
Jackson Katz, Tough Guise
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