WGS Final Review - Readings

Hard Won and Easily Lost (Vandello & Bosson)

manhood is very precarious and threatened men will do just about anything to regain it back in the eyes of their peers

Manning Up (Cheryan)

• men whose masculine identity was threatened attempted to restore it by renouncing stereotypically feminine preferences and exaggerating other aspects of their masculinity.

• Individuals are not passive recipients of identity threats but, rather, are active participants who engage in creative strategies to preserve and restore their questioned identities
  

The Triad of Violence in Men’s Sports (Messner)

boys and men learn to bond with each other through sexually aggressive, erotically exciting talk that forges an aggressive, even violent, hierarchical ordering of bodies, both within the male peer group and between groups.

Ways of Seeing (Berger)

A woman must constantly watch herself no matter what she does to succeed in life, and the spectator is always a man

Objectification Theory (Fredrickson, Roberts)

Women’s bodies are looked at, evaluated, and always potentially objectified either by themselves or others and leads to mental health risks

women are just better at this stuff (rose hackman, 2015)

in jobs, women are expected to take care of everyone emotionally. It’s expected but invisible

policies to end the gender wage gap in the united states (Marlene Kim, 2013)

we must empower individuals in minorities and tackle systemic issues to end the gender wage gap

Dig Deep (Bell Hooks)

Lean in does not truly address any feminist issues and is very grounded in Sandberg’s own privilege and faux feminism

A brief history of working women (Hesse-Biber)

working culture with gender has changed a lot as it became less stay-at-home as the years went on, but women of color still faced lots of discrimination

Lean In (Sandberg)

Women should “lean in” to their ambitions—take risks, assert leadership, and claim their place at the table—while society and workplaces must evolve to truly support gender equality.

Sexual Assault on Campus (Armstrong, Hamilton, Sweeney)

Universities create an environment where sexual assault is more likely to occur through the use of frat parties and alcohol and the scripted interactions that go along with it.

Mapping the margins (Crenshaw)

Crenshaw argues that violence against women of color cannot be understood or addressed unless we account for how race, gender, and other identities intersect to produce unique forms of vulnerability and marginalization. And that sexual assault is a part of young girls’ lives and woven into our daily fabrics

Normalizing sexual violence (Hlavka)

sexual violence has become very normalized and has become woven into young girls’ everyday lives to the point that they don’t even realize that it’s an issue.

Marriage and Love (Goldman, 1910)

the institution of marriage makes a parasite of woman and makes her dependent on her husband to the point of being incapacitated from the outside world.

Forget Hallmark (Gumbs, 2016)

Society has scrutinized black mothers, historically until now. But black mothers are the strongest women of all and are survivors of the injustice placed against them.

The mother of all questions (Solnit, 2015)

the expectation that women's lives should be defined by motherhood is a form of patriarchal silencing that limits their individuality and worth

The Master’s Tools will never dismantle the master’s house (Lorde, 1984)

academic feminists must learn to embrace differences as necessary for liberation and social change

transform the world: what you can do with a degree in women’s studies (Stewart, 2020)

you can use a degree in women’s studies to transform minds enough enough so that the question is never asked again.

A killjoy survival kit (Ahmed)

feminists must learn to rely on each other and use a killjoy survival kit as a survival strategy in a world that is actively working against the people that don’t have privilege. This could be done through community, care, and persistence to create moments that turn into movements.