9 - The Politicization of Gender

How and when did gender become such a heightened political issue? And what are the psychological implications for individuals and the collective? The origins of feminism, the LBG liberation movement, and the emerging transgender movement are explored within a psychological and cultural framework

Links:

Books 

Beauvoir, Simone de (2009) [1949]. The Second Sex. Trans. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Random House. Simone de Beauvoir wrote that "the first time we see a woman take up her pen in defense of her sex" was Christine de Pizan in Epitre au Dieu d'Amour (Epistle to the God of Love) in the 15th century.  

 

Friedan, Betty (1963). The Feminine Mystique. W.W.Norton & Company. 

 

French, Marilyn (1977) The Women’s Room. Simon & Schuster 

 

Stryker, Susan (2009-01-07). Transgender History. Da Capo Press  

 

Bailey, Michael (2003). The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender Bending and Transsexualism. Joseph Henry Press 

 

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental 

 disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press. 

Articles 

 

10 reasons american politics are so divided:  

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/07/the-top-10-reasons-american-politics-are-worse-than-ever/ 

 

Conversion therapy bans:  

https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/conversion_therapy 

 

Tumblr: A Call Out Post:  

https://4thwavenow.com/2019/03/20/tumblr-a-call-out-post/ 

 

The Controversy Surrounding the Man Who Would Be Queen (Michael Bailey’s book): 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170124/ 

 

Film  

Suffragette (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFoQt5vsgnQ 

 

Media 

Julie Bindel, 2004 article in the Guardian:  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jan/31/gender.weekend7  

 

Kimberly Nixon and the Vancouver Rape Relief Centre: Rupp, Shannon (February 3, 2007). "Transsexual Loses Fight with Women's Shelter". The Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/News/2007/02/03/Nixon/  

 

Michigan Womyn's Music Festival:  https://www.facebook.com/michfest/posts/10153186431364831 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/02/lesbian-nation  

 

Ken Zucker: 

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