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Readings on Gender

STORIES AND TESTIMONIES


Julia Alvarez I Want to Be Miss America
Bernard Cooper A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrances of a Gay Boyhood
Edwidge Danticat We Are Ugly, but We Are Here
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper
Jamaica Kincaid Girl
Noel Perrin The Androgynous Man
Grace Suh The Eye of the Beholder
Sojourner Truth A'n't I a Woman?
Elizabeth Wong The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl




LANGUAGE AND SILENCE


Gloria Anzaldúa How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Tony Earley The Quare Gene
Beverly Gross Bitch
Maxine Hong Kingston No Name Woman
Barbara Lawrence Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You
Alleen Pace Nilsen Sexism in English: Embodiment and Language
Alice Walker In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Virginia Woolf Shakespeare's Sister




BODIES AND BIOLOGY


Natalie Angier Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin
Natalie Angier One Thing They Aren't: Maternal
Margaret Atwood The Female Body
Germaine Greer One Man's Mutilation Is Another Man's Beautification
Lynne Luciano Male Body Image in America
Emily Martin The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male–Female Roles
Marge Piercy Barbie Doll
Matt Ridley Why Should Males Exist?
Phyllis Rose Tools of Torture: An Essay on Beauty and Pain
Nawal El Saadawi Circumcision of Girls
John Updike The Disposable Rocket




CONSTRUCTS AND INSTITUTIONS


Judy Brady I Want a Wife
Judith Ortiz Cofer The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
K. C. Cole Women in Science
Aaron H. Devor Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender
Laura Kipnis Against Love
Ariel Levy Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Katha Pollitt Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls
Gloria Steinem Why Young Women Are More Conservative
Sabaa Saleem Tahir A Proposal I Never Thought I'd Consider
Deborah Tannen There Is No Unmarked Woman
Paul Theroux Being a Man
Cornel West On Black Fathering
Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth




ISSUES AND CONTROVERSIES


Susan Brownmiller Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet
Lisa Schiffren Gay Marriage: An Oxymoron
Sam Schulman Gay Marriage—and Marriage
Andrew Sullivan Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage
Lindsy Van Gelder Marriage as a Restricted Club
Ellen Willis Putting Women Back into the Abortion Debate




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