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1. Harmony at Home: The Myth of the Model Family

2. Learning Power: The Myth of Education and Empowerment

3. Money and Success: The Myth of Individual Opportunity

4. True Women and Real Men: Myths of Gender

5. Created Equal: The Myth of the Melting Pot

6. Liberty and Justice for All: The Myth of Freedom



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4. True Women and Real Men: Myths of Gender

DAGOBERTO GILB
Me Macho, You Jane

The Real Guy Quiz
http://www.spd.louisville.edu/~rjmill01/fm/txt/fm22445.html

Are you a "real guy"? Take humorist Dave Barry's quiz and find out!



MARIAH BURTON NELSON
Boys Will Be Boys and Girls Will Not

Empowering Women in Sports
http://www.feminist.org/research/sports2.html

Read about how as athletes girls and women have yet to find parity with boys and men -- despite a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded education. Topics covered include "Women Still on the Sidelines," "Barriers to Women in Athletics Careers," "If You Have a Title IX Complaint" (what to do if you think your educational institution is not treating girls and women equally to boys and men), "A 'Partnership' Model of Sports," "List of Resources," and others.



CHRISTINA HOFF SOMERS
The Gender Wardens

The Independant Women's Forum
http://www.iwf.org

Christina Hoff Sommers says that "The IWF stands for fairness and equality between the sexes, without painting women as victims and men as brutes."



CARMEN VÁZQUEZ
Appearances

The Community United Against Violence Home Page
http://www.xq.com/cuav/otheravp.htm

Do you need information on dealing with homophobia or hate crimes? This site lists organizations in various states that assist lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in dealing with homophobia.



GLORIA NAYLOR
The Two

Lesbian.org
http://www.lesbian.org

This site is dedicated to promoting lesbian visibility on the Internet and to providing resources and information for cyberdykes everywhere. This site includes the largest collection of annotated, lesbian-specific links on the Internet, as well as a variety of resources to help lesbians find each other, find out more about themselves, and find ways to promote lesbian visibility and rights in the culture at large.


The Queer Resource Directory
http://www.qrd.org/qrd/

This page contains hundreds of links to pages for information on everything from AIDS to gay and lesbian youths.



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