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    Culture

  1. "The Merchants of Cool" ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/ ) - Lots to see at this PBS website accompanying its Frontline program that first aired in 2001. It is a "report on the creators and marketers of popular culture for teenagers."

    2. Gender Roles/Differences

  2. Affirmative Action ( http://www.siop.org/AfirmAct/siopsaartoc.html ) - lengthy online report, Affirmative Action: A Review of Psychological and Behavioral Research, "prepared by a subcommittee of the Scientific Affairs Committee of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, October, 1996."
  3. GenderNet ( http://www.worldbank.org/gender/ ) - From The World Bank Group, this site "seeks to reduce gender disparities and enhance women's participation in economic development through its programs and projects. It summarizes knowledge and experience, provides gender statistics, and facilitates discussion on gender and development."
  4. Women in the Military ( http://www.kuow.org/full_program_story.asp?NewsPage_Action=Find('ID','4029') & NewsPage_Position=FIL:ORD%AABS:1KEY:4029PAR :) - text and audio from a conversation about women in combat - other relevant links are also included - from National Public Radio
  5. Women in military service for America ( http://www.womensmemorial.org/History.html ) - links to a variety of resources
  6. Tailhook '91 ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/navy/tailhook/ ) - PBS Frontline show on the Navy Tailhook Convention where "83 women and 7 men were assaulted during the three-day aviators' convention, according to a report by the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (DOD)."
  7. Title IX report (2003) ( http://www.ed.gov/pubs/titleixat30/title9_report.pdf ) - "'Open to All': Title IX at Thirty" is a report from the Secretary of Education's Commission on Opportunity in Athletics.
  8. "Title IX at 30: Report Card on Gender Equity" ( http://www.ncwge.org/title9at30-6-11.pdf ) - (June, 2002) - in PDF - "Title IX at 30: Report Card on Gender Equity is a follow-up to the 1997 NCWGE publication, Title IX at 25: Report Card on Gender Equity. This new report reassesses the law five years later and examines the state of gender equity in education in ten key areas: access to higher education, athletics, career education, employment, learning environment, math and science, sexual harassment, standardized testing, technology, and treatment of pregnant and parenting students."
  9. Changing a boy to a girl ( http://www.infocirc.org/rollston.htm ) - fascinating and famous case of John/Joan whose penis was accidentally removed during a circumcision when he was eight years old - an article (1997) from The Rolling Stones
  10. Gender in the media ( http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/GenderMedia/ ) - links to lots of articles on gender roles and gender portrayal in the media - from the U. of Iowa Dept. of Communication Studies

    11. Body Image

  11. About-Face.org ( http://about-face.org/ ) - "a San Francisco-based group, About-Face combats negative and distorted images of women" - site contains hundreds of images of women, negatively and positively portrayed, with commentary. Also a few research articles and "lots o' links" to body image and other topics
  12. "Idealized women in TV ads make girls feel bad" ( http://www.in.gov/icw/articles/article_8.html ) - media report of recent research (Journal of Clinical and Social Psychology, 2002) that has garnered a lot of media attention
  13. "Dying to be Thin" ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/thin/ ) - PBS often has excellent companion websites for its programs, and this one for a Nova episode is no exception. Along with hearing from experts, reading personal stories and finding links to other resources, you and your students can watch the entire television program online! ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/thin/program.html ) (with QuickTime or RealPlayer plug-in)
  14. Eating Disorders in Fiji ( http://www.hms.harvard.edu/news/releases/599bodyimage.html ) - "After Three Years of Western Programming, Five Times as Many Teenage Girls Report Vomiting to Control Weight"

    15. Other Species

  15. "Monkeys reject unequal pay" ( http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~sbrosna/Manuscripts/BrosnanUnequalPay.pdf ) - This is an interesting study of macaque monkey sense of fairness and aversion to inequity recently (2003) published in Nature .
  16. "Rebranding the Hyena" ( http://www.sciencenews.org/20020427/bob10.asp ) - fascinating article on the social world of the hyena - The spotted hyena is one of the few mammals in which the female is the dominant sex. Also interesting is the research on the "immigrant male" who has left his original clan to attempt to join a new clan. Entering the clan at the bottom of the hierarchy, the immigrant males are even forced to adopt a submissive posture to tiny cubs. And, yet, DNA paternity testing found that "an astonishing 97 percent of cubs are fathered by immigrant males, even though they are outranked by the younger native males."

    17. Influence of genes on social behavior of macaque monkeys http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/106567366/ABSTRACT http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/03/031204.primates.shtml Very interesting article of "nature over nurture" in which "young monkeys reared by a mother other than their own are more likely to exhibit the aggressive or friendly behavior of their birth mothers rather than the behavior of their foster mothers, a University of Chicago researcher has shown for the first time." The first link is to an abstract of the article; the second link is to a press release about it.






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