Govt. 166 Women and Politics in Contemporary America

Sorry - 166 has been cancelled for Fall 2006 - look for it in the spring!

Syllabus

A new website called women's media has some great resources - it's dynamic and pretty cool.

There's also a new women's radio network, called greenstone. Listen here.

A great podcast with Gloria Steinhem and Jane Fonda discussing feminism today on NPR's Forum. Scroll to Nov. 23, 2006.

Here is a great example of media reporting that is biased against women. The story is about Katie Couric's ambition to host the nightly news. The reporter makes amazingly blatant sexist assumptions apparently without realizing it, or at least without shame about it.

Here is the article about Phyllis Schlafly that we discussed

 

Final study guide ( this is from 2004)

Project #1 Assignment sheet

Here is a good resource for documents for project #1

Project #2 Assignment Sheet

Project #3 Interview Assignment Sheet

Articles on Women and Politics:

Articles on Women in Afghanistan and Iraq here

Web Sources for news and opinion with some women and politics sites as well

A website devoted to women's leadership in politics here.

Do female voters get annoyed when candidates won't admit mistakes? Article here

U.S. not signing international agreement on women, article here

New report on the status of women in the states here

Struggles of men in traditional women's roles here.

Women as soldiers in the U.S. Army face special issues here.

Do men prefer to marry women with lower status than themselves? Maureen Dowd asserts just that here.

Larry Summers of Harvard started a firestorm when he said that women are under-represented in the sciences because of an inherent genetic inferiority. Here's an article about the actual research on that topic.

 

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