Introduction to Women’s Studies (WS 200) at The University of Alabama Textbook via

McGraw-Hill Connect (As of Fall 2022)

Module One Texts: Introduction to Women’s Studies

http://net-workingworlds.weebly.com/uploads/1/5/1/5/15155460/rich-claiming_an_education-1.p
df
https://www.newsweek.com/still-needing-f-word-138627
https://www.al.com/news/2020/01/women-have-to-be-strong-in-alabama.html
https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_we_should_all_be_feminists?language=
en
https://www.ted.com/talks/roxane_gay_confessions_of_a_bad_feminist

Module Two Texts: Herstory Lessons

https://www.history.com/topics/womens-rights/seneca-falls-convention
https://now.org/about/history/statement-of-purpose/
https://login.libdata.lib.ua.edu/login?qurl=https://www.jstor.org%2fstable%2f25792966
http://www.tonahangen.com/wsc/hi215/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/RW3rdWave-2.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry_i8w2rdQY
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history

Module Three Texts: Feminisim(s)

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/533b171fe4b0c551757d9ba3/t/5378fc7ae4b07d0c6bf661
af/1400437882246/2000_daywithout-feminism.pdf
https://feminismduh.tumblr.com/post/12777380986/third-wave-manifesta-a-thirteen-point-agend
a
Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner at Rollins College
https://danawilliams2.tripod.com/aaarg/hooks.pdf
https://www.ted.com/talks/courtney_e_martin_this_isn_t_her_mother_s_feminism?language=en
Kimberlé Crenshaw Discusses 'Intersectional Feminism'
https://www.kanopy.com/ua/product/3165530?frontend=kui

Module Four Texts: Social Construction of Gender

http://sociology.morrisville.edu/readings/SOCI101/SOS28-Lorber-NightToHisDay.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7o2LYATDc
https://www.sweetstudy.com/files/wilchins-4introessaysgenderqueer-pdf
https://www.angelfire.com/fl/automaticpansy/asgirl.html
https://macmedplacebo.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/girl-jamaica-kincaid.pdf

Module Five Texts: Systems of Inequality

https://www.filosoficas.unam.mx/docs/327/files/Marilyn%20Frye,%20Oppression.pdf
https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsac
k
http://www.oberlinlibstaff.com/acceleratedmotion/primary_sources/texts/bodiesandmachines/oth
er_body.pdf
https://moodle.fhs.cuni.cz/pluginfile.php/19118/mod_resource/content/0/Wendell_Social_constru
ction.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5_qjn-R5V4&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5MtVM_zFs
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/28/books/review/breathe-imani-perry.html
https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2017-05-09/black-girls-are-twice-as-likel
y-to-be-suspended-in-every-state
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/explaining-white-privilege-to-a-broke-white-person_b_5269255
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/social-class-confidence.html
https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/12/30/21035110/greta-thunberg-aoc-ocasio-cortez-women-
decade
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history

Module Six Texts: Gender and The Body

http://www.faculty.umb.edu/heike.schotten/readings/Wolf,%20The%20Beauty%20Myth.pdf
https://www.deanza.edu/faculty/lewisjulie/The%20Black%20Beauty%20Myth.pdf
http://tinustuff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/chernik-body-politic.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeMHFJyd5L4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9vE4i017q4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLQzz75yE5A

Module Seven Texts: Representation in Media and Culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy8yLaoWybk
https://hbr.org/2019/06/tackling-the-underrepresentation-of-women-in-media
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/beyonce-elle-interview-representation-art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jko06dA_x88
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWTRwj9t-vU
https://vimeo.com/393253445?fbclid=IwAR2VUgNLwOw50f880Z2_U0lSHse1S4DIn2xoFdkKFY
EnUKnk2ztg35580Os
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqAJLh9wuZ0

Module Eight Texts: Sex, Power, and Intimacy

https://rampages.us/univ200sp2015boaz/wp-content/uploads/sites/4763/2015/01/Valenti-The-C
ult-of-Virginity.pdf
http://challengingmalesupremacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Dismantling-Hierarchy-Queeri
ng-Society-copy-edited.pdf
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/ctx.2006.5.3.12
https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/67169?vp=ua
https://www.npr.org/2017/02/14/514578429/hookup-culture-the-unspoken-rules-of-sex-on-colleg
e-campuses

Module Nine Texts: Patriarchy and Masculinity

http://www.drvalverde.com/uploads/1/0/5/3/10538520/patriarchy_the_system-_an_it_not_a_he_
a_them_or_an_us_-_feb_15_2014_6-14_pm.pdf
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/the-miseducation-of-the-american-boy/6
03046/
https://www.gq.com/story/voices-of-the-new-masculinity
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-13-op-solnit13-story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeIDSzIAmjQ
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/03/the-dark-power-of-fraternities/357580/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-the-patriarchy-is-killing-men/2019/09/12/2490fa7e
-d3ea-11e9-86ac-0f250cc91758_story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ-Pyhk7GQA
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/07/794182826/boys-sex-reveals-that-young-
men-feel-cut-off-from-their-hearts
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/11/769538697/guys-we-have-a-problem-how-american-masculinity-
creates-lonely-men

Module Ten Texts: Health and Reproductive Justice

Inga Muscio, Abortion, Vacuum Cleaners, and the Power Within
https://login.libdata.lib.ua.edu/login?qurl=https://www.jstor.org%2fstable%2f4317105
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2017/11/29/beyond-pro-choice-versus-pro-life-qa-radical-reproductive-j
ustice-contributor-andrea-smith/
https://www.al.com/news/2020/02/alabama-has-third-highest-death-rate-of-mothers-in-the-nation-ne
w-federal-report-says.html
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2009/03/23/controlling-means-reproduction-an-interview-with-michelle-
goldberg/
https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/5300792?vp=ua
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TATSAHJKRd8
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/podcasts/the-daily/mortality-black-mothers-babies.html
https://www.history.com/topics/womens-rights/roe-v-wade

Module Eleven Texts: Gender and Violence

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/definition-of-rape_b_1190633
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/slutwalk-united-states-city_n_851725
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTvSfeCRxe8
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rape-study-report-america-us_n_4310765
https://msmagazine.com/2013/01/23/how-some-men-harass-women-online-and-what-other-men-can
-do-to-stop-it/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/college-student-arrested-on-sexual-battery-released-after-judge-dee
ms-him-high-achieving_n_5d77afece4b0752102336d2b
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/domestic-violence-most-common-killer-of-women-united-nations_n_5
bfbf61ee4b0eb6d931142ac
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/23/762028606/chanel-miller-says-know-my-name-as-she-reflects-on-he
r-assault-by-brock-turner
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/uber-reveals-sexual-assaults-during-rides_n_5de95bb3e4b00149f73
da151
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/survive-domestic-violence-military_n_5df3f7c9e4b0ae01a1e035fa
https://medium.com/@sloane_ryan/im-a-37-year-old-mom-i-spent-seven-days-online-as-an-11-year-
old-girl-here-s-what-i-learned-9825e81c8e7d
https://today.tamu.edu/2019/11/19/what-were-you-wearing-exhibit-explores-sexual-violence-myth/
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/12/19/18140830/gaslighting-relationships-politics-explained
https://folks.pillpack.com/i-know-im-not-the-only-one-disability-and-escaping-domestic-abuse/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/10/style/sexual-consent-college-campus.html?mtrref=c
onnect.mheducation.com&gwh=84FF390DB8F0C9002521107532B8A882&gwt=pay&assetType=PA
YWALL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_2DU7VTOmk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCA6EF3y23k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyhF7q3_bpk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LrBvVQuIzU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l26UFQ06eQ
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/rebecca-solnit-on-harvey-weinstein-and-the-lies-t
hat-powerful-men-tell?fbclid=IwAR0UkO2MJpa4bN7uEkwJRpmK7Tz7DcKHgzwIEsEk8OJ6fgboHJO
FT-ntAEg

Module Twelve Texts: Family Systems, Family Lives

https://msmagazine.com/2012/12/11/marriage-equality-is-a-feminist-issue/
http://www.laborhistorylinks.org/PDF%20Files/Politics%20of%20Housework.pdf
https://www.college.columbia.edu/core/sites/core/files/pages/Ehrenreich_Maid_To_Order.pdf
http://www.anncrittenden.com/wydk.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/opinion/sunday/coontz-the-triumph-of-the-working-mother.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/if-you-want-marriage-equals-then-date-equals/60
6568/
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/01/working-afford-child-care-so-you-can-work/60520
6/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/it-costs-4500-to-have-a-baby-in-the-us-even-with-insurance_l_5e177
4f5c5b6da971d12982e
https://www.winknews.com/2020/01/10/giving-birth-in-america-now-costs-more-than-a-woman-earns
-in-a-month/
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/episode/how-the-gender-pay-g
ap-works-29467319/
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender-pay-gap/