Pink or Blue -- Exploring, Performing and Transforming Gender Socialization

WRC Suggested Reading Lists:

Pink or Blue -- Exploring, Performing and Transforming Gender Socialization:  A Selected Reading List


"Beyond Sex Roles.
Alice G. Sargent (1977)

Boy V. Girl? How Gender Shapes Who We Are, What We Want, and How We Get Along. George Abrahams and Sheila Ahlbrand (2002)

Cracking the Gender Code: Who Rules the Wired World? Melanie Stewart Millar (1998)

The Difference; Discovering the Hidden Ways We Silence Girls; Finding Alternatives That Can Give Them a Voice. Judy Mann (1994)

Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods---My Mother's, My Father's and Mine. Noelle Howey (2002)

The Emperor Has a Body: Body-Politics In the Between. Elise S. Peeples (1999)

The Frailty Myth; Women Approaching Physical Equality. Colette Dowling (2000)

Gender Blending; Confronting the Limits of Duality. Holly Devor (1989)

Gendered Lives; Communication, Gender, and Culture. Julia T. Wood (1994)

Girls, Boys, Books, Toys; Gender in Children's Literature and Culture. Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet (1999)

The Im/Partial Science: Gender Ideology in Molecular Biology. Bonnie B. Spanier (1995)

Nature's Body: Gender In the Making Of Modern Science. Londa Schiebinger (1993)

On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth. Jay Mechling (2001)

Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons. Lynn Peril (2002)

Pretty in Punk; Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture. Lauraine LeBlanc (1999)

Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games; From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Marsha Kinder (1991, 1993    )

The Politics Of Women's Biology. Ruth Hubbard (1990)