Recommended Reading #204: Gender Socialization, Pt. V

      “Desegregating Our Bookshelves Is A Good Start. Now What?” by Soraya Chemaly (Youth, Gender Socialization, Art, Sociology) 3/18/14

I find this piece excellent. It expresses a number of things I have frequently and historically perceived, and as has often seemed the case, I am delighted to see them expressed to such a wide audience. :)

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      “Husbands shouldn’t need an excuse – or science – to do the damn dishes” by Jessica Valenti (Relationship, Sociology, Parenting) 5/29/14

Jessica makes (what I see as) such obvious points here, and yet the very fact that they don’t always culturally seem so truly makes me sigh.

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      “Yes, All Men” by Charles M. Blow (Sociology, Psychology, Sex and Culture) 6/1/14

Beautiful.

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