May 31, 2022 3:00 PM (GMT+1)

Essay Questions

• To what extent are gender differences derived from differences between the sexes?
• ’The question for feminist theory is not why men exercise power over women but why women let them.’ Discuss.

Reading List

• Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, 1884

• Goldin, C. D. (2023) Career & family : women’s century-long journey toward equity. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

• Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949

• R.W. Connell, Gender and Power: Society, the Person, and Sexual

  Politics, 1987

• Candace West and Don Zimmerman, ‘Doing Gender’, Gender and Society 1, 1987

• Laurel Westbrook and Kristen Schilt, ‘Doing Gender, Determining Gender: Transgender People, Gender Panics, and the Maintenance of the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System’, Gender and Society28, 2014

• Hae Yeon Choo, and Myra Marx Ferree, ‘Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities’, Sociological Theory 28, 2010

Read some more

Goffman, E. (1979). Gender advertisements (Communications and culture). London: Macmillan:

The Nobel Prize on Twitter / X

US issues first gender-neutral 'X' passport

X Gender Marker Available on U.S. Passports Starting April 11 - United States Department of State

Who Should Compete in Women's Sports? There Are 'Two Almost Irreconcilable Positions' (Published 2020)

Prehistoric female hunter discovery upends gender role assumptions