Omnivore - Gendering Everything

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, a great collection of links on gender studies, masculinity, tough guys, and how being attractive makes men funnier (and here I thought being funny might be make me more attractive).


Gendering everything

MAR 28 2013 

9:00AM

• Katharine K. Baker (IIT): Sex and Equality. 
• Emma Poulton (Durham): “If You Had Balls, You'd Be One of Us!” Doing Gendered Research: Methodological Reflections on Being a Female Academic Researcher in the Hyper-Masculine Subculture of “Football Hooliganism”. 
• Christian Williams on the trouble with tough guys. 
• Erika Bachiochi on why U.N. feminists should want to partner with the Holy See. 
• It’s well-established being funny makes men more attractive — now a new paper reports that being attractive makes men funnier. 
• Sympathy for the stay-at-home mom: Judith Shulevitz on an argument about work, life, and the modern calendar. 
• The final feminist frontier: Why men still don't do their share of the dirty work. 
• The retro wife: Lisa Miller on feminists who say they’re having it all — by choosing to stay home. 
• Donald N.S. Unger on how men can't have it all either. 
• Yes, we’re still gendering everything.