The Two Sexes - Bookforum Omnivore

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, a new collection of links on men, women, gender equality, boys, differences in how men and women process visual stimuli, and high heels.

The Two Sexes

MAR 1 2013

2:00PM

• Marie Sarlet, Muriel Dumont, Nathalie Delacollette, and Benoit Dardenne (Liege): Prescription of Protective Paternalism for Men in Romantic and Work Contexts. 
• Patricia A. Seith (Stanford): Congressional Power to Effect Sex Equality. 
• Vera Trappmann (Magdeburg): Being Unemployed: Masculinity, Change Competence and Identity. 
• Anca Gheaus (Sheffield): Three Cheers for the Token Woman. 
• From Contexts, Niobe Way, C.J. Pascoe, Mark McCormack, Amy Schalet and Freeden Oeur on the hearts of boys. 
• Where men see white, women see ecru: Neuroscientists prove what we always suspected — the two sexes see the world differently. 
• Why do women wear high heels? Because men did. 
• Is fourth-wave feminism all about boobs and beauty? Hadley Freeman reviews Sexy Feminism by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong and Heather Wood Rudulph.