Bookforum Omnivore - The Gendered Self

Bookforum's Omnivore (a collection of links posted several times daily) recently offered up a collection themed on "The Gendered Self." Among the topics are Simon Baron-Cohen on testosterone, a profile of the MRAs (men's rights activists), and an intriguing article that looks at 30 years of relationship self-help manuals in terms of conservative and liberal discourses of the self (rather than as products of feminism and/or patriarchy).

The gendered self

Jul 11 2012 
9:00AM

• Anca Gheaus (Erasmus): Gender Justice. 
• Rebecca Hazleden (ACU): Dragon-slayers and Jealous Rats: The Gendered Self in Contemporary Self-help Manuals. 
• Elizabeth D. Peturson, Kenneth M. Cramer, and Chantal M. Pomerleau (Windsor): Attributional Errors and Gender Stereotypes: Perceptions of Male and Female Experts on Sex-Typed Material.
• Hillevi Ganetz (Stockholm): Fame Factory: Performing Gender and Sexuality in Talent Reality Television. 
• Testosterone on my mind and in my brain: An interview with Simon Baron-Cohen. 
• As Feminist Review celebrates its 100th issue, Mary Evans assesses its lasting contribution to academic debate. 
• A wide range of writers — including Lori Gottlieb, Hanna Rosin, Andrew Cohen, Kate Bolick — debate Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic cover story on the myth of work-life balance. 
• An increasingly vocal men's movement argues that anti-male discrimination is rife; who are the activists and what do they want? 
• When it comes to negotiating a deal, “males more readily justify moral misconduct by minimizing its consequences or otherwise excusing it.”
• A look at how gender discrimination is sometimes good.