Check these links out for further information on this week's topics!

Use these links as quick references and contextualizing material as well as for ideas about forms of related activism and community work. To really delve, you need to print and read all essays, or go look at books and articles in Further Reading.

Remember that materials on the web MUST be evaluated as critically as any other texts we consider in this course. For brief guidelines on thinking critically about the web, click
HERE.

Theory

  • Theories about the Construction of Gender Identity:
    A basic overview of different theoretical positions on gender and identity by Barbara McManus. Information is quite limited, but the concise, list-like page lends itself to broad comparisons between different theories.

 

  • Foucault On-Line
    Well-organized site with biographical information on Foucault, on-line texts and bibliography, as well as links to archives of secondary sources on Foucault's life and work.

  • Foucault Resources
    Patrick Jennings' compilation of Foucault resources, related articles applying and critiquing Foucault's ideas.