Gender Resources

The Hearsey Resource Room

The Hearsey Resource Room houses a collection of circulating books and in-house periodicals that focus on gender and multicultural studies in education itself, as well as in the academic disciplines represented in the Phillips Academy curriculum. The Resource Room also houses two computer terminals with Internet access and a videotape library of all faculty and student fellow presentations, special speakers and events sponsored by the center, and professional educational videos that focus on gender in history and contemporary cultures. The books in the Hearsey Resource collection are listed online through the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library. 

Gender and Academics

Students, faculty, alumnae/alumni, and interested visitors to our website may enjoy learning more about gender studies by following the links below to selected disciplines.

Gender and Anthropology

Anthropologists teach us that not all cultures define gender as two sexes, and their scholarship helps us understand the wide variety of cultural definitions of gender boundaries, gender privileges, and gender customs around the world.

Students interested in doing research about gender in world cultures may want to contact Dr. Blustain at the Peabody Museum, mblustain@andover.edu.

• Gender and History

  American Women
  A gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the U.S.

  The American Memory homepage
  

• The American Antiquarian Society's online exhibition:

  A Woman's Work is Never Done

  The Chicago Women’s Liberation Union (CWLU)

  Martha Ballard’s Diary
  The Triangle Factory Fire
  
  Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000
  Women Working, 1870-1930
  

• Gender and Media Studies

  Media images of men and women that help to socialize young people and shape their ideals of beauty have changed over time.
  
  Jean Kilbourne has spoken at P.A. and we have used her acclaimed film “Still Killing Us Softy” to open discussions of pressures placed on students by advertising images.
  
  http://www.jeankilbourne.com/
  
  Another useful website:
  http://www.womensmediacenter.com/

• Gender and Economics

  Gender Equity as Smart Economics 

• Gender and Political Science

  For recent information about women in politics in the U.S.:
  Unlike many other countries where women have served as prime minister and president and where they have been widely represented in legislatures, in the U.S. women have faced more difficulty reaching the highest levels of elective political leadership.
  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/weekinreview/18zernike.html?hp
  
  National Organization for Women on women and politics
  
  Gender and politics around the world:
  Cornell University Library - Middle East and Islamic Studies Collection
  http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~cbury/web/Courses00/women00.html
  http://www.idea.int/gender/
  
  Centers on gender and politics or women and politics 

• Gender and Science and Engineering

  For useful essays about barriers to the advancement of women in certain fields and strategies for overcoming those barriers:
  http://www.bu.edu/wise/documents/ 

• Gender and Sociology

  Michael Kimmel is a sociologist who has written about the sociology of gender. His The Gendered Society is a good beginning text.
  http://www.concertideas.com/mk/
  
  Challenges men and women face in combining family life and work:
  http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/template.php?name=workfamily 

• Gender and Math

  Teacher resources:
  http://mathforum.org/library/ed_topics/equity_women/ 

• Gender Equity Programs

  Equity means encouraging institutions to provide equal chances to men and women

  Programs run by the A.A.U.W., American Association of University Women:
  http://www.aauw.org/index.cfm
  
  Boys, Girls, and Literacy
  
  Women in business, Catalyst and its studies of workplace equity:
  http://www.catalystwomen.org/  

• How can we make our schools and colleges a comfortable climate for women, men, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered students?

  http://www.aclu.org/glbt/youth/index.html 

• Can we recognize and confront discrimination when it exists around us?

  http://www.ed.gov/policy/rights/guid/ocr/sex.html
  http://www.eeoc.gov/types/sex.html
  http://www.equalrights.org/publications/kyr/sexdiscrim.asp
  http://public.findlaw.com/civil-rights/gender-discrimination/