So I’ve discovered a few interesting new resources in team teaching Gender Studies 100 this semester, and never posted some I discovered last term. Here are a few:
- The Trouble with Testosterone by Robert Sapolsky – a very accessible read about the popular misunderstandings about testosterone (for instance, that it causes aggression)
- Iron Jawed Angels – about the last push for the vote for women in the US
- The Fire, Earth, Water trilogy by Deepa Mehta – stunning, beautiful film series by a woman director about various aspects of Indian culture. Mehta has a gentle but powerful hand as a story-teller.
Another great film is “Mirror, Mirror”, a doctoral project (I believe) by Filmmaker Zem Moffat. I met her on MySpace, expressed interest in her work and she sent me a CD of her film. It’s about Club Wotever in London, an all-genders celebratory bar/performance space. Zem focuses of some of the tg performers in an interesting documentary. It’s playing around on the LGBT film circuit in Europe.
http://www.myspace.com/zemmoffat
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-1348