San Antonio College Library

Argues that previous sociological work has been biased against women, discusses gender roles and social structure, and looks at public perceptions of women.

Presents the life and philosophies of Valerie Solanas, a feminist extremist who outlined in her "SCUM Manifesto" her vision for a radical gender dystopia and who shot Andy Warhol in 1968. "Too drastic, too crazy, too "out there," too early, too late, too damaged, too much--Valerie Solanas has been dismissed but never forgotten. She has become, unwittingly, a figurehead for women's unexpressed rage, and stands at the center of many worlds. She inhabited...

In this book a leading theorist on sex and gender discusses how hidden assumptions embedded in our cultural discourses, social institutions, and individual psyches perpetuate male power and oppress women and sexual minorities. Sandra Lipsitz Bem argues that these assumptions, which she calls the lenses of gender, shape not only perceptions of social reality but also the more material things - like unequal pay and inadequate daycare - that constitute...