9 - The Politicization of Gender
Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
How and when did gender become such a heightened political issue? And what are the psychological implications for individuals and the collective? The origins of feminism, the LBG liberation movement, and the emerging transgender movement are explored within a psychological and cultural framework
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Books
Beauvoir, Simone de (2009) [1949]. The Second Sex. Trans. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Random House. Simone de Beauvoir wrote that "the first time we see a woman take up her pen in defense of her sex" was Christine de Pizan in Epitre au Dieu d'Amour (Epistle to the God of Love) in the 15th century.
Friedan, Betty (1963). The Feminine Mystique. W.W.Norton & Company.
French, Marilyn (1977) The Women’s Room. Simon & Schuster
Stryker, Susan (2009-01-07). Transgender History. Da Capo Press
Bailey, Michael (2003). The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender Bending and Transsexualism. Joseph Henry Press
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental
disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
Articles
10 reasons american politics are so divided:
Conversion therapy bans:
https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/conversion_therapy
Tumblr: A Call Out Post:
https://4thwavenow.com/2019/03/20/tumblr-a-call-out-post/
The Controversy Surrounding the Man Who Would Be Queen (Michael Bailey’s book):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170124/
Film
Suffragette (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFoQt5vsgnQ
Media
Julie Bindel, 2004 article in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jan/31/gender.weekend7
Kimberly Nixon and the Vancouver Rape Relief Centre: Rupp, Shannon (February 3, 2007). "Transsexual Loses Fight with Women's Shelter". The Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/News/2007/02/03/Nixon/
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival: https://www.facebook.com/michfest/posts/10153186431364831
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/02/lesbian-nation
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to gender, a wider lens. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Stella O'Malley, a psychotherapist in Ireland. |
| 0:06.5 | And I'm Sasha Ayad, an adolescent therapist in the United States. |
| 0:10.6 | Since 2016, my practice has been exclusively dedicated to gender questioning teens |
| 0:16.1 | and families impacted by gender dysphoria. I also work with gender questioning |
| 0:20.7 | teenagers and I facilitated support meetings for families and |
| 0:24.2 | individuals who have been impacted by gender issues. We're curious about the |
| 0:28.1 | concept of gender and how it's unfolding in the wider culture. Join us as we look at gender through a wider lens. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, Stella, how are you doing? |
| 0:39.0 | Good, how are you in America? |
| 0:42.0 | I'm doing well. we're well over here. |
| 0:44.0 | Of course, it's a little bit crazy right now |
| 0:46.0 | at the beginning of 2021, but we are getting through it. |
| 0:50.0 | So today we are covering the politicization of gender and you know you and I have been |
| 0:58.8 | discussing this topic and you know I thought it was fair to start by saying neither of us are historians. |
| 1:06.5 | We're not legal scholars. |
| 1:08.1 | We're not political scientists. |
| 1:09.8 | So there's probably a lot today that we'll discuss and then lots that we'll miss as well. |
| 1:14.9 | But the point is we wanted to highlight some important developments in the history of |
| 1:21.4 | feminism and gender politics and then talk about the psychological aspects. |
| 1:26.0 | Does that seem right? |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, I think it's really important to know where we're coming from. |
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