Our Gender Studies Collection includes four titles:
The Bystander Moment,
The Purity Myth,
Tough Guise 2, and
The Codes of Gender. We selected the videos in this collection with an eye toward some of the major cultural and political issues of the moment.
In The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots, leading gender violence expert Jackson Katz provides a vivid glimpse into the deeply gendered cultural norms, media narratives, and peer-culture dynamics that contribute to sexual violence.
In
Tough Guise 2: Violence, Manhood & American Culture, leading cultural theorist Jackson Katz examines gun violence, violence against women, bullying, gay-bashing, and militarism against the backdrop of a culture that has normalized violent masculinity.
The Codes of Gender: Identity & Performance in Popular Culture, featuring media scholar Sut Jhally, applies the breakthrough work of the late sociologist Erving Goffman to contemporary advertising, uncovering an astonishing pattern of regressive and destructive gender codes.
The Purity Myth, based on the bestselling book by journalist Jessica Valenti, explores how a coalition of right-wing forces has been working for decades to stigmatize and control women’s sexuality, roll back women’s reproductive rights, and reassert traditional patriarchal gender roles.
