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I was talking this morning with Howard Glasser, our new post-doctoral fellow in science education, who has a particular interest in equity, social justice, and under-representation in education. Howard asked me if we have-or-would be looking @ masculinities, and then sent me a very rich reading list. Here are a few selections from it, which we might want to consider as we select the remainder of our class texts together:

Connell, R. W. (1993). Disruptions: Improper masculinities and schooling. In L. Weis & M. Fine (Eds.), Beyond silenced voices: Class, race, and gender in United States schools (pp. 191-208). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Connell, R. W. (2006). Understanding men: Gender sociology and the new international research on masculinities. In C. Skelton, B. Francis & L. Smulyan (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Education (pp. 18-30). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Kimmel, M. S. (1994). Masculinity as homophobia. In H. Brod & M. Kaufman (Eds.), Theorizing masculinities (pp. 119-141). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Sommers, C. H. (2000). The war against boys: How misguided feminism is harming our young men. New York: Simon and Schuster.