BEYOND KILLING US SOFTLY: THE STRENGTH TO RESIST RESOURCES
AUDIOVISUAL
The Body Beautiful (video/film), 23 minutes
Women Make Movies, Inc.
462 Broadway, Suite 500
New York, NY 10013
(212) 925-0606
Ethnic Notions and Color Adjustment (2 videos)
California Newsreel
149 9th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
www.newsreel.org
The Famine Within (video), 2 hours
Direct Cinema
P.O. Box 10003
Santa Monica, CA 90410
(800) 525-0000
Fat Chance (video)
Bullfrog Films
P.O. Box 149
Oley, PA 19547
(800) 543-3764
Images of Indians (5-30 min episodes)
www.oyate.org
Mirror Mirror (video/film), 17 minutes
Women Make Movies
462 Broadway, Suite 500
New York, NY 10013
(212) 925-0606
No Apologies (video), 30 minutes
Wry Crips Disabled Women’s Reader’s Theatre
P.O. Box 21474
Oakland, CA 94620
(510) 601-5819
Nothing to Lose. A Performance by the Fat Lip
Reader’s Theatre (video)
Fat Lip Reader’s Theatre
P.O. 29963
Oakland, CA 94604
(415) 583-1649
Nothing to Lose: Women’s Bodies Image Through Time
(video)
Wolfe Video c/o Customer Service
P.O. Box 685195
Austin, TX 78768
(800) 850-5951
Size 10 (film), 20 minutes
Women Make Movies, Inc.
462 Broadway, Suite 500
New York, NY 10013
(212) 925-0606
Skin Trade: Women, Complexion and Caste (videos)
Skin Trading Video Series
89 Walden Street
Cambridge, MA 02140
(617) 354-8657
jhana@msn.com
BOOKS AND LITERATURE
Adolescents / Girls’ Self-Esteem
Abner, Allison, and Linda Villerosa. Finding Our Way: The Teen Girls’ Survival Guide. New York: Harper Collins, 1995.
American Association of University Women. Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America. Washington, DC: AAUW, 1991.
Cupolo, A., K. Corbette, and V.Lewis. No More Stares: A Role Model Book for Disabled Teenage Girls. Berkeley: Disability Rights Education Fund, 1982.
Dee, Catherine. The Girl’s Guide to Life. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1997.
Douglas, Susan J. Where the Girls are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media.
Doswell, W.M., et al. (1998) "Self-image and self-esteem in African American preteen girls: Implications for mental health." Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 19: 71-94.
Gilligan, Carol. In a Different Voice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.
_______. Meeting at the Crossroads: Women’s Psychology and Girl’s Development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Gray, Heather and Phillips, Samantha. Real Girl/Real World: Tools for Finding Your True Self. San Francisco, Seal Press.
HUES (Hear Us Emerging Sisters): A young woman’s guide to power and attitude. www.hues.net, 800- HUES-4U2.London: Times Books. 1995.
Johnson, Roberts and Worell, eds. Beyond Appearance: A New Look at Adolescent Girls. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 1999.
Mackoff, Barbara. Growing a Girl: Seven Strategies for Raising a Strong Spirited Daughter.
Odean, Kathleen. Great Books for Girls.
Orenstein, Peggy. Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1994.
Pipher, Mary. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. New York: G.P. Putnams Sons, 1994.
Teen Voices Magazine. P.O. Box 120-027, Boston, MA 02112-0027 (888) 882- TEEN.
Body Image / Eating Disorders
Atkins, Dawn. Looking Queer. Binghamton NY: The Haworth Press, Inc., 1998.
Arnold, Georgina. “Coming Home: One Black Woman’s Journey to Health and Fitness.” The Black Woman’s Health Book. ed. Evelyn C. White. 2nd ed. Seattle: Seal Press, 1995.
Atwood, Margaret. The Edible Woman. London: Verago Press, 1989.
Baker, Nancy C. The Beauty Trap: Exploring Woman’s Greatest Obsession. New York: Franklin Watts, 1984.
Banner, Lois. American Beauty. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1983.
Brown, Laura S., and Esther Rothblum, Eds. Overcoming Fear of Fat. Binghamton: Harrington Park Press, 1989.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls: The Surprising History of Anorexia Nervosa. New York, NY: Plume Books, 1989.
Camplin, Jo, ed. Images of Ourselves: Women with Disabilities Talking. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.
Carillo, Ann, et al., eds. No More Stares. Berkeley: Disability Rights and Education Fund, 1982.
Chapkis, Wendy. Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance. Boston: South End Press, 1986.
Chernin, Kim. The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity. London: Virago Press, 1986.
Cooke, Kaz. Real Gorgeous: The Truth about Body and Beauty. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.
Edison, Laurie T., and Debbie Notkin. Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes. San Francisco: Books in Focus, 1994.
Edut, Ophira. Body Outlaws: Young Women Write about Body Image and Identity. San Francisco, Seal Press 2000.
Erdman, Cheri K. Nothing to Lose: A Guide to Sane Living in a Larger Body. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1995.
Fat Girl Magazine: 2215-R Market Street 193; San Francisco, CA 94114
Fat!So?: PO Box 423464; San Francisco, CA 94142.
Fraser, Laura. Losing It: America’s Obsession with Weight and the Industry that Feeds on It. New York: Dutton, 1997.
Freedman, Rita. Bodylove: Learning to Like our Looks—and Ourselves. New York: Harper &Row, 1990.
Friedman, Sandy. When girls feel fat: helping girls through adolescence. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1997.
Friday, Nancy. The Power of Beauty. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.
Frost, Liz. Young Women and the Body: A Feminist Sociology. Palgrave, 2000.
Gilman, Sander L. Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery. Princeton: Princeton Univeristy Press, 1999.
Healthy Weight Journal: 402 145th Street; Hettinger, ND 58639; (701) 567-2646; Fax: (701) 567-2602
Herron, Carolivia. Nappy Hair. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Heywood, Leslie. Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women’s Body Building. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
________. Pretty Good for a Girl: An Athlete’s Story. New York: Free Press, 1998.
Hirschman, Jane, and Carol Munter. When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1995.
Hutchinson, Marcia G. Transforming Body Image. New York: Crossing Press, 1985.
Kano, Susan. Making Peace with Food: Freeing Yourself from the Diet/Weight Obsession. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
Kaw, Eugenia. “Medicalization of Racial Features: Asian American Women and Cosmetic Surgery.” In The Politics of Women’s Bodies.
Kinzer, Nora Scott. Put Down and Ripped Off: The American Woman and the Beauty Cult. New York: Crowell, 1977.
Lyons, Pat, and Debby Burgard. Great Shape: The First Fitness Guide for Large Women. Palo Alto: Bull Publishing Co., 1990.
Miedema, Baukje, Janet Stoppard, and Vivienne Anderson, eds. Women’s Bodies/Women’s Lives: Health, Well-Being and Body Image. Toronto Sumach Press 2000.
Millman, Marcia. Such a Pretty Face: Being Fat in America. New York: Berkley Books, 1981.
Modleski, Tania. Loving With a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women. New York: Routledge, 1984.
Muscio, Inga. Cunt: A Declaration of Independence. San Francisco: Seal Press. Neff, L.J., et al. (1997)
"Black-White differences in body size perceptions and weight management practices among adolescent females." Journal of Adolescent Health, 20: 459-465.
Newman, Leslea. Some Body to Love: A Guide to Loving the Body You Have. Chicago: Third Side Press, 1991.
Panzarino, Connie. The Me in the Mirror. Seattle: Seal Press, 1994.
Polivy, Janet, and Peter Herman. Breaking the Diet Habit. New York: Basic Books,1983.
Pollock, Griselda. “What’s Wrong with ‘Images of Women’?” The Sexual Subject: A Screen Reader in Sexuality. London and New York: Routledge, 1992.
Rodin, Judy. Body Traps: Breaking the Binds that Keep You from Feeling Good about Your Body. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1992.
Sault, Nicole. Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Schoenfielder, Lisa, and Barb Wieser, eds. Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women about Fat Oppression. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1983.
Seid, Roberta Pollack. Never Too Thin: Why Women Are at War with Their Bodies. New York: Prentice- Hall, 1989.
Steiner-Adair, et al. The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Steiner-Adair, et al., eds. Preventing Eating Disorders : A Handbook of Interventions and Special Challenges. 1999.
Stern, Nanci, et al., eds. With the Power of Each Breath: A Disabled Women’s Anthology. Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1985.
Thompson, Becky. A Hunger so Wide and so Deep. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Tolmach-Lakoff, Robin, et al. Face Value: The Politics of Beauty. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.
Villarosa, Linda, Ed. Body & Soul: The Black Women’s Guide to Physical Health and Emotional Well-Being. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994.
Walker, Alice. “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self.” The Black Woman’s Health Book. ed. Evelyn C. White. 2nd ed. Seattle: Seal Press, 1994.
Weitz, Rose. The Politics of Women’s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance and Behavior. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Williamson, L. (1998) "Eating Disorders and the cultural forces behind the drive for thinness: Are African American women really protected?" Social Work in Health Care, 28(1): 61-73.
Children’s Literature
Byers, Betsy. The TV Kid. Puffin Books, 1987.
DeBoer, Ron. Caught in the Net. Windmill Press, 2000.
DeBoer, Ron. Racing Through the Times. Windmill Press, 2000.
DeBoer, Ron. Returning Light to the Wind. Windmill Press, 2000.
Hewett, Joan. On Camera: The Story of a Child Actor. Houghton-Mifflin, 1987.
Van Allsburg, Chris. The Wretched Stone. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
Media Literacy
Alvermann, Donna. Popular Culture in the Classroom: Teaching and Researching
Critical Media Literacy. International Reading Association; Chicago, Ill.
Brunner, Cornelia. The New Media Literacy Handbook: an Educator’s Guide to Bringing New Media Into the Classroom. Anchor Books,1999.
Considine, David and Haley, Gail. Visual Messages: Integrating Imagery into Instruction. Teacher Ideas Press, 1992.
Cross, Donna Woolfolk. Mediaspeak: How Television Makes Up Your Mind. Mentor, 1983.
Degaetano, Gloria. Screen Smarts: A Family Guide to Media Literacy. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
Degaetano, Gloria. Television and the Lives of Our Children. Train of Thought Publishing, 1994.
Healy, Jane. Endangered Minds: Why Our Children Don’t Think. Simon and Schuster, 1991.
Miller, Mark Crispin. Boxed In: The Culture of TV. Northwestern University Press, 1988.
Rosen, Yohnah Elana. Changing the World Through Media Education. Fulcrum Resources, 1998.
Media Representations of Women
Antler, Joyce, Ed. Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1998.
Brown, Mary Ellen, ed. Television and Women’s Culture. Sage Publications, 1990.
Dines, Gail, ed. Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text Reader. Sage Press, 1994.
Dines, Gail. Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality. Routledge Press, 1997, 2001.
Douglas, Susan. Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. New York: Time Books, 1995.
hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press, 1992.
hooks, bell. Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies. Boston: South End Press.
Moog, Carol. Are They Selling Her Lips? Advertising and Identity. William Morrow & Co., 1990.
Robertson, Jennifer Ellen. Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Popular Culture, Feminist Theory and Criticism
Ang, Ien. Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination. New York: Routledge, 1985.
Allen, Robert C. ed. Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Barthel, Diane. Putting on Appearances: Gender and Advertising. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.
Baumgartner, Jennifer and Amy Richards. Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2000.
Brown, Mary Ellen. Ed. Television and Women’s Culture: The Politics of the Popular. London: Sage Publications, 1990.
Brundson, Charlotte, Julie D’Acci and Lynn Spigel. eds. Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Dow, Bonnie J. Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture and the Women’s Movement since 1970. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
Findlen, Barbara (ed.), Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation. San Francisco, Seal Press.
Gamman, Lorraine and Margaret Marshment. eds. The Female Gaze: Women as Viewers of Popular Culture. Seattle: Real Comet Press, 1989.
Griffin, Gabriele. ed. Outwrite: Lesbianism and Popular Culture. Boulder, CO: Pluto Press, 1993.
Hamer, Diane and Belinda Budge. eds. The Good, the Bad and the Gorgeous: Popular Culture’s Romance with Lesbianism. New York: New York University Press, 1994.
Haralovich, Mary Beth and Lauren Rabinovitz. eds. Television, History and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999.
Heide, Margaret J. Television Culture and Women’s Lives: Thirtysomething and the Contradictions of Gender. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
hooks, bell. Feminist Theory from Margin to Center. Boston: South End Press, 1984.
Heywood and Drake (eds.) Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminist. University of Minnesota Press.
Inness, Sherrie A. Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women In Popular Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Kaplan, Ann E. Rocking Around the Clock: Music Television, Postmodernism, and Consumer Culture. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1988.
Landay, Lori. Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Lewis, Lisa A. "Gender Politics and MTV: Voicing the Difference". Philadelphia: Meyers, Marian. Ed. Mediated Women: Representation in Popular Culture. Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press, 1999.
Postman, Neil. The Disappearance of Childhood. Viking Penguin, Inc., 1982.
Press, Andrea Lee. Women Watching Television: Gender, Class and Generation in the American Television Experience. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Radway, Janice A. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Rapping, Elayne. Media-tions: Forays into the Culture and Gender Wars. Boston: South End Press, 1994.
Raymond, Diane, ed. Sexual Politics and Popular Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1992.
Richards, Amy and Baumgardner, Jennifer. Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future. 2000.
Rogers, Mary F. Barbie Culture. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 1999.
Spigel, Lynn and Denise Mann, eds. Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992.
Summer, Nancy. The Making of Young Activists: Bringing Size Awareness to the Classroom. Radiance Winter 45 1996:10-14.
Walters, Suzanna Danuta. Material Girls: Making Sense of Feminist Cultural Theory. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Williamson, Judith. Consuming Passions: The Dynamics of Popular Culture. New York: Marion Boyars, 1986.
Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
Women of Color/Racism in Media
Allen, Paula Gunn. The Sacred Hoop.
Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes,Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Film. Continuum Publishing Group, 1994.
Castillo, Ana. Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma. New York: Plume, 1995.
Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire. Boston, South End Press.
Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. New York, Bantam: 1985.
hooks, bell. Killing Rage: Ending Racism. H. Hol and Co., 1995.
Hurtado, Aida. Voicing Chicana Feminisms: Young Women Speak out on Sexuality and Identity. New York: New York university Press, 2001.
James, Joy. Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics.
Maracle, Lee. I am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism.
Mohanty, Russo and Torres, eds. Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism.
Moraga, Cherrie, and Anzaldua, Gloria, eds. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. New York: Kitchen Table Press, 1981.
Nicholson, Daniel. “Developing a Media Literacy of Whiteness in Advertising” from White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America, Kincheloe, Steinberg, Rodriguez, and Shennault, eds., 2000.
Sheftall, Beverly Guy. Words of Fire: an Anthology of African American Feminist Thought. South End Press.
COURSE SYLLABI
www.umbc.edu/cwit/syllabi.html
ORGANIZATIONS
Body Image / Eating Disorders / Women’s Health
Body Image Task Force
P.O. Box 934
Santa Cruz, CA 95061
(408)457-4838
datkins@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
Our Bodies Ourselves
c/o Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, MA
www.bwhc.org
Council on Size and Weight Discrimination
P.O. Box 305
Mt. Marion, NY 12456
(914)678-1209
Eating Disorder Awareness and Prevention (EDAP)
603 Stewart Street, Suite 803
Seattle, WA 98101
(206)382-3587
www.edap.org
Eating Disorder Education Organization
6R20 Edmonton General Hospital
11111 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T5K 0L6
(780)944-2864
www.edeo.org
The Fat Feminist Caucus of the NAAFA
National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
P.O. Box 29614
Oakland, CA 94604-9614
Harvard Eating Disorders Center
356 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
(617)236-7766
www.hedc.org
info@hedc.org
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa (ANAD)
Box 7
Highland Park, IL 60035
(847)831-3438
www.anad.org
anad20@aol.com
Real Women Project
The Central Exchange - Education Center
1020 Central Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64105
(816)471-7560
realwomenproject@juno.com
Media Literacy About-Face
P.O. Box 77665
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415)436-0212
www.about-face.org
Center for Media Education
518-1511 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
The Center for Media Literacy
4727 Wilshire Blvd., #403
Los Angeles, CA 90010
(800) 226-9494
www.medialit.org
Center for Research on the Influences of Television on
Children (CRITC)
CRITC, Department of Human Development
4084 Dole Hall
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
(913) 864-4646
critc@ukans.edu
Dads and Daughters
P.O. Box 3458
Duluth, MN 55803
(888) 824-DADS
www.dadsanddaughters.org
Just Think Foundation
39 Mesa Street, Suite 106
The Presidio
San Francisco, CA 94129
(415) 561-2900
www.justthink.org
think@justthink.org
Media Literacy Online Program
http://interact.uoregon.edu/medialit/homepage
Media Scope
12711 Ventura Boulevard, Ste. 440
Studio City, CA 91604
(818) 508-2080
www.mediascope.org
Media Watch
P.O. Box 618
Santa Cruz, CA 95061-0618
(800) 631-6355
www.mediawatch.org
Multiculturalism/Anti-Racism
Visions, Inc.
545 Concord Ave. Suite 1
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 876-9257
Violence Against Women
Campaign Against Trafficking in Women
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
Family Violence Prevention Fund
383 Rhode Island Street, Suite 304
San Francisco, CA 94103-5133
(415)252-8900
Join Together Online
441 Stuart Street
Boston, MA 02116
(617)437-1500
www.jointogether.org
Women and Girls
GIRLS INC.
120 Wall Street, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10005
(212)509-2000
www.girlsinc.org
G.I.R.L.S.
(Growing Individuals Reacting to Life’s Struggles)
www.gis.net/~adena/girls.htm
Sisterhood Is Global Institute
1200 Atwate, Suite 2
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H32 1X4
(514)846-9366
www.sigi.org
Teen Voices Magazine
c/o Women Express
P.O. Box 120-027
Boston, MA 02112-0027
(888)882-TEEN
www.teenvoices.com
WEBSITES
Show Real People
www.showrealpeople.org
About Face
www.about-face.org
Adbusters
www.adbusters.org
African-American Images in Media www.usc.edu/isd/archives/ethnicstudies/media_stereotypes.html
The Association for Media and Technology in Education
in Canada (AMTEC)
www.amtec.ca
www.feminist.com (Amy Richards, from the film, is “Ask Amy”)
The Feminist Majority Foundation
www.feminist.org
Gendercide Watch
www.gendercide.org
Girls, Inc.
www.girlsinc.org
Guerilla Girls
www.guerillagirls.com
Native American Stereotypes
www.usc.edu/ids/archives/ethnicstudies/indian_image_bks.html
Resources for Anti-Violence Networks
The Women’s Intercultural Network, Inc.
www.win-cawa.org