Bibliography
Female Opression
By Religion: In Christianity
- Wikipedia: Women in the Bible [Online, last viewed on 15 March 2008]
Available:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Bible
- Paul N Tobin (2000-2004) - Rejection of Pascal's Wager: The Position of Women: The Bible [Online, last viewed on15 March 2008]
Available:http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/womenbible.html
- Paul N Tobin (2000-2004) - Rejection of Pascal's Wager: The Position of Women: The Historical Consequences [Online, last viewed on 15 March 2008]
Available:http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/women.html
- B.A. Robinson (2006)- Religious Tolerance.org: The Status of Women in the Old Testament [Online, last viewed on 15 March 2008]
Available:http://www.religioustolerance.org/ofe_bibl.htm
- Prof Dr Colonel (retired) K Prabhakar Rao (2007) - The Role of Women In Christianity [Online, last viewed on 15 March 2008]
Available:http://faithcommons.org/the_role_of_women_in_christianity
- Campbell, Donna M - The Salem Witch Trials [Online, last viewed on 15 March 2008]
Available:http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/witch.htm
- Discovery Education - Salem Witch Trials - 1692 Salem- Religion and Witchcraft [Online, last viewed on 15 March 2008]
Available:http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/life/religion.html
- TIME Magazine, David Van Biema (Aug 05 2003) [Online, last viewed on 15 March 2008]
Available:http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,472868-2,00.html
- Mary Magdalene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Online, last viewed on 15 March 2008]
Available:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene
- Allen Williamson (2005) - Joan of Arc, Male Clothing Issue [Online, last viewed on 15th March 2008]
Available:http://archive.joan-of-arc.org/joanofarc_male_clothing.html
- Joan of Arc - Wikipedia [Online, last viewed on 15 March 2008]
Available:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc
- Online learning forum group: An examination of the brief life of the saint Joan of Arc, her trial and death [Online, last viewed on 15 March 2008]
Available:http://www.funsocialstudies.learninghaven.com/articles/joan_of_arc.htm
- Christian views about women - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Online, last viewed on 15 March 2008]
Available:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_about_women
- Christian feminism - Wikipedia, the free encylopedia [Online, last viewed on 15 March 2008]
Available:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_feminism
- The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood » Interview with Mary Kassian Part 2 [Online, last viewed on 15 March 2008]
Available:http://www.cbmw.org/Blog/Posts/Interview-with-Mary-Kassian-Part-2
By Religion: Islam
- Religious tolerance.org - Marriage and divorce in Islam (30 July 2007) [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://www.religioustolerance.org/mohd.htm
- Women and Islam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_Islam
- Gender roles in Islam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_roles_in_Islam
- "Yeah.. that too..": Child Marriage and Islam (blog by POSTMAN - 23 Jan 2008) [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://think-islam.blogspot.com/2008/01/child-marriage-and-islam.html
- Muhammed, Aisha, Islam and Child Brides [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://answering-islam.org.uk/Silas/childbrides.htm
- Women in Islam: Women in Islam versus Women in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition - the Myth and the Reality ( Part 10- Divorce) (Sherif Abdel Azim, Ph.D. - Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada) [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/w_islam/divorce.htm
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades)
By Robert Spencer- Published by Regnery Publishing in 2005 [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://books.google.com.sg/books?id=_7RD2jwMU2wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=prove+rape+islam...
- Enlightening Commentary of the Holy Quran - Volume 4 [Online, last viewed on 17 March2008]
Available:http://www.al-islam.org/enlightening-vol4/5.htm
- Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights (Asifa Quraishi LL.M., Columbia University (1998); J.D., University of California, Davis (1992); B.A., University of California, Berkeley (1988); Board of Advisor, Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights; Member, California Bar.) (22nd Aug 2003) - Her Honor: An Islamic Critique of the Rape Laws of Pakistan from a Woman-Sensitive Perspective [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://www.karamah.org/articles_quraishi.htm
- New York Times - In Pakistan, Rape Victims Are The Criminals (By Seth Mydans, Published on May 17, 2002) [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE6D81E39F934A25756C0A9649C8B63
- Human Events.com - Honor Killing in Texas (by Robert Spencer, 01 Aug 2008) [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24329
- Fox News.com - Canadian Muslim Teen's Dad Charged in Her Murder; Friends Say They Clashed Over Head Scarf (Associated Press, 12 Dec 2007) [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316550,00.html
- IslamOnline.net - Honor Killing Plagues Pakistan (By Aamir Latif, 11 Jan 2007) [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1168265536796&pagename=Zone-...
- National Geographic News - Thousands of Women Killed for Family "Honour" (by Hillary Mayell, 12 Feb 2002) [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/02/0212_020212_honorkilling.html
- The Muslim Family (by Dr. Dhami, general practitioner in Harrow, Middlesex and Dr Seheikh, serving a fellowship in National Health Service Research and Development National Primary Care Training; Nov 2000) [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1071164#id2743924
- Female Genital Cutting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Online, last viewed on 18 March 2008]
Available:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_cutting
- redOrbit - Female circumcision could cause infertility-study (by Patricia Reaney, 29 July 2005) [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/190921/female_circumcision_could_cause_infertilitystudy/
- World Health Organization - New Study shows female genital mutilation exposes wmen and babies to significant risk at childbirth (Published in The Lancet, 2006 June) [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available:http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2006/pr30/en/index.html
By Region: In China
- WHO: Suicide Prevention and Special Programmes - Country reports and charts (last updated in 2007) [Online, last viewed on 19 March 2008]
Available:http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/country_reports/en/index.html
- Chinese Cultural Studies: Women in China: Past and the Present (compiled from various sources, including Comption's Living Encylcopedia on America Online (aug 1995), The New York Times, The Washington Post and The San Jose Mercury [Online, last viewed on 19 March 2008]
Available:http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinwomn.html
- Chinese foot binding,Candace Hutchins [Online, last viewed on 19 March 2008]
Available:http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/China/04/hutchins/hutchins.htm
- One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding : Its Origins, Popularity and Demise (by Mario Vento, 7 March 1998) [Online, last viewed on 19 March 2008]
Available:http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/China/04/hutchins/hutchins.htm
- BBC News: Traditions weigh on China's women (by Christopher Allen, 19 June 2006) [Online, last viewed on 19 March 2008]
Available:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/5086754.stm
- Half of China (by Elaine, April 1972) [Online, last viewed on 19 March 2008]
Available:http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/halfchina.html
- Sharp Decline in Births Looms in China (by Patrick Goodenough, 12 March 2008) [Online, last viewed on 19 March 2008]
Available:http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200803/FOR20...
- One-Child policy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Online, last viewed on 19 March 2008]
Available:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
- Historic Liberation of Chinese Women [Online, last viewed on 19 March 2008]
Available:http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/chinesewoman/11-2.htm
By Region: In Africa
- BBC News - Baby rapes shock South Africa (by Barnaby Philips, 11 Dec 2001) [Online, last viewed on 20 March 2008]
Available:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1703595.stm
- BBC News - Congo rape victims seek solace (By Jackie Martens, 24 Jan 2004 [Online, last viewed on 20 March 2008]
Available:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3426273.stm
- BBC News - Tackling South Africa's rape culture (by David Goldblatt, 1 November 2007) [Online, last viewed on 20 March 2008]
Available:"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3426273.stm
- Data.org - HIV/AIDs, TB and Malaria [Online PDF, last viewed on 20 March 2008]
Available:http://www.data.org/pdfs/health2007.pdf
- Adding Injury to Insult - How the Oppression of Women Drives the AIDs Epidemic in Africa [Online, last viewed on 23 March 2008]
Available:http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~vast/Connell.html
- Time Magazine: Aids in Africa (by Johanne McGeary, 2001) [Online, last viewed on 23 March 2008]
Available:http://www.time.com/time/2001/aidsinafrica/cover.html
- Afrol News [Online, last viewed on 23 March 2008]
Available:http://www.afrol.com/Categories/Women/FGM/netscapeindex.htm
- Female Genital Mutilation: Legal Prohibitions Worldwide [Online, last viewed on 20 March 2008]
Available:http://www.reproductiverights.org/pub_fac_fgmicpd.html
- BBC News: Genital Mutilation 'Still Common'. (by Ania Lichtarowicz, 10 June 2003) [Online, last viewed on 20 March 2008]
Available:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2977426.stm
- Fighting Female Genital Mutilation In Africa with Information (by Ramata Thioune and Nadine Robitaille, Feb 2008) [Online, last viewed on 20 March 2008]
Available:http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-120852-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
- IOL: Rape statistics are skewed (by Chiara Cater, 07 July 2007) [Online, last viewed on 20 March 2008]
Available:http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20070707082904984C306939
- Voices Unabridged - Child Soldiers: Democratic Republic of the Congo (by Berry Malone, 15th July 2007) [Online, last viewed on 20 March 2008]
Available:http://www.voices-unabridged.org/article.php?id_article=190&numero=13
- Theories that Appear in the African Literature of Domestic Violence [Online, last viewed on 20 March 2008]
Available:http://academic.udayton.edu/health/06world/Africa03a.htm
By Region: In India
- BBC NEWS, India 'loses 10m female births', 9 January 2006 [Online, last viewed on 14 March 2008]
Available: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4592890.stm
- Madhok, Sujata, Infochange women, India News & Features on Women in India, 2008 [Online, last viewed on 13 March 2008]
Available: http://www.infochangeindia.org/WomenIbp.jsp
- Carol S. Coonrod, Chronic Hunger and the Status of Women in India, June 1998 [Online, last viewed on 13 March 2008]
Available: http://www.thp.org/reports/indiawom.htm
- The Tribune, 50 years of Indian independence, 19 June 1998 [Online, last viewed on 13 March 2008]
Available: http://www.tribuneindia.com/50yrs/women.htm
- BBC NEWS, India's dowry deaths, 16 July 2003 [Online, last viewed on 13 March 2008]
Available: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/3071963.stm
- Indian child, Sati - the burning of the widow, 2000 [Online, last viewed on 13 March 2008]
Available: http://www.indianchild.com/sati_in_india.htm
By Region: In Pakistan
By Region: In Iraq
- Amnesty International, Iraq: Decades of suffering, Now women deserve better, 22 February 2005 [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE14/001/2005
- Abdela, Lesley, openDemocracy, Iraq's war on women, 17 July 2005 [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-iraqconflict/women_2681.jsp
- Judd, Terri, The Independent, For the women of Iraq, the war is just beginning, 8 June 2006 [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/for-the-women-of-iraq-the-war-is-just-beginning-481497.html
- Dahr, Jamil, Hard News, WOMEN'S DAY-IRAQ: Surviving Somehow Behind a Concrete Purdah, 6 March 2008 [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/iraq/000757.php
- Abdela, Lesley, ZNet, No place for a woman, 8 May 2003 [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=3590
- Damon, Arwa, CNN, Violations of 'Islamic teachings' take deadly toll on Iraqi women, 8 February 2008 [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/08/iraq.women/index.html
By Region: In Saudi Arabia
- Wikipedia, Human rights in Saudi Arabia, 21 March 2008, [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia#cite_note-11Node
- Your Homework Society, The Everything Development Company, Islam, women and Saudi Arabian society,16 April 2002 [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1286471
- Ambah, Faiza, Washington Post, Saudi Women See a Brighter Road on Rights, 21 January 2008 [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/30/AR2008013003805.html
- Economist.com, Women in the Middle East | A weak breeze of change, 2 February 2008 [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10632747
Fighting Oppression
Developed Countries
Explanation of Timeline of Events
- Time Life Asia. (Year unknown) Illustrated History of the World, The World in Arms AD 1900- 1925
- Marxists Internet Archive. (Year unknown) Glossary of Events: Wo [Online, last viewed on 9 February 2008]
Available: http://www.marxists.org/glossary/events/w/o.htm
- Thinking Aloud Productions. (Year unknown) WOMEN AND HISTORY Part I: THE CREATION OF PATRIARCHY with GERDA LERNER, Ph.D. [Online, last viewed on 9 February 2008]
Available: http://www.intuition.org/txt/lerner1.htm
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Bronze Age [Online, last viewed on 9 February 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Feminism [Online, last viewed on 9 February 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism#Second-wave_feminism
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Chinese Patriarchy [Online, last viewed on 9 February 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_patriarchy
Social Roles
- Mead, M. 1963. Sex and temperament in three primitive societies. New York: William Morrow
Intoduction to Feminism
Effort of Feminism
- John Charvet. (1982) Feminism. J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, Great Britain
Men's Movement
The Men's Perspective
In Science and Technology
In the workplace and at home
- Author Unknown. (2008) Briefing- Numbers. TIME, March 24th 2008, 10.
- G. Asha. (2005) The Science Glass Ceiling: Academic Women Scientists and the Struggle to Succeed- Journal of International Women's Studies Vol. 7 #2 November 2005, 214
- Feminists for Life of America. (1998) Work vs. Family- The American Feminist- Feminists for Life of America Vol.5 #2 Summer 1998, 3-14
- Time Inc. (2008) Drama Aside, Women Workers Still Struggle in Japan [Online, last viewed on 19 March 2008]
Available: http://time-blog.com/work_in_progress/2007/03/drama_aside_women_workers_stil.html
- INQUIRE.net, An Inquirer Company. (2008) Asian Women Struggle in the Workplace—UN [Online, last viewed on 19 March 2008]
Available: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=65218
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (2008) Men's movement [Online, last viewed on 20 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_Movement
- Michael Flood. (Year Unknown) Men's Movement- Men's Movement #46, 62-71 [Online PDF, last viewed on 20 March 2008]
Available: http://www.xyonline.net/downloads/Mensmovements.pdf
In politics
In the arts
- John Charvet. (1982) Feminism. J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, Great Britain
- Virginia Woolf. (2004) A Room of One's Own. Penguin Books Ltd, England
- Web Publisher Unknown. (Year Known) Stella Kon's Home Page [Online, last viewed on 22 March 2008]
Available: http://www.emilyofemeraldhill.com/index.html
- Warren Farrell, Ph.D. (2005)Dr Warren Farrell
Available: http://www.warrenfarrell.com/
- Walter Schneider. (2008) Sex and Politics, F-G — Index to books, reviews and articles - about sex, politics and the patriarchy [Online, last viewed on 22 March 2008]
Available: http://fathersforlife.org/sex_politics_4.htm
- Robert Bly. (2007) Robert Bly, American Poet [Online, last viewed on 22 March 2008]
Available: http://www.robertbly.com/index.html
- Kristin Switala. (1999) Griselda Pollock [Online, last viewed on 22 March 2008]
Available: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/pollock.html
- Web Publisher Unknown. (Year Unknown) Judy Chicago [Online, last viewed on 22 March 2008]
Available: http://www.judychicago.com/
- The-artists.org (2008) Amanda Heng [Online, last viewed on 22 March 2008]
Available: http://the-artists.org/artist/Amanda_Heng.html
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (2008) The Dinner Party [Online, last viewed on 22 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dinner_Party
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (2008) Barbara Loden [Online, last viewed on 22 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Loden
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (2008) Men's movement [Online, last viewed on 22 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_Movement
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (2008) Women's cinema [Online, last viewed on 22 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_cinema
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (2008) The Joy Luck Club [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_Luck_Club
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (2008) Top Girls [Online, last viewed on 22 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Girls
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (2008) A Doll's House [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Doll's_House
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (2008) The Colour Purple [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Purple
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (2008) Kate Millett [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Millett
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (2008) Germaine_Greer [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Greer
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (2008) Kate Chopin [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Chopin
Non-patriarchal Societies
Overview
Goddess Worship: The Great Goddess
- Columbia Electronic Encyclopaedia, 6th ed, Great Mother Goddess, 2007 [Online, last viewed on 24 February 2008]
Available: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0821675.html
- ReligiousTolerance.org, Goddess Worship: the real "old time religion?", 19 January 2008 [Online, last viewed on 24 February 2008]
Available: http://www.religioustolerance.org/goddess.htm
- Wikipedia, Mother goddess, 22 February 2008 [Online, last viewed on 24 February 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Goddess
- Wikipedia, Matriarchy, 13 February 2008 [Online, last viewed on 24 February 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matriarchies
- Miles, Rosalind. 2001, 'The Rise of the Phallus' in Who Cooked the Last Supper?: Women's History of the World, Three Rivers Press.
- Pomeroy, Sarah. 1975, Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves, New York: Schocken Books, p. 189.
Moya- K. Mason, Ancient Roman Women: A Look at their Lives, 2008 [Online, last viewed on 24 February 2008]
Available: http://www.moyak.com/researcher/resume/papers/roman_women.html
- The Concise Columbia Encyclopaedia, Great Mother of the Gods [Online, last viewed on 24 February 2008]
Available: http://deoxy.org/gaia/index.htm
- Wikipedia, Women in India, 24 February 2008 [Online, last viewed on 27 February 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_India
Goddess Worship: Goddess Worship in Modern Day
- DailyOM, Embracing the Goddess, Goddess Movement, 21 January 2005 [Online, last viewed on 12 March 2008]
Available: http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2005/341.html
- BBC, Religion & Ethics - Goddess Movement, 25 October 2004 [Online, last viewed on 12 March 2008]
Available: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/paganism/subdivisions/goddess.shtml
- Allen, Charlotte, Are the 'ancient' rituals of the Goddess movement 20th-century creations?, 2001 [Online, last viewed on 12 March 2008]
Available: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/63/story_6307_1.html
- Wikipedia, Goddess movement, 27 February 2008 [Online, last viewed on 11 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess_movement
Societies with Gender Equality: Ancient Sparta
- Hooker, Richard, Ancient Greece: Sparta, 6 June 1999 [Online, last viewed on 2 March 2008]
Available: http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/SPARTA.HTM
- H.D.Amos and A.G.P. Lang, Those were the Greeks - Sparta history, 11 October 1997 [Online, last viewed on 2 March 2008]
Available: http://www.laconia.org/sparti_h_1.htm
- Emuseum, Minnesota State University, Spartan Women, 2007 [Online, last viewed on 2 March 2008]
Available: http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/aegean/culture/womenofsparta.html
- Wikipedia, Sparta, 28 February 2008 [Online, last viewed on 2 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparta
- Schrader, Helena, Sparta Reconsidered - Spartan Women, - [Online, last viewed on 2 March 2008]
Available: http://elysiumgates.com/~helena/Women.html
- Fowler, Robin, The Women of Sparta: Athletic, Educated and Outspoken Radicals of the Greek World, 3 September 2006 [Online, last viewed on 2 March 2008]
Available: http://ancienthistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_women_of_sparta
Societies with Gender Equality: Ancient Egypt
- Crystal, Ellie, Women in Ancient Egypt, 7 March 2008 [Online, last viewed on 8 March 2008]
Available: http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptianwomen.html
- Thompson, James, Women in the Ancient World, November 2005 [Online, last viewed on 8 March 2008]
Available: http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/index.htm
- Seawright, Caroline, Women in Ancient Egypt, 10 February 2001 [Online, last viewed on 8 March 2008]
Available: http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/women_egypt.html
Societies with Gender Equality: Minoan Civilisation
- Lahanas, Michael, Minoan Civilization, 2007 [Online, last viewed on 4 March 2008]
Available: http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/History/Minoans.html
- Phantis, Minoan civilization, 17 January 2006 [Online, last viewed on 4 March 2008]
Available: http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Minoan_civilization
- Narada, Ty, Minoan and Mycenean Women, - [Online, last viewed on 4 March 2008]
Available: http://www.cyonic-nemeton.com/MinoanWomen.html
- Ninemsn Encarta, Minoan Civilization, 2007 [Online, last viewed on 4 March 2008]
Available: http://au.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761564658/Minoan_Civilization.html
Matrilineal Societies: Mosuo
- Lu Yuan, Sam Mitchell, Land of the Walking Marriage, November 2000 [Online, last viewed on 8 September 2007]
Available: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_9_109/ai_67410989
- Wikipedia, Mosuo, 8 September 2007 [Online, last viewed on 8 September 2007]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo
- James Randi Educational Foundation, A world without marriage, 3 September 2007 [Online, last viewed on 8 September 2007]
Available: http://www.randi.org/forumlive/showthread.php?t=85444
- Anitei, Stefan, Mosuo, One of the Last Matriarchal Societies, 23 September 2006 [Online, last viewed on 8 September 2007]
Available: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mosuo-One-of-the-Last-Matriarchal-Societies-36321.shtml
Gender Stereotypes
In Symbols
- A. Venefica, Chinese Yin Yang symbols, 2008, [Online, last viewed on 16 March 2008]
Available: http://www.whats-your-sign.com/yin-yang-symbols.html
- Emick, Jennifer, About.com, Alternative religions - The Secret Language of Symbols, 2008 [Online, last viewed on 16 March 2008]
Available: http://altreligion.about.com/library/weekly/aa062003a.htm
- Emick, Jennifer, About.com, Alternative religions - Seal of Solomon, 2008 [Online, last viewed on 16 March 2008]
Available: http://altreligion.about.com/library/glossary/symbols/bldefshexagram.htm
- Online Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms, Symbol 41a:7, 2006 [Online, last viewed on 16 March 2008]
Available: http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/41a/41a7.html
In Media
- Limpinnian, Danielle, The Portrayal of Men and Women in TV Ads, April 2002 [Online, last viewed on 16 March 2008]
Available: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/del0001.html
- Essays.cc, Stereotypes of Men in Advertisements, 2004 [Online, last viewed on 16 March 2008]
Available: http://www.essays.cc/free_essays/g2/dtb178.shtml
- Garst, Jennider, Galen V. Bodenhausen, Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, May 1997 [Online, last viewed on 16 March 2008]
Available: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2294/is_n9-10_v36/ai_19647328
- American Psychological Association, Science Blog, Cartoons Still Stereotype Gender Roles, 1997 [Online, last viewed on 16 March 2008]
Available: http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/1997/A/199700117.html
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Available: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/TF33120/gendertv.html#W
Crossing Boundaries
- The Age, Rise of the Metrosexual, 11 March 2003 [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/10/1047144914842.html
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Available: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metrosexual
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Available: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/new-words/040312-metrosexual.htm
- Wikipedia, Homosexuality, 20 March 2008 [Online, last viewed on 20 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality
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Available: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/androgyny
- Wikipedia, Androgyny, 19 March 2008 [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgyny
- Lee, Diana, UniOrb, Androgyny Becoming Global?, 2005 [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
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- Vasquez, Tina, LifeScript, A Look at Modern Day Androgynous Women, 2007 [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://www.lifescript.com/channels/healthy_living/life_tips/a_look_at_modern_day_androgynous_women.as...
In Times of War
Men and Women in Modern Warfare
Women Warriors in Ancient Times and Mythology
- About.com : Ancient/Classical History, Ancient Women Warriors, 2003 [Online, last viewed on 17 March 2008]
Available: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa032703a.htm
- Battle of the Amazons, Pieter Pauwel Rubens [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://historylink102.com/greece2/amazon_warriors.htm
- Distinguished Women of Past and Present, Joan of Arc, Danuta Bois, 1999 [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/joanarc.html
- Cleopatra, Daughter of the Pharaoh [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://www.royalty.nu/Africa/Egypt/Cleopatra.html
- Athena, Greek Goddess of wisdom and war [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://www.goddess.ws/athena.html
People's Voices
Featured Individuals: Benazir Bhutto
- National Geographic News, Thousands of Women Killed for Family "Honor", 12 February 2002, Hillary Mayell [Online, last viewed on 29 February 2008]
Available: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/02/0212_020212_honorkilling.html
- Human Rights from an Islamic Worldview, An outline of Hudud, Ta'zir & Qisas, Mohammed Salam Madkoar [Online, last viewed on 29 February 2008]
Available: http://www.muhajabah.com/docstorage/hudud.htm
- Wikipedia, Benazir Bhutto, 17 March 2008 [Online, last viewed on 19 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto
- Wikipedia, Honor Killing, 17 March 2008 [Online, last viewed on 19 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing
- Women Prime Ministers in South Asia, 1995, Sarojini Sharan, (Pg 74-111)
Featured Individuals: Warren Farrell
Featured Individuals: Eleanor Roosevelt
- Wikipedia, Eleanor Roosevelt, 19 March 2008 [Online, last viewed on 19 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt, A Passion to Improve, 1997, Ray Spangenburg & Diane K. Moser
- People and Events, Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962, 1999 [Online, last viewed on 20 March 2008]
Available: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande01.html
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Second Inaugrual Address, Washington DC, Wednesday January 20, 1937 [Online, last viewed on 21 March 2008]
Available: http://www.homeofheroes.com/presidents/inaugural/32_fdr_2.html
Featured Individuals: Margaret Mead
Featured Individuals: Simone de Beauvoir
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), 2006 [Online, last viewed on 29 March 2008]
Available: http://www.iep.utm.edu/b/beauvoir.htm
- Simone de Beauvoir, A Critical Reader, 1998, Edited by Elizabeth Fallaize
- Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony, 1999, Ursula Tidd
- Women of Ideas, Simone de Beauvoir, 1996, Mary Evans
- Interview with Simone de Beauvoir 1976, The second sex 25 years later, John Gerassi, 1976 [Online, last viewed on 20 March 2008]
Available: http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/1976/interview.htm
Others
Glossary
- Urban Dictionary, Ubersexual, 2008 [Online, last viewed on23 March 2008]
Available: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ubersexual
- The Middle East Information Network, The Countries of the Middle East, 2008 [Online, last viewed on 23 March 2008]
Available: http://www.mideastinfo.com/countries.html
- Wikipedia, South Asia, 21 March 2008[Online, last viewed on 23 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia
- Wikipedia, Human Development Index, 20 March 2008 [Online, last viewed on 23 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
- Wikipedia, Abaya, 23 February 2008 [Online, last viewed on 23 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaya
- Wikipedia, Men's movement, 8 March 2008 [Online, last viewed on 23 March 2008]
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men's_movement
- World Health Organization, Female genital mutilation, 2008 [Online, last viewed on 23 March]
Available: http://www.who.int/topics/female_genital_mutilation/en/
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