Media

Critiquing Mass Media

• Manufacturing Consent (documentary)
• Independent Media In A Time of War – Amy Goodman (documentary)
• OUTFOXED : Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
• Mayhem: Violence As Public Entertainment (book)
• The Evolution of the Media and the Rise of Public Relations (article)
• Independent Media and Objectivity: An Interview with Robert Jensen(article)

Media and Critical Thinking

• How to Be a Critical Media Viewer
• Deconstructing a Video Advertisement
• Deconstructing an Advertisement

Statistics

• Facts about Media Consumption

Organizations

• Democracy Now!
• The Center for Media and Democracy
• Media Education Foundation
• Project Censored

Taking Action

• 20 Ways to Become a Media Activist

Men and Masculinity

Key Books

• The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love, by bell hooks
• Feminism is for Everybody , by bell hooks
• Men and Feminism, by Shira Tarrant
• Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power, by Shira Tarrant
• The Guy’s Guide to Feminism, by Michael Kaufman and Michael Kimmel

Video on Men and Masculinity

• Tough Guise (Jackson Katz) (7 minute clip here)
• HipHop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes  (Available online here) A documentary examining representations of gender roles in hip-hop and rap music through the lens of filmmaker Byron Hurt, a former college quarterback turned activist. Conceived as a “loving critique” from a self-proclaimed “hip-hop head,” Hurt examines issues of masculinity, sexism, violence and homophobia in today’s hip-hop culture

Websites

• American Men’s Studies Association
• Feminist Masculinity Facebook page

Video on Men and Sports

• Not Just a Game (preview here)
• Football High (Frontline documentary)
• Money and March Maddness (Frontline documentary)
• Big Time Loosers
• Sis, boom, bust: The high cost of college sports

Veganism

The routine consumption of animal-based food products raises at least three questions: Is such a diet healthy for humans? How does animal-based food production impact the environment? And is it morally justifiable to consume animal-based products when alternative food sources are available?
Health Issues
Videos

• Forks Over Knives (2011)
• T. Colin Campbell Ph.D. on Diet and Health
• Making the Connection: Nutrition
• Mad Cowboy: The Documentary

Reports

• Meat Eater’s Guide (2011). Environmental Working Group. “Meat and Your Health“

Books

• The China Study by T. Colin Campbell (2005)
• Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure by Caldwell B. Esselstyn (2008)
• MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won’t Eat Meat (2001)
• No More Bull!: The Mad Cowboy Targets America’s Worst Enemy: Our Diet (2005)

Environmental Impact
Videos

• Making the Connection: Environment

Reading

• Meat Eater’s Guide (2011). Environmental Working Group. “Waste and Processing.” “Reducing Your Footprint“
• Global warming and Meat
• Pollution and Meat
• Extinction of Species and Meat
• Fossil Fuels, Water and Meat
•  Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, UN report warns (11/26/2006
• Livestock a major threat to environment (11/29/2006)
• Livestock’s long shadow: Environmental Issues and Options (2006)

Moral Consideration of Animals
Videos

• Meet Your Meat (12 minute documentary on standard factory farming practices)
• Earthlings
• Peaceable Kingdom (2009)
• Farm to Fridge (12 minutes, like Meet Your Meat)
• Making the Connection: Ethics

Thought Provoking Movies

• Babe (family movie that raises ethical questions about animals)

Reading

• Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer
• Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good, by Jonathan P. Balcombe

What do Vegans Eat?
Resources

• Ethical Eating
• Free Vegetarian Starter Kit
• Vegan Food Pyramid
• Vegan Cooking Videos
• Making the Connection: Food

Cookbooks

• The Compassionate Cook
• The Happy Herbivore Cookbook
• Giant Book of Tofu Cooking
• Lick It! Creamy, Dreamy Vegan Ice Creams
• Vegan Pie in the Sky
• Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar
• Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World

Childbirth

Films:

• The Business of Being Born. 2007. RickiLake and Abby Epstein.
• Birth As We Know It. 2006. Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova. The Sentient Circle. (Clip here)

Reports:

• Amnesty International. March 2010. Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Health Care Crisis in the USA.
• Childbirth Connection. February 2, 2010. Cesarean Section: Why Does the National U.S. Cesarean Section Rate Keep Going Up?
• Public Citizen. Cesarean Sections Are Overused in New York, Giving the State One of Highest C-Section Rates in the Country. 21 April 2010 :
• Beck, Cheryl T. 2004. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Due to Childbirth: The Aftermath. Nursing Research 53 (4): 216-224

Books:

• Block, Jennifer. 2007. Pushed, the painful truth about childbirth and modern maternity care. Cambridge, MA.: De Capo Press.
• Davis-Floyd, Robbie, Lesley Barclay, Betty-Anne Daviss, and Jan Tritten. 2009. Birth Models That Work. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
• Strong, Thomas H., Jr., M.D. 2000. Expecting Trouble: The Myth of Prenatal Care inAmerica.New York.New York: University Press.
• Turkel, Kathleen Doherty. 1995. Women, Power, and Childbirth: A Case Study of a Free-StandingBirthCenter. Westport: Bergin & Garvey. GreenwoodeBooks. 20 May 2009:
• Wertz, Richard W. and Dorothy. 1989. Lying-In, A History of Childbirth in America.New Haven:YaleUniversity Press.

News:

• Associated Press. C-section rates around globe at ‘epidemic’ levels. 12 January 2010.
• BBC. 2009. US scandal of women dying in childbirth. 26 October 2009.
• Palm Beach Post. 2008. Rise in C-sections stirs health worry.

Homebirth:

• Nall, Jeffrey. 2009. “The Feminism of Birth.” In Beyond Burning Bras.
• Nall, Jeffrey, 2013. “Mother Beware: Perilous Scholarly and News Media Discourse around Homebirth.” The International Journal of Communication and Health.” Fall 2013, Vol 1, no 2.
• Johnson, Kenneth C, Betty-Anne Daviss.  2005. Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional  midwives: large prospective study in North America.  BMJ 2005
• CNN Health. 2011. Home births at highest level since 1990. May 20.
• Elton,  Catherine. 2010. “American Women: Birthing Babies at Home.”Time, September 4. Curtis, Beth Leianne. Believe in Birth
• Curtis, Beth Leianne. 2008. “Believe In Birth: Reflections of a home birth midwife; Green Birthing: The Triple Bottom Line.” Natural Life,July/August