Jeffrey Nall, Ph.D.
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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
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