Glass Cages of Emotion
The gendered nature of emotion, emotional labour, and how these assumptions could literally harm you at the doctor’s.
Relevant articles:
A Honeypot For Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failure To Stop Harassment - Charlie Warzel (11/8/2016), Buzzfeed
Steve Price slammed for calling female journalist ‘hysterical’ during violence against women debate - SBS News (12/7/2016), SBS
An epic journey for men to talk about emotions - Sarah Berry (21/4/2016), Sydney Morning Herald.
(Academic) Housework: The Engine of Science (& Society) - Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (23/2/2016), Medium
’Women are just better at this stuff’: is emotional labor feminism’s next frontier? - Rose Hackman (8/11/2015), The Guardian
How Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously - Joe Fassler (15/10/2015), The Atlantic.
Why Women Apologize and Should Stop - Sloane Crosely (23/6/2015), The New York Times
Meet Del Harvey, Twitter’s Troll Patrol - Kashmir Hill (2/6/2014), Forbes
The silent epidemic of male suicide - Dan Bilsker, Jennifer White (12/2011) BCMJ 53(10): 529-534
Podcast episodes from other podcasts that are relevant:
The Sawbones episode on hysteria gives you a nice background to the medical history of this term.
Other media we referenced:
We should all be feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TEDxEuston
Bad Feminist - Roxanne Gay (2014)
9 Non-Threatening Leadership Strategies for Women (The Cooper Review)