Resources
Bibliography for Teachers
Almeida, Paul. Social Movements. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520964846. This is a good resource to understand how social movements function and the terminology to use.
Anderson, Sini, et al. The Punk Singer: a documentary film about Kathleen Hanna. 2014. Use this documentary to show clips of Kathleen Hanna and actual footage of Riot Grrrls. This will be a powerful source to help get students excited about this particular movement.
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.
Atwood, Margaret. The Testaments. New York: Anchor Books, 2019. You can bring in excerpts of this sequel to help students better understand social movements. Use these specific passages: Page 45 which shows the propaganda surrounding Baby Nicole. Pages 48-49, 51-52 show protests outside of Gilead.
Boyle, Amy. “‘They Should Have Never Given Us Uniforms if They Didn't Want Us to be an Army’:The Handmaid's Tale as Transmedia Feminism." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45 (4): 845-870. 06/01/2020. doi:10.1086/707798. This article explains how influential the TV series has become to the Fourth Wave of feminism.
Comstock, Michelle. "Grrrl Zine Networks: Re-Composing Spaces of Authority, Gender, and Culture." JAC 21, no. 2 (2001): 383-409. Accessed June 26, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20866409. This discusses how zines were used to create a network to help unify the message of the Riot Grrrl movement.
The Handmaid’s Tale. Created by Bruce Miller. Hulu, 2017. You can use powerful clips from the series to help enhance the study of social movements through reading the novel.
Garrison, Ednie Kaeh. "U.S. Feminism-Grrrl Style! Youth (Sub)Cultures and the Technologics of the Third Wave." Feminist Studies 26, no. 1 (2000): 141-70. Accessed June 26, 2021. doi:10.2307/3178596. This article has a wealth of information about Riot Grrrls along with images of zines.
Loudermilk, Kim A.. Fictional Feminism : How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality. Florence: Taylor & Francis Group, 2004. Accessed May 1, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central. This book has an interesting chapter about The Handmaid’s Tale and how it is work that seems pro-feminist, but is really a bleak picutre of the feminist movement.
Marcus, Sara. Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution. Harper, 2010. This book uses the biographies of major Riot Grrrl leaders to tell the story of this movement's creation and impact. Again, this book contains photos of Riot Grrrls and their zines that could be used in the classroom.
Moeggenberg, Zarah, PhD. and Samantha L. Solomon PhD. "Power, Consent, and the Body: #MeToo and The Handmaid’s Tale." Gender Forum no. 70 (2018): 4-25. https://search.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/power-consent-body-metoo-handmaid-s-tale/docview/2167787956/se-2?accountid=15172. Another article that explains the connection of the Hulu TV series to the #metoo movement.
Rector-Aranda, Amy and Miriam Raider-Roth. "‘I Finally Felt Like I had Power’: Student Agency and Voice in an Online and Classroom-Based Role-Play Simulation: Association for Learning Technology Journal." Research in Learning Technology 23, (2015). doi:http://dx.doi.org.yale.idm.oclc.org/10.3402/rlt.v23.25569. https://www-proquest-com.yale.idm.oclc.org/scholarly-journals/i-finally-felt-like-had-power-student-agency/docview/2121431919/se-2?accountid=15172. This article explains the importance and rationale for using simulation and role-play in the classroom.
“Social Action.” Accessed June 26, 2021. https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/assessment/promotion-strategies/systems-advocacy-and-community-organizing/main. A great website that lists social movement strategies and tactics.
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