Paper # 2 annotated bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Ashe, Fidelma. The New Politics of Masculinity: Men, Power and Resistance. London: Routledge, 2007. Print.

Fidelma Ashe is a current instructor of at the University of Ulster where she teachers Political Ideologies, Political Theory and Political Identities, and American Politics. She has written a number of published works on politics and gender roles and got her BSSc at Belfast University followed by her PHD. In this book she outlines the issues surrounding men and masculinity with respect to the political effects of feminism in the new world. This work is meant to explain how the new politics of masculinity is rooted in the claim that the social, political and economic conditions of capitalist societies have " exerted pressure on men's traditional roles and identities, producing a generation of men less secure than their fathers were about their place and function in society"(1). Meant for people seeking an explanation to how and why this apparent decline in men's confidence in society is being manifested. This is relevant to my topic because it outlines the limitations created for the opposite sex, by the opposite sex. It illuminates a question where the answer is in the question itself.

Beauchamp, Zack. "Fox News Op-Ed Says Women’s Nature Is To Be Dominated By Men."ThinkProgress RSS. N.p., 7 Dec. 2012. Web. 10 Dec. 2012.

Zack Baeuchamp is a reporter for thinkprogress.org. He has contributed to Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish, Foreign Policy and Tablet magazines. He has 2 B.A’s in Political Science and Philosophy from Brown university and an M.Sc in International Relations from the London School of Economics. His audience in this piece about women’s anti-feminism is for both men and women who clearly don’t agree with the notion and find it typical of Fox News. This is different from my piece from Jason Easley because it illuminates the intricacies of Fox New’s fallacy. It shows why Fox news is losing credibility and why they are going down every year. For my thesis, it amplifies the idea that Fox is run by a masculine driven agenda that simply uses a tool like Fox News to spit it’s conservative garbage.

Easley, Jason. "Viewers Continue To Flee Fox News as Ratings Drop for a Second Straight Year." PoliticusUSA. N.p., 19 Mar. 2012. Web. 10 Dec. 2012.

Jason Easley is a regular contributor the Politicususa website. He has written numerous articles on Fox news, conservatism and general bologna we have been getting from the far right. Easley writing this article on Fox news to his fellow Fox haters as one more thing to be disgusted by Fox with. This work helps me centralize my topic around my intended audience: Rupert Murdoch. It is gives my paper credibility in stating facts about Fox and it’s demographic decline and how that can be related to it’s bias, amateur journalism that is clearly lying to it’s viewers and how that is a byproduct of the sexist ownership and obvious subordination to it’s agenda.

"Women in Parliaments: World Classification." Women in Parliaments: World Classification. N.p., 31 Oct. 2012. Web. 10 Dec. 2012.

Women in national parliaments is a trusted statistic website that gives information on various governmental functions worldwide. It shows how there is still a large gap between equality in Government but there are places in the world that are beginning to turn more feminist and have benefitted for it. This website helps back up the idea that the world is run by men and they have not done enough to solve problems. The audience for this site is most likely curious folks like myself who like information on the global state of the world’s governments.