Resource lists for honors events

Resource lists for honors events

In Fall 2024, we heard four faculty panelists share their thoughts on the question “Has the sexual revolution brought us closer to or further from the common good?” Each of them also shared some readings they found instructive in considering this question. Below please find the books and articles they recommend.

Dr. Jenell Paris, Professor of Anthropology and Criminal Justice

• Tillie Olsen, Silences (Delacorte Press, 1978). In Murray Library’s collection.
• Estelle Freedman, ed., The Essential Feminist Reader (Modern Library, 2007). In Murray Library’s collection.
• Julie Phillips, The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Body Problem (W. W. Norton, 2023).
• Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species (‎Ballantine Books, 2000). In Murray Library’s collection.
• Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (W. W. Norton, 1963). In Murray Library’s collection.

Prof. Christine Perrin, Honors faculty member

• Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution (Polity, 2022). In Murray Library’s collection.
• Erik Varden, Chastity (Bloomsbury, 2023).
• Abigail Favale, The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory (Ignatius Press, 2022). In Murray Library’s collection.
• Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress (Regnery, 2023). In Murray Library’s collection.
• Romano Guardini, Learning the Virtues that Lead You to God (Werkbund-Verlag, 1963; republished Sophia Institute Press, 2013).
• Timothy Patitsas, The Ethics of Beauty (St. Nicholas Press, 2019). In Murray Library’s collection.
• Patricia Snow, “Taylor Swift’s Sexual Revolution,” First Things (November 2024).

 Dr. Samuel Smith, Professor of English

• Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays (Pantheon Books, 1993). In Murray Library’s collection.
• Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (Hogarth Press, 1929; republished HarperCollins, 1989). In Murray Library’s collection.

Dr. Philip Tan, Associate Professor of Engineering

• Lauren Winner, Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity (Brazos Press, 2005). In Murray Library’s collection.
• Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (Crossway, 2020).
• Carl Trueman, Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution (Crossway, 2022).