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).
- Estelle Freedman, ed., The Essential Feminist Reader (Modern Library, 2007).
- 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).
- Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (W. W. Norton, 1963).
Prof. Christine Perrin, Honors faculty member
- Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution (Polity, 2022).
- Erik Varden, Chastity (Bloomsbury, 2023).
- Abigail Favale, The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory (Ignatius Press, 2022).
- Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress (Regnery, 2023).
- 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).
Dr. Samuel Smith, Professor of English
- Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays (Pantheon Books, 1993).
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (Hogarth Press, 1929; republished HarperCollins, 1989).
Dr. Philip Tan, Associate Professor of Engineering
- Lauren Winner, Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity (Brazos Press, 2005).
- 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).