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Faculty of Humanities and Citizenship, Religious Studies Department

Morality in the Modern World: Gender

(That's the red folder, folks!)

This page is currently being updated.

When reading from any of the links you need to think carefully about any possible bias or agenda that the author and/or the organisation may have, and ensure that you read critically.

The links are organised under the following headings:

Morality in the Modern World: Area 1
Morality in the Modern World: Area 2: Gender

Area 1: The Relationship between Religion and Moral Values

[This part is required for Higher only]

The Euthyphro Dilemma:

Article: "The Euthyphro Dilemma", on The Philosophy of Religion website

Detailed article: Euthyphro's Dilemma, Stand to Reason. [Stand to Reason is a Christian website; the article goes into far more detail than you need for Higher.]

Religious Morality

Series of mini articles: "An Introduction to Christian Ethics", RE:Quest. [An education website for RE; basic level of information; in particular look at the sections Deciding What is Right: Protestants and Deciding What is Right: Roman Catholics]

Ethical Theories

Find out which moral philosopher you think like. Will you agree with Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, or Aristotle? Try this interactive quiz, To lie or not to lie?, from the Open University to find out.

Utilitarian Ethics

Article: "Consequentialism", BBC: Ethics. [Remember, utilitarianism is a particular sort of consequentialism.]

Kantian Ethics

Article: "Duty-based ethics", BBC: Ethics. [In particular, read the sections Kantian duty-based ethics and Kant's Categorical Imperative.]

Relationship between religion and morality:

Audio: Beyond Belief: A Secular Meaning to Life, BBC Radio 4. [Is there are relationship between belief and morality? Listen from 0:00:58 to 0:12:48 of this programme to hear a discussion of that question.]

Area 2: Gender: The Issues

Equality:

Website: Equals? - 'Join the Big Inequality Debate'.

Resource:"The Little Book of Big Debate Starters", Equals? website

Stereotyping:

Mini article: "What is a stereotype?", Media Awareness Network. [This is a Canadian organisation which provides resources on Media literacy.]

Discrimination:

Video: "Gender discrimination", EHRC. [Also, have a look at the video discussion notes for this video, especially the information and statistics on page 3.]

Area 2: Gender: Gender Issues in the UK (male and female):

UK Law:

Article: "Ten key questions about the Act", EHRC. [Information about the Equality Act 2010. Read questions 1-4.]

Article: "Sex discrimination: your rights at work", EHRC

Article: "Sex discrimination in education", EHRC

The EHRC:

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is a government funded national body that promotes and monitors human rights in the UK. You need to know what it is and what it does.

Website: "Equality and Human Rights Commission"

Media Stereotyping:

A series of short articles on gender stereotyping in the media on the website Media Awareness Network, a Canadian organisation promoting media literacy:

Media Stereotyping - Introduction

Media:

Article: "Is the media image of nursing damaging the profession?", BBC News

Articles: on-line videos affect how men view sex, worried about heavy internet use, BBC

Article: "How soap operas changed the world", BBC [How can the media have a positive influence on social issues like gender based discrimination? Read this article to find out.]

Media Advertising:

Article: "What makes ads controversial?", BBC

Article: "M&S Christmas TV ad 'offensive'", BBC

Article: "Oven cleaning advert 'not sexist'", BBC. The adjudication on this case by the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority)

Forced marriage:

Series of information articles: "Forced marriage", BBC Ethics

Historic roles of men and women in society and in the family:

Article: "Ideals of Womanhood in Victorian Britain", BBC History

Article: "20th Century Britain: The Woman's Hour", BBC History

Collections of video resources from the BBC Video Archive: Marriage in the 1950s and 60s | Second Wave Feminism: The campaign for women's rights in the 1970 s | Sexual Equality

UK Issues, News, and Views:

Articles about equal pay for council workers in Birmingham: "Unequal pay brings problems and pickets", "Female Birmingham council workers win '£600m pay claim'", BBC News