The Lenses of Gender

I designed this image as a front cover for a short story I wrote for a friend’s daughter. Both the story and the image have been heavily influenced by Sandra Lipsitz-Bem’s book The Lenses of Gender. I was also influenced by her class “Psychology of Sex Roles” which I took as an undergraduate at Cornell. I recommend the book if you are at all interested in the psychology of gender roles in western culture!

“I once scoffed at naps: the crutch of the weak! Why nap when there’s coffee? Then I struck upon a singular observation: there can be nap, then coffee. This simple construction changed things forever.”—James Lileks (The Bleat)