Teaching introduction to women's studies : expectations and strategies / Barbara Scott Winkler and Carolyn DiPalma, co-editors ; foreword by Frances Maher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Winkler, Barbara Scott.

DiPalma, Carolyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's studies--United States.

Women's studies.

Women's studies--Study and teaching--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Aimed at both new and more experienced teachers of introductory courses in women's studies, this collection of works provides overviews, resources and classroom applications. At the same time, it offers them opportunities to reflect on transformation of context, population and content.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; 1 The Introductory Course A Voice from the Broader Field of Women's Studies; 2 The Ideologue the Pervert and the Nurturer or Negotiating Student Perceptions in Teaching Introductory Women's Studies Courses; 3 Conceptualizing the Introduction to Women's Studies Course at the Community College; 4 Reading Women's Lives A New Database Resource for Teaching Introduction to Women's Studies; 5 Border Zones: Identification, Resistance, and Transgressive; 6 Revisiting the Men Problem in Introductory Women's Studies Classes

7 Is This Course Just about Opinions or What Scripted Questions as Indicators of Group Development in an Introduction to Women's Studies Class8 Students Fear of Lesbianism; 9 When I Look at You I Don't See Race and Other Diverse Tales from the Introduction to Women's Studies Classroom; 10 Inter Racial Teaching Teams Antiracism and the Politics of White Resistance Teaching Introduction to Women Studies at a Predominantly White Research Institution; 11 Feminism in the Field of Local Knowledge Decolonizing Subjectivities in Hawai i

12 Cybergrrrl Education and Virtual Feminism Using the Internet to Teach Introductory Women's Studies13 Webbed Women Information Technology in the Introduction to Women's Studies Classroom; 14 Reading Glamour Magazine The Production of Woman; 15 MY FATHER'S WASP Spelling the Dimensions of Difference; 16 Encouraging Feminism Teaching The Handmaid's Tale in the Introductory Women's Studies Classroom; 17 The Outrageous Act as Gender Busting An Experiential Challenge to Gender Roles; 18 Outrageous Liberating Acts Putting Feminism into Practice; 19 When Things Fall Apart; References; Index

About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-254) and index.

ISBN:

9798216023043

9786610913572

9781280913570

1280913576

9780313002106

031300210X

OCLC:

55135561