Encompassing Gender: Integrating Area Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Women's Studies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558612696 ISBN 13: 9781558612693

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2001

Synopsis

From Beijing to Seattle, women's movements within academe and in local-global communities are growing at an unprecedented rate, raising pointed questions about paradigms of Western feminism, development, global trade, and scholarship. In this long-awaited anthology of more than 40 essays, a host of scholars lead the way often in defiance of academic traditions and prejudices to a curriculum that reflects consequences of globalization.

Knowing that one cannot simply add” gender or international elements to curricula and stir,” these scholar-teachers promote the discovery of more diverse and global perspectives, not only innovative in their approach but essential to our understandings. Strategies for focus are key, as, for example, in an interesting course in Italian studies that compares and contrasts the exodus of Italians to the United States in the early twentieth century with the current influx of African immigrants into Italy.

The volume includes essays, course syllabi, annotated bibliographies and videographies, as well as novel teaching strategies and suggestions for a variety of international materials. The contributors take a fully integrated approach to such transformational curricular work, recommending both theoretical perspectives and specific strategies for teaching in many different kinds of classrooms. Like notes from the front lines of an academic movement, these accounts speak candidly to the frustrations experienced and the strategies employed as they work to challenge traditional us” and them” asymmetries both in the classroom and in the larger world.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Contributors include:

Edna Acosta-Belén A. Lynn Bolles Joseph M. Cirrincione David William Cohen Doris Friedensohn Martha E. Geores Beverly Guy-Sheftall Helen Kreider Johnson Amy Kaminsky Wendy Kolmar Valentine M. Moghadam Barbara Rubin Naomi Scheman Sandra D. Shattuck Eric S. Sheppard Filomina C. Steady Abigail J. Stewart

About the Author:

Mary Lay is a professor at University of Minnesota and author of The Rhetoric of Midwifery and coeditor of Body talk: Rhetoric, Technology and Reproduction. Janice Monk is Executive Director of the Southwest Institute for Research on Women and a professor at University of Arizona. Deborah Rosenfelt directs the Curriculum Transformation Project and is a professor at University of Maryland.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1558612696
• ISBN 13: 9781558612693
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 468
• Editor: Lay Mary, Monk Janice, Rosenfelt Deborah