| Encompassing Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women's Studies Contributor(s): Lay, Mary (Editor), Monk, Janice (Editor), Rosenfelt, Deborah (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1558612696 ISBN-13: 9781558612693 Publisher: Feminist Press OUR PRICE: $26.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2001 Annotation: Presented with the task of preparing students for life in a rapidly shrinking world, even scholars teaching in cross-disciplinary areas like women's studies may find themselves overwhelmed by the need to cross disciplinary and geographic borders-often in defiance of academic traditions and prejudices. And some faculty are leading the way to a curriculum that reflects the forces of globalization. "Encompassing Gender" is an anthology of more than 40 essays by 60 scholars, many of them working in groups that cut across the humanities, the sciences, and the social sciences, all of them committed to an interdisciplinary approach to internationalizing the curriculum. These scholar-teachers promote the discovery of more diverse and global perspectives. Strategies for focus are key. 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. Mary M. Lay served as the director of the Center for Advanced Feminist and is now professor of rhetoric at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Janice Monk is executive director of the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW) and adjunct professor of geography at the University of Arizona. Deborah S. Rosenfelt is professor of women's studies and director of the Curriculum Transformation Project at the University of Maryland, College Park. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.407 |
| LCCN: 2002020624 |
| Physical Information: 1.62" H x 6.04" W x 9.14" (1.86 lbs) 563 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |