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Teaching Introduction to Women's Studies: Expectations and Strategies
by Barbara Scott Winkler, Carolyn DiPalma. 276 pgs.

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This edited collection addresses the institutional context and social issues in which teaching the women's studies introductory course is embedded and provides readers with practical classroom strategies to meet the challenges raised. The collection serves as a resource and preparatory text for all teachers of the course including experienced teachers, less experienced teachers, new faculty, and graduate student teaching assistants. The collection will also be of interest to educational scholars of feminist and progressive pedagogies and all teachers interested in innovative practices.

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Foreword: Knowledge and Resistance

Acknowledgments

Part I: INTRODUCTION

1: The Introductory Course: A Voice from the Broader Field of Women's Studies

Part II: OVERVIEWS/RESOURCES

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

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4: Reading Women's Lives: A New Database Resource for Teaching Introduction to Women's Studies

NOTES

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Part III THEORIZING EXPECTATIONS

5 Border Zones: Identification, Resistance, and Transgressive Teaching in Introductory Women's Studies Courses

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6: Revisiting the "Men Problem" in Introductory Women's Studies Classes

NOTES

7: "Is This Course Just about Opinions or What?" Scripted Questions as Indicators of Group Development in an Introduction to Women's Studies Class

APPENDIX B: PRESENTATION TOPICS

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8: Students' Fear of Lesbianism

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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

APPENDIX B: A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN STUDIES

APPENDIX B: A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN STUDIES

APPENDIX B: A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN STUDIES

11: Feminism in the Field of Local Knowledge: Decolonizing Subjectivities in Hawai'i

Part IV: APPLYING STRATEGIES

12: Cybergrrrl Education and Virtual Feminism: Using the Internet to Teach Introductory Women's Studies

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13: Webbed Women: Information Technology in the Introduction to Women's Studies Classroom

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14: Reading Glamour Magazine: The Production of "Woman"

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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

APPENDIX B: FINAL EXAM QUESTION

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17: The Outrageous Act as Gender Busting: An Experiential Challenge to Gender Roles

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18: Outrageous/Liberating Acts: Putting Feminism into Practice Ann Mussey, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Amy Kesselman, State University of New York, New Paltz

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Part V: CONCLUSION: UNDOING OUR HABITS

19: When Things Fall Apart

APPENDIX B: GUIDELINES FOR CLASS PARTICIPATION

APPENDIX B: GUIDELINES FOR CLASS PARTICIPATION

APPENDIX B: GUIDELINES FOR CLASS PARTICIPATION

APPENDIX B: GUIDELINES FOR CLASS PARTICIPATION

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Transforming the Curriculum: Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies
by Johnnella E. Butler, John C. Walter. 346 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Part I Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies: Interrelationships

Chapter 1 The Difficult Dialogue of Curriculum Transformation: Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies

Notes

Chapter 2 Funding Women's Studies

Chapter 3 Private Foundation Grants to American Ethnic Studies Departments and Programs, 1972-1988: Patterns and Prospects

Conclusions

Chapter 4 Different Voices: A Model Institute for Integrating Women of Color Into Undergraduate American Literature and History Courses

PART II The Cutting Edge of the Liberal Arts: Some Essentials in Pedagogy and Theory Building

Chapter 5 Transforming the Curriculum: Teaching About Women of Color

Notes

Chapter 6 Teaching "White Women, Racism and Anti-Racism" in a Women's Studies Program

Introduction

Appendix I Course Syllabus

Appendix II Course Bibliography

Appendix III Assignment

Appendix IV Anti-Racism

Appendix IV Anti-Racism

Chapter 7 Gender and the Transformation of a Survey Course in Afro-American History

Appendix A

Appendix B Department of Afro-American Studies: History of the Afro-American People Syllabus (1981)

Appendix C Afro-American Studies

Chapter 8 Black Studies in Liberal Arts Education

CHAPTER 8 Black Studies in Liberal Arts Education

Chapter 9 Towards an Epistemology of Ethnic Studies: African American Studies and Chicano Studies Contributions

Conclusions

NOTES

Chapter 10 Is Jewish Studies Ethnic Studies?

Chapter 11 The Politics of Jewish Invisibility in Women's Studies

CHAPTER 11 The Politics of Jewish Invisibility in Women's Studies

PART III The Cutting Edge of the Liberal Arts: Some Implications for Scholarship

Chapter 12 Gender in the Context of Race and Class

Notes

Chapter 13 Asian American Literary Traditions: Real vs. Fake

CHAPTER 13 Asian American Literary Traditions: Real vs. Fake

Chapter 14 Time and Time-Again: Notes Toward an Understanding of Radical Elements in American Indian Fiction

CHAPTER 14 Time and Time-Again: Notes Toward an Understanding of Radical Elements in American Indian Fiction1

Chapter 15 The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window: Toward a Transformative Aesthetic

CHAPTER 15 The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window: Toward a Transformative Aesthetic

Chapter 16 Armenian American Women: The First Word . . .

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Part IV Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, and the Liberal Arts Curriculum: Retrospect and Prospect

Chapter 17 A Black Feminist Perspective on the Academy

Notes

Chapter 18 A Critical Assessment of Bloom: The Closing of an American Mind?

CHAPTER 18 A Critical Assessment of Bloom: The Closing of an American Mind?

Chapter 19 Praxis and the Prospect of Curriculum Transformation

Contributors

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On Teaching and Learning: Designed Environments and Women's Studies, in NWSA Journal
by Joan Rothschild. 17 pgs.

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Feminism in Action: Building Institutions and Community through Women's Studies
by Jean Fox O'Barr. 302 pgs.

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FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction On Parlors and Portraits

PART ONE Listening

Chapter 1 Lifelong Learning the Duke Experience

Chapter 2 Reentry Women in the Academy the Contributions of a Feminist Perspective

Chapter 3 Women and the Politics of Knowledge

Chapter 4 What Does It Mean to Be an Educated Person? Voices from the Duke Experience

PART TWO Explaining

Chapter 5 Why Do We Need Women's Studies? Questions from Students in the 1980s

Chapter 6 the Necessity of Women's Studies in a Liberal Arts Education

Chapter 7 How the Inquiry into Women's Studies Grew

Chapter 8 Understanding Women's Diversities and Commonalities

PART THREE Teaching

Chapter 9 "Just an Experiment for My Women's Studies Class" Female Students and the Culture of Gender

Chapter 10 Assessing Curriculum Transformation Through Student Observations

Chapter 11 Finding a Voice, Taking a Position Documenting Learning in Women's Studies

Chapter 12 Getting into the Conversation Feminist Thought and the Transformation of Knowledge

PART FOUR Organizing

Chapter 13 What is It like to Edit Signs?

Chapter 14 Educating Beyond the Walls the Politics of Influence and Fundraising for Women's Studies

Chapter 15 Things You Can Never Prove in Court, Things the Human Psyche Never Misses

Chapter 16 Rethinking Teaching and Learning the "We-They" Dichotomy

Chapter 17 Women's Studies as a Discipline

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A Question of Discipline: Pedagogy, Power, and the Teaching of Cultural Studies
by Joyce E. Canaan, Debbie Epstein. 214 pgs.

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"The discipline of cultural studies compels teachers-paradoxically & politically-to undo the very processes of knowledge production that they engage in as teachers. The contributors to this collection are at their best when they use their day-to-day struggles as teachers to inform their responses to this pedagogical challenge." Elizabeth Ellsworth University of Wisconsin at Madison

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1: Questions of Discipline/ Disciplining Cultural Studies

Notes

References

2: Theory, Area Studies, Cultural Studies: Issues of Pedagogy in Multiculturalism

Notes

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3: Doing Cultural Studies in Colleges of Education

Notes

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4: Teaching Without Guarantees: Cultural Studies, Pedagogy, and Identity

Notes

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5: 'It Ain't like Any Other Teaching': Some Versions of Teaching Cultural Studies

Notes

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6: Mediating Desire: Visual Representation, Power, and Informed Consent in Teaching Feminist Cultural Studies

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7: Teaching/Cultural Studies (or Pedagogy for 'World'-Travellers/ 'World'-Travelling Pedagogy)

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8: Mirrors, Paintings, and Romances

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9: Examining the Examination: Tracing the Effects of Pedagogic Authority on Cultural Studies Lecturers and Students

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10: The Voice of Authority: on Lecturing in Cultural Studies

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11: All Roads Lead to . . . Problems with Discipline

Notes

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About the Book and Editors

About the Contributors

Index
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The Impact of Women's Studies Courses on College Students of the 1990s, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research
by Karen L. Harris, Kari Melaas, Edyth Rodacker. 9 pgs.

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Women's Studies Classes and Their Influence on Student Development, in Adolescence
by Heather E. Macalister. 9 pgs.

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Women's Studies Faculty at the Intersection of Institutional Power and Feminist Values, in Journal of Higher Education
by Deborah A. Burghardt, Carol L. Colbeck. 29 pgs.

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"A Sense of Discovery, Mixed with a Sense of Justice": Creating the First Women's Studies Program in Canada, in NWSA Journal
by Annette Kolodny. 22 pgs.

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A Question of Discipline: Pedagogy, Power, and the Teaching of Cultural Studies (Chap. 6 "Mediating Desire: Visual Representation, Power, and Informed Consent in Teaching Feminist Cultural Studies")
by Joyce E. Canaan, Debbie Epstein. 214 pgs.

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"The discipline of cultural studies compels teachers-paradoxically & politically-to undo the very processes of knowledge production that they engage in as teachers. The contributors to this collection are at their best when they use their day-to-day struggles as teachers to inform their responses to this pedagogical challenge." Elizabeth Ellsworth University of Wisconsin at Madison

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Contents

Acknowledgments

1: Questions of Discipline/ Disciplining Cultural Studies

Notes

References

2: Theory, Area Studies, Cultural Studies: Issues of Pedagogy in Multiculturalism

Notes

References

3: Doing Cultural Studies in Colleges of Education

Notes

References

4: Teaching Without Guarantees: Cultural Studies, Pedagogy, and Identity

Notes

References

5: 'It Ain't like Any Other Teaching': Some Versions of Teaching Cultural Studies

Notes

References

6: Mediating Desire: Visual Representation, Power, and Informed Consent in Teaching Feminist Cultural Studies

Notes

References

7: Teaching/Cultural Studies (or Pedagogy for 'World'-Travellers/ 'World'-Travelling Pedagogy)

Notes

References

8: Mirrors, Paintings, and Romances

Notes

References

9: Examining the Examination: Tracing the Effects of Pedagogic Authority on Cultural Studies Lecturers and Students

Notes

References

10: The Voice of Authority: on Lecturing in Cultural Studies

Notes

References

11: All Roads Lead to . . . Problems with Discipline

Notes

References

About the Book and Editors

About the Contributors

Index
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Unruly Knowledge: Women's Studies and the Problem of Disciplinarity, in NWSA Journal
by Marilyn J. Boxer. 11 pgs.

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Archive Survival Guide: Practical and Theoretical Approaches for the Next Century of Women's Studies Research, in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
by Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman, Elizabeth Engelhardt, Frances Smith Foster, Laura Micham. 11 pgs.

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