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

by Lay, Mary M.; Monk, Janice J.; Rosenfelt, Deborah Silverton

• ISBN13: 9781558612686
• ISBN10: 1558612688
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

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. Despite this growing visibility, the perspectives of far too many women, especially from the Global South, are still excluded from mainstream U.S. scholarship. Presented with the task of preparing students for life in this new and rapidly shrinking world, many scholars have found themselves overwhelmed by the need to cross disciplinary and geographic borders. But some faculty are leading the way -- often in defiance of academic traditions and prejudices -- to a curriculum that reflects consequences of globalization. Encompassing Gender is the long-awaited anthology of more than 40 essays by 60 scholars, many of them working in curriculum-transformation groups that cut across the humanities, the sciences, and the social sciences, all of them committed to an interdisciplinary approach to internationalizing the curriculum.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(20)
Deborah S. Rosenfelt
Janice Monk
Mary M. Lay
PART 1. THE CHANGING SHAPE OF KNOWLEDGE
Cartographies of Scholarship: The Ends of Nation-States, International Studies, and the Cold War	21	(25)
Barbara Burton
Nouray Ibryamova
Ranjana Khanna
Dyan Ellen Mazurana
S. Lily Mendoza
Ethnic and Gender Encounters: A Hemispheric Approach to Latin American and U.S. Latino(A) Studies	46	(21)
Edna Acosta-Belen
Shifting Contexts: Lessons from Integrating Black, Gender, and African Diaspora Studies	67	(14)
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Understanding Women's Concerns in the International Setting Through the Lens of Science and Technology	81	(20)
Amy Koerber
Mary M. Lay
Globalizations, TV Technologies, and the Re-production of Sexual Identities: Teaching Highlander and Xena in Layers of Locals and Globals	101	(24)
Katie King
PART 2. REFLECTIONS ON TEACHING: STRUGGLES, SETBACKS, SUCCESSES
Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries in the Classroom
Inserting Women's Voices and Feminist Perspectives into an Undergraduate World Population Course	125	(8)
Helga Leitner
(En)Gendering Development, Race(ing) Women's Studies: Core Issues in Teaching Gender and Development	133	(20)
Geeta Chowdhry
Cecilia Menjivar
Integrating Gender into the International Relations Curriculum	153	(9)
Mary M. Lay
Caesar Farah
Lisette Josephides
Angelita Reyes
Eileen B. Sivert
Constance A. Sullivan
Margaret Wade
Women and the Environment: Global Processes--Local Lives	162	(6)
Helen Ruth Aspaas
Teaching Globalization, Gender, and Culture	168	(12)
Deborah S. Rosenfelt
MigrantScapes: Reading Italian Diaspora	180	(9)
Susanna F. Ferlito
Asking New Questions About Women's Lives
Deviance, Delinquency, and Social Reform in Latin America, 1870--1945: A History Course	189	(14)
Katherine Elaine Bliss
Today's Changing World: Human Geography	203	(12)
Eric Sheppard
Gendering and Globalizing Social Movements	215	(10)
Valentine M. Moghadam
Mainstreaming Women's Ecological Concerns and Feminist Perspectives on Global Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Development	225	(8)
Filomina Chioma Steady
On Swamps, Helicopters, Corkscrews, and Cooking: Reflections on Internationalizing Feminist Thought and Theory	233	(12)
Naomi B. Scheman
Seeing Commonalities and Differences
Creating a Course in International Feminist Theory	245	(20)
Mary M. Lay
Maria Brewer
Andre Lardinois
William Mishler
Naomi B. Scheman
Jacquelyn N. Zita
Kris Misage
Creating an International Perspective on Local Activism	265	(7)
Judith McDaniel
Making ``Racialized Misogyny'' Visible: Internationalizing Women and Violence	272	(15)
Heather S. Dell
Feminisms Cross-Culturally: Exploring Women's Worlds	287	(14)
Helen Johnson
Transforming ``Them'' into ``Us'': Some Dangers in Teaching Women and Development	301	(10)
Cynthia A. Wood
Internationalizing Feminist Pedagogies	311	(11)
Amy Kaminsky
Talking Turkey: Cultural Exchanges via E-Mail Between Students at New Jersey City University and Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey	322	(13)
Doris Friedensohn
Barbara Rubin
Rethinking Literatures and Cultures
The Voices of Women in Ancient Greek Literature and Society	335	(9)
Andre Lardinois
Latin American and Latina Women Dramatists	344	(9)
Wilma Feliciano
Bridging the Borders: Latina and Latin American Women Writers	353	(16)
Isabel Valiela
PART 3. CURRICULAR RESOURCES: STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE
Innovative Techniques for Teaching with International and Gendered Perspectives
What Counts? Critical Analysis of Statistical Indicators	369	(5)
Janice Monk
Sensitizing Students to Problems in Survey Research: Work in Rural Chad	374	(22)
Helen Henderson
Investigating the Transnational Dimensions of Class, Race, Gender, and Sexual Identity: Engaging Students in Research	396	(8)
Linda Pershing
Writing Across Borders: An Exercise for Internationalizing the Women's Studies Classroom	404	(9)
Julie K. Daniels
Simulating Cultural Dissonance: A Role-Playing Exercise	413	(7)
Martha E. Geores
Joseph M. Cirrincione
Model Programs for an Internationalized Study of Women
Ways of Reading: A Faculty Development Project at the University of Minnesota	420	(4)
Mary M. Lay
Internationalizing and ``Engendering'' The Curriculum at the University of Maryland	424	(6)
Deborah S. Rosenfelt
A. Lynn Bolles
Productive Tensions: Global Processes, Local Lives at the University of Arizona	430	(6)
Kimberly Jones
Genders, Bodies, Borders: A Theme Semester Report at the University of Michigan	436	(5)
Abigail J. Stewart
Key Conceptual Questions and Strategies for Faculty Development
Differences Among Women---International Perspectives: Discussion Points from a Faculty Seminar	441	(11)
David William Cohen
Abigail J. Stewart
Suggestions for Teachers Undertaking Curriculum Transformation	452	(4)
Wendy Kolmar
Deborah S. Rosenfelt
Janice Monk
Culturally Challenging Practices and Pedagogical Strategies	456	(3)
Deborah S. Rosenfelt
Collective Brainstorming: Using Scenarios to Address Contentious Issues in Curriculum Change	459	(9)
Sandra D. Shattuck
Kimberly Jones
Janice Monk
Amy Newball
Guides to Electronic, Statistical, and Visual Resources
Electronic Resources for Global-Local Teaching and Research	468	(14)
Ruth Dickstein
International Sources for Statistics on Women	482	(8)
Denise Mogge
From Course Revision to Curriculum Transformation in Graduate Education	490	(10)
Amy Newball
Diane Riskedahl
Women Around the World: A Videography, Compiled	500	(39)
Jacquelyn E. Davoli
Janice Monk
Sujata Moorti
Deborah S. Rosenfelt
Joseph Christopher Schaub
Biographical Notes	539	(12)
Index	551