Teaching Introduction to Women's Studies: Expectations and Strategies

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
1 The Introductory Course A Voice from the Broader Field of Women’s Studies......Page 17
2 The Ideologue the Pervert and the Nurturer or Negotiating Student Perceptions in Teaching Introductory Women’s Studies Courses......Page 35
3 Conceptualizing the Introduction to Women’s Studies Course at the Community College......Page 51
4 Reading Women’s Lives A New Database Resource for Teaching Introduction to Women’s Studies......Page 63
5 Border Zones: Identification, Resistance, and Transgressive......Page 75
6 Revisiting the  Men Problem in Introductory Women’s Studies Classes......Page 87
7  Is This Course Just about Opinions or What Scripted Questions as Indicators of Group Development in an Introduction to Women’s Studies Class......Page 101
8 Students Fear of Lesbianism......Page 113
9  When I Look at You I Don’t See Race and Other Diverse Tales from the Introduction to Women’s Studies Classroom......Page 125
10 Inter Racial Teaching Teams Antiracism and the Politics of White Resistance Teaching Introduction to Women Studies at a Predominantly White Research Institution......Page 137
11 Feminism in the Field of Local Knowledge Decolonizing Subjectivities in Hawai i......Page 151
12 Cybergrrrl Education and Virtual Feminism Using the Internet to Teach Introductory Women’s Studies......Page 165
13 Webbed Women Information Technology in the Introduction to Women’s Studies Classroom......Page 177
14 Reading Glamour Magazine The Production of  Woman......Page 189
15  MY FATHER’S WASP Spelling the Dimensions of Difference......Page 197
16 Encouraging Feminism Teaching The Handmaid’s Tale in the Introductory Women’s Studies Classroom......Page 205
17 The Outrageous Act as Gender Busting An Experiential Challenge to Gender Roles......Page 215
18 Outrageous Liberating Acts Putting Feminism into Practice......Page 227
19 When Things Fall Apart......Page 239
References......Page 255
Index......Page 269
About the Contributors......Page 283