Teaching Gender [Hardcover]

Encompassing feminism, masculinities and queer theory, and drawing on film, literature, language, creative writing and digital technologies, these essays, from scholars experienced in teaching gender theory in university English programmes, offer inventive and student-focused strategies for teaching gender in the twenty-first century classroom.Introduction; A.Ferrebe & F.Tolan Gender and the Student Experience: Teaching Feminist Writing in the Post-feminist Classroom; S.Andermahr Teaching English to Gender Students: Collaborative Encounters with Print and Digital Texts; A.Kaloski Naylor Teaching Queer Theory: Judith Butler, Shakespeare and She's The Man ; C.Bates 'Do We Need Any More Books About Men?': Teaching Masculinities; B.Baker 'Men Couldn't Imagine Women's Lives': Teaching Gender and Creative Writing; S.Earnshaw Teaching Gender and Language; J.Sunderland Teaching Gender and Popular Culture; S.Genz Bodies, Texts and Theories: Teaching Gender Theory in a Postcolonial Context; S.Lawson-Welsh The Space Between Submission and Revolution: Teaching Gender in China; C.M.Voskuil Teaching Gender in a Turkish Context; R.Kocaoner Silku Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Feminist Studies? Designing and Delivering a Course in Gender at Postgraduate Level; R.Ballaster Further Reading Index

The book presents the reader with a detailed account of the historical context within which gender studies emerged and developed in Western higher education, from womens studies via feminism and queer studies to the study of masculinities. & Alice Ferrebe and Fiona Tolan have assembled a useful toolkit for academics intending to introduce or update university courses with a specific focus on gender, including a guide to further reading organized by topic. (Marion Dalvai, The European Legacy, Vol. 20 (2), December, 2015)

SONYA ANDERMAHR Senior Lecturer in English, University of Northampton, UK BRIAN BAKER Lecturer in English, Lancaster University, UK ROS BALLASTER Prlsª