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A Primer for Teaching Women, Gender, and Sexuality in World History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching women, gender, and sexuality history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers who want to incorporate the subject into their world history classes.
List of contents
Preface: This Book and How to Use It vii
Part I. Starting from Scratch
1. Setting Goals: Why Teach Women's, Gender, or Sexuality History? 3
2. Choosing a Focus and a Title: Women, Gender, or Sexuality? 17
3. Organizing Material: Chronological and Thematic Approaches 27
4. Incorporating Key Issues: Theory and Concepts from Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 41
Part II. Modifying Existing Courses
5. Integrating Gender More Fully as a Category of Analysis: Beyond "Add Men and Stir" 55
6. Globalizing a Regionally Based Course: Teaching What You Do Not Know 67
7. Incorporating Feminist Pedagogy as You Move Online: Feminist Principles in a Virtual World 77
Part III. Common Challenges and Opportunities
8. Fostering Historical Empathy: Ethical Frameworks and Contextualization 91
9. Developing Assessments That Fit Your Course Goals: Test, Papers, and Assignments 101
10. Connecting with the Community: Opportunities for Local Research and Civic Engagement 113
Notes 125
Selected Bibliography 141
Index 147
About the author
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and author of, most recently, A Concise History of the World.
Urmi Engineer Willoughby is Assistant Professor of History at Murray State University and author of Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans.
