Week 12 Discussion Question + Reading Choices

Our readings this week explored the importance and implementation of multicultural, transnational, and international perspectives in gender studies. My contribution this week is part exercise, and part question: what books/articles, documentaries, videos, media, or pop culture examples have you encountered in the past that helped to promote international and transnational perspectives?

Together, perhaps we can collectively build a list of resources that can be used in our classrooms to promote global perspectives and multicultural understandings of gender, race, sexual orientation, transgender/intersexual experiences, disability/ability, age, religion, ethnicity, body politics, labor, and cultural borderlands. I'll be including some of mine in a comment to this post, and I invite you all to do the same.

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Here are my choices for next week's readings (I gravitated toward the technology-oriented pieces):

- Cohee, et al in The Feminist Teacher Anthology

• Chapter 10, "This Class Meets in Cyberspace: Women's Studies via Distance Education" by Ellen Cronan Rose
• Chapter 17 , "Would You Rather be a Goddess or a Cyborg?" by Suzanne K. Damarin

- Naples and Bohar, Teaching Feminist Activism

• Chapter 16, "Becoming Feminist Cyber Ethnographers" by Rebecca Anne Allahyari
• Chapter 11, "Activism and Alliance within Campus Sisterhood Organizations" by Simona J. Hill

- McKeachie's Teaching Tips

• Chapter 13, subsections "Class Management Problems" and "Emotional Problems"
• Chapter 17, subsections "How Will Technology Enhance Teaching and Learning?" and "Teaching with Technology"