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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783173203321

Titolo

Transforming the curriculum : ethnic studies and women's studies / / edited by Johnnella E. Butler, John C. Walter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, 1991

ISBN

0-7914-9816-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 341 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

ButlerJohnnella E

WalterJohn C

Disciplina

305.4/071/173

Soggetti

Ethnology - Study and teaching (Graduate) - United States

Women''s studies - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""FOREWORD by Laurel Wilkening""; ""INTRODUCTION by Johnnella E. Butler""; ""PART I: ETHNIC STUDIES AND WOMEN'S STUDIES: INTERRELATIONSHIPS""; ""1. The Difficult Dialogue of Curriculum Transformation: Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies by Johnnella E. Butler""; ""2. Funding Women's Studies by Caryn McTighe Musil and Ruby Sales""; ""3. Private Foundation Grants to American Ethnic Studies Departments and Programs, 1972�1988: Patterns and Prospects by Katharine Bolland and John C. Walter""

""4. Different Voices: A Model Institute for Integrating Women of Color Into Undergraduate American Literature and History Courses by Johnella E. Butler and Betty Schmitz""; ""PART II: THE CUTTING EDGE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS: SOME ESSENTIALS IN PEDAGOGY AND THEORY BUILDING""; ""5. Transforming the Curriculum: Teaching About Women of Color by Johnnella E. Butler""; ""6. Teaching ""White Women, Racism and Anti-Racism"" in a Women's Studies Program by Ruth Frankenberg""; ""7. Gender and the Transformation of a Survey Course in Afro- American History by John C. Walter""

""8. Black Studies in Liberal Arts Education by Johnnetta B. Cole""; ""9. Towards an Epistemology of Ethnic Studies: African American Studies and Chicano Studies Contributions by R. A. Olguin""; ""10. Is Jewish Studies Ethnic Studies? by Howard Adelman""; ""11. The Politics of Jewish Invisibility in Women's Studies by Evelyn Torton Beck""; ""PART



III: THE CUTTING EDGE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS: SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR SCHOLARSHIP""; ""12. Gender in the Context of Race and Class by Elizabeth V. Spelman""

""13. Asian American Literary Traditions: Real vs. Fake by Frank Chin, Jeffery Chan, Lawson Inada, and Shawn Wong""; ""14. Time and Time-Again: Notes Toward an Understanding of Radical Elements in American Indian Fiction by Kathryn Shanley""; ""15. The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window: Toward a Transformative Aesthetic by Johnnella E. Butler""; ""16. Armenian American Women: The First Word . . . by Arlene Avakian""; ""PART IV: ETHNIC STUDIES, WOMEN'S STUDIES, AND THE LIBERAL ARTS CURRICULUM: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT""; ""17. A Black Feminist Perspective on the Academy by Beverly Guy-Sheftall""

""18. A Critical Assessment of Bloom: The Closing of an American Mind? by Jonathan A. Majek""; ""19. Praxis and the Prospect of Curriculum Transformation by Johnnella E. Butler and John C. Walter""; ""Contributors""; ""INDEX""