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ERIC Number: EJ718683
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 19
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0882-4843
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His Story/Her Story: A Dialogue About Including Men and Masculinities in the Women's Studies Curriculum
Berila, Beth; Keller, Jean; Krone, Camilla; Laker, Jason; Mayers, Ozzie
Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, v16 n1 p34-52 2005
In section I of this article, Beth Berila, director of Women's Studies at Saint Cloud State University (SCSU), St. Cloud, Minnesota, provides a theoretical argument for incorporating Gender Studies into Women's Studies programs, drawing on recent analyses in feminist studies, queer theory, critical race theory, and transnational feminism. In section II, Jean Keller describes, from a program director's perspective, the process whereby the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University (CSB/SJU) evolved from a position in which many of the Women's Studies faculty were wary of Men's Studies to support of the incorporation of Men's Studies as an explicit requirement of the two required courses for their Gender and Women's Studies (GWST) minor. In section III, Ozzie Mayers and Camilla Krone, two long-time Gender and Women's Studies faculty members at CSB/SJU, describe the evolution of the introductory course from being focused on women to integrating men and men's concerns. They evaluate the related gains and losses from a faculty perspective. Finally, in section IV, Jason Laker, Dean of Students and a relatively new Men's Studies instructor, contemplates men's engagement in Men's Studies from these dual locations. These co-authors share their theoretical reflections and personal experiences as teachers and program directors in Gender and Women's Studies in the hope that they will be of assistance to other programs considering the transition to a Gender Studies model. They speak on this issue from differing institutional, theoretical, and social locations, maintaining their separate voices in the construction of this essay so that differences in their perspectives will not be obscured. (Contains 4 endnotes.)
University of Illinois Press, 1325 South Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820-6903. Tel: 217-333-0950.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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