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ERIC Number: EJ579153
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
Why Do We Need to Genderize? Women's Literature in High School.
Slack, Delane Bender
English Journal, v88 n3 p91-95 Jan 1999
Discusses why a women's literature course is necessary to combat the web of gender bias woven throughout literature, schools, and society. Describes the creation and proposal of a curriculum for such a class at the high school level. Notes objections from male teachers and outlines responses. Describes how the course was proposed to, and turned down by, the school board. (SR)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, English Instruction, High Schools, Literature Appreciation, Sex Bias, Sex Fairness, Sex Stereotypes, Womens Studies
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Womens Literature
Note: Theme: Genderizing the Curriculum.