ERIC Number: EJ1116651
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004
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War in the Women's Studies Classroom: Feminist Approaches to September 11
Nelson, Fiona
Across the Disciplines, v1 spec iss 2004
It is the authors first day of class in a new tenure-track position. She is a sociologist who had been hired to teach Women's Studies at the University of Calgary, where she completed her master's degree some years before. At 9:00 a.m. she boarded the elevator in the basement of the building. The elevator stops on the main floor and the doors open to reveal a television set surrounded by people. The last time a television was set up in the foyer was during the Gulf War in her grad student days. Through the crowd she sees the caption at the bottom of the screen: "America under Attack." The doors close, she continues up. The date was September 11, 2001. In this article, she shares what tools, as a feminist sociologist, she brought to the classroom to help her students think through a situation that seemed, at least at first, incomprehensible.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Studies, War, Terrorism, Feminism, United States History, Sociology, Teaching Methods, Gender Issues, Power Structure, Sexual Orientation, Family (Sociological Unit), Racial Attitudes, Mass Media Effects, Social Class, Racial Bias, Critical Thinking, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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