Teaching Women's Rights and the Imperialist Agenda

Autor/in	Long, Alex
Titel	Teaching Women's Rights and the Imperialist Agenda
Quelle	In: Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 24 (2014) 3, S.234-241 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0882-4843
DOI	10.5406/femteacher.24.3.0234
Schlagwörter	Civil Rights; Females; World History; Gender Bias; Political Issues; Global Approach; War; Feminism; Films; Publications; Photography; Gender Issues; Tokenism; Victims + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Weibliches Geschlecht; Weltgeschichte; Geschlechterstereotyp; Politischer Faktor; Globales Denken; Krieg; Feminismus; Film; Fotografie; Geschlechterfrage; Victim; Opfer
Abstract	The author is a graduate student studying English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and recently concluded co-teaching a course called The Human Experience of War. The course consisted of reading various works of British literature that spanned World Wars I and II. Through the experience of teaching this course, one recurring theme that struck as significant was the ever-present need of people to have a cause to justify their actions. It seems that people have a limitless supply of explanations and reasons for systematically destroying one another. The author also found that the professed reasons for going to war or promoting imperialism often had little to do with the actual motivation for such actions. Over the last few decades, the growing concern with women's rights--domestically and across the globe--has made it the newest target of exploitation to further American imperialism, much to the detriment of women's rights movements around the world. It is important for anyone teaching about women's rights, globalization, or war to recognize this misappropriation of feminist issues to further the imperial agenda. This article contains a list sources on the topic of imperial feminism and a brief summary of each source. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01