About the Book

Encompassing feminism, masculinities and queer theory, and drawing on film, literature, language, creative writing and digital technologies, these essays, from scholars experienced in teaching gender theory in university English programmes, offer inventive and student-focused strategies for teaching gender in the twenty-first century classroom.

Contents

Introduction

Alice Ferrebe, Fiona Tolan

Gender and the Student Experience: Teaching Feminist Writing in the Post-Feminist Classroom

Sonya Andermahr

Teaching English to Gender Students: Collaborative Encounters with Print and Digital Texts

Ann Kaloski Naylor

Teaching Queer Theory: Judith Butler, Shakespeare and She’s the Man

Catherine Bates

 ‘Do We Need Any More Books about Men?’: Teaching Masculinities

Brian Baker

 ‘Men Couldn’t Imagine Women’s Lives’: Teaching Gender and Creative Writing

Steven Earnshaw

Teaching Gender and Language

Jane Sunderland

Teaching Gender and Popular Culture

Stéphanie Genz

Bodies, Texts and Theories: Teaching Gender within Postcolonial Studies

Sarah Lawson Welsh

The Space between Submission and Revolution: Teaching Gender in China

Caryn M. Voskuil

Teaching Gender in a Turkish Context

Rezzan Kocaöner Silkü

Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, Feminist Studies? Designing and Delivering a Course in Gender at Postgraduate Level

Ros Ballaster

About the Author / Editor

Alice Ferrebe (Senior Lecturers in English), Fiona Tolan (Senior Lecturers in English)