Revisioning Secondary History Education:

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Women Studies Senior Projects June 2007
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Re-visioning Secondary History Education
Integrating Womens Studies, Global Cultures, and
Multicultural Education

• By Lauren Gunn

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Thesis

• This research project analyzes the ways in which
  women's studies, global cultures, and
  multicultural education can be integrated into
  high school history classrooms.
• Although acknowledging the limitations and
  challenges posed by such a proposition, I argue
  that it is not only possible but necessary to the
  future education of students.

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Goals and Inadequacies of Current History
Curriculum
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Integrating Conceptual Frameworks

• Womens Studies
• Relationship of Knowledge and Power
• Intersectionality
• Multiple Perspectives
• Global Cultures
• Global Perspective
• Themes of Globalization
• Multicultural Education
• Multiculturalism

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Restructuring Secondary History Education

• Curriculum
• Must reflect the multiple voices of history,
  rather than presenting history as an ultimate
  truth from a single perspective
• Rewriting of textbooks
• Additional resources

• Teacher
• Necessity of facilitating discussions which
  provoke critical thinking and analysis of
  complexity
• Adequate teacher preparation programs
• Collaboration of teachers within and across
  districts

Restructuring the curriculum is not enough!
Must be supplemented with
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Conclusions

• The interdisciplinary academic fields of womens
  studies, global cultures, and multicultural
  education offer conceptual frameworks which are
  integral to the education of democracy and
  global, justice-oriented citizenship in a history
  class setting.
• Through incorporating such, students will be able
  to expand their analytical skills and gain
  greater insight into historical and contemporary
  events, issues, and processes.
• Although traditional goals of education aim to
  prepare students for national citizenship, in the
  context of this increasingly globalized world,
  educational standards need to expand and aim to
  prepare students as global, multicultural
  citizens.
• With a strong foundation in understanding
  globalization, students will be better prepared
  as open-minded, well-rounded future citizens of
  this nation and the world.

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Banging Tools The Search for the Elusive Queer
Asian American Female Subject

• Crystal Hwang
• Spring 2007

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Do Fanon! Prof. Kang, Office Hours
April 26, 2007

• My initial aim Look at processes of subject
  formation for queer Asian American subjects in
  our U.S. social context.
• Research question
• How do queer Asian Americans selectively choose,
  reject, and rework existing discursive
  figurations created by hegemonic culture into
  their own formations of queer self-identity?
• What did I come across

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very different modes of articulating queer
subjectivity

• Anthologies! Anthologies! Writing by Asian
  American lesbian and bisexual women
• The Very Inside
• Cultural Studies modes of deconstructing how
  various cultural products (films, literature,
  music, etc.) reproduce certain identities
• Gayatri Gopinaths Impossible Desires
• Hybrid (both theoretical and personal) modes of
  analyzing discursive figurations
• Patricia Duncans Identity, Power and
  Difference Negotiating Conflict in an SM/Dyke
  Community
• JeeYeun Lees Why Suzie Wong is Not A Lesbian
  Asian and Asian American Lesbian and Bisexual
  Women and Femme/Butch Identities

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Interesting tidbits to chew on

• The risks of creating a knowable, fixed,
  identifiable queer Asian American female subject
• Defining queer female subjectivity as an
  impossibility, an elision, or a conceptual
  illegibility
• Dominant images of Asian American/Asian women
  make their racialized gendered bodies unreadable
  as lesbian

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Conclusion

• The quest is not yet over!
• Do we need a psychoanalytic account for the
  subject formation of queer Asian American female
  subjects?

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Performing GenderMen Who Wear Corsets

• By Leslie Nelson

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Michel Foucault

• The History of Sexuality Part I
• DISCOURSE CONSTITUTES THE SUBJECT
• INCREASED DISCOURSE INCREASE IN SEXUALITIES
• A NEW SUBJECT IS BEING PRODUCED TODAY

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Don Kulick Travesti

• Travesti are male Brazilian prostitutes
• Travesti live as women but do not identify as
  women
• Travesti consciously construct their own gender

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Judith Butler

• Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual?
• Spheres of Legitimacy and Illegitimacy
• Legitimate sphere Hallowed domain of the State
• Illegitimate sphere No intelligibility

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Men who wear Corsets Subjectivity

• Are new subjects created by a socially
  constructed discourse of intelligibility
• Perform and construct gender through contemporary
  discourses of style
• Are queer subjects that lie outside the spheres
  of legitimate/illegitimate

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Men who wear Corsets Sexuality

• Are not universally gay 80 of my subjects
  identify as heterosexual
• Are not universally straight 20 of my subjects
  identify as bi-sexual
• The object of desire is mostly heterosexual
• The aim of desire is vastly different among
  subjects

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Men who wear Corsets Gender

• These men perform traditional masculine behavior
  when not in corsetry
• Golf, football, spitting, race cars, boating and
  more are their usual activities
• Discourse constitutes subject revisited while in
  corsets these men perform feminine gender
  whereas, when in typical male attire they perform
  masculine roles

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Intersecting Needs withinDomestic
Violence_____________________

• By Narysa Sardari

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Things to Consider

• Intervention strategies designed to address
  domestic violence continue to ignore the
  significance of poverty, racism, and gender
  subordination, which contribute to oppressive
  structures in the lives of African-American
  Women, Women of Color, and Indigenous Women.

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Dimensions of Race and Gender Violence
African-American and Women of Color Experience

• Through their own experiences, African-American
  women and women of color are subjected to
  intersecting patterns of racism and sexism.
• Kimberle Crenshaw proposes the concept of
  intersectional identities, to describe the
  convergence of race, gender and class battered
  women of color and African-American women face.
• Within intersectionality, the experience of
  African-American women and women of color have
  resided within two subordinated groups,
  antiracism and feminism, which both offer
  conflicting political agendas.

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The Strategy of Navajo Peacemaking

• An informal process where a Peacemaker, who is
  knowledgeable about the Navajo law, helps guide
  disputes between people and help form a
  resolution.
• Peacemaking addresses issues such as societal
  and family support for the battering, by
  confronting family denial of the batterers harm,
  confronting the abuser for his actions, and by
  having the victim and her family present, thus
  making it difficult for the batterer to deny what
  he has done.
• Peacemaking also provides a mechanism for
  transferring material resources to the victim,
  which helps reduce her economic vulnerability.

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The Strategy of Navajo Peacemaking

• Many feminist scholars and anti-domestic violence
  activists are extremely skeptical of this process
  because informal methods of adjudication overlook
  domestic power hierarchies which assist the
  batters violence and intimidation.
• Although there is no universal intervention
  strategy that will work for all women, it is
  important to measure the effectiveness of
  intervention strategy by its ability to change
  the material and social conditions that promote
  battering.

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Separation Assault -Martha Mahoney

• The time of separation is a key moment for
  violence to happen. This occurs when a woman
  attempts to separate from the batterer.
• During this process, the batterers quest for
  control becomes most violent.
• No legal doctrines or cultural names have been
  formulated which are especially designed to refer
  to the particular assault on a womans body in
  the batterers attempt to block her from leaving,
  or to end the separation with force.
• Separation Assault is something that any woman
  can experience despite her race or class.

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Representing Comfort Women After Years of
Silence

• Presented by Kimiya Sohrab

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Thesis

• This paper explores the different ways of
  remembering the history surrounding comfort
  women. I will analyze six various forms of
  representation 1) testimonies by the comfort
  women, 2) a documentary film, 3) a oral history
  book, 3) a historical study by a Japanese
  scholar, 4) American newspaper articles, and 6) a
  Public Hearing Report. Although, I found some
  aspects of the documentary problematic, after
  analyzing various modes of representation, I
  found the documentary to be the most insightful
  representation of comfort women.

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Documentary Film Silence Broken

• Dai Sil Kim-Gibson director of this film uses
  certain filming techniques when recounting the
  experience of the comfort women.

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Oral History by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson

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Historical Scholarship by Yuki Tanaka