Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures / edited by Leila Gómez, Asunción Horno-Delgado, Mary K. Long, Núria Silleras-Fernández.

• Superior document: Teaching Gender
• HerausgeberIn: Gómez, Leila.; Horno Delgado, Asunción, 1956-.; K. Long, Mary.; Silleras-Fernández, Núria.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Language: English
• Series: Teaching Gender
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures provides a dynamic exploration of the subject of teaching gender and feminism through the fundamental corpus encompassing Latin American, Iberian and Latino authors and cultures from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. The four editors have created a collaborative forum for both experienced and new voices to share multiple theoretical and practical approaches to the topic. The volume is the first to bring so many areas of study and perspectives together and will serve as a tool for reassessing what it means to teach gender in our fields while providing theoretical and concrete examples of pedagogical strategies, case studies relating to in-class experiences, and suggestions for approaching gender issues that readers can experiment with in their own classrooms. The book will engage students and educators around the topic of gender within the fields of Latin American, Latino and Iberian studies, Gender and Women’s studies, Cultural Studies, English, Education, Comparative Literature, Ethnic studies and Language and Culture for Specific Purposes within Higher Education programs. “Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures makes a compelling case for the central role of feminist inquiry in higher education today … Startlingly honest and deeply informed, the essays lead us through classroom experiences in a wide variety of institutional and disciplinary settings. Read together, these essays articulate a vision for twenty-first century feminist pedagogies that embrace a rich diversity of theory, methodology, and modality.” – Lisa Vollendorf, Professor of Spanish and Dean of Humanities and the Arts, San José State University. Author of The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain “What is it like to teach feminism and gender through Latin American, Iberian, and Latino texts? This rich collection of texts … provides a series of insightful and exhaustive answers to this question … An essential book for teachers of Latin American, Iberian and Latino/a texts, this volume will also spark new debates among scholars in Gender Studies.” – Mónica Szurmuk, Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina. Author of Mujeres en viaje and co-editor of the Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Leila Gómez , Asunción Horno-Delgado and Núria Silleras-Fernández -- Introduction / Leila Gómez -- Mobilizing Meanings: Questions for a Pedagogy of Women’s Writing / Sara Castro-Klarén -- Cada Maestrillo Tiene su Librillo / Núria Silleras-Fernández -- “The Personal is Political” / Vanesa Miseres -- Teaching Hispanic Feminisms / Ellen Mayock -- Gendered Matters / Valerie Hegstrom and Amy R. Williamsen -- How to Read a Masculine Canon / Leila Gómez -- Wild Naked Ladies: Shifting Paradigms / Cynthia Tompkins -- Interrogating Gendered Mexican Cultural Icons in a “Border” Classroom / Amanda L. Petersen -- Approaches to Teaching Rape in the Spanish Literature Classroom / Shelley Godsland -- Teaching Gender for the Multicultural Workplace / Mary K. Long -- Performing Gender in the Classroom and on the Stage / Debra A. Castillo -- About the Contributors / Leila Gómez , Asunción Horno-Delgado , Mary K. Long and Núria Silleras-Fernández -- About the Editors / Leila Gómez , Asunción Horno-Delgado , Mary K. Long and Núria Silleras-Fernández.