Teaching race with a gendered edge : teaching with gender, European women's studies in international and interdisciplinary classrooms / [edited by] Brigitte Hipfl and Kristin Loftsdóttir
Published
Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2012]
Pt 1: Thematic explorations -- Breaking the canon? Critical reflections on 'other' literary traditions -- Monumental dresses : coming to terms with racial repression -- Embodying otherness while teaching race and gender at white European universities -- Pt 2: Expressions of racism and gender in national and historical contexts -- Disappearing act : the forgotten history of colonialism, eugenics and gendered othering in Denmark -- Portugal and the empire : discourses and practices on race and gender -- The French ban on headscarves : rendering racism respectable -- Racial/ethnic otherness in Polish public discourse -- "Not a country for women, nor for Blacks" : teaching race and gender in Italy between colonial heritages and new perspectives
Summary
The book series responds to the need to approach the idea of race from a feminist perspective. this collection of essays aims to broaden our understanding of both race and gender by highlighting the intersections and intertwinedness of race, gender, and other axes of inequality
