Event Title
Plenary 3: The Personal is Political: Gender, History, and Pedagogy
Location
Moakley Auditorium
Start Time
10-5-2012 9:00 AM
End Time
10-5-2012 10:00 AM
Description
This panel highlights how personal lives and socio-political trends or events are interrelated in the gender history of the United States, Britain, and Latin America. It also demonstrates how using gender as a category of analysis can transform individual, departmental and campus-wide curricula. Maggie Lowe will discuss her recent turn to looking at women’s history in a new field (religious history) and using new methods (memoir) to embark on new journeys in her scholarship and teaching. Sarah Wiggins will present on how a her discovery of a diary of a British college woman in the early twentieth century has led her to new avenues of exploring sexuality in her research and in her classes. Erin O’Connor will relate how she uses the theme of motherhood both in her scholarship on Latin America and to make history come to life for her students.
Plenary 3: The Personal is Political: Gender, History, and Pedagogy
Moakley Auditorium
This panel highlights how personal lives and socio-political trends or events are interrelated in the gender history of the United States, Britain, and Latin America. It also demonstrates how using gender as a category of analysis can transform individual, departmental and campus-wide curricula. Maggie Lowe will discuss her recent turn to looking at women’s history in a new field (religious history) and using new methods (memoir) to embark on new journeys in her scholarship and teaching. Sarah Wiggins will present on how a her discovery of a diary of a British college woman in the early twentieth century has led her to new avenues of exploring sexuality in her research and in her classes. Erin O’Connor will relate how she uses the theme of motherhood both in her scholarship on Latin America and to make history come to life for her students.
Comments
Moderator: Minae Savas