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Teaching “Gender and Politics” in the Era of #MeToo

Thu, August 29, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Marriott, Thurgood Marshall North

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

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What are the multiple challenges and rewards of teaching “Gender and Politics” in our era? This roundtable discussion will permit an experienced and diverse group of faculty to share their experiences and practices and to invite questions and discussion from the audience. Questions for discussion might include such matters as:

• What is the title of your course? Has it changed over the years? If so, how and why?
• Are there special challenges and rewards in teaching “Gender and Politics,” or is the only difference between this course and the other courses you teach its particular substantive content?
• What are the central intellectual objectives of your course(s) on “Gender and Politics”? The skills you seek to develop?
• Do you draw comparisons among asymmetries on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity, on one hand, and other forms of political, social, and economic hierarchy such as race or ethnicity, class, or age, on the other?
• Do you use any pedagogical techniques that are unique to this course?
• Are there any topics, books, assignments that you have found particularly successful?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of inviting students to relate their own personal experiences to the larger intellectual themes under examination? Are there concerns about privacy? Is there any tension between the understanding that “the personal is political” and the techniques we use as political scientists to enhance our systematic understanding of political phenomena?
• To what extent do you integrate material about contemporary political developments and, even, breaking news?
• How do you handle controversial political issues in class? Under what circumstances, if at all, do you self-censor the inclusion of controversial topics or the expression of your own political views?
• With regard both to curriculum and classroom practice, how do you deal with matters of intersectionality? What dimensions of difference are relevant?
• What is the mix of your students with regard to gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity? Any particular problems or opportunities posed by that mix?

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