Why are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape?
Teaching and Learning at a Women's College
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2005
Book
Hardback
198 pages
978-1-59451-102-8 (ISBN)
Description
Why Are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape? raises feminist issues in a way that reminds people why they matter. We eavesdrop on the vivid student characters in their hilarious, frustrating, and thought-provoking efforts to create strong and flexible selves against the background of representations of women in contemporary and classical Western literature. Young women working together in a group make surprising choices about what to learn, and how to go about learning it. Along the way they pose some provocative questions about how well traditional education serves women. Equally engaging is Kahn's own journey as she confronts questions that are fundamental to women, to teachers, to students and to parents: Why do we read? What can we teach? and What does gender have to do with it?
Reviews / Votes
A surprising, shocking, sometimes scandalous, often disruptive, and finally a profoundly transformative book about teaching.--William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Illinois, Chicago
Shows how good teaching can foster genuinely collaborative thinking. Particularly interesting for feminist readers and readers concerned with women students.
--Nancy Glazener, University of Pittsburgh
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
445 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59451-102-8 (9781594511028)
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Madeleine Kahn
Why are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape?
Teaching and Learning at a Women's College
E-Book
12/2015
Routledge
€89.99
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Madeleine Kahn
Why are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape?
Teaching and Learning at a Women's College
E-Book
12/2015
Routledge
€89.99
Available for download
Madeleine Kahn
Why are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape?
Teaching and Learning at a Women's College
Book
01/2006
1st Edition
Routledge
€95.40
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Person
Madeleine Kahn has taught eighteenth-century English literature for fifteen
years and is the author of Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in the
Eighteenth-Century English Novel (Cornell University Press, 1991).
years and is the author of Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in the
Eighteenth-Century English Novel (Cornell University Press, 1991).
Content
Introduction; Chapter 1 "You want me to do What?" Intimacy and Pedagogy at a Women's College; Chapter 2 "Why are we reading a handbook on rape?" Ovid's Metamorphoses; Chapter 3 "The female audience just isn't that big a deal." A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke; Chapter 4 "That wall isn't real unless I say so." Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote; Chapter 5 "No one told me you had to be a lesbian to take this class." Linda Lovelace's Ordeal; conclusion Conclusion;