Thematic Teaching of Women's Rights Issues with Social Studies Trade Books

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A timely collection on teaching women's history, this book is grounded in theory and research around inquiry, literacy, and women's rights. It includes engaging suggestions for teaching about diverse women activists toward the goals of an equitable and just future. -- Christine Woyshner, Temple University This book is a carnival of great ideas for practicing teachers and college faculty. The chapters celebrate poignant leaders-famous and forgotten. The engaging trade books, primary sources and strategies-age-appropriate and discipline-specific-will spark students' reading, writing, and thinking! -- John Bickford, Eastern Illinois University Thematic Teaching of Women's Rights Issues with Social Studies Trade Books uses an intersectional perspective and the theoretical lens of feminist solidarity to demonstrate the power of trade books to teach about women as activists, athletes, environmentalists, economists, and immigrants, who are bounded by their commitments to justice and civic action. The book brings to center stage women who have often been relegated to the sidebar of textbooks, if included at all, and provides clear, critical, actionable, engaging classroom activities to teach students about these powerful women. -- Anne-Lise Halvorsen, Michigan State University