Beyond «helping» or «not caring about» them: Teaching women in developing countries at an american university

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Autor(a) principal: Santos,Cecília MacDowell
Data de Publicação: 2008
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
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Resumo: This essay is a reflection on the challenges for internationalizing the Women’s Studies curriculum in the United States. It draws on my experience teaching «Women in Developing Countries» at the University of San Francisco, a Jesuit university with the stated mission of promoting social justice from a global perspective. One of the major challenges facing this type of course is the risk of reinforcing ethnocentrism and essentialism by reproducing what Chandra Mohanty calls the «Third World difference». Building on Mohanty’s call for a«noncolonizing feminist solidarity across borders» and using Peter Waterman’s typology of forms of solidarity, the essay discusses students’ approaches to «women in developing countries» and the forms of solidarity assumed or implicitly promoted by the theories on women/gender and development/globalization covered in the course.
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title Beyond «helping» or «not caring about» them: Teaching women in developing countries at an american university
spellingShingle Beyond «helping» or «not caring about» them: Teaching women in developing countries at an american university
Santos,Cecília MacDowell
women and development
development
feminist theory
feminist and post-colonial solidarity
international solidarity
title_short Beyond «helping» or «not caring about» them: Teaching women in developing countries at an american university
title_full Beyond «helping» or «not caring about» them: Teaching women in developing countries at an american university
title_fullStr Beyond «helping» or «not caring about» them: Teaching women in developing countries at an american university
title_full_unstemmed Beyond «helping» or «not caring about» them: Teaching women in developing countries at an american university
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author Santos,Cecília MacDowell
author_facet Santos,Cecília MacDowell
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development
feminist theory
feminist and post-colonial solidarity
international solidarity
topic women and development
development
feminist theory
feminist and post-colonial solidarity
international solidarity
description This essay is a reflection on the challenges for internationalizing the Women’s Studies curriculum in the United States. It draws on my experience teaching «Women in Developing Countries» at the University of San Francisco, a Jesuit university with the stated mission of promoting social justice from a global perspective. One of the major challenges facing this type of course is the risk of reinforcing ethnocentrism and essentialism by reproducing what Chandra Mohanty calls the «Third World difference». Building on Mohanty’s call for a«noncolonizing feminist solidarity across borders» and using Peter Waterman’s typology of forms of solidarity, the essay discusses students’ approaches to «women in developing countries» and the forms of solidarity assumed or implicitly promoted by the theories on women/gender and development/globalization covered in the course.
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