HISTORY
A Primer for Teaching Women, Gender, and Sexuality in World History Ten Design Principles MERRY E. WIESNER-HANKS and URMI ENGINEER WILLOUGHBY
Photography and Work KEVIN COLEMAN , DANIEL JAMES , and JAYEETA SHARMA , editors
A special issue of RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW What makes photographs different from other kinds of
A Primer for Teaching Women, Gender, and Sexuality in World History
documents that historians
is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching
use to explain what happened
women, gender, and sexuality in history for the first time, for expe-
in the past? What can photo-
rienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those
graphic images do that other
who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for
documents cannot? Can pho-
teachers who want to incorporate these issues into their world his-
tography accurately depict
tory classes. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby
labor? Contributors to this
present possible course topics, themes, concepts, and approaches
issue examine these questions
Chris Killip, Glue Sniffers, Whitehaven, Cumbria, 1980. Courtesy of the artist. © Chris Killip.
while offering practical advice on materials and strategies helpful
with both fine art photography
for teaching courses from a global perspective in today’s teaching
and visual archives of many kinds: state, corporate, family, trade
environment for today’s students. In their discussions of pedagogy,
union, ethnographic, photojournalistic, and environmental. They
syllabus organization, fostering students’ historical empathy, and
investigate the ways that photography has been central to both the
connecting students with their community, Wiesner-Hanks and
expropriation and exploitation of labor and the potential of photogra-
Willoughby draw readers into the process of strategically designing
phy to enable new and radical approaches to historicizing the study
courses that will enable students to analyze gender and sexuality
of working peoples and labor. Articles showcase methodologically
in history, whether their students are new to this process or hold
generative research that builds upon the recent boom in theoretical
powerful and personal commitments to the issues it raises.
work in the fields of visual cultural studies and photography to rein-
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and author of, most recently, A Concise History of the World. Urmi Engineer
Willoughby is Assistant Professor of History at Murray State University and author of Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans. DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR TE ACHING HISTORY A series edited by Antoinette Burton
vigorate historical studies of work.
Contributors Siobhan Angus, Ian Bourland, Oliver Coates, Kevin Coleman, Clare Corbould, Adrian De Leon, Rick Halpern, Daniel James, Tong Lam, Walter Benn Michaels, Jessica Stites Mor, Carol Quirke, Jayeeta Sharma, Erica Toffoli, Daniel Zamora
Kevin Coleman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Mississauga and author of A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic. Daniel James is Bernardo Mendel Chair
“Magnificent! This primer is at once a how-to manual for designing a stimulating history course, a guide to navigating higher-ed bureaucracy, an invitation to reflect on your own pedagogical practice, and an outstanding annotated reading list. In concise, topical chapters and lucid prose, Merry E. WiesnerHanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby offer foundational perspectives on two
of Latin American History at Indiana University and author of Doña María’s Story: Life, History, Memory, and Political Identity, also published by Duke University Press. Jayeeta Sharma is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Scarborough and author of Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India, also published by Duke University Press.
major fields, explore an intersection between them that’s at the cutting edge of scholarship, and still manage to offer practical advice for engaged teaching, especially for lower-division college students. It’s a remarkable accomplishment and a lively read.”— L AUR A J. MITCHELL , University of California, Irvine
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