Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The International Outreach Consortium at the University of Texas at Austin
Author: Natalie Arsenault, Christopher Rose, Allegra Azulay, and Rachel Meyer
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Condition of Use: Fair Use for Education Description:
The following resource is part of a larger resource on women’s issues through history in the world. This lesson plan specifically focuses on the Arab World, and the relation between Islam and women in the age of the Arab renaissance. Writings on the subject by Arab authors, and guiding questions related to these excerpts for students to engage with are included in this documented recommended for grades 9-12. The following is the table of contents of the document:
Table of Contents
Welcome
Standards Alignment
Introduction: Restoring Women to World Studies
Classroom Activity: Graffiti Wall — “What are Gender Norms?”
Graphic Organizer: Gender Norms and Women’s Responses
Classroom Activity: Analyzing Images of Women
—Case Studies—
The Arab World: Islam and Feminism in the Age of the Arab Renaissance
Brazil: Black Women’s Work and Social Progress
Chile and Argentina: Madre = Resistencia: Mothers of the Disappeared
India: Women in the Indian Independence Movement: The Salt Protests of 1930
Israel : Pioneers in Pre-state Israel: The Women of the First Aliyah
Russia: Women’s Work or Women’s Rights? Russia after the Revolution
Sri Lanka: Juki Girls: Clothing, Factory Work, and Changing Gender Roles in Sri Lanka
Yugoslavia: Women in Black—Belgrade: Making Their Silence Heard
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