Teaching with Gender. European Women’s Studies inInternational and Interdisciplinary Classrooms. A book series by ATHENA: Teaching Visual Culture in an Interdisciplinary Classroom.Feminist (Re)Interpretations of the Field

How to deal with gender, women, gender roles, feminism and gender equality inteaching practices? The ATHENA thematic network brings together specialists inwomen’s and gender studies, feminist research, women’s rights, gender equalityand diversity. In the book series ‘Teaching with Gender’ the partners in this networkhave collected articles on a wide range of teaching practices in the field of gender.The books in this series address challenges and possibilities of teaching aboutwomenand gender in a wide range of educational contexts. The authors discusspedagogical,theoretical and political dimensions of learning and teachingonwomenand gender. The books in this series contain teaching material, reflectionson feminist pedagogies, practical discussions about the development of gendersensitivecurricula in specific fields. All books address the crucial aspects ofeducationin Europe today: increasing international mobility, growing importanceof interdisciplinarity and the many practices of life-long learning and trainingthat take place outside the traditional programmes of higher education. Thesebooks will be indispensable tools for educators who take serious the challenge ofteaching with gender.
Visual literacy is crucial for understanding the role of visual culture as a key factorin processes of globalization, technologization and multiculturalization, whichare all part of our historicity. Certainly, the study of the visual is not limited tothe study of images, but also of their effects, material practices they entail andcreative potentialthey offer. Therefore, it is of critical importance to work out newapproaches to study both epistemologies and ontologies of the visual.Visual Culture in an Interdisciplinary Classroomparadigms, theories and methodologies within the common field of feminist visualculture. By doing so, it demonstrates the importance of the analysis of the visualfor feminist studies as well as the need to increase visual literacy in general. Thevolume provides theoretical and methodological support and examples of possibleanalyses for researchers and students interested in the field of feminist visualculture or, more generally, women’s studies, gender studies, visual studies, artstudiesand science studies. It presents feminist theories and methodologies,which were influential for the field of visual culture and encourages readers tothink critically about the visual.Teachingweaves together various critical