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Rethinking the Disciplines
Online at the National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources for Women. Link added July 31, 2002.

The answer to why women have not been a part of the traditional curriculum resides in part in the definitions and paradigms of knowledge employed by the disciplines. These definitions and paradigms are often invisible and unconscious. Thus, much attention has been devoted to analyzing how disciplines define themselves and how they would have to change to make both men and women a part of their research and scholarship. Many of these titles are anthologies containing separate essays on individual disciplines and topics.

  • Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Boston: Unwin and Hyman, 1990.
  • DuBois, Carol, et al. Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
  • Farnham, Christie ed. The Impact of Feminist Research in the Academy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
  • Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Myths of Gender:Biological Theories About Women and Men. 2nd ed. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
  • Gaskell, Jane, and John Willinsky, eds. Gender In/forms Curriculum, From Enrichment to Transformation. New York: Teachers College Press, 1995.
  • Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. New York: William Morrow, 1984.
  • Gilligan, Carol. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
  • Harding, Sandra. The Science Question in Feminism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
  • Hartman, Joan E., and Ellen Messer-Davidow, eds. (En)Gendering Knowledge: Feminists in Academe. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.
  • Hedges, Elaine, ed. Women in the Curriculum: Discipline Analyses. Brief essays with bibliography Page 4 in which scholars on women in specific disciplines summarize the key issues for their discipline of the scholarship and research on women. Baltimore, MD: National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women, Towson University, 1997.
  • Helly, Dorothy O., ed. Women in the Curriculum: Rethinking the Disciplines. Panels of scholars in seven disciplines discuss the impact of the scholarship on women on their discipline. Baltimore, MD: National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women, Towson University, 1997.
  • Kramarae, Cheris, and Dale Spender, eds. The Knowledge Explosion: Generations of Feminist Scholarship. New York: Teachers College Press, 1992.
  • James, Susan, and Teresa Brennan, eds. Oxford Readings in Feminism series. Current titles: Evelyn Fox Keller and Helen E. Longino, eds. Feminism and Science. Oxford University Press, 1996; and Joan Wallach Scott, ed. Feminism and History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  • Langland, Elizabeth, and Walter Gove, eds. A Feminist Perspective in the Academy: The Difference It Makes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
  • Lauter, Paul. Canons and Contexts. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
  • Minnich, Elizabeth Kamarck. Transforming Knowledge. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
  • Rosser, Sue V. Biology and Feminism: A Dynamic Interaction. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993.
  • Sherman, Julie A., and Evelyn Torton Beck, eds. The Prism of Sex: Essays in the Sociology of Knowledge. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.
  • Spanier, Bonnie. Impartial Science: Gender Ideology in Molecular Biology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
  • Spender, Dale, ed. Men's Studies Modified. New York: Pergamon Press, 1981.
  • Stanton, Donna C., and Abigail J. Stewart, eds. Feminisms in the Academy. Ann Arbor, MI: UM Press, 1995.
  • Stone, Lynda, ed. The Education Feminism Reader: Developments in a Field of Study. New York: Routledge, 1994.
  • Treichler, Paula A.,ed. For Alma Mater: Theory and Practice in Feminist Scholarship. Urbana: Illinois University Press, 1985.

    Pedagogy If the content of traditional courses has excluded or marginalized women, have traditional methods of teaching also been disadvantageous to women students? Analyses of classroom dynamics, learning, and career choice try to answer this question.

  • Banks, James A. Multiethnic Education: Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1988. Page 5
  • Belenky, Mary Field. Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1986.
  • Cannon, Lynn Weber. "Fostering Positive Race, Class and Gender Dynamics in the Classroom." Women's Studies Quarterly, 1. 2 (1990):126-33.
  • Caywood, Cynthia L., and Gillian R. Overing, eds. Teaching Writing: Pedagogy, Gender, and Equity. Albany: SUNY Press, 1986.
  • Culley, Margo and Catherine Portuges, eds. Gendered Subjects: The Dynamics of Feminist Teaching. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
  • Gabriel, Susan L., and Isaiah Smithson. Gender in the Classroom: Power and Pedagogy. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990.
  • "Feminist Pedagogy I," #41. "Feminist Pedagogy II," #42. Radical Teacher, P.O. Box 383316, Cambridge, MA 02238.
  • Hall, Roberta M., and Bernice R. Sandler. "The Classroom Climate: A Chilly One for Women?" Association of American Colleges, 1818 R. Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009.
  • hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge, 1994.
  • How Schools Schortchange Girls: The AAUW Report. New York: Marlowe Company, 1995.
  • Logan, Judy. Teaching Stories. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Inclusiveness Program, 1993. (Minnesota Inclusiveness Program, 1125 Harbor Lane North, Plymouth, MN 55447)
  • Maher, Frances A., and Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault. The Feminist Classroom. New York: Harper/Collins, 1994.
  • Omolade, Barbara. "A Black Feminist Pedagogy." Women's Studies Quarterly Fall/Winter 15(1987):32-39.
  • Rosser, Sue. Female-Friendly Science: Applying Women's Studies Methods and Theories to Attract Students. New York: Pergamon, 1990.
  • Rosser, Sue. Teaching the Majority, Breaking the Gender Barriers in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering. New York: Teachers College Press, 1995.
  • Rothenberg, Paula. "The Hand that Pushes the Rock." Women's Review of Books(1989):2.
  • Rothenberg, Paula. "Teaching About Racism and Sexism: A Case History." Journal of Thought 20.3(1985):122-36.
  • Sadker, Myra, and David Sadker. Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls. New York: Scribners, 1994.
  • Shrewsbury, Carolyn M. "Feminist Pedagogy: A Bibliography," Women's Studies Quarterly (Fall/Winter) 15(1987). Page 6
  • Weiler, Kathleen. Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class and Power. So