Gender diversity and the fact that gender is subject to perpetual renegotiations have become part of teachers and students lives. This volume tackles this issue by showing particularly innovative ways of teaching gender in the EFL classroom. Thus, the contributions include a broad variety of gender realities, such as trans* and cisgender, a cornucopia of texts and other media, a variety of literary genres, graphic novels, films and TV shows. The authors also illustrate cutting-edge approaches to teaching both literature and gender in the contemporary student-centered EFL classroom with different age groups.
This volume shows innovative ways of teaching gender in the EFL classroom. The contributions include a broad variety of gender realities, a cornucopia of texts and other media as well as cutting-edge approaches to teaching both literature and gender in the contemporary student-centered EFL classroom with different age groups.
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Introduction: Gender and Literature in the EFL Classroom |
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Fostering Gender Competence Through Music Videos in Foreign Language Education |
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"Pee in Peace!" A Literary Approach to US Toilet Politics |
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Gender Awareness and Language Awareness: A New Role for Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom |
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Staging Gender -- Playing with Identities and Role Stereotypes |
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Changing Perspectives: Teaching Homosexuality in the EFL Classroom Using Short Stories |
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Interrogating and (Re-)Defining Gender Roles in a Life-Writing Approach to Teaching Postcolonial Literature |
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"She was probably male": Exploring Gender with Science Fiction in the EFL Classroom |
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A.N. Other Every Day. Queer Questions About the Construction of Identity at the Example of David Levithan's Novel Every Day |
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Thee Art of Being Normal -- Trans Issues in the EFL Classroom |
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Exploring the T of LGBTQ -- Canadian Trans Literature in the EFL Classroom |
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231 | (20) |
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Glenyse Ward's Wandering Girl. Reading an Aboriginal Life Story in an EFL Class |
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251 | (18) |
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Ghostly Parenting: Teaching Family Structures and Gender Roles With Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book and Coraline |
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269 | (20) |
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Teaching Gender Reflection Through Marjane Satrapi's Graphic Novel Persepolis |
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Creating Queer Text Ensembles for the EFL Literature Classroom: Conceptual Considerations and Practice-Oriented Perspectives |
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New Wine in Old Bottles: Gay-Themed Narratives Within a Competence-Oriented Framework for Teaching English in German Secondary Schools |
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`Look at that baby with those cream-puffs.' -- Exploring LGBTQ Life Through American TV Series in the EFL Classroom |
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"There's a war coming and war means change": WWI and Its Effects on Gender Roles in the British Period Drama Downton Abbey |
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Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes in EFL Classrooms Through Contemporary Movies |
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Judith Butler's Critique of Binary Gender Opposition in Gender Trouble: A Task-Based Lesson Sequence |
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List of Figures |
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Maria Eisenmann holds the Chair for Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg. She studied English, German and Pedagogy at the Universities of Würzburg and Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Her main research interests are in the areas of teaching literature, media literacy as well as inter- and transcultural learning. She has edited and co-edited numerous books and published widely in the field of teaching literature and literary literacy.
Christian Ludwig is currently a substitute professor for American Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Education, Karlsruhe, where he is also the Head of the English Department and Director of the Language Learning Centre. His teaching and research interests include enhancing learner autonomy in the EFL classroom as well as Computer-Assisted Language Learning. His focus of research lies in the reconstruction of gender and other identities in contemporary young adult dystopias and South African literature.