Weaving in the Women (1st Ed) [Paperback]

Liz Whaley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 18, 1993 | ISBN-10: 0867093277 | ISBN-13: 978-0867093278

In a lively and conversational tone, Weaving In The Women argues that many works by and about women are available, accessible, and necessary to balance the high school English curriculum. From Aphra Behn and Frances Watkins Harper to Adrienne Rich and Sandra Cisneros, Weaving In The Women offers a diverse selection of women writers and introduces practical ideas on how to integrate them into the curriculum. The authors show how these works tie in with traditional ones and that students find them timely, interesting, and relevant. Readers will discover what the individual works by women are about, where to find them and how they connect with typical works taught in high school. The authors also discuss numerous ways of teaching works by women writers and alternative ways of assessing student learning. Multicultural and feminist, Weaving In The Women contains chapters on ninth- and tenth-grade English, American and English literature, novels, and a women's literature course. Other chapters discuss the importance of studying women writers, modifying pedagogy, and working with evaluation and assessment. In addition, each chapter ends with annotated lists of further reading for students and resource books for teachers.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“All English teachers should have Weaving In the Women on their bookshelves. This important text provides a wealth of pedagogical and bibliographic resources for enriching a high school literary curriculum.”–Margaret Finders, Author of Just Girls --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Liz Whaley taught high school English for twenty-eight years, the last twenty-one at Oyster River High School in Durham, New Hampshire. Since retiring from teaching in 1996, Liz has worked part-time at Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, New Hampshire, where, among other things, she conducts a monthly book discussion.

Liz Dodge, with twenty-six years in high school English classrooms, retired in 1998 from Oyster River High School in Durham, New Hampshire. Since 1989, she and Liz Whaley have presented many workshops, including a daylong conference on bringing women into high school English courses and adopting a more student-centered pedagogy. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Boynton/Cook (October 18, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0867093277
• ISBN-13: 978-0867093278
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,996,675 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars The Case for Expanding the HS English Canon, November 18, 2000

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This review is from: Weaving in the Women (1st Ed) (Paperback)

Liz Whaley and Liz Dodge have written a reader-friendly textbook that argues that teachers need to give their students a realistic mirror of the world as reflected in literature. Acknowledging that women have for years been excluded or minimized in the anthologies available to high school students, Whaley and Dodge discuss how teachers must move beyond the texts. Students should be guided toward reading the work of women writers and other minority writers. Some practical suggestions are offered via annotated bibliographies for each chapter. Useful. However, the chapters themselves sometimes belabor the point.