Coming soon... 

"Judith and her maidservant" Artemesia Genteleschi, 1612

Contact Georgina Emerson to ask questions or get more details. [email protected]

How can we, as teachers, hit the major notes of our history courses in ways that shed light on gender dynamics, women's experiences, and intersectionality?

Moderator:  Georgina Emerson 
Audience: Teachers of history

Each month, we share resources, discuss strategies and explore themes that are especially useful for exploring gender and power in the past. Our goal is an ambitious one: to change the way power looks in the minds of our students. Our methods are the  well-worn tools of our trade: close reading of primary and secondary sources, seeking origins, looking for continuities and discontinuities, and reading for bias in both the historical record and the writing of historians. 

Each session balances lively discussion with historical inquiry. We tentatively plan to  includes a careful selection of primary sources as well as a presentation on a peer-reviewed article to deepen our understanding of the current scholarship. 

We take an intersectional and inclusive approach. We do our best to explore nonwestern societies and marginalized voices in order to present the most complete picture of the human experience possible.

 Our topic for next meeting: November 4  - Goals & Patriarchal Equilibrium

Reading: Patriarchal Equilibrium by Judith Bennet (27 pages)
​It's our first meeting so we will begin figuring out what we want to do and how we want to do it.

• ​What are our goals?
• How should we organize our meetings to get the most out of our time?
• Should we make a running list of resources we can all access?
• How should we organize this list?
• What can I, Georgina Emerson, the moderator of this group, do to be most helpful?