To ensure quality and consistency, we hold ourselves to the following standards.

Gender-inclusive/Feminist

Does the material require students to think about gender dynamics and their effects on power, in particular, on how women negotiated power within patriarchal societies?

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Anti-Bias

Does the material encourage students to question and dismantle existing mechanisms of oppression rather than re-creating them?

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Intersectional

Does the material require students to evaluate the effect of overlapping power structures to arrive at a more complete understanding of the diversity of women’s experiences?

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Culturally-Responsive

Does the material address the power dynamics that are unfolding in the classroom? (eg. race, class, gender, religion, language, ethnicity)
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Global

Does the material give students tools for understanding relationships/change at a global scale?
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Literacy-Rich

Does the material require students to examine a rich variety of sources, including literary and visual sources, primary and secondary sources, to reach a deeper understanding of the human experience?
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Revisionist

Does the material give students ways to re-evaluate what they think they already know to create new paradigms for understanding the world?