Teaching with the Global Feminisms Project: Global Feminisms Course

In this episode, Dr. Durba Mitra, Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University discusses her utilization of the Global Feminisms Project Archive in her undergraduate General Education class entitled “Global Feminisms”. Dr. Mitra emphasizes her appreciation for GFP’s archive of primary source materials from modern transnational activists to further her students’ and own studies on international feminist movements. 

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Music credit: Banjo Arba Minch Garden by Cooper Moore. Creative Commons. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Cooper-Moore/A_Retrospective_1990-2010/h_Banjo_Arba_Minch_Garden

These episodes of “Contextualizing Feminist Voices: Teaching with the Global Feminisms Project” focus on how individual teachers have used the materials in their courses. In each episode, you will hear strategies for using the materials that different faculty tried, as well as their thoughts about what those strategies allowed them to accomplish in their teaching. Though each podcast is based on material for a particular course, we think they have ready applicability to courses on different topics

GFP originated in 2002 to create an archive of oral histories from women scholars and activists from different countries around the world. Check out https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/globalfeminisms/ to access the interviews and additional resources on the country sites, including lesson plans and sample syllabi. The GFP is based at the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan