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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Ideas for a school unit on feminism

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qumquat · 25/02/2018 13:19

Hello! Id love some input from the wonderful mn feminist hivemind. I'm teaching my Yr9s a unit on feminism next term. I'm really excited but also scared as I want to get it right. I feel so powerless most of the time and here is my chance to do something positive. I've done a smaller unit on it before covering suffragettes and anti-suffragette propaganda, childhood gender stereotypes, pressure on beauty standards and sexual harrassment. I'd love your ideas on a) what you think I should cover and b) images, films, articles, memes etc that could work as stimulus material to catch their imagination in lessons. The students are all girls and mainly black African.
Thank you so much.

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CircleSquareCircleSquare · 25/02/2018 13:33

I can’t off the top of my head think of examples to cover however would like to mention that my DS (13) covered feminism, in particular the suffragettes in history last term.

They covered what they fought for and how but they never once covered with any depth why they were fighting for it. Most teens that I know seem to see that the sexes are equal these days (I did too in the late nineties/early nougties and it wasn’t until I grew up a bit, realised how wrong I was) because they hear a lot of “girls can do anything”. So DS and his class struggled with the why behind the fight, I spent a lot of time explaining to him and his friends how hard things were for women and just why the fight was needed.

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