gender awareness in language education

2009 LINKS

GALE MEMBER SHOWCASE
Websites by GALE members

Japan-prevention of spousal violence law.pdf

Ueno Chizuko on sex equality.pdf

Womensnet

Feminist Collections


Michael Bamberg home page
Psychologist who researches identity formation in adolescent males. See also http://www.clarku.edu/~mbamberg/project.htm Transiting from Childhood to Adolescence as a Young Male: An Investigation of the Cultural Construction of Masculinity (in Brazil, US and Japan)

VAWW-NET Japan(Violence Against Women in War-Network
VAWW-NET Japan was formed in 1998 with the conviction that "in order to eliminate violence against women in war and armed conflicts, women at the global and national levels are seeking to build a non-militarized world by bearing the responsibility of creating a peace that is based on the perspective of women's human rights." VAWW NET Japan was on the International Organizing Committee for the Women's International Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery took place in Tokyo in December 2000.

Video Juku
Video Juku is a women's group that creates documentaries in order to achieve a society free of violence and discrimination against women. Currently we are part of a bigger movement to record testimonies of the former comfort women of the Japanese military. Series of documentaries on these women all around Asia are still to come from Video Juku. Also, we give technical support to other women and human right's NGOs to create videos.

Wings Kyoto
women's center

Women's Counselling Kyoto
in Japanese

Yokohama Women's Forum newsletter
Web sites designed by, for, and about Japanese women. Also included is a list of Web addresses of women's groups who are promoting international networks for women. Home page is at http://www.women.city.yokohama.jp/index.html

Girls, Women and Media Project

International Women's Rights Watch Asia Pacific

Internet Women's History Sourcebook (from ancient to modern history on a global scale)

Language and Gender Links


ROE V. WADE What is the legal legacy of the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion? (PBS newshour debate) -Abortion

Ten Things Men Can Do To Prevent Gender Violence

UN Commission on the Status of Women

Women in Islam
links to web sites, Critical or positive evaluations of the Islamic teaching and reality, Related issues (Polygamy, Female circumcision, etc.)

African-American and African Women resources and links
from Women's History website

Compilation of Gender Equality & Domestic Violence Laws from Around the World
from Wellesley Center for Women; many links

RAWA website (in reference to CEDAW)
RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, was established in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1977 as an independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan.
http://www.rawa.org/index.php

From ZNet Gender Feminism Watch

The book by Robert Jensen
 

 Ireland: Gay Iranian in UK
Making Face, Making Soul

Feminist.com

Women's  Liberation Archive

WWW LINKS
9 to 5

ACT UP

The Advocate

AFL-CIO's

DRUM

Electra Pages

Feminist Majority

GLAAD

Gay Men's Health Crisis

Guerrilla Girls

Institute for Women's Research

Native American Women

MADRE

My Sister, Myself

Native Web

National Gay  and Lesbian Task Force

National Organization for Women138

OOB

History of the Suffrage Movement

Planet Out

Queer Legal Resources

RAWA

Sojourner

Third Wave

WILPF

WMM

WWWomen

Women in North America

Gap Kids: New Frontiers in Child Abuse

ZNet Writers' blogs on Gender and Feminism

Newest Z Videos138

 Links out to WWW: Feminism/Gender

• Making Face, Making Soul
• Feminist.com
• Women's  Liberation Archive
• 9 to 5
• ACT UP
• The Advocate
• AFL-CIO's
• DRUM
• Electra Pages
• Feminist Majority
• GLAAD
• Gay Men's Health Crisis
• Guerrilla Girls
• Institute for Women's Research
• Native American Women
• MADRE
• My Sister, Myself
• Native Web
• National Gay  and Lesbian Task Force
• National Organization for Women
• OOB
• History of the Suffrage Movement
• Planet Out
• Queer Legal Resources
• RAWA
• Sojourner
• Third Wave
• WILPF
• WMM
• WWWomen
• Women in North America

EARLIER LINKS

TEXTBOOK: GENDER ISSUES TODAY

In 2005 GALE members and others collaborated to jointly write an intermediate English level textbook that would provide an introduction to gender issues to non-native speakers. The title of this book, which emphasizes active learning and critical thinking, is Gender Issues Today. The classroom activities "activate" all of the original seven multiple intelligences identified by Howard Gardner and all Myers-Briggs type learning style preferences, in an effort to accommodate all kinds of learners.

This book is currently being used successfully by college teachers in Japan but has been found useful also by some overseas educators.

A review of the book (by an EFL teacher based in Thailand) can be found at: http://www.efltu.org/reviews/genderissues.htm

Themes of the 16 chapters of Gender Issues Today include: What is gender? Gender socialization, Gender and language, Gender and family issues, Gender and employment, Gender and violence, Gender and health issues, Sex work, Gender stereotypes, Masculinities and men's movements, Heterosexism, Reproductive rights, Gender and the environment and others.

Gender and Language Research Group at Lancaster University

Gender Issues Women's Study Database, University of Maryland

Reflections on the Concept of Gender Paper by Mila Amurrio

Gender/Human Development Programme Asian and Pacific Development Centre

Equal Opportunities Commission A U.K. government-sponsored organisation

Facts on Gender

Digital Eve Japan Making computers and the WWW accessible to women.

Queer Japan: a book on Japanese gays, lesbians, and bisexuals
Book Review on Indiana U site
Book Review on Gay Today site

Rainbow Educators Network Information by, for and about lesbian, gay and bisexual teachers of EFL
Connections Across Cultures

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