gender awareness in language education
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Past Newsletters
Fall 2007
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Editor's Comment by Joanna Hosoya
Reports from the Gender and Beyond Conference, Oct. 6-7:
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Janet Holmes' Plenary Lecture Summary by Andrea Simon-Maeda
Women in the Workplace: An Advertiser's Perspective By Bonnie Carpenter
Closing Panel: Good ideas to take home and ponder By Kathy Riley
A Report on Being a Gender Advisor the MUN at Kyoto University By Yoko Chase
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JALT: GALE presenters schedule
Breakfast with Dr. Arifa Rahman
INGALA Conference, New Zealand, 3-5 July
FEATURED ESSAYS
CRAYON OUTSIDE THE LINES By Jane Joritz-NakagawaSelf, Language, Heart---the Textures of Identity: A Personal Essay By Ayano Fukui
"Women's Status, Men's States": Feminist lawmaker Catharine MacKinnon on the new international human rights law paradigm By Tina Ottman
Spring 2007 Download PDF format
- Editor's Comment by Joanna Hosoya
- Message from the Coordinator by Salem Hicks
- GALE Forum Report by Kathy Riley
- IGALA 4th International Conference Report by Robert Mochain and Andrea Simon-Maeda
- "Honoring Diverse Voices: Gender and the Literary Avant-garde" by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
- An AIDS Poem by Penina Nafuye
- "Producing Myself in English: A Personal Essay" by Ayano Fukui
Fall 2006 Download PDF format
Essays
- "Tango 'Lessons' and Decision-Making in Teaching" by Louise Haynes
- "Breakaway: A Personal Essay" byAyano Fukui
- "Domestic Violence in Japan" by Tokie Takahashi
- "The 'Double Surnames' Issue in Japan" by Keiko Watanabe
- "Clothes Culture in Japan: hard body/soft body, distance/proximity and simulation/hyperreality" by Noriko Tada
Spring 2006 Download PDF format
Notes from the Editor
Conference Reflections
- Reflections on GALE Forum 2005, by Jane Nakagawa
- Shoes, a poem by Linda K. Vandermeer-Kadota
- Undercover Observer: A Personal Essay, by Ayano Fukui
Notes from the GALE Panel at JALT: Inspiration from the Archives, by Kathy Riley
Fall 2005 Download PDF format
- Message from the Coordinators
- News and announcements
- Where the Twain Should Meet: Public Health Policy and... the Language Classroom?
by Louise Haynes - Pornoraphy
by Hiroyuki Koshiga - History of US Feminism Comparing Various Strands
by Hiroyuki Koshiga
Spring 2005 Download PDF format
- Message from the Coordinators
- News and announcements
- A Japanese Woman's Life
by Yoko Sabatini - Cynthia Nelson Seminar, Tokyo: Issues in Gender and Sexual Identity: What Educators Should Know
by Louise Haynes
Winter 2004 Download PDF format
- Message from the Coordinators
- News and announcements
- Japanese "boys-love" comics and heterosexual female identity
by Wakana Yokota - Gender, Sexuality and Culture: A Class Project
by Aya Murakami - Report of a course in progress: Gender and society
by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
Fall 2004 Download PDF format
- Message from the Coordinators
- Summer and Fall Recap
- JALT Conference - List of Gender-related Sessions!
- Future Plans
- Sexual Identity Politics in the Classroom: The Case Against Monosexual Pedagogy by Roibeard O' Mochin
Spring 2004 Download PDF format
- Editor's notepad
- Meetings and announcements
FEATURED ARTICLES:
- A spoonful of sugarﾉ by Jane Nakagawa
- Junior College students' thoughts on Ryosai Kenbo-->
- Language and Sexuality: A Book Review of Cameron and Kulick's Language and Sexuality by Andrea Simon- Maeda
- A Look at Our Students' Future: A book review of Ogasawara's Office Ladies and Salaried Men by Steve Cornwell
- Teaching Unit based on "Bend it like Beckham" By Roibeard O'Mochain
- Gender-Related Internet Sites
- Editor's notepad
- SPECIAL FEATURE: POETS features seven poems reflecting on gender by four emerging and established poets
- Bookshelf: Features an annotated poetry bibliography focusing on books of interest to teachers who wish to use literature to focus on gender issues in language courses
- Out and About: Features the thoughts of a gay rights activist and TESOL professional
- Schoolhouse: In this issue, a description of an Ecofeminism course
- Gathering Place: Presents a list of some of the upcoming presentations at the national JALT conference in November, 2003, Shizuoka, Japan
- Editor's notepad
- SPECIAL FEATURE: Student Voices . . . . . .
- Ayami Ando: The reason why there is still sex discrimination
- Sayaka Ando: Women and Eating Disorders
- Remi Ito: Older people in Japan
- Rieko Nakagawa: Japanese of Korean descent
- Schoolhouse: In this issue, a description of Spencer Kagan's approach to cooperative learning
- Gathering Place: Gender issues-related presentations at Peace as a Global Language 2003 in Tokyo
- Need a Laugh? by Kay Hammond
- Alice Walker at Yokohama Women's Forum by Kris Mizutani -- NEW FEATURE: GALE goes out 'n about!
- Gender and Contemporary Japan (Course Syllabus) by Tamah L. Nakamura
- Teaching Gender For Our Lives by Tamah L. Nakamura
- DVD/video resources for gender studies classes by Kathy Riley
- Osaka Women's Clinic opens by Barbara Summerhawk
- Making Feminism Meaningful: Organizing Opportunities for Student Involvement in Social Change by Debby Lunny
- Whatﾕs Love Got to Do with It? Explorations into Masculine Identity by Kathy Riley
- Some Reflections on Being a Gay Uncle by Alan McCornick
- MacKinnon Speaks to Anti-porn Group by Barbara Sumerhawk
- The Textbook Let's Talk about Womenﾕs Issues in English! by Reiko Yoshihara
- Gender, human rights, peace, ecology: PGL Conference sparks interdisciplinary dialogs by Tina Ottman
- GALE SIG Info
- JALT Preview
- EPA Association Formed
- PGL Conference Reports:
- Peace begins in the classroom
Life-link
Sexual Identity Positioning by Tina Ottman - Independence through English by Michael Lee Harper
- WELL conference information
- Reconstructing Social Identity: Two Scholars Reflect on Patterns and Process by Tamah Nakamura
- Representations of Women: Some Criteria for Choosing an EFL Text by Jeff Hatter
- Women and Trade Unions in Kazakhstan by Roza Kalenova
- Story of Queer as a Second Language: A Journey from Sapporo to Salt Lake City, from theory to theatre by Cynthia Nelson
- PGL Conference
- Call for Contributions
- PGL Conference Presentations
- JALT Shizuoka Preview
- How to join GALE
- Teaching Peace - Kathy Riley, ed.
- Kano examines women's roles in war at WELL/GALE Miniconference by Kathy Riley
- What's happening at JALT/PAC Kitakyushu to deal with Gender by Simon Cole
- Teacher-traveler reaches out to Asia by Kathy Riley
- Student-Centered Reading and Discussion of Gender and Sexual Orientation Issues by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
- Students Write About Gender by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
- A Mannequin Called Anne by Yoshiko Sato
- My SweEEeet Memory in Holland by Kaoru Fujita
- Flexible Masculinity - masculinity with sociological approach by Yoshifumi Nakagawa
- Hokkaido Conference 2001 Update by J. Sean Curtin
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