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Evaluate a Culture using Gender: How are women treated in this culture?
Measuring a culture by how they treat women is a great way to help students better understand society and time periods. Let the students become the historian and determine how "advanced" the society was. The following Webquest requires students to have access to the internet. On whatever time period or culture you are learning about in a World History, Geography, or Cultures class, ask students to look for articles that answer these questions, and ultimately let students decide how they treated their women.
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Pre-History: Before Gendered Constructs
Rubens, Peter Paul. "The Fall of Man." 1628-29. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve.
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What do origin stories say about the role of women?
To answer this question students will read origin stories from cultures around the world. Students will consider the ways that gender is represented and the long term impacts the messages contained within these myths can have on a culture.
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Ancient History: Women Fight Subordination
Boudicca and her daughters, sculpture in London. Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Boudicca/images-videos#/media/1/75413/129461.
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Why did women resist empire?
Women in the ancient world took up arms to fight empires. Despite all the gender barriers women crossed the gendered threshold into a man's world? Why? In a world history class, it's helpful to have women look at similarities and differences across cultures, so we have four examples of women who resisted empire in Rome and the Han and Wu empires in China.
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Middle Ages: Women in the Shadows and on Thrones
Furini, Francesco. “The Death of Rachel.” c. 17th Century. Photo provided by the Wellcome Trust. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_birth_of_Benjamin_and_the_death_of_Rachel._Oil_painting_Wellcome_V0017370.jpg.
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How did depictions of European women giving birth shift overtime?
To answer this question students will examine paintings from different eras in Europe to see how they portray birth and to compare them. There are many more paintings available online for deeper investigation. This lesson could also be replicated for different regions around the world.
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