Womens life experiences have offered unique opportunities for intercultural exchanges both historically and today. This section contains essays noting some of the ways women have connected with each other across cultural boundaries. The activities use primary source material for historical analysis and demonstrate ways students can connect around common interests in the classroom and beyond.
Essays:
Connecting Across Cultural Borders: Past and Present - Overview of themes, links to activities
Women As Cultural Emissaries - Primary Source Accounts
Chinas Diplomat Brides - Background and Story of Wencheng
19th/Early 20th Century Travelers- Gertrude Bell, Mary Kingsley, Mary Seacole
Peace as an Early Womans Issue - Women Organizing and Bertha von Suttner
Womens Suffrage: A World Wide Movement - Alliances, Arguments and Obstacles, Politics Beyond Suffrage
Activities:
Women and Veiling: Two Admiring Views- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Flora Tristan
Women in Every Country: First International Congress of Womens Rights
- Source Analysis, Role Playing, Research
Womens Ways of Peace - Samples from History
Quotable Women for Peace - Primary Sources, Role Playing
Self Portrait by Theoung Mim - Art Analysis, Immigrant Identity Issues
No Longer the Other - Child of the Americas - Poem Analysis
Ethnic Mirrors by Eliane Cristina Testa- Art Analysis, Ethnic and Gender Diversity
The Ideal American...... Who is......? - National Identity Awareness Discussion
The Solidarity Quilt - Background on Quilt, and Art and Craft Activity
Organizing for Intercultural Dialog - Web Research