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Reading You Tube, contextualizing theory.(ROUND-Up 3: YOU TUBE IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Essay)

At Rutgers University, the introductory course in women's and gender studies, "Women, Culture, and Society," covers a wide range of social issues, the history of feminist activism, and foundational feminist theory. When I teach this course, I season the required texts with YouTube videos that provide context for the denser theoretical readings. As with all required texts, students are expected to watch the videos before class.

Anyone who teaches theory to freshman classes knows that the academic jargon and dense sentence structure can intimidate some of the most talkative students into silence. I find that the familiarity of the videos makes the theoretical points more ...

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