Teaching Villainification in Social Studies Jo Thakker How gender and sexuality can

How gender and sexuality can be life threatening From the murder of schoolgirls in a rural Amish community to the widespread rape of women in the Sudan to sexual predators on the Internet

and Frank Miller

The book is divided into three broad sections

Existing chapters have been updated to reflect changes in the literature and new chapters from eminent narrative scholars in Europe

and the Utopian imagination

Teaching Villainification in Social Studies Jo Thakker How gender and sexuality canIn this collection, scholars from the United States, Canada, and Australia examine the concepts of villainification and antivillainification in social studies curriculum and popular culture, as well as within broader sociocultural contexts. Villainification is the process of identifying an individual or a small group of individuals as the sole source of a larger evil. Antivillainification considers the messy space in between individual and group