ABSTRACT
There are dilemmas enough in teaching as a feminist within the universityand they are compounded when teaching ‘the internationar to mainly young, mainly local (Australian) students. In this chapter I reflect on my attempts to encourage students to locate themselves in and think about ‘the world’, to move from the local to the global and back again. I focus on particular challenges within this vast task: making the international accessible in terms of students’ own experiences and understandings; and the ethical and political difficulties of teaching ‘difference’, without domesticating it or reducing it to bland diversity. I pursue these challenges within an explicitly feminist agenda.
