Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class and PowerBloomsbury Academic, 1988 - 174 pages Applying theory to practice, Women Teaching for Change reveals the complexity of being a feminist teacher in a public school setting, in which the forces of sexism, racism, and classism, which so characterize society as a whole, are played out in multiracial, multicultural classrooms. A fine book, a rich melding of critical theory in education, feminist literature, and pedagogical experience and expertise. Maxine Green, Columbia University |
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... class girls , but rather the immediate and oppressive sexism of working - class boys . As we will see , feminists ... middle- class and one in a working - class school - for an academic year . In both cases , there was a clear and stated ...
... class background of students . One site had a mixed working - class and middle - class population with a fairly large number of students from strongly ethnic and recent im- migrant families . Urban schools increasingly must meet the ...
... class- room is not completely controlled by them . There is a " sub rosa " discourse in classrooms , made up of both ... middle - class teachers who were articulate and positive about their feminist beliefs . While in many respects it ...
Contents
CHAPTER TWO Feminist Analyses of Gender | 27 |
CHAPTER THREE Feminist Methodology | 57 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Dialectics of Gender in | 73 |
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