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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... patriarchal relationships in schools or the production of gendered subjects either in terms of sexual relations or patriarchal work relations . ( Arnot , 1982 ) The works of both Althusser and of Bowles and Gintis have been criticized ...
... patriarchal relationships in schools or the production of gendered subjects either in terms of sexual relations or patriarchal work relations . ( Arnot , 1982 ) The works of both Althusser and of Bowles and Gintis have been criticized ...
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... patriarchal as opposed to class oppression , they remain committed to the primacy of production . Because of the centrality of this sphere of material life and production in their thought , feminist reproduction theorists see the ...
... patriarchal as opposed to class oppression , they remain committed to the primacy of production . Because of the centrality of this sphere of material life and production in their thought , feminist reproduction theorists see the ...
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... patriarchal values and relationships , though in different ways from men . But the question for women is how the human ability to create meaning and resist an imposed ideology can be turned to praxis and social transformation . The ...
... patriarchal values and relationships , though in different ways from men . But the question for women is how the human ability to create meaning and resist an imposed ideology can be turned to praxis and social transformation . The ...
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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