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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... social structures maintain and reproduce themselves . Recent theorists have attempted to distinguish between two forms of reproduction : social reproduction — that is , the repro- duction of class structure ; and cultural reproduction ...
... social world they inhabit . It is the internalization of a male hegemony that leads women to devalue their own worth and to assume that the career of a man is more important than their own , or that they are somehow " inca- pable " of ...
... social move- ments and ideas which challenge hegemonic ideology . And as we have seen , participating in social experiments and movements and experiencing social change led these teachers to see that the status quo is not eternal . This ...
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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