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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... socialist feminist theory , is that capitalism and patriarchy are related and mutually reinforcing of one another . In other words , both men and women exist in interconnected and overlapping relationships of gender and class - and , as ...
... socialist feminist theory , is that capitalism and patriarchy are related and mutually reinforcing of one another . In other words , both men and women exist in interconnected and overlapping relationships of gender and class - and , as ...
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... socialism and feminism , capitalism and patriarchy is filled with tension , as Ehrenreich writes , a socialist and feminist perspective is still needed : Socialist - or perhaps here I should say Marxist - because a Marxist way of ...
... socialism and feminism , capitalism and patriarchy is filled with tension , as Ehrenreich writes , a socialist and feminist perspective is still needed : Socialist - or perhaps here I should say Marxist - because a Marxist way of ...
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... feminist teachers in public high schools . In so doing , I consider both agency and the structural forces acting ... socialist feminism in terms of feminist theory in general . 2. Significant examples of this approach are Frazier ...
... feminist teachers in public high schools . In so doing , I consider both agency and the structural forces acting ... socialist feminism in terms of feminist theory in general . 2. Significant examples of this approach are Frazier ...
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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