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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... struggle between social forms that limit and enable individual capac- ities . As Philip Corrigan points out : At the heart of any analysis of social relations ... there are always contra- dictions and , consequently , struggles ...
... struggles that feminist administrators and teachers have to face in an urban public high school . In doing so , she breaks new theoretical ground , linking the subjective and contextual side of fem- inist struggle to wider aspects of ...
... struggling with feminist issues in our own lives and in our teaching . But most feminist analyses of sexism in school texts and practices have not acknowl- edged the existence of this active struggle on the part of teachers . So in part ...
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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