Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class & Power
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. |
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Feminism— United States. 3. Education, Secondary— United States. 4. Discrimination in education— United States. 5. Feminist criticism— United States. I.Title. H. Series. LB2837.W45 1988 371.1'0088042 87-14604 ISBN 0-89789-127-9 (alk.
Last I want to thank my two feminist daughters, Sarah and Emma, for their support and encouragment in what my daughter, Sarah, called "smashing patriarchal hegemony." And most of all I want to thank my husband Peter, who was my best and ...
Table of Contents Introduction by Henry A. Giroux and Paulo Freire ix CHAPTER ONE Critical Educational Theory 1 CHAPTER TWO Feminist Analyses of Gender and Schooling 27 CHAPTER THREE Feminist Methodology 57 CHAPTER FOUR The Dialectics ...
Writing as a feminist, Weiler develops a critical theory of schooling that illuminates how gender is socially constructed within institutional and ideological technologies of power that inform all aspects of school life.
But the strength of Weiler's book goes far beyond her ability to reconstruct and advance the theoretical gains made by previous radical and feminist theories of education and pedagogy. Weiler also brings into focus a wide range of ...
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Contents
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CHAPTER TWO Feminist Analyses of Gender and Schooling | 27 |
CHAPTER THREE Feminist Methodology | 57 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Dialectics of Gender in the Lives of Feminist Teachers | 73 |
CHAPTER FIVE The Struggle for a Critical Literacy | 101 |
CHAPTER SIX Gender Race and Class in the Feminist Classroom | 125 |
CHAPTER SEVEN Conclusion | 147 |
Bibliography | 155 |
Index | 165 |