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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On the contrary, she attempts to bridge the most critical aspects of reproduction theory, its emphasis on how wider social forms reproduce the class-specific dimensions of inequality, with those aspects of feminist theory that stress ...
... she argues instead that they are mutually informing relations of contradiction that produce forms of social and moral governance, on the one hand, and the regulation of subjects, texts, and subjectivities on the other.
... relations that the ideological and material space emerges within schools for developing the insights and forms of radical pedagogy necessary to organize gender, race, and class considerations as part of an emancipatory project.
Women Teaching for Change challenges the reader to understand schooling and critical pedagogy as a form of cultural politics. ... always engages specific cultural forms and experiences which generate different sets of understandings for ...
... and structure expression and expressivity; and shows why such language needs to be reconstructed within a pedagogy that links the production of knowledge and the act of learning to forms of production rooted in the histories, ...
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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 |