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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... ( McRobbie , 1980 ; Acker , 1981 ) The feminist critique of Willis centers around two general points . First is the fundamental question of the reliability of descriptions of working - class culture by male sociologists . The question ...
... ( McRobbie , 1980 ; Acker , 1981 ) The feminist critique of Willis centers around two general points . First is the fundamental question of the reliability of descriptions of working - class culture by male sociologists . The question ...
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... McRobbie , Fuller and others in England , and Thomas in Australia have contributed ethnographic studies that raise new questions about the intersection of gender , race , and class in the lives of working - class girls . Studies of ...
... McRobbie , Fuller and others in England , and Thomas in Australia have contributed ethnographic studies that raise new questions about the intersection of gender , race , and class in the lives of working - class girls . Studies of ...
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... McRobbie and her associate Trisha McCabe have published Feminism for girls , directed at both students and teachers and youth workers . McRobbie and McCabe raise questions of the transmission of images and values through the media and ...
... McRobbie and her associate Trisha McCabe have published Feminism for girls , directed at both students and teachers and youth workers . McRobbie and McCabe raise questions of the transmission of images and values through the media and ...
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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