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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... approach were quickly evident . ( Giroux , 1983 ) As has often been pointed out , Althusser's work provides no way to consider the subject as an agent of change and never provides a theory of consciousness . Moreover , his treatment of ...
... approach reveals “ the diversity of class experience and the nature of class hegemony in education . " ( Arnot , 1982 , p . 69 ) The debate about the relationship of gender and class underlies the work of all of these feminist ...
... approach . At the same time , she is uneasy that she is fulfilling students ' stereotypes about women's identity and sphere . While she doesn't speak of con- sciously dressing in certain ways or consciously raising certain wom- en's ...
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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