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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... called " the unhappy marriage of socialism and feminism , " is complex and still being worked out . The immediate task for socialist feminists is to create a synthesis of these two lines of analysis , to create a theory that can relate ...
... called " failure of the schools " has been the focus of a spate of reports and national commissions . Teachers have been blamed individually for unimaginative and su- perficial teaching , for the high drop out rate of certain groups of ...
... called male hegemony . ( Arnot , 1982 ) Students , like teachers , are historically situated beings , whose complex subjectivities are so- cially defined and at the same time are internalized and lived . Both students and teachers have ...
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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