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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... concept of hegemony has been central to much critical edu- cational theory , and both Gramsci and Freire have been cited by the- orists seeking to develop a theory of cultural production . Recently the concept of resistance has been put ...
... concept of hegemony has been central to much critical edu- cational theory , and both Gramsci and Freire have been cited by the- orists seeking to develop a theory of cultural production . Recently the concept of resistance has been put ...
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... concept as a starting point . But a wholehearted embrace of the concept can lead to predictable excesses ; the political content of actions in opposition to established authority can be ignored , and virtually any act of opposition ...
... concept as a starting point . But a wholehearted embrace of the concept can lead to predictable excesses ; the political content of actions in opposition to established authority can be ignored , and virtually any act of opposition ...
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... concept of reproduction with Gramsci's concept of hegemony . As she says : By putting the concept of hegemony , rather than " reproduction " at the fore of an analysis of class and gender , it is less easy in research to forget the ...
... concept of reproduction with Gramsci's concept of hegemony . As she says : By putting the concept of hegemony , rather than " reproduction " at the fore of an analysis of class and gender , it is less easy in research to forget the ...
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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