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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... create a synthesis of these two lines of analysis , to create a theory that can relate what Rubin has called " the sex / gender system " and the economic system through an analysis of the sexual division of labor and an understand- ing ...
... create a synthesis of these two lines of analysis , to create a theory that can relate what Rubin has called " the sex / gender system " and the economic system through an analysis of the sexual division of labor and an understand- ing ...
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... create this division , but that they reinforce the present arrangement of society through their acceptance of the status quo in both class and gender terms : Education does not create the sexual divison of labour , nor the kinds of work ...
... create this division , but that they reinforce the present arrangement of society through their acceptance of the status quo in both class and gender terms : Education does not create the sexual divison of labour , nor the kinds of work ...
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... create what he calls a new historical bloc can be found in the women's movement . Adopting gender as a basic analytic tool will enable critical theory to see what is right under its nose : the possibilities for fundamental social ...
... create what he calls a new historical bloc can be found in the women's movement . Adopting gender as a basic analytic tool will enable critical theory to see what is right under its nose : the possibilities for fundamental social ...
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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