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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... influenced by wider political and social movements . The older of them lived through the civil rights movement , the ... deeply influenced these women's views of what teaching means and could become in a more just society . Third , many ...
... deeply influenced by male hegemony as they grew up and suffered to varying degrees from sexist practices in their youth and adult lives , they were able to critique those experiences and to act in their own teaching to influence their ...
... deeply influenced them and their view of their own work . These schools also felt the effects of the social unrest ... profound effect on the teachers who participated in them . One teacher remem- bers this time : It wasn't that people ...
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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