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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... dominant ideas that justify the social , economic , and political structure of that society . However , societies are not homogeneous , but contain com- peting classes ; the dominant intellectuals will be the transmitters of the ...
... dominant commercial culture of capitalism . ( Hebdidge , 1979 ) In this view subcultures become the site of the active production of meaning in opposition to the hegemonic ideology of the dominant groups in society . In education , the ...
... dominant and subordinate forms of power that Giroux mentions are not simply the dominance of the teacher and the subordination of the student . Students also are gendered , raced , and classed ; they therefore " read " texts and class ...
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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