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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... racism , and our own position of power in a racist society . I have spent some time in sketching out the importance of race and class in any critical feminist study of women's lives , because I want to make clear the underlying ...
... racism . Evidence of the effects of racism on women of color is extensive . ( Bunch and Pollack , 1983 ; hooks , 1984 ; Hull , Scott and Smith , 1982 ; Jordan , 1981 ; Moraga and Anzaldua , 1981 ; Walker , 1983 ) These writers emphasize ...
... racism as a black boy in a racist society . His discourse was one of lived racism , not an academic discourse . Within the context of the classroom , his statements ( both verbal and nonverbal ) were read by the teacher as a disruption ...
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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