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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... recognize the contradictory nature of schools and the existence of what Simon calls " moments that not only express the basic contradctions of our society , but also foster the questioning of existing social forms and a raising of ...
... recognize either that women do work in paid jobs or that the paid work that they do is in low - paying and dead - end jobs . Thus by failing to recognize the reality of women's actual work as paid workers and by encouraging girls to see ...
... recognizing the limits of what is possible , teachers ( and all of us ) should recognize the value and importance of doing what is possible . In this way , I would like this study to document not only the richness and significance of ...
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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