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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... texts and the media , teaching the history of women , or discussing such issues as sexual harassment in their own and students ' lives or in the schools themselves . It was to address these questions that I decided to investigate the ...
... texts and institutional structures . It has tended to ignore the depth of sexism in power relationships and the relationship of gender and class . Because this approach fails to place schools and schooling in the context of a wider ...
... texts and classroom practices . Through these means , they redefine what Johnson has called " useful knowledge . " ( Johnson , 1980 ) They take two interrelated approaches that I think are essential to the kind of critical feminist ...
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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