ABSTRACT

Feminist Theory in Diverse Productive Practices is the second of two volumes examining gender and feminist theory in Educational Philosophy and Theory. This collection explores the difference that gender and sexual identities make both to theorizing and working in education and other fields. As the articles contained in this text span nearly 40 years of scholarship related to these issues, this volume sheds light on how feminist, gender, and sexuality theory has evolved within and beyond the field of philosophy of education over time.

Key themes explored in the book include women’s ways of knowing, the challenges women (and girls) face in taking up professional employment across diverse fields historically and today, and how feminist and related theories can enable women in professional development roles to empower each other. The book tells a rich story of how gender and sexuality theory has been brought to bear on discussions of educational practice in diverse fields over decades of publication of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Feminist Theory in Diverse Productive Practices will be key reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of philosophy of education, philosophy, education, educational theory, post-structural theory, and the policy and politics of education.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

Gender in fields: feminist theory in diverse productive practices

chapter 2|15 pages

Marriage and the construction of reality revisited

An educational exercise in rewriting social theory to include women’s experience

chapter 5|19 pages

Against feminist science

Harding and the science question in feminism

chapter 6|18 pages

The dilemma of obedience

A feminist perspective on the making of engineers

chapter 7|19 pages

‘Destroying’ the pedagogical imaginary 1

Implications of sexual difference for educational philosophy

chapter 9|19 pages

Feminist imperatives in music and education

Philosophy, theory, or what matters most

chapter 10|13 pages

Double blind

Supervising women as creative practice-led researchers

chapter 11|14 pages

The smiling philosopher

Emotional labor, gender and harassment in conference spaces