ABSTRACT
Women’s Studies pedagogy has developed because Feminist lecturers have experimented conferred, debated, dared to invent and imagine an alternative to the traditional academic experience for both teacher and student. This has happened simultaneously across the different education strata. There can be no doubt that Women’s Studies/Feminism has influenced mainstream academic life. Not only are Women’s Studies courses established in their own right but the influence on other disciplines such as Geography, Drama, Communication Studies, Afro-Asian Studies, is accepted, albeit sometimes unwillingly, within the academy. Part of the influence of Women’s Studies comes from its undoubted contribution to progressive pedagogy. Women’s Studies must continue to provide a safe area from which to mount resistance to and assaults upon systems of oppression. Women’s Studies in the new millennium will continue to deal with the transformative power of Feminism and the ways in which it promotes alternative ways of thinking and shifts boundaries.
