ABSTRACT
The authors of the thirteen chapters in this volume bring excitement and innovations to teaching about gender from a wide range of theoretical and discipline perspectives. They exhibit the inclusiveness that is central to feminist pedagogy–a perspective that centers the educational enterprise in the analysis of the interconnectedness of social categories that have traditionally divided and given root to inequality and oppression and aims for no less than social transformation. Empowerment is a core value in gender education and the experiential approach nurtures that goal. This volume provides many examples of the power of learning through experience as the authors demonstrate that, “…the authority of the feminist teacher as intellectual and theorist finds expression in the goal of making students themselves theorists of their own lives by interrogating and analyzing their own experience.” (Weiler, 1991)To stimulate the adaptation of the approaches described in these books, each volume includes an Activity / Methodology table that summarizes key elements of each example, such as class size, pedagogy, and other disciplinary applications.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section One|52 pages
Gender and Identity
part Section Two|40 pages
The Social Construction of Gender in an Educational Setting
chapter 5|18 pages
Feminism, Public Sociology, And Service Learning
part Section Three|55 pages
Feminist Pedagogy and Service Learning
chapter 6|18 pages
Women as Social Warriors
chapter 7|18 pages
The Young Women's Studies Club
part Section Four|57 pages
Women and Violence
chapter 10|20 pages
From "No Means No" to Community Change
part Section Five|46 pages
Service Learning and Research