ABSTRACT
To paraphrase the feminists of the 1970s, this chapter brings together the personal and the political in the new scenario, the contemporary society. The personal keeps being political and, inasmuch as politics permeates all aspects of our lives, I would like to take up the issue of pedagogical cultures and the generic acts (the production of both gender and genre) that make them possible. In an effort to locate the personal, mostly within ethics on its way to engage with the political – and thus at the crux between responsibility toward others and autonomy – I would like to raise some of the central concerns of a feminist pedagogical practice by bringing together three interwoven and passionate knowledge-making sets of problems as addressed by major feminist theorists: from Donna Haraway’s relational paradigm of “thinking/becoming-with”, to bell hooks’ engaged pedagogy in the classroom as a dialogical scene, and finally to Chandra T. Mohanty’s solidarity model of the feminist intercultural encounter.
