ABSTRACT
Readers of this anthology might believe that because its title bears the terms “feminisms” and “pedagogy,” that the issues addressed here are exclusively about gender and teaching. Th is is not the case. Feminist theory and research have expanded exponentially in recent years both in diversity of inquiry and theorizing. Th at work, it seems to me, has made it abundantly clear that gender identity and relations cannot be apprehended or theorized on their own abstracted terms. Th at is, sex, gender, or femininity needs to be studied and theorized in its constitutive relationship to other sociocultural signifi cations, economic and political histories, hierarchies, and discourses.
