ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the wonderful messiness of teaching feminism. It bears the title "Loving feminism" and its author finished teaching a course by the same name speak for the non-coincidental nature of its moment of articulation. The chapter mitigates the elan of "loving feminism". It addresses the far messier business of a teacher's continuous negotiation of her own feminist politics, the interests of her students, and her desire to treat these standpoints respectfully while also working unabashedly to garner feminist support. The chapter discusses how politics and personality have to be negotiated in teaching gender, feminism, and sexuality. It also aims to articulate the specific political setting of teaching feminism in English as a feminist advocate in a German university classroom, while using by and large Anglophone texts due to the course's placement in an English Department. The chapter demonstrates that teaching feminism affirmatively represents a constant confrontation with differences, and that "differences" may be understood in several ways.
