ABSTRACT
The following is an account of the process we use in our course to not only serve a community of women in our city but also to encourage the fu ture social responsibility and activism of our students. We examine our use of reflective journals as a space for students to question their individual personal location in relation to the feminist scholarship they are reading and the communities in which they function. We explore the different ways in which we build a supportive microcosm of a community within the classroom where students can learn from one another and begin to negoti ate issues of diversity and inequality. And we describe the connections we create for our students with community activists that help them to discover their potential part in the work of social change.
