Feminism, Adult Education and Creative Possibility: Imaginative Responses [Paperback]

This book argues that feminist aesthetics as practices of adult education can inform our responses to gendered, racial, class and ecological injustices. It illustrates the critical, creative, and provocative pedagogical theorising, research, and engagement work of feminist adult educators and researchers who work in diverse community, institutional, and social movement contexts across North America and Europe. This book captures the complexity, diversity, energy, and imagination of those who theorise, decolonise, facilitate, investigate, visualize, story, and create within the politics of gender (in)justice and radical change.

Darlene E. Cloveris Professor of Adult Education and Leadership Studies at University of Victoria, Canada.

Kathy Sanfordis Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Victoria, Canada.

Kerry Harmanis Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

This book is a brilliant tapestry of courage, hope, and radical feminist imagination, visualizing change while dispelling invisibility and silence. Whilst deeply urgent and brimming over with important insights of decolonisation, it is also diverse in mediums and genre, reflecting an attempt of the feminist imaginary to be inclusive and bold. Carole Roy, Professor, Dept. of Adult Education, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

This inspiring and wide-ranging text illustrates how care, love, hope, and relationality informed a diverse collection of feminist, intersectional, imaginative aesthetic projects. Readers will learn how photography, autobiography, storytelling, curation, witnessing, mapping, and writing love letters among others both illuminated and subverted the mechanics of multiple forms of gender injustice. Shauna Butterwick, Professor Emeritus, Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada

This is an important and highly distinctive collection of work. It brings together, f