Feminist Pedagogy, Practice, and Activism Improving Lives for Girls and Women [Hardcover]

Feminist programming, no matter the venue, provides opportunities for young girls and women, as well as men, to acquire leadership skills and the confidence to create sustainable social change. Offering a wide-ranging overview of different types of feminist engagement, the chapters in this volume challenge readers to critically examine accepted cultural norms both in and out of schools, and speak out about oppression and privilege. To understand the various pathways to feminism and feminist identity development, this collection brings together scholars from education, womens studies, sociology, and community development to examine ways in which to integrate feminism and womens studies into education through pedagogy, practice, and activism.

ForewordNancy A. Naples

Part I: Pedagogy.

1. And the Danger Went Away: Speculative Pedagogy in the Myth of the Post-Feminist (Jennifer L. Martin)

2. Girls Talk Back: Changing School Culture through Feminist and Service-Learning Pedagogies (Jennifer L. Martin and Jane A. Beese)

3. A Second Wave: Teaching Womens Studies in High School from 1972 through the New Millennium (Patricia Fowler Sanders and Ann S. Kemezis)

4. Defying Cultural Norms: Launching Womens Studies in the High School Setting (Annie Delgado)

5. First, Second and Third Waves of Feminism: Providing Life Rafts for Women of All Generations (Michele A. Paludi)

Part II: Practice.

6. Mens Engagement from the Margins In (Pheng Thao)

7. Addressing Violence in Schools: Feminist Praxis and a Pedagogy of Risk(Melinda Lemke)

8. Witnessing Students Learning through a Pedagogy of the Flesh (Ana Roncero-Bellido)

9. Breaking the Ties that Bind: Raising Black Feminist lS+