Feminist pedagogy in higher education : critical theory and practice /

In this new collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines provide a critical context for the relationship between feminist pedagogy and academic feminism by exploring the complex ways that critical perspectives can be brought into the classroom. This book discusses the processes employed to...

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Main Authors: Nicholas, Jane, 1977- (Author, Editor), Light, Tracy Penny, 1970- (Author, Editor), Bondy, Renée, 1966- (Author, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015.
Series:ACUP E-Book.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: feminist pedagogy in higher education / Renée Bondy, Jane Nicholas, and Tracy Penny Light
  • A restorative approach to learning: relational theory as feminist pedagogy in universities / Kristina R. Llewellyn and Jennifer J. Llewellyn
  • Feminist pedagogy in the UK university classroom: limitations, challenges, and possibilities / Jeannette Silva Flores
  • Activist feminist pedagogies: privileging agency in troubled times / Linda Briskin
  • Classroom to community: reflections on experiential learning and socially just citizenship / Carm De Santis and Toni Serafini
  • Fat lessons: fatness, bodies, and the politics of feminist classroom practice / Amy Gullage
  • Engaged pedagogy beyond the lecture hall: the book club as teaching strategy / Renée Bondy
  • Teaching a course on women and anger: learning from college students about silencing and speaking / Judith A. Dorney
  • Beyond the trolley problem: narrative pedagogy in the philosophy classroom / Anna Gotlib
  • The power of the imagination-intellect in teaching feminist research / Susan V. Iverson
  • From Muzzu-Kummik-Quae to Jeanette Corbiere Lavell and back again: Indigenous and feminist approaches to the first-year course in Canadian history / Katrina Srigley
  • Don't mention the "F" word: using images of transgressive texts to teach gendered history / Jacqueline Z. Wilson
  • Rethinking "students these days": feminist pedagogy and the construction of students / Jane Nicholas and Jamilee Baroud
  • Feminist pedagogies of activist compassion: engaging the literature and film of female genital cutting in the undergraduate classroom / Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
  • "I can't believe I've never seen that before!": feminism, the "sexualization of culture," and empowerment in the classroom / Tracy Penny Light
  • Jane sexes it up ... on campus? Towards a pedagogical practice of sex / Maggie Labinski.