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Frances A. Maher - The Feminist Classroom: Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Privilege - 9780742509979 - V9780742509979
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The Feminist Classroom: Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Privilege

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Description for The Feminist Classroom: Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Privilege Paperback. This text discusses the position of women in American Education. The authors offer examples of how assumptions of privilege, specifically the workings of unacknowledged whiteness, shape classroom discourse. It also goes beyond the classroom to look at the context of American higher education. Num Pages: 336 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL1; JNK; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
The issues explored in The Feminist Classroom are as timely and controversial today as they were when the book first appeared six years ago. This expanded edition offers new material that rereads and updates previous chapters, including a major new chapter on the role of race. The authors offer specific new classroom examples of how assumptions of privilege, specifically the workings of unacknowledged whiteness, shape classroom discourses. This edition also goes beyond the classroom, to examine the present context of American higher education. Drawing on in-depth interviews and using the actual words of students and teachers, the authors take ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742509979
SKU
V9780742509979
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About Frances A. Maher
Frances A. Maher is professor of education at Wheaton College, where she coordinated the college's Balanced Curriculum Project, which integrated the study of women into introductory courses. She has written several articles exploring the principles and practices of feminist pedagogy and co-edited a special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly on feminist pedagogy. Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault is provost and vice ... Read more

Reviews for The Feminist Classroom: Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Privilege
The Feminist Classroom takes us on a journey with seventeen differently situated feminist professors. As an anthropologist, I find compelling its ethnographic approach to the study of feminist classrooms in diverse institutional settings. As president of Spelman College, I applaud the classroom practices of my colleagues and their commitment to empowering Black women students.
Johnnetta B. Cole, president, Spelman ... Read more

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