The Feminist Classroom

Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Privilege

Author: Frances A. Maher
Secondary Author: Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault
ISBN: 9780742509979

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 the reader into classrooms at six colleges and universities - Lewis and Clark College, Wheaton College, the University of Arizona, Towson State University, Spelman College, and San Francisco State University. The result is an intimate view of the pedagogical approaches of seventeen feminist college professors. Feminist scholars have demonstrated t

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Publish Date: 2001-01-01

Subjects: Education / Higher, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Women in Academia)