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Gender Studies: Feminist Pedagogy

A guide to support ISU's GNDR [was WS] 200 'Introduction to Gender Studies', and related classes. Coverage for on-campus and online students included.

Feminist Pedagogy - Articles

Women's Studies Quarterly 15.3/4 (1987): entire issue is on Feminist Pedagogy; sections: Theoretical Perspectives and Curricular Implications; In the Classroom: Feminist Teaching Strategies and Approaches – available in JSTOR

More to come.

Feminist Pedagogy - Books

Educating Feminists; life histories and pedagogy – Sue Middleton – LC 197 .53 1993

Ch. 1.; A Life-History Approach to Feminist Pedagogy --; Feminism and Educational Restructuring --; Sociology of Education, Critical Pedagogy, and the Teacher's Voice --; A Teacher's Voice --; Feminist Educational Theorizing in the 1990s: A New Zealand View --; Ch. 2.; The Sociology of Women's Education as Discourse --; Mapping the Field --; A Voice from the Margins --; Sociological Theories in the Education of the Post-World War II Woman --; Ch. 3.; The Politics of Life-History Research --; Asking the Questions --; Power and Knowledge in Life-History Analysis --; Doing the Research --; A Case Study --; Some Implications --; Ch. 4.; Becoming a Feminist Teacher --; Contradictions in the Education of Postwar Women --; Becoming Feminist: A Collective Life History --; Feminists Teaching: Four Case Studies --; Ch. 5.; Academic Feminism: Living the Contradictions --; An Encounter --; The Politics of Academic Women's Studies --; Feminists in a Classroom --; Feminism and Pedagogy --; Two Lectures --; The Rational Individual: Living the Contradictions --; Ch. 6.; Equity Issues in the 1990s: School Administrators Speak --; Feminist Sociological Theories in Educational Restructuring --; Board Members Speak: Background to the Research --; Equal Opportunities for Women and Girls: A Discourse Analysis --; Experiences of Schooling: Intergenerational Comparisons --; Ch. 7.; Students' Voices: Intergenerational Conversations --; Generative Themes --; Doing Life-History Research --; Relating Theory to Everyday Life --; Power Relations in a Feminist Classroom

Gender Pedagogy; teaching, learning and tracing gender in higher education. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. LC 197 .H45 2015

Introducing gender pedagogy 'in medias res' -- Researching gender pedagogy -- Tracing paper -- Gender -- Learning gender -- Feminist gender pedagogy -- Gender pedagogy -- Invitation.

Twenty-first-century feminist classrooms; pedagogies of identity and difference. Editors: Amie A. Macdonald; Susan Sanchez-Casal. LC 197 .T94 2002

Toward a pedagogy of coalition / Betty Sasaki -- Unleashing the demons of history / Susan Sánchez-Casal -- Student resistance and nationalism in the classroom / Michiko Hase -- Feminist pedagogy and the appeal to epistemic privilege / Amie A. Macdonald -- Negotiation subject positions in a service-learning context / Tamara Williams and Erin McKenna -- Antiracist pedagogy and concientización / Maria Eva Valle -- Queer theory and feminist pedagogy / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz -- White girls and strong black women / Allison Dorsey -- Teaching (about) genocide / Bat-Ami Bar On -- Decentering the white and male standpoints in race and ethnicity courses / Margaret Hunter -- Representation, entitlement, and voyeurism / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz.

Feminisms and critical pedagogy. Editors: Carmen Luke and Jennifer Gore. LC 196 .F46 1992

Progressive pedagogy and political struggle / Valerie Walkerdine -- Feminist politics in radical pedagogy / Carmen Luke -- What we can do for you! What can "we" do for "you"? : struggling over empowerment in critical and feminist pedagogy / Jennifer Gore -- Interrupting the calls for student voice in "liberatory" education : a feminist poststructuralist perspective / Mimi Orner -- Why doesn't this feel empowering? : working through the repressive myths of critical pedagogy / Elizabeth Ellsworth -- Post-critical pedagogies : a feminist reading / Patti Lather -- Feminist pedagogy and emancipatory possibilities / Jane Kenway and Helen Modra -- Interrupting patriarchy : politics, resistance and transformation in the feminist classroom / Magda Lewis -- Women in the academy : strategy, struggle and survival / Carmen Luke and Jennifer Gore.

Innovative feminist pedagogies in action. Editors: Maralee Mayberry and Ellen Cronan Rose. LC 197 .M44 1999

Reproductive and Resistant Pedagogies: The Comparative Roles of Collaborative Learning and Feminist Pedagogy in Science Education / Maralee Mayberry -- Teaching in Environments of Resistance: Toward a Critical, Feminist, and Antiracist Pedagogy / Sandra Bell, Marina Morrow, and Evangelia Tastsoglou -- Wrestling with the Devil, or From Pedagogy to Profit and Back Again / Maryanne Dever -- Feminist Wolves in Sheep's Disguise: Learning Communities and Internships / Jane A. Rinehart -- Assessment and Feminist Pedagogy / Jodi Wetzel -- Women's Studies on Television? It's Time for Distance Learning / Annis H. Hopkins. "This Class Meets in Cyberspace": Women's Studies via Distance Education ; Further Adventures of a Women's Studies Cyberspace Cadet / Ellen Cronan Rose -- Teacher Involvment and Transformative Power on a Gender Issues Discussion List / Kathleen A. Boardman [and others] -- Feminist Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary Praxis, and Science Education / Maralee Mayberry and Margaret N. Rees -- FreshMAN Composition: Blueprint for Subversion / Cheyenne Marilyn Bonnell -- Gender STudies in God's Country: Feminist Pedagogy in a Catholic College / Susan Kuntz and Carey Kaplan -- Embodied Learning: The Body as an Epistemological Site / Diana L. Gustafson -- Sophia and Sophistry: Gender and WEstern Civilization / Prudence Ann Moylan.Feminist Teaching in a Law Faculty in New Zealand / Wendy Ball -- Letting Feminist Knowledge Serve the City / Melissa Kesler Gilbert, Carol Holdt, and Kristin Christophersen.

Feminist pedagogy; looking back to move forward. Editors: Robbin D. Crrabtree, Davie Alan Sapp, Adella C. Licona. LC 197 .F475 2009

This volume brings together theoretical and empirical articles, critical essays, and personal reflections on classroom practices published in The NWSA Journal from 1989 to 2002.

Authority / Dale M. Bauer -- Resisting "the dominance of the professor" : gendered teaching, gendered subjects / Pamela L. Caughie and Richard Pearce -- Scholarship on the other side : power and caring in feminist education / Rebecca Ropers-Huilman -- Beyond essentialisms : team teaching gender and sexuality / Debbie Storrs and John Mihelich -- Not for queers only : pedagogy and postmodernism / Sal Johnston -- Feminist pedagogy, interdisciplinary praxis, and science education / Maralee Mayberry and Margaret N. Rees -- Small group pedagogy : consciousness-raising in conservative times / Estelle B. Freedman -- Bringing different voices into the classroom / Julia T. Wood -- Teaching about domestic violence : strategies for empowerment / Saundra Gardner -- The shift from identity politics to the politics of identity : lesbian panels in the women's studies classroom / Mary Margaret Fonow and Debian Marty -- The protest as a teaching technique for promoting feminist activism / Suzanna Rose -- Women's studies on television? : it's time for distance learning / Annis H. Hopkins -- "I was [so] busy fighting racism that I didn't even know I was being oppressed as a woman!" : challenges, changes, and empowerment in teaching about women of color / Lili M. Kim -- Negotiating tensions : teaching about race issues in graduate feminist classrooms / Anne Donadey -- Feminist pedagogy : a selective annotated bibliography / Lori A. Goetsch -- Dynamics of the pluralist classroom : a selected bibliography / Stephanie Riger, Carrie Brecke, and Eve Wiederhold.

Teaching and social justice; integrating multicultural and feminist theories in the classroom. Editors: Carolyn Zebe Enns and Ada L. Sinacore. LC 192.2 .T43 2005

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association

Toward defining and integrating multicultural and feminist pedagogies /; Carolyn Zerbe Enns,; Linda M. Forrest --; Second-Wave feminisms and their relationships to pedagogy /; Carolyn Zerbe Enns,; Ada L. Sinacore --; Diversity feminisms: postmodern, women-of-color, antiracist, lesbian, Third-Wave, and global perspectives /; Ada L. Sinacore,; Carolyn Zerbe Enns --; Multicultural education and critical pedagogy approaches /; Saba Rasheed Ali,; Julie R. Ancis --; Multicultural counseling training approaches: implications for pedagogy /; Julie R. Ancis,; Saba Rasheed Ali --; Multicultural and feminist literatures: themes, dimensions, and variations /; Ada L. Sinacore,; Carolyn Zerbe Enns --; The feminist classroom: feminist strategies and student responses /; Ada L. Sinacore,; Karyn J. Boatwright --; The challenges, impact, and implementation of critical multicultural pedagogies /; Angela M. Byars-Winston,; Özge Akçali,; Karen W. Tao,; Cecilia A. Nepomuceno,; Tina M. Anctil,; Vianey Acevedo,; Nan Benally,; Georgiana Wilton --; Multicultural feminist mentoring as individual and small-group pedagogy /; Ruth E. Fassinger,; Nancy F. Hensler-McGinnis --; The institution, the educator, and the student /; Michele C. Boyer,; Heidi A. Larson --; Integrating multicultural and feminist pedagogies: personal perspectives on positionality, challenges, and benefits /; Carolyn Zerbe Enns,; Ada L. Sinacore,; Vianey Acevedo,; Özge Akçali,; Saba Rasheed Ali,; Julie R. Ancis,; Tina M. Anctil,; Karyn J. Boatwright,; Michele C. Boyer,; Angela M. Byars-Winston,; Ruth E. Fassinger,; Linda M. Forrest,; Nancy F. Hensler-McGinnis,; Heidi A. Larson,; Cecilia A. Nepomuceno,; Karen W. Tao.

Content coming soon in time for Feminist Pedagogy luncheon salon on March 29!

What is feminist pedagogy? How might feminist pedagogy give us a new or alternate ways to think about the work we do in the classroom and in the community? In fact, you may already be practicing elements that fit into definitions of feminist pedagogy! Come and discuss ideas and practices for feminist pedagogy. Consider two definitions below to get the discussion started:

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy. Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2003). “Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity”, p.243, Duke University Press

Feminist Pedagogy: Implications for UDL; Posted on April 21, 2012 by Allison Hitt – chart

          Co-constructs knowledge among teacher and students; disrupts teacher/student binary

          Egalitarian, community-based

          Adopts discussion or workshop format

          Attentive to process, context

          Respects situated knowledges and each person’s experiences, expertise