Dangerous Territories

by Roman, Leslie G.; Eyre, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780415915960
• ISBN10: 0415915961
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

With the recent conservative retrenchment, educational institutions have witnessed a backlash against the gains made by feminist and antiracist activists.Dangerous Territoriesexamines higher education as one site of this backlash, at the same time challenging the binary framing of discourse as "reactionary" vs. "progressive," or Right vs. Left. Dangerous Territoriesdraws together contributors working within and across a variety of disciplines including law, history, sociology, education, literature, women's studies, queer theory, cultural politics and postcolonialism. This volume presents contesting voices and positions on whether or not the concepts of backlash and anti-oppression can adequately explain the historical and political development of social movements and radical educational practice. Contributors include: Himani Bannerji, Richard Cavell, Patricia Elliot, Didi Herman, Alice Pitt, Howard Soloman, and Aruna Srivastava.

Table of Contents

Preface---Dangerous Territories, Territorial Power, and Education	ix
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Introduction---The Usual Suspects: Struggles for `Difference' and `Equality' in Education	1	(22)
Leslie G. Roman
Linda Eyre
Part I Stating the Unstated: Nations, State Power, and Education
Geography Lessons: On Being an Insider/Outsider to the Canadian Nation	23	(20)
Himani Bannerji
`At The Expense of Christianity': Backlash Discourse and Moral Panic	43	(20)
Davina Cooper
`Then I Saw a New Heaven and a New Earth': Thoughts on the Christian Right and the Problem of `Backlash'	63	(12)
Didi Herman
Disciplining Feminism: A Look at Gender--Equity Struggles in Australian Higher Education	75	(24)
Jill Blackmore
Part II Inside--Out: Transgressive Pedagogies and Unsettling Classrooms
Transvestic Sites: postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Politics	99	(14)
Richard Cavell
Anti-Racism Inside and Outside the Classroom	113	(14)
Aruna Srivastava
Reading Resistance Analytically: On Making the Self in Women's Studies	127	(16)
Alice Jane Pitt
Denial and Disclosure: An Analysis of Selective Reality in the Feminist Classroom	143	(18)
Patricia Elliot
Part III Shifting Courses, Directions, and Policies: Out from the Ghetto of Pedagogy
Report and Repression: Textual Hazards for Feminists in the Academy	161	(18)
Dorothy E. Smith
`What a Shame You Don't Publish': Crossing the Boundaries as a Public Intellectual Activist	179	(12)
Howard M. Solomon
Re-Forming (Hetero) Sexuality Education	191	(14)
Linda Eyre
Empires, Emigres, and Aliens: Young People's Negotiations of Official and Popular Racism in Canada	205	(28)
Leslie G. Roman
Timothy Stanley
Gender Equity, Policy, and Praxis	233	(22)
Celia Haig-Brown
Backlash in Cyberspace: Why `Girls Need Modems'	255	(20)
Jane Kenway
Contributors' Biographical Notes	275	(6)
Index	281