Gender and Academe Feminist Pedagogy and Politics

by Deats, Sara Munson; Lenker, Lagretta Tallent

• ISBN13: 9780847679690
• ISBN10: 0847679691
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-09-06
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This collection of new essays from 29 feminist scholars in a range of humanities and social science disciplines argues that pedagogical methods, as well as curricula and textbooks, should reflect feminist theories and emphases. At the same time, the scholars demonstrate that feminists can advocate both hierarchy and equality, authority and freedom, order and flexibility, objectivity and subjectivity, reason and feeling, without being guilty of philosophical treason. Contributors:

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
On the Social Construction of a Women's Gender Studies Major	p. 3
Gender and Visual Literacy: Toward a Multidisciplinary Perspective	p. 19
Old Maids and Helpful Husbands: Alerting Students to Gender Bias in Biography, Criticism, and Autobiography	p. 33
The Male-Dominated Curriculum in English: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?	p. 45
The Nature and Effects of a Gender-Biased Psychology Curriculum and Some Suggestions for Implementing Change	p. 59
The Personal is Professional is Political: Feminist Praxis in a Graduate School Counselor Training Program	p. 79
Woman as Witch: The Renaissance and Reformations Revisited	p. 91
Hyper-feminisms: Poststructuralist Theories, Popular Culture, and Pedagogy	p. 111
Navigating in a Brave New World: Teaching Feminist Literary Criticism	p. 123
The Centrifugal Classroom	p. 133
Valuing the Personal: Feminist Concerns for the Writing Classroom	p. 153
Evidence and Ideology When College Students Write About Gender	p. 167
Woman to Women: Understanding the Needs of Our Female Students	p. 179
A Study in Feminisms: Organizing a Gender Conference	p. 201
Feminist Journals: Academic Empowerment or Professional Liability?	p. 207
Building an Effective Model for Institutional Change: Academic Women as Catalyst	p. 217
The Politics of Gendered Sponsorship: Mentoring in the Academy	p. 231
Gender Patterns in Faculty-Student Mentoring Relationships	p. 247
If R2D2 is a Male Robot, Then 10[superscript 6] is a Female Nothing	p. 265
The Hidden "A-Gender" in Intellectual Discourse: A Dialogical Examination	p. 271
Afterword	p. 285
Suggested Reading	p. 291
Index	p. 329
About the Editors	p. 335
About the Contributors	p. 337
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