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1	Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom more books like this by Bell Hooks add to wishlist These essays face squarely the problems of teachers who do not want to teach, and of students who do not want to learn, of racism and sexism in the classroom, and of the gift of freedom that is, for Hooks, the teacher's most important goal. Raising many concerns central to the field of critical pedagogy, Hooks connects them to feminist thought, an ... see all copies from $13.50! new only from $19.77! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Morning after : sex, fear and feminism more books like this by Katie Roiphe add to wishlist When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been radically transformed. The women's movement, which had once signaled such strength and courage, now seemed lodged in a foundation of weakness and fear. At Harvard, and later as a graduate student at Princeton, Roiphe saw ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.16! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens more books like this by Wendy Luttrell add to wishlist " This picture represents the way I feel. I feel like a big, heavy ball that can't move. I can't pick up things - I can't do what I usually would do, like go out. People look at me as if they never been feeling like this before..." Tonya Nicholson, teen mother Everyone has a theory about teenage pregnancy. Wendy Luttrell offers an alternate view ... see all copies from $40.80! new only from $40.80!
4	Same, Different, Equal: Rethinking Single-Sex Schooling more books like this by Professor Rosemary C Salomone add to wishlist An assessment of the educational and legal issues surrounding single-sex education. Although co-education has been the norm within private and public schools since the 1970s, single-sex education has staged a comeback in recent years as a means of addressing the academic and social problems faced by some students. Single-sex education raises ... see all copies from $5.48! new only from $20.69! \| SVS
5	Women as Learners: The Significance of Gender in Adult Learning more books like this by Dr. Elisabeth R Hayes, Daniele D Flannery add to wishlist Shifting standards and roles for women--combined with many economic and social factors--have increased the number of women who participate in adult learning activities. Yet most literature on adult learning barely touches on the subject of women's learning. This limited understanding of how women learn is too often reflected in the practice of ... see all copies from $21.29! new only from $29.01! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" on Campus more books like this by Mike Adams add to wishlist What happens when a conservative Christian white male professor a with a wicked sense of humor --stands up to his afeminazia colleagues? The darndest things! Professor Mike Adams at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington was an atheist and a Democrat when he entered academia over a decade ago. And as you can only imagine, he fit right in ... see all copies from $2.05! new only from $4.48! \| first editions
7	School-Smart and Mother-Wise: Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling more books like this by Wendy Luttrell, Luttrell Wendy add to wishlist "School-smart and Mother-wise" illustrates how and why American education disadvantages working-class women when they are children and adults. In it we hear working-class women-black and white, rural and urban, southern and northern-recount their childhood experiences, describing the circumstances that led them to drop out of school. Now enrolled ... see all copies from $4.47! new only from $44.65!
8	Miseducation of Women more books like this by James Tooley add to wishlist Girls and boys are different. So why do our schools insist on treating them as identical? Bringing together many women's voices, from Bridget Jones to Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan to Germaine Greer, Mr. Tooley challenges education's sacred cows, demanding a radical rethinking of sexual politics and a fairer way forward for women. This book is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Twenty-First-Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference more books like this by Susan Sanchez (Editor), Amie A MacDonald (Editor) add to wishlist This book is centrally concerned with crucial theoretical and practical aspects of teaching in the national and global borderlands of gender, race and sexuality studies. The cross cultural feminist focus of this anthology allows the contributors to consider the various ways in which global and national frameworks intersect in the classroom and in ... see all copies from $23.17! new only from $33.12! \| SVS
10	Never a Dull Moment: Teaching and the Art of Performance more books like this by Jyl Lynn Felman, Lynn Felman Jyl add to wishlist Never a Dull Moment: Teaching and the Art of Performance is really about how teachers are performers, classrooms are stages, and students are the captivated audience. Dynamic, animated, and often unpredictable, Jyl Lynn Felman's approach to teaching breaks new ground, creating a rich and intellectual theater of ideas for her students. In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| SVS
11 view cover	Wise Women: Reflections of Teachers at Mid-Life more books like this by Freeman Phyllis, Phyllis R Freeman (Editor), Jan Zlotnik Schmidt (Editor) add to wishlist Written by influential and renowned teachers at midlife, this collection includes deeply personal and groundbreaking autobiographical accounts of women who came of age during the second wave of the women's movement and are now wise women on campus. The essays in Wise Women provide powerful accounts of the psychological, physical, and social ... see all copies from $3.50! new only from $26.73! \| SVS
12 view cover	Disciplining Feminism: From Social Activism to Academic Discourse more books like this by Ellen Messer-Davidow, Ellen Messer-Davidow add to wishlist How was academic feminism formed by the very institutions it originally set out to transform? This is the question Ellen Messer-Davidow seeks to answer in Disciplining Feminism. Launched thirty years ago as a bold venture to cut across disciplines and bridge the gap between scholarly knowledge and social activism, feminism in the academy, the ... see all copies from $8.50! new only from $11.66!
13 view cover	Teacher Research and Urban Literacy Education: Lessons and Conversations in a Feminist Key more books like this by Sandra Hollingsworth add to wishlist The collective accounts of student teachers featured in this text suggest an alternative approach to learning how to teach reading and writing in inner-city schools. This approach is characterised by faith in the virtue of sustained collaborative conversation and is grounded in feminist theory. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Repositioning Feminism & Education: Perspectives on Educating for Social Change more books like this by Janice Jipson, Susan Victor, Karen Froude Jones add to wishlist The complex relationships of power, knowledge and teacher identity in initiating social change is documented in this text. From a multi-cultural viewpoint, the contributors explore the tensions within the process of fusing theory with political work in education. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| SVS
15 view cover	Feminist Accused - PB more books like this by Jane Gallop, Jane Gallop, Dilip Parameshwargaonkar (Editor) add to wishlist Sexual harassment is an issue in which feminists are usually thought to be on the plaintiff's side. But in 1993, amid considerable attention from the national academic community, Jane Gallop, a prominent feminist professor of literature, was accused of sexual harassment by two of her women graduate students. In "Feminist Accused of Sexual ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.54! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Coming of Age in Academe: Rekindling Women's Hopes and Reforming the Academy more books like this by Jane Roland Martin, Rol Martin Jane add to wishlist This text explores the plight of feminist scholars. The author contends that feminist scholars have traded their idealism and concerns about their lived experience for a place in the academy. She looks at the ways that feminists working in the academy find themselves estranged from each other and how estrangement in general is the "membership fee" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.01! \| first editions
17 view cover	Strategies of Transformation Toward a Multicultural Society: Fulfilling the Story of Democracy more books like this by David T Abalos add to wishlist How can the culturally diverse communities of America live justly and fruitfully together? Not by assimilation into the dominant culture - nor by fighting for the freedom to pursue our own self interest at the cost of our repressing both the wounds and the promising potential of our own cultural roots. This book offers a theory and practice of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $48.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Why Are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape?: Teaching and Learning at a Women's College more books like this by Madeleine Kahn add to wishlist "Why Are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape?" raises feminist issues in a way that reminds people why they matter. We eavesdrop on the vivid student characters in their hilarious, frustrating, and thought-provoking efforts to create strong and flexible selves against the background of representations of women in contemporary and classical Western ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.95!
19 view cover	The Feminist Classroom more books like this by Frances A Maher, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault add to wishlist Drawing on interviews and on-site observations, the authors take the reader into the classrooms of seventeen feminist college professors at six colleges and universities. In showing how integrating feminist and multicultural content revitalizes the classroom, this book portrays innovative teaching in action.. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.99! \| first editions
20 view cover	Women Leading in Education more books like this by Diane M Dunlap (Editor), Patricia A Schmuck (Editor) add to wishlist This volume is much more than a collection of women's voices: it is a wonderful chorus. see all copies from $3.65! new only from $30.95! \| SVS
21 view cover	Challenging Democracy: International Perspectives on Gender, Education and Citizenship more books like this by Madeleine Arnot (Editor), Jo-Anne Dillabough (Editor) add to wishlist Citizenship education is currently the subject of worldwide attention, and this book reports on research work in a range of countries including South Africa, Finland, Portugal, Argentina, Australia, the US and Canada. Contributors address broad questions of the different ways on which educational feminism has approached the issues of democratic ... see all copies from $21.99! new only from $48.24!
22 view cover	Anti-Feminism in the Academy more books like this by Shirley N Garner (Editor), Professor Margaret R Higonnet (Editor), Ketu Katrak (Editor) add to wishlist Contending that the anti-feminist backlash in the academy is part of the broader "politically correct" rhetoric, the authors have gathered together a collection of writers, academics and activists to challenge the rising tide of insults, insinuation and spoken violence in academia. With the classroom's climate increasingly chilly for women, this ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $19.95! \| first editions
23 view cover	Anti-Racism, Feminism, and Critical Approaches to Education more books like this by Roxana Ng, Pat Staton (Editor), Joyce Scane (Editor) add to wishlist This treatise calls for a broadened approach to educational studies which takes note of multicultural/anti-racist education, feminism and critical pedagogy. It addresses educational issues relevant to Aboriginals, races and religious minorities in light of feminist and critical theory. see all copies from $5.95! new only from $31.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Feminism and Social Justice in Education more books like this by Madeleine Arnot add to wishlist After more than twenty years of feminist education research, policy development and innovative school practice, it seems appropriate to evaluate the impact and significance of this world wide struggle for social justice in education. At the same time, the recent restructuring of educational provision whether in the name of sexual equality or the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $54.80! \| SVS
25 view cover	Nourishing Words: Bridging Private Reading and Public Teaching more books like this by Wendy Atwell-Vasey, Madeleine Grumet (Foreword by) add to wishlist By exploring the very human and moving autobiographies of teachers, and the promising insights of feminist and critical reading theory, Atwell-Vasey asks how we can oppose the alienation and distancing that so often characterize curriculum in schools. She links the hopes and concerns of teachers with curriculum forms that reverberate with the ... see all copies from $3.50! new only from $18.99! \| first editions

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