Twenty-First-Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference(Comparative Feminist Studies)

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 students' thinking, and also the ways in which power and authority are developed, directed, and deployed in the feminist classroom. This volume provides a critical elaboration of provocative, self-reflexive questions for feminist cultural and intellectual practice for the 21st century. In doing so, the volume provides a site for engaged feminist self-criticism for the specific purpose of reinvigorating a critical pedagogical practice grounded in multicultural feminist identities.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Feminist Reflections on the Pedagogical Relevance of Identity; S.Sanchez-Casal & A.A.Macdonald THEORIZING MULTICULTURAL FEMINIST IDENTITIES Towards a Pedagogy of Coalition; B.Sasaki U.S. Latino Studies and the Multicultural Paradigm; S.Sanchez-Casal Student Resistance and Nationalism in the Classroom: Reflections on Globalizing the Curriculum; M.Hase THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF EXPERIENCE Feminist Pedagogy and the Appeal to Epistemic Privilege; A.A.Macdonald Negotiating Subject Positions in a Service Learning Context: Towards a Feminist Critique of Experiential Learning; T.Williams & E.McKenna Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Concientizacion: A Latina Professor's Struggle; E. M.Valle Queer Theory and Feminist Pedagogy; N.S.Rabinowitz CONTEXTUALIZING DIFFERENCE 'White Girls and Strong Black Women': Reflections on a Decade of Teaching Black History at Predominantly White Institutions; A.Dorsey Teaching About Genocide; B.Bar-On Decentering the White and Male Standpoint in Race and Ethnicity Courses; M.Hunter Representation, Entitlement, and Voyeurism: Teaching Across Difference; M.K.Kantrowitz

About the Author :
SUSAN S NCHEZ-CASAL is Associate Professor of Latino and Women's Studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where she teaches U.S. Latino and Women's Studies. She is the author of essays on women's testimonial literatures, U.S. Latino/a literatures, feminist theory and antiracist pedagogy. AMIE A. MACDONALD is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at John Jay College, City University of New York, where she teaches courses in political philosophy, multicultural feminism, and the philosophy of law. She has published essays on the impact of nationalism, feminism, and racial identity in higher education.

Review :
'...the authors articulate new methods for understanding and centralizing the function of experience and identity in the classroom...' - L.R. Baxter, Choice 'This collection of essays sets forth a bold and important challenge.' - Feminist Academic Press Column