Feminist Pedagogy, Practice, and Activism Improving Lives for Girls and Women

Feminist programming, no matter the venue, provides opportunities for young girls and women, as well as men, to acquire leadership skills and the confidence to create sustainable social change. Offering a wide-ranging overview of different types of feminist engagement, the chapters in this volume challenge readers to critically examine accepted cultural norms both in and out of schools, and speak out about oppression and privilege. To understand the various pathways to feminism and feminist identity development, this collection brings together scholars from education, women’s studies, sociology, and community development to examine ways in which to integrate feminism and women’s studies into education through pedagogy, practice, and activism.

Foreword Nancy A. Naples Part I: Pedagogy. 1. And the Danger Went Away: Speculative Pedagogy in the Myth of the Post-Feminist (Jennifer L. Martin) 2. Girls Talk Back: Changing School Culture through Feminist and Service-Learning Pedagogies (Jennifer L. Martin and Jane A. Beese) 3. A Second Wave: Teaching Women’s Studies in High School from 1972 through the New Millennium (Patricia Fowler Sanders and Ann S. Kemezis) 4. Defying Cultural Norms: Launching Women’s Studies in the High School Setting (Annie Delgado) 5. First, Second and Third Waves of Feminism: Providing "Life Rafts" for Women of All Generations (Michele A. Paludi) Part II: Practice. 6. Men’s Engagement from the Margins In (Pheng Thao) 7. Addressing Violence in Schools: Feminist Praxis and a Pedagogy of Risk (Melinda Lemke) 8. Witnessing Students’ Learning through a Pedagogy of the Flesh (Ana Roncero-Bellido) 9. Breaking the Ties that Bind: Raising Black Feminist Children in an Anti-Feminist, Racist Milieu (Martina Sharp-Grier) Part III. Activism. 10. Caring about Justice: Developing the Moral Imperative for Feminist Activism (Susan Iverson & Jennifer James) 11. Social Change through Campus Engagement: Perspectives on Feminist Activist Pedagogy in University-based Women's Centers (Ashley Nickels and Adrienne Trier-Bieniek) 12. The Role of the "Black Girls' Club": Challenging the Status Quo (Victoria Showunmi) 13. Political Parity in the United States: Mobilizing the Pipeline through Feminist Pedagogy (Susannah Wellford and Anne Moses)

Jennifer Martin is Assistant Professor of Education at University of Mount Union, USA. Ashley E. Nickels is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kent State University, USA. Martina Sharp-Grier is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stark State College, USA.