Feminist Praxis Revisited

Critical Reflections on University-Community Engagement

de Amber Dean (éditeur), Jennifer L. Johnson (éditeur), Susanne Luhmann (éditeur)

Maison d'édition : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

janvier 2019

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Résumé

In Feminist Praxis Revisited, Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) practitioners reflect on how the field has sought to integrate its commitment to activism and social change with community-based learning in post-secondary institutions.

Teaching about and for social change has been a core value of the field since its inception, and co-op, practica, and internships have long been part of the curriculum in the professional schools. However, liberal arts faculties are increasingly under pressure to integrate community engagement practices and respond to labour market demands for greater student “employability.” That demand creates challenges and possibilities as WGS programs and instructors adapt to changing post-secondary agendas.

This book examines how WGS programs can continue to prioritize the foundational critiques of inequality, power, privilege, and identity in the face of a post-secondary push toward praxis as resumé building, skills acquisition, and the bridging of town-and-gown differences. It pushes students to reflect critically on their own experiences with feminist praxis through critical reflections offered by the contributors along with examples of practical approaches to community-based/experiential learning.

Auteur

Amber Dean (Edité par)

Amber Dean is an associate professor of Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at McMaster University. She is the author of Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance (2015), and co-editor with Chandrima Chakraborty and Angela Failler of Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning (2017).
Susanne Luhmann (Edité par)

Susanne Luhmann is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Alberta. Her research and publication areas include trauma and cultural memory, queer and feminist pedagogy, and women’s and gender Studies. She is the co-author of Troubling Women’s Studies: Pasts, Presents, Possibilities (2004).