Connecting Feminist Theory and Critical Pedagogies: Disrupting Assumptions About Teaching and Canon

Facilitating critical discussions with young men about issues of masculinity is not easy work. Gender transformative programs must engage with difficult conversations about issues such as heterosexism, homophobia, and masculine entitlement. The affective force of these issues tends to be downplayed in the pedagogic approaches within these programs, as does the complex facilitation skills required to engage boys and men in these difficult conversations. This paper draws on interview data gathered from a broader study that sought to identify new educative approaches to gender justice in four different sites in the United States. The data were generated through discussions with facilitators and researchers involved in the delivery and evaluation of a gender transformative program for disadvantaged boys and young men. The paper presents four stories that foreground concerns expressed in the interviews about facilitator bias and the feminist delivery of the program. These stories highlight the affective intensities involved in gender transformative work with young men. The paper brings together important work in the area of critical pedagogies, affect, and feminist theory to offer an actionable framework to support facilitators and participants to critically engage with the affective intensities of gender transformative work.

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Using Positive Feminist Theory in Practice With Asian Survivors of Domestic Violence

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e620212013-001 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Mayumi Nakamura ◽

Anmol Satiani

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Feminist Theory

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Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public

10.1057/9780230112957 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Robin Truth Goodman

Keyword(s):

Feminist Theory ◽

The Public

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Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction

10.3366/edinburgh/9780748686186.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Anne Whitehead

Keyword(s):

Feminist Theory ◽

Medical Humanities ◽

Illness Experience ◽

Contemporary Fiction ◽

Theoretical Argument ◽

Cultural Relations ◽

Night Time ◽

British Fiction ◽

Definition Of ◽

Relations Of Power

This book offers a critique of the dominant understanding and deployment of empathy in the mainstream medical humanities. Drawing on feminist theory, it positions empathy not as something that one has or lacks, and needs to accrue, but as something that one does and that is embedded within structural, institutional and cultural relations of power. It aims to provide a critically informed definition of empathy, drawing on phenomenology, in order to counter the vagueness of the term as it has often been used. It questions, too, the assumption that empathy is limited to the clinical relation, looking to a broader and more encompassing definition of the ‘medical’. Combining theoretical argument with literary case studies of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Pat Barker’s Life Class, Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, this book contends that contemporary fiction is not a vehicle for accessing another’s illness experience, but itself engages critically with the question of empathy and its limits. The volume marks a key contribution to the rapidly evolving field of the critical medical humanities.

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Intifada Incantation #2

Departures in Critical Qualitative Research ◽

10.1525/dcqr.2017.6.3.34 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 34-49

Author(s):

Mekhatansh McGuire

Keyword(s):

Feminist Theory ◽

Black Girls ◽

Critical Engagement ◽

Postcolonial Feminist Theory ◽

Postcolonial Feminist ◽

Epistemological Framework

This work examines how June Jordan's poetry dedicated to solidarity is a pedagogical and epistemological framework in SOLHOTLex and in engaging Black girls around the interconnectedness of the occupation of Palestine and the genocide of Syrians under the Bashar Al Assad regime. It begins to answer the questions of how frameworks like womanism and postcolonial feminist theory inform engagement around solidarity in SOLHOTLex and organizing Black girls while examining what critical engagement and organizing looks like when the voices of Black girls are in symphony with the rest of the world's resistance struggles.

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