Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist : Storying Our Experiences in Higher Education / / by Elizabeth Mackinlay.

• Superior document: Teaching Gender
• VerfasserIn: Mackinlay, Elizabeth.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Language: English
• Series: Teaching Gender
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVIII, 226 p.)

"Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist is a conversation between academics in Women’s Studies and Gender Studies about the politics of pedagogy in higher education. What does it mean to embody feminism in universities today? Written in a creative narrative style, Mackinlay explores the discursive, material and affective dimensions of what it might mean to live the personal-as-political-as-performative in our work as teachers and learners in the contemporary climate of neo-liberal universities. This book is both theory and story and aims to bring feminist theorists such as Virginia Woolf, Hélène Cixous, Sara Ahmed and bell hooks together in conversation with Mackinlay’s own experiences, and those of women she interviewed, in their diverse roles as ‘feminist-academic-subjects’. The fluid writing style presented is a deliberate attempt to enact a ‘post-academic’ form of literature and is playfully punctuated by black and white drawings. Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist captures the precarious position of Women and Gender Studies in universities today, as well as the ‘danger’ inherent in grounding teaching and learning work in feminist politics. Mackinlay wraps herself in both and invites us to do the same. This book is designed to stimulate reflection and lively class discussion and is appropriate for courses in curriculum studies and pedagogy, education, feminism and feminist theory, gender and women’s studies, and narrative inquiry. It can also be read by individual teachers and researchers interested in feminism. “Mackinlay re-envisages how feminist knowledge can be articulated through her audacious and engaging mix of reflection, analysis, narrative, poetry, and line drawings. This is a refreshingly personal and powerfully collective analysis of doing feminism in hostile institutions. It will give heart to many.” – Alison Bartlett, The University of Western Australia, Perth “This highly readable book is a love story about feminism at the same time as a rigorous investigation … a must read for undergraduate students and for scholars-who-don’t-identify-as-feminist, core reading for gender courses at all levels, and mandatory reading for feminist and gender academics.” – Julie White, Victoria University Elizabeth Mackinlay is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland."<.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Writing, Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist -- The Breath: Giving This Book Life -- The Movement: Permissions for Writing Women in Stuck Places after Woolf, V. Professions for Women -- The Skin: A Note on Writing -- The Body: A Note on Drawing -- The Bones: Framing This Work -- Not Afraid of the ‘F’ Word: Positioning Ourselves as Women’s and Gender Studies Academics -- Opening -- Scene 1 Do Universities Still Need Women’s and Gender Studies? -- Scene 2 A ‘Feminesto’ about Higher Education -- Scene 3 Ourselves as Feminist Academics -- Closing -- Finding Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education: A Willing Journey into Danger -- Opening -- The Historical Body of Feminist Pedagogy: Following a Woman in Danger -- In the Fullness and Process of Feminist Pedagogy: A Collective and Dangerous Body of Central Tenets -- Closing -- Rooms of Our Own: Feminist Pedagogy inside the Classroom -- Opening -- Room One -- Room Two -- Room Three -- Room Four -- Room Five -- Room Six -- Closing -- Living Feminist Pedagogy Outside the Classroom: Untimely Fragments -- Opening -- Closing -- Are You a Feminist? Stories Undergraduate Students Tell about Teaching and Learning -- Opening -- The Story Begins -- Prelude -- Scene 1 -- Interlude -- Scene 2 -- Scene 3 -- Closing -- Living Our Pedagogic Response-Abilities in Women’s and Gender Studies -- Opening -- Talking and Living the Orange -- The Materiality of Response-Ability in Feminist Pedagogy: Why It Matters to Me -- Closing -- A Diffractive Narrative: Feminist Pedagogy and a Refusal of Reflexivity towards Decoloniality -- Opening -- Diffraction and Decoloniality: Disobediently Living and Being beyond the Same -- One Little Difference: A Teaching and Learning Story That Relies on Paint -- Little Difference Number Two: White Paint on White Bodies -- And Then There Were Three: Paint Becomes Remembrance, Refusal and Resolve -- Closing -- Daring to Lead with Feminism in Higher Education: Let It Blaze, Let It Blaze -- Opening -- Daring to Walk through with Virginia Woolf -- Invading and Creating Feminist Spaces: Power, Politics and Perspectives -- Embodying the Past, Future and Present Moment as Feminist Academics -- Feminist Leaders as and through Feminist Pedagogy -- Consequences of the Compromise within the Compromise for Feminist Academics -- Closing -- (Not) Concluding Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist -- Opening -- Closing -- About the Author.