Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Writing, Teaching and Learning like a Feminist

   • Elizabeth Mackinlay

   Pages 1-26

3. Not Afraid of the ‘F’ Word

   • Elizabeth Mackinlay

   Pages 27-49

4. Finding Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education

   • Elizabeth Mackinlay

   Pages 51-72

5. Rooms of Our Own

   • Elizabeth Mackinlay

   Pages 73-102

6. Living Feminist Pedagogy Outside the Classroom

   • Elizabeth Mackinlay

   Pages 103-125

7. Are You a Feminist? Stories Undergraduate Students Tell about Teaching and Learning

   • Elizabeth Mackinlay

   Pages 127-152

8. Living Our Pedagogic Response-Abilities in Women’s and Gender Studies

   • Elizabeth Mackinlay

   Pages 153-169

9. A Diffractive Narrative

   • Elizabeth Mackinlay

   Pages 171-192

10. Daring to Lead with Feminism in Higher Education: Let It Blaze, Let It Blaze

    • Elizabeth Mackinlay

    Pages 193-215

11. (Not) Concluding Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist

    • Elizabeth Mackinlay

    Pages 217-224

12. Back Matter

    Pages 225-225

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"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."<

• feminist pedagogy
• higher education
• autoethnography
• women and gender studies
• teaching

• The University of Queensland, Australia

  Elizabeth Mackinlay

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