Feminist Community Engagement [electronic resource] : Achieving Praxis /
Iverson, S.editor.
James, J.editor.
Contributors to this volume demonstrate how a feminist approach is strategically necessary for the community engagement movement in higher education to achieve its goals and illustrate the transformative potential of merging feminist theory with social action.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Feminism and Community Engagement: An Overview; Part I Theoretical Considerations; Chapter 3 Conversations from Within: Critical Race Feminism and the Roots/Routes of Change; Chapter 4 Role Modeling Community Engagement for College Students: Narratives from Women Faculty and Staff of Color; Chapter 5 Social Media for Social Justice: Cyberfeminism in the Digital Village
Chapter 6 Transgressing Intellectual Boundaries Begins with Transgressing Physical Ones: Feminist Community Engagement as Activist-Apprentice PedagogyPart II Feminist Applications; Chapter 7 Feminist Student Philanthropy: Possibilities and Poignancies of a Service-Learning and Student Philanthropy Initiative; Chapter 8 The Personal Is the Political: Community Engagement with Men as Feminist Border Crossing; Chapter 9 Moving from Theory to Practice: The Rocxxy Summer Internship in Feminist Activism and Leadership
Chapter 10 Developing Sustainable Community Engagement by Repositioning Programs into CommunitiesChapter 11 Conclusions: Re-visioning Community Engagement as Feminist Praxis; List of Contributors; Index
Includes index.
Contributors to this volume demonstrate how a feminist approach is strategically necessary for the community engagement movement in higher education to achieve its goals and illustrate the transformative potential of merging feminist theory with social action.
Higher education.
Educational sociology.
Gender identity in education.
International education .
Comparative education.
Education—Philosophy.
Library science.
Higher Education.
Sociology of Education.
Gender and Education.
International and Comparative Education.
Educational Philosophy.
Library Science.