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Publication Date: 2006
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Researching a Womanist Pedagogy to Heal
Westfield, Nancy Lynne
Religious Education, v101 n2 p170-174 Spr 2006
In this article, the author shares her experience with her female African-American student who happened to be a Black female patriarch. She discusses what Patriarchy and Black female Patriarchy means. She states that, Patriarchy, as defined by Candace Jenkins, is the rule of the father, including the rule of older men over younger men and of fathers over daughters, as well as husbands over wives. While, Black female Patriarchy is what happens as African-American women take ownership of male domination, and participate actively in maintaining and supporting the power and privilege of men to rule over, exploit, and debase women. Moreover, after defining and describing the terms, she has then implicated that her student, needed to see how a Black man could partner with her and not oversee, control, or eclipse her. As a womanist pedagogue, she suggests a practice for combating this menace, to design and create a model partnership and collaborations with healthy, progressive African-American men who are self-avowed recovering patriarchs. (Contains 1 footnote.)
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Student Behavior, African Americans, Women Faculty, Teaching Experience, Females, Religious Education, Sex Role, Sex Fairness, Feminism, Heads of Households, Gender Bias, African American Teachers, Social Bias, Personal Narratives
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