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ERIC Number: EJ968432
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 18
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0882-4843
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Poststructural Feminist Pedagogy in a Post-Katrina World
Pierce, Gloria
Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, v21 n1 p36-53 2010
Gender Issues in Counseling is a popular course in a master's program in counseling at a university in a diverse metropolitan area. An objective of the course is to examine contemporary technoconsumer culture and its institutions (such as multinational corporations and corporate economic imperatives) through an ecofeminist lens that views both the abuse of the earth and the devaluing of women as stemming from a masculinist discourse in which domination and exploitation are acceptable modes of operation. The poststructural feminist lens helps to explore the intersections of class, gender, race, etc. as they interact with corporate power and technocracy and other structural mechanisms of capitalist and patriarchal systems. Thus, these two major threads of feminist discourse--ecofeminism and poststructural feminism--both contribute to understanding the underlying causes and events surrounding the Katrina disaster in ways that the dominant cultural discourse (especially in the corporate media) does not. Four Gender Issues classes conducted in the years following the 2005 storm are the subject of this study, which was undertaken to assess how poststructural feminism and ecofeminism shaped students' processing of Katrina and how these interpretations might contribute to their counseling philosophy and practice. To do this, the author reviewed her instructor notes on class sessions, student reaction papers, and the summative evaluations for each class. In this article, the author has used these to show their encounters with the reported experiences of those who lived through Katrina to give a clear and representative picture of classroom interactions and learning. (Contains 1 note.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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