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Scholarship March 29, 2017

“Feminist Pedagogy Theory: Reflections on Power and Authority”

The Wabash Center

Author
Luke, Carmen
Publisher
Educational Theory 46, no. 3 (1996): 283-302
Focuses on the tensions and contradictions within feminist pedagogy. Contradictory dimensions of feminists' locations in the academy; Power and authority; Pedagogy and performativity; Feminist difference and the politics of positionality; Claims of authority and the impossibility of normative judgments; Contradictions of institutional and pedagogical authority.