Writing the World: The Role of Advocacy
in Implementing a Feminist Pedagogy
by Jennifer D. Ryan
While working in a one-year
position at Grinnell College, I was assigned to teach two sections of
Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies (GWS). Although I had never
taught in the discipline before, I decided that my course would need a
social-justice component in order to ensure that students would understand
GWS as both an academic discipline and an engagement with the complexities
of social experience. Introduction to GWS is offered primarily to first-
and second-year students. Thus, my students would be relatively inexperienced
even in the traditional methods of the college classroom and, I hoped,
more receptive to what for me would be an experimental assignment.
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