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Teaching Popular Culture through Gender Studies: Feminist Pedagogy in a Postfeminist and Neoliberal Academy?

Teaching Popular Culture through Gender Studies: Feminist Pedagogy in a Postfeminist and... Brenda r. WeBer Feminist education--the feminist classroom--is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgement of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university. --bell hooks, Talking Back Emerging from feminist theory and women's studies disciplines, gender studies bears a particular obligation to be both theoretically responsible and socially applicable. To that end, the title of this article is meant to be doubly coded: we can teach through the use of gender theory, but we must also push through theory to account for the various meanings of gender as expressed through popular culture and lived experience. Doing so can often be difficult, both theoretically and logistically, particularly when working with an undergraduate student population that frequently considers the founding mandates of feminism to be out-moded (what has been described as postfeminism), and when working within an institutional structure increasingly organized around market principles of supply and demand, privatization, de-centralization, consumer gratification, efficiency, and financial and personal self-sufficiency (what has been described as neoliberalism). The ways in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Feminist Teacher University of Illinois Press

Teaching Popular Culture through Gender Studies: Feminist Pedagogy in a Postfeminist and Neoliberal Academy?

Feminist Teacher , Volume 20 (2) – Nov 20, 2010

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Brenda r. WeBer Feminist education--the feminist classroom--is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgement of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university. --bell hooks, Talking Back Emerging from feminist theory and women's studies disciplines, gender studies bears a particular obligation to be both theoretically responsible and socially applicable. To that end, the title of this article is meant to be doubly coded: we can teach through the use of gender theory, but we must also push through theory to account for the various meanings of gender as expressed through popular culture and lived experience. Doing so can often be difficult, both theoretically and logistically, particularly when working with an undergraduate student population that frequently considers the founding mandates of feminism to be out-moded (what has been described as postfeminism), and when working within an institutional structure increasingly organized around market principles of supply and demand, privatization, de-centralization, consumer gratification, efficiency, and financial and personal self-sufficiency (what has been described as neoliberalism). The ways in

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Feminist TeacherUniversity of Illinois Press

Published: Nov 20, 2010

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