In Feminist Engagements some of the top names in feminist education read, resist and revise the works of the major twentieth-century theorists in education and cultural studies. These essays provide an excellent feminist introduction to such important scholars as John Dewey, W.E.B. DuBois, Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Paulo Freire and Antonio Gramsci. Contributors include: Patti Lather, Alice Pitt, Jane Kenway, Annette Henry and Madeleine Arnot.

Table of Contents

Introduction Kathleen Weiler 1. John Dewey, Progressive Education and Feminist Pedagogies: Issues in Gender and Authority Frances Maher 2. Dubois and the Invisible Talented Tenth Cally Waite 3. Remembering and regnerating Gramsci Jane Kenway 4. Rereading Paulo Freire Kathleen Weiler 5. The Dreamwork of Autobiography: Felman, Freud, and Lacan Alice Pitt 6. Bernstein's Sociology of Pedagogy: Female Dialogues and Feminist Elaborations Madeleine Arnot 7. Coming to Theory: Finding Foucault and Deleuze Elizabeth St. Pierre 8. Stuart Hall, Cultural Studies: Theory letting you off the hook? Annette Henry 9. Ten Years Later, Yet Again: Critical Pedagogy and Its Complicities Patti Lather

Author Biography

Kathleen Weiler is Professor of Education at Tufts University.