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This book presents educational strategies for combating the harmful effects of hegemonic masculinity in the college classroom. The critical pedagogy presented in this book challenges some of the heteronormative tendencies present in the fields of media studies, literary studies, linguistic studies, philosophy, and critical thinking.
List of contents
Amber E. George/Russell W. Waltz: Introduction: Why Critical Pedagogy?: Illustrating the Importance of Critical Pedagogical Strategies in the Classroom - Feminist Approaches to Disrupting Hegemonic Masculinity and Sexism - Crystal Benedicks/Adriel M. Trott: "She Really Got You." Transcending Hegemonic Masculinity at a College for Men - Jenn M. Jackson/Hilary N. Tackie: We Are How We Teach: Black Feminist Pedagogy as a Move Towards the Legibility and Liberation of All - Jessica Ruth Austin: "I'll Huff and I'll Puff": Becoming Masculine in Fables - Purnur Ozbirinci: Feminist Mythmaking: Reclaiming the Myth - Russell W. Waltz: Implicit Attitudes and Explicit Harms: Combating Biases that Hinder Inclusivity - Anti-heterosexist Approaches to Disrupting Hegemonic Masculinity and Sexism - Mária I. Cipriani: "Sex Gender!" Reframing Cultural and Linguistic Assumptions in Undergraduate Courses - Zuzanna A. Jusinska: Grammatical Gender Trouble: Counteracting the Discriminatory Nature of Grammatically Gendered Languages - Emily Donovan: Putting the T and the Q into First-Year Composition: Using Queer Theory to Make Courses Trans-inclusive - Camille S. Alexander: Disrupting Hegemonic Masculinity: An Argument for Reconstructing the Literature Classroom - Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah: Queer Pedagogy and Engaging Cinema in LGBTQIA+ Discourse in Africa - Omar Swartz: Becoming an Ally in the College Classroom: One Front in the Battle Against Homophobia - Editors' Biographies - Contributor Biographies - Index.
About the author
Amber E. George, Ph.D., serves as Instructor of Philosophy and Cultural Diversity at Galen College. George has co-edited several books including Education for Total Liberation: Critical Animal Pedagogy and Teaching Against Speciesism (2019) and The Image of Disability: Essays on Media Representations (2018). She is the current editor-in-chief of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies.
Russell W. Waltz, Ph.D., Ed.D., serves as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Galen College where he teaches courses in philosophy, critical thinking, and cultural diversity. He is the former editor-in-chief of Auslegung: A Journal of Philosophy. Waltz's interdisciplinary research focuses on examining the effects of implicit biases on critical thinking development and democratic discourse.
Summary
This book presents educational strategies for combating the harmful effects of hegemonic masculinity in the college classroom.
