Feminist community engagement : achieving praxis / edited by Susan Van Deventer Iverson and Jennifer Hauver James.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Iverson, Susan Van Deventer, editor.

James, Jennifer Hauver, editor.

Series:

Community engagement in higher education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's studies.

Feminism and higher education.

Communities.

Physical Description:

xiii, 216 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Feminist Community Engagement argues that feminism, with its emphasis on consciousness-raising, interrogating power structures, and activism, is strategically necessary for the community engagement (CE) movement in higher education. Following an editorial overview of perspectives on feminism and community engagement, the contributors to this volume illuminate successes and challenges of feminist community engagement, and many offer practical applications for our CE work. Feminist Community Engagement advances how feminism can serve as a theoretical and practical strategy for combining activist engagement with democratic concerns for social justice and equality. Iverson, James, and their contributors draw explicitly on a feminist lens to illuminate successes and challenges of feminist community engagement, and offer practical applications. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction / Susan V. Iverson and Jennifer H. James

Feminism and community engagement : an overview / Susan V. Iverson and Jennifer H. James

Conversations from within : critical race feminism on the routes of change / Begum Verjee and Shauna Butterwick

Role modeling community engagement for college students : narratives from women faculty and staff of color / Jasmine Mena and Annemarie Vaccaro

Social media for social justice : technofeminism in the digital village / Carolyn Cunningham and Heather Crandall

Transgressing intellectual boundaries begins with transgressing physical ones : feminist community engagement as activist-apprentice pedagogy / Dana Bisignani

Pay it forward : possibilities and poignancies of feminist service-learning enacted in a collegiate health education classroom / Christin Seher

The personal is the political : community engagement with men as feminist border crossing / Lamea "Elle" Shaaban-Magana and Melanie Miller

Moving from service to action : the rocxxy summer internship in feminist activism and leadership / Angela Clark-Taylor, Quinlan Mitchell, and KaeLyn Rich

Developing sustainable community engagement by re-positioning programs into communities / Jana Noel

Conclusions : re-visioning community engagement as feminist praxis / Jennifer H. James and Susan V. Iverson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137441096

1137441097

9781137441102

1137441100

OCLC:

886489508