Postcolonial Representations of Women : Critical Issues for Education / by Rachel Bailey Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Rachel Bailey.

Series:

Explorations of Educational Purpose, 1875-4457 ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Educational sociology.

Education and state.

Art--Study and teaching.

Art.

Sex.

Sociology of Education.

Educational Policy and Politics.

Creativity and Arts Education.

Gender Studies.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Sociology of Education.

Educational Policy and Politics.

Creativity and Arts Education.

Gender Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2011.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this accessible combination of post-colonial theory, feminism and pedagogy, the author advocates using subversive and contemporary artistic representations of women to remodel traditional stereotypes in education. It is in this key sector that values and norms are molded and prejudice kept at bay, yet the legacy of colonialism continues to pervade official education received in classrooms as well as ‘unofficial’ education ingested via popular culture and the media. The result is a variety of distorted images of women and gender in which women appear as two-dimensional stereotypes. The text analyzes both current and historical colonial representations of women in a pedagogical context. In doing so, it seeks to recast our conception of what ‘difference’ is, challenging historical, patriarchal gender relations with their stereotypical representations that continue to marginalize minority populations in the first world and billions of women elsewhere. These distorted images, the book argues, can be subverted using the semiology provided by postcolonialism and transnational feminism and the work of contemporary artists who rethink and recontextualize the visual codes of colonialism. These resistive images, created by women who challenge and subvert patriarchal modes of representation, can be used to create educational environments that provide an alternative view of women of non-western origin.

Contents:

Introduction

Development of Feminist Postcolonial Theory.-Histories of Dominance, Colonialism, and Globalization

Distorted Visions: Ethnocentric Forms of Education

History of the Visual Regime

The Gendered Subject/Object in Popular Culture

Case study: the veiled women in the visual imagination of the west

Possibilities for subverting the dominant visual regime

Creating Postcolonial Visual Pedagogy

References.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789400715516

940071551X

OCLC:

745003259