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Feminism in Peril: Contending with the F-Word
, 2007 Excerpt: I was thrilled. My senior thesis, an essay exploring the theme of oppression in several women’s novels, had been accepted for presentation at a literature conference.
Mock, Melanie Springer
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Women and Intertextuality: On the Example of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad [PDF]
, 2014 The aim of the study is to consider feminist retellings of myths and legends. As an example, Margaret Atwood’s book The Penelopiad is analyzed. The interpretation is situated in a broader context of intertextual practices characteristic of the feminist
Lisowska, Katarzyna
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Bridging the activist-academic divide: feminist activism and the teaching of global politics [PDF]
, 2006 Our starting point in this article is the widespread belief that academia and activism are separate worlds, driven by contrasting aims and imperatives and governed by different rules.
Eschle, Catherine, Maiguashca, Bice
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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When the personal becomes collective: A study of an activist’s memoir [PDF]
Logos et Littera: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text, 2016 This paper examines the posthumous memoir of a notable Egyptian woman, Inji Aflatoun (1924-1989), a nationally and internationally recognised painter, a feminist and a political activist, who lived during a time of turbulence and change in the history of
Heba Sharobeem
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Womanly wailing? The mother of Euryalus and gendered reading
Eugesta, 2011 Feminist reading of the classics requires a difficult negotiation between the struggle to be heard and the struggle to avoid appropriation. The aim of this paper is to explore some few words of Virgil, especially those reacting to the mother of ...
Alison Sharrock
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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
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, 2000 The question of women\u27s relationship to the literary canon is still pertinent today and is particularly significant for those of us who are both guided by feminist pedagogy and constrained by departmental limitations. How do we give an overview of the
Viti, Elizabeth Richardson
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The absent presence of disability in British higher education
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Rates of disability disclosure are steadily increasing in British higher education (HE), with 18% of the student population having a known disability in 2023/24. It might be assumed that progress is being made with increased representation, rights and support for disabled students.
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