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Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice and Mind
Belenky, Mary, Blythe Clinchy, Nancy Goldberger, and Jill Tarule, editors
Basic Books, New York, NY
1986
From the Publisher
Despite the progress of the women's movement, many women still feel silenced in their families and schools. Based on in-depth interviews with 135 women, this moving and important book explains why.

•	Cognitive Development

•	Gender

She Can Read: Feminist Reading Strategies for Biblical Narrative
Cheney, Emily
Trinity Press, Valley Forge, PA
1996
From the Publisher
Using the research of feminist literary critics and building upon the work of feminist biblical scholars, Emily Cheney offers three strategies for women whose ecclesiastical traditions expect them to base their sermons on biblical texts, and for women who want their sermons to reflect a feminist consciousness and compassion. The strategies focus on gender reversal, analogy, and women as exchange objects, all tested on several...

•	Gender

•	Biblical Studies

Saving Work: Feminist Practices of Theological Education
Chopp, Rebecca S.
Westminster John Knox, Louisville, KY
1995
From the Publisher
One of the most significant changes in theological education during the past two decades has been a dramatic rise in the enrollment of women in the seminaries. In this ground-breaking book, Rebecca Chopp explores the impact these new voices are having on theological education. She looks at how women and men are actually forming a new Christian praxis through their engagement with feminist practices and thought that often exist...

•	Theological Education

•	Gender

Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths: Women of the Academy
Christian-Smith, Linda K. and Kristine S. Kellor
Westview Press, Boulder, CO
1999
From the Publisher
Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths: Women of the Academy draws on the life experience and varied backgrounds of academic women from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. To provide diverse perspectives on women's experiences of being and knowing in and outside the academy, contributors draw on a range of critical approaches derived from feminism, post-structuralism, postmodernism, critical education theory,...

•	Gender

•	The Academy

Gender on Campus: Issues for College Women
Gmelch, Sharon Bohn
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ
1998
From the Publisher
Where adolescents and young adults are looking for a solid, wide-ranging introduction to gender issues, Gmelch's survey may be a useful acquisition. Although its focus is the college campus, cultural anthropologist Gmelch, head of the women's studies program at Union College, takes a straightforward, practical approach that may be helpful in other contexts as well. Gmelch incorporates discussions of race, class, disability,...

•	Gender

Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue
Griffin, Gail B.
Trilogy Books, Pasadena, CA
1992
From the Publisher
With a mixture of autobiographical facts and literary insights, the author (English, Kalamazoo Coll.) supports her belief that the ``motherheart must be at the center of all teaching.'' Teachers should ``create an environment where human beings can grow in and toward the fullness of themselves.'' This type of teaching is exemplified by the women teachers in higher education of the mid-1800s who, as the author found following...

•	Gender

•	Vocation of Teaching

Caretakers of Our Common House: Women's Development in Communities of Faith
Hess, Carol Lakey
Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN
1997
From the Publisher
The author provides a provocative description of ways society's institutions have colluded to undermine the full development of women and girls. Relies on Gilligan and Kegan's theories of development; critiques Neibuhr's theology of sacrifice. Weaves biblical stories of women and personal stories into the data and suggests ways that parents, families -- and communities of faith can create environments in which girls and women...

•	Gender

God's Fierce Whimsy: Christian Feminism and Theological Education
Mud Flower Collective
Pilgrim Press, Cleveland, OH
1985
From the Publisher
This book is the written record of seven feminists' commitment to practice what they preach-to make incarnate both the fierce and the whimsical character of that which is born in every shared effort to teach and learn with minds set on justice.

•	Gender

•	Theological Education

Feminist Teaching in Theory and Practice: Situating Power & Knowledge in Poststructural Classrooms
Ropers-Huilman, Becky
Teachers College Press, New York, NY
1998
From the Publisher
Using a feminist poststructural focus, Ropers-Huilman (Louisiana State Univ.) investigates feminist teachers' positions and styles in order to examine the practices of a theory of teaching. She explores teachers' reflections on power and gender, how they operate in the classroom, and their experiences as innovators in feminist teaching. No one particular approach or process is emphasized. The application of theory to practice...

•	Gender

The Education Feminism Reader
Stone, Lynda, editor
Routledge, New York, NY
1994
From the Publisher
The Education Feminism Reader is an anthology of the most important and influential essays written in feminist education theory since the late seventies. Attentive to the quality and diversity of this growing field, The Reader presents the thinking of traditionally liberal feminists, radical postmodern theorists, women of color and those feminists with psychological, philosophical and political agendas.

Contributors:...

•	Gender

Taking Women Seriously: Lessons and Legacies for Educating the Majority
Tidball, M. Elizabeth, Daryl G. Smith, Charles S. Tidball, Lisa E. Wolf-Wendel
Oryx Press, Phoenix, AZ
1999
From the Publisher
Over the past 25 years, research findings have continued to underscore the direct and positive impact of women's colleges--institutions where the academic aspirations of women are the focus of the entire educational community. This book identifies the distinctive characteristics that make these colleges preeminent contributors of achieving women to the wider society. The authors also explain how the lessons and legacies of these...

•	Gender

Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class and Power
Weiler, Kathleen
Bergin & Garvey, Westport, CT
1988
From the Publisher
Applying theory to practice, Women Teaching for Change reveals the complexity of being a feminist teacher in a public school setting, in which the forces of sexism, racism, and classism, which so characterize society as a whole, are played out in multiracial, multicultural classrooms. "A fine book, a rich melding of critical theory in education, feminist literature, and pedagogical experience and expertise." Maxine Green, Columbia...

•	Gender

Empowering Women in Higher Education
Wisker, Gina
Kogan Page, London
1996
From the Publisher
The issue of women's status in higher education continues to be contested. Building on her experience as a teacher in higher education and as a staff developer, the author discusses successful practices which have empowered women, and examines the issues which concern women students and staff in higher education. The first part focuses on women students, their needs and experiences and the changes to courses, teaching and learning...

•	Gender

Gendered Subjects: The Dynamics of Feminist Teaching
Cully, Margo and Catherine Portuges
Routledge, Boston, MA
1985
From the Publisher
Two decades after the first Women's Studies courses appeared on campuses in the US, feminist research and teaching are now thriving around the world. The editors of this book provide a rich sample of theoretical and practical reflections on classroom experience by teachers of Women's Studies over the past ten years, raising provocative questions which apply broadly to many areas of progressive teaching. The collection features...

•	Gender

The Gender Question in Education: Theory, Pedagogy and Politics
Diller, Ann and Ayim Morgan
Westview Press, Boulder, CO
1996
From the Publisher
Four leading philosophers of education offer a sophisticated but accessible introduction to the central debates about the role of gender in educational practice, policymaking, and theory.

•	Gender

Postmodernism, Feminism, and Cultural Politics: Redrawing Educational Boundaries
Giroux, Henry A., ed.
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
1991

•	Gender

•	Method and Theory

•	Critical Pedagogies

The Feminist Classroom
Teteault, Mary Katheryn and Frances A. Maher
Basic Books, New York, NY
1994
From the Publisher
This book provides an intimate view of how feminist teachers are revolutionizing higher education. Drawing on in-depth interviews and on-site observations, and using the actual words of students and teachers, the authors take the reader into the classrooms of seventeen feminist college professors at six colleges and universities - Lewis and Clark College, Wheaton College, the University of Arizona, Towson State University, Spelman...

•	Gender

"Women in the Classroom" w/booklet

•	Gender

"Tales Told Out of School: Women's Reflections on Their Undergraduate Experience"
Clinchy, Blythe
Teaching Excellence 3, no. 4 (1991)
1991

•	Gender

"Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, and Multiculturalism"
Butler, Johnnella, and Betty Schmitz
Change Jan/Feb (1992): 37-41
1992

•	Gender

•	Diversity

"Issues of Gender in Teaching and Learning"
Clinchy, Blythe McVicker
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching 1 (1990): 52-67
1990

•	Gender

"Feminist Pedagogy Theory: Reflections on Power and Authority"
Luke, Carmen
Educational Theory 46, no. 3 (1996): 283-302
1996

•	Method and Theory

•	Gender

•	Critical Pedagogies

"Who Gets Heard?: Talking at Meetings"
Tannen, Deborah
in Talking from 9 to 5 (New York: William Morrow, 1994), 276-304
1994

•	Gender

"Fostering Positive Race, Class, and Gender Dynamics in the Classroom"
Cannon, Lynn Weber
Women's Studies Quarterly 18, no. 1 & 2 (1990): 126-134
1990

•	Gender

•	Diversity

•	Diversified Campus

"Pedagogy of the Distressed"
Tompkins, Jane
College English 52, no. 6 (1990): 653-660
1990

•	Method and Theory

•	Gender

•	Diversity

•	Diversifying the Curriculum

•	Critical Pedagogies

"Educational Process, Feminist Practice"
Chopp, Rebecca S.
Christian Century (Feb 1-8, 1995): 111-115
1995

•	Gender

"Testing the Limits of Tolerance in a Course on Religion and Sexual Diversity"
Smith, Theresa S.
College Teaching 47, no. 2 (1999): 55
1999

•	Classroom Management

•	Diversity

•	Gender

"Faculty Diversity: Too Little For Too Long"
Trower, Cathy A., and Richard P. Chait
Harvard Magazine 104, no. 4 (2002): 33-38
2002

•	Gender/Race/Multicultural

•	Faculty Development

•	Diversity

•	Gender

•	Diversified Campus

Twenty-First-Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference
MacDonald, Amie A. and Susan Sanchez-Casal, eds.
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY
2002
From the Publisher
This anti-racist feminist anthology brings together diverse and challenging theoretical perspectives on the experiences of radical educators who work to redefine pedagogies for communicating the claims of both insurgent disciplines--Women's Studies, African-American Studies, Latino Studies, Ethnic Studies, Queer Theory, etc.--and radicalized versions of traditional areas of study--History, Sociology, Foreign Languages, Literature,...

•	Method and Theory

•	Gender

•	Critical Pedagogies

Minding Women: Reshaping the Educational Realm
Woyshner, Christine A. and Holly S. Gelfond, eds.
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
1998
From the Publisher
Research on women and girls has exploded during the past twenty years. Since 1977, when the Harvard Educational Review published Carol Gilligan's now-classic article "In a Different Voice," in which she argued so persuasively that women and girls must be understood on their own terms, researchers have been discovering, uncovering, and recovering women's ways of knowing, being, thinking, teaching, and learning. Minding Women...

•	Gender

•	The Academy

Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life
Luke, Carmen
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
1996
From the Publishers
Despite the intimidating reference to pedagogy in the title, the anthology is true to the encompassing notion of feminism as a foundation from which theories and disciplines can emanate in order to voice a variety of experience. The American, British, and Australian scholars provide compelling essays on identity, friendship, motherhood, hunger, the media, parenting, childcare, shame, and the silencing influences of legal systems...

•	Method and Theory

•	Gender

The Feminization of Racism: Promoting World Peace in America
Blea, Irene I.
Praeger, Westport, CT
2003
From the Publisher
Blea provides a synthesis of the women's history of Native Americans, Asians, African Americans, and Latinas, and she examines the similarities and differences among these women. From each she extracts suggestions on ways to promote racial and ethnic tolerance.

•	Diversity

•	Gender

•	Faith, Society, and Church

Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
Collins, Patricia Hill
Routledge, New York, NY
2004
From the Publisher
In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today. In the tradition of her award-winning book, Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins now turns her critical eye to race, gender, and sexuality in relation to black men and women.

•	Gender

•	Diversity

•	Faith, Society, and Church

Degrees of Choice: Social Class, Race and Gender in Higher Education
Reay, Diane, Miriam E. David, and Stephen Ball
Trentham Books, Sterling, VA
2005
From the Publisher
"Degrees of Choice provides a sophisticated account of the overlapping effects of social class, ethnicity and gender in the process of choosing which university to attend. The shift from an elite to a mass system has been accompanied by much political rhetoric about widening access, achievement-for-all and meritocratic equalisation." This book gives a full and different picture, drawing on qualitative and quantitative data to...

•	18-22 Year Olds

•	Gender

•	Diversity

•	The Academy

Alter(ed) Sexualities: Bringing Lesbian and Gay Studies to the Religion Classroom

•	Gender

•	Teaching Religion

The Feminist Teacher Anthology: Pedagogies and Classroom Strategies
Cohee, Gail E., Elisabeth Daumer, Theresa D. Kemp, Paula M. Krebs, Sue Lafky, and Sandra Runzo
Teachers College Press, New York, NY
1998
From the Publisher
Each selected essay is introduced by its original author who updates the chapter topic. Drawing on examples from their own experiences, the authors provide practical classroom strategies such as readings and resources, writing assignments, classroom exercises, and guidance for using journals, multimedia workshops, and new technologies.

•	Gender

•	General Best Practices

Women as Learners: The Significance of Gender in Adult Learning
Hayes, Elisabeth, Daniele D. Flannery, Ann K. Brooks, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, and Jane M. Hugo
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2000
From the Publisher
Here, at last, is a volume that explores and analyzes learning as a distinctive experience for women. The authors are all established adult education professionals and recognized authorities on women as adult learners. Together, they examine and compare theimportance of such factors as sense of identity, self-esteem, social world, and power in what and how women learn. Drawing from extensive research and scholarship, as well...

•	Adult Learners

•	Gender

Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia
Toth, Emily
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA
1997
From the Publisher
In question-and-answer form, Ms. Mentor advises academic women about issues they daren't discuss openly, such as: How does one really clamber onto the tenure track when the job market is so nasty, brutish, and small? Is there such a thing as the perfectly marketable dissertation topic? How does a meek young woman become a tiger of an authority figure in the classroom and get stupendous teaching evaluations? How does one cope...

•	Gender

•	Faculty Development

•	Mentoring

Insider, Outsider and Gender Identities in the Religion Classroom

•	Gender

•	Teaching Religion

"Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy"
Ellsworth, Elizabeth
Harvard Educational Review 59, no. 3 (1989): 297-324
1989

•	Method and Theory

•	Gender

•	Diversity

•	Diversifying the Curriculum

•	Critical Pedagogies

"A Carpenter's Daughter: A Working Class Woman in Higher Education"
Christopher, Renny
in This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Academics From the Working Class (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1995), 137-150
1995

•	Gender

•	Diversity

•	Diversified Campus

Wise Women: Reflections of Teachers at Midlife
Freeman, Phyllis R. and Jan Zlotnik Schmidt, editors
Routledge, New York, NY
2000
From the Publisher
Wise Women is a collection of autobiographical essays by important and renowned teachers at mid-life. The essays, which are deeply personal, will focus on how these women negotiate the psychological, physical, and social changes brought on by menopause and how the aging process affects their lives as professionals, feminists, writers, mentors, and instructors in the academy. The book addresses such questions as the following:...

•	Gender

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Practice of Change: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Women's Studies
Balliet, Barbara J. and Kerrissa Heffernan, editors
American Association for Higher Education, Washington, D.C.
2000
From the Publisher
This volume, seventh in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, explores the important lessons women's history and women's studies hold for the broader service-learning community and the critical opportunity for women's studies to reconnect with its activist past. The book includes essays with real examples of service-learning projects in women's studies and lists an extensive bibliography of service-learning and women's...

•	Service Learning

•	Gender

No Angel in the Classroom: Teaching Through Feminist Discourse
Fisher, Berenice Malka
Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, Lanham, MD
2001
From the Publisher
Taking a fresh look at questions that have long troubled teachers committed to social change, No Angel in the Classroom: Feminist Pedagogy as Political Practice provides a richly conceptualized and down-to-earth account of feminist teaching in higher education. Long-time feminist educator, Berenice Malka Fisher, gives a nuanced interpretation of second wave feminist consciousness-raising that bridges the gap between feminist...

•	General Best Practices

•	Gender

Expanding Classroom Walls

•	Gender

Transforming the Curriculum for Multicultural Understandings: A Practitioner's Handbook
Boyer, James B. and H. Prentice Baptiste, Jr.
Caddo Gap Press, San Francisco, CA
1996
From the Publisher
This book's basic premise is that present demographics suggest concepts of inclusion and cultural reflection are essential to any academic endeavor. Teachers and future teachers need to be aware of the emergence of multicultural education and how that plays out in the classroom. The volume presents a historical overview of the concept and stresses the need for greater awareness.

•	Course Design

•	Gender

"Kitchen Table Banter as Engaged Pedagogy"
Westfield, N. Lynne
Religious Education 96, no. 3 (2001): 423-429
2001

•	Method and Theory

•	Gender

•	Diversity

•	Diversifying the Curriculum

•	Critical Pedagogies

"The Chilly Climate: Subtle Ways in Which Women are Often Treated Differently at Work and in Classrooms"
Sandler, Bernice R.
About Women on Campus 8, no 3 (1999)
1999

•	Gender

"Women are Teachers, Men are Professors: A Study of Student Perceptions"
Miller, JoAnn and Marilyn Chamberlin
Teaching Sociology 28, no. 4 (2000): 283-298
2000

•	Gender

•	The Academy

The Third Shift: Women Learning Online
Kramarae, Cheris
AAUW Educational Foundation, Washington, DC
2001
From the Publisher
A report by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation has found that distance or online learning is on the rise and women make up the majority of students. Sixty percent of these nontraditional online learners are over 25 years of age and female.
Working mothers interested in furthering their education are doing so online and adding a difficult "third shift" to their responsibilities...

•	Technology Critique

•	Gender

•	Online Learning

Gender and Teaching
Maher, Frances A. and Janie Victoria Ward
Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ
2002
From the Publisher
Gender and Teaching provides a vivid, focused, and interactive overview of the important gender issues in education today. This is accomplished through conversations among experts, practitioners, and readers that are informed by representative case studies and by a range of theoretical approaches to the issues. Gender and Teaching is the third volume in the "Reflective Teaching and the Social Conditions of Schooling" series...

•	Gender

"Developing a Wisdom Community As a Feminist Hermeneutic: Pedagogy for a New Millennium"
Pazdan, Mary Margaret
Perspectives in Religious Studies 27, no. 4 (2000): 413-425
2000

•	Gender

•	Teaching Religion

•	Method and Theory

•	Critical Pedagogies

"What is Feminist Pedagogy?"
Shrewsbury, Carolyn M.
Women's Studies Quarterly 15, no. 3/4 (1987): 6-14
1993

•	Method and Theory

•	Gender

Creating Inclusive Adult Learning Environments: Insights from Multicultural Education and Feminist Pedagogy
From the Publisher
Adult educators are increasingly faced with the task of creating and facilitating learning activities for participants from diverse backgrounds. They need to take into account the needs of both male and female learners, learners of different ethnic and racial groups, and learners from different social backgrounds in creating an inclusive adult learning environment. The developing body of literature on multicultural concerns...

•	Adult Learners

•	Gender/Race/Multicultural

•	Gender

•	Diversity

"Descriptions of a Tree Outside the Forest"
Lacourt, Jeanne, A.
American Indian Quarterly 27, no 1 & 2 (2003): 296-307
2003

•	Diversity

•	Gender

•	Faculty Development

Reversing the Lens: Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality Through Film
Xing, Jun, and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
2003
From the Publisher
Reversing the Lens brings together noted scholars in history, anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, and film studies to promote film as a powerful educational tool that can be used to foster cross-cultural communication with respect to race and ethnicity. Through such films as Skin Deep, Slaying the Dragon, and Mississippi Masala, contributors demonstrate why and how visual media help delineate various forms of "critical...

•	Diversity

•	Gender

•	Faith, Society, and Church

Most College Students Are Women: Implications for Teaching, Learning, and Policy
Allen, Jeanie K., Diane R. Dean, and Susan J. Bracken, eds.
Stylus, Sterling, VA
2008
From the Publisher
* Reveals continuing barriers to success for women students
* Offers remedies that will benefit all students
What are the realities behind recent press reports suggesting that women students have taken over higher education, both outnumbering males and academically outperforming them? Does women's development during college diverge from the commonly accepted model of cognitive growth? Does pedagogy in higher education...

•	Diversity

•	Gender

•	18-22 Year Olds

Women and Teaching
Harris, Maria
Paulist Press, Mahwah, NJ
1988
From the Publisher
Themes for a Spirituality of Pedagogy (1988 Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality), Maria Harris. An essay that focuses on teaching as a form of spirituality; five different themes that resonate in the lives of women are explored: silence, remembering, ritual mourning, artistry, and birthing.

•	Gender

Answering the Call: African American Women in Higher Education Leadership
From the Publisher

Although much has been written about leaders and leadership, we unfortunately know little about women, particularly minority women, who fill this particular role.

This book the second in a series that explores women leaders in different contexts presents the stories, and the reflections on their paths to leadership, of seven African American women. Five are, or have been, college presidents; three have devoted...

•	Diversity

•	Gender

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Faculty Development

Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
From the Publisher

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teaching issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.

In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores of the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication...

•	Critical Thinking

•	Diversity

•	Gender

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