The power of feminist pedagogy in Australia

Vagina shorts and the primary prevention of violence against women

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12232170
AutoresDebbie Ollis (0000-0003-1437-0160, Deakin University, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume29
Fascículo4
Páginas461-475
Data de publicação2017-06-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGender and Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0954-0253 • E-ISSN: 1360-0516
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09540253.2017.1321737
OpenAlexW2621023686
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas26

This paper examines the challenges of using feminist pedagogies in the development of school-based interventions to address Violence Against Women in Sexuality and Relationships Education in Australia. The focus of the paper is a feminist-based classroom program developed by a group of teachers, which was piloted in three secondary schools in Melbourne. The paper uses interview data from the teachers who taught in the program as well as the students who completed it to explore the feminist discourses embedded in the key program resources. The analysis shows that the program draws heavily on liberal and radical feminist approaches, both perceived by many gender scholars as having limited understandings of gender by comparison with post-modern approaches. The data also indicate that these approaches have the potential to elicit powerful responses from students, raising their awareness of sexism, objectification and sexual safety. The paper concludes by arguing that, while many scholars see post-modern approaches as conceptually superior, they are in practice extremely difficult to operationalize and therefore of limited practical use

Consciousness raising · Criminology · Feminism · Feminist pedagogy · Focus group · Human sexuality · Objectification · Operationalization · Pedagogy · Poison control · Political science · Power structure · Sexual violence · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Medicine · Psychology