Catherine J. Irving & Leona M. English 
Feminism in Community [PDF ebook] 

The authors draw upon their earlier research examining how feminists have negotiated identity and learning in international contexts or multisector environments. Feminism in Community focuses on feminist challenges to lead, learn, and participate in nonprofit organizations, as well as their efforts to enact feminist pedagogy through arts processes, Internet fora, and critical community engagement. The authors bring a focused energy to the topic of women and adult learning, integrating insights of pedagogy and theory-informed practice in the fields of social movement learning, transformative learning, and community development. The social determinants of health, spirituality, research partnerships, and policy engagement are among the contexts in which such learning occurs.  In drawing attention to the identity and practice of the adult educator teaching and learning with women in the community, the authors respond to gender mainstreaming processes that have obscured women as adiscernible category in many areas of practice.


       

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Acknowledgements; Frequently Used Abbreviations; Introduction; Feminist Organizations: Leading and Learning; Adult Health Learning: For Women, with Women; Arts and Adult Education; Network Feminism and Social Movement Learning; Religion, Women, and Adult Education; Researching for and with the Community of Women; Critical Feminist Pedagogy; Social Transformative Learning and Women; Power, Resistance and Informal Learning; The Nexus of Policy, Practice, and Payment; Adult Education and the Community: Making the Feminist Connections; References; About the Authors; Subject Index; Name Index.