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Politics of Education
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05 July 1990

This book brings together thirty of the best essays from Radical Teacher. The journal is devoted to feminist and socialist approaches to teaching-to showing teachers how to democratize the classroom and empower students.
The articles included here have been chosen for their continuing usefulness to school and college teachers with emphasis on critical pedagogy as well as radical course content. These essays provide not only a wealth of ideas for teachers already involved in radical education but also an accessible, readable, and wide-ranging introduction for those new to it.
Foreword Michael W. Apple
Introduction
Part I. What We Teach and How We Teach
Section 1. Teaching Women's Studies
1. Feminist Values: Guidelines for Teaching Methodology in Women's Studies Nancy Schniedewind
2. Lesbianism 101 Bonnie Zimmerman
3. Teaching "Racism and Sexism in a Changing America" Paula Rothenberg
4. Women and Militarization: A Seminar Cynthia Enloe
Section 2. Teaching History and Social Science
5. Peace and the Color Line: Toward a Third World Peace Studies Curriculum Manning Marable
6. Teaching Nazi Culture Patty Lee Parmalee
7. Teaching the Vietnam War at a South Bronx Alternative High School Pam Sporn
Section 3. Revising the Literary Canon
8. These Self-Invented Women: A Theoretical Framework for a Literary History of Black Women Mary Helen Washington
9. Rewriting Afro-American Literature: A Case for Black Women Writers Gloria T. Hull
10. Working-Class Women's Literature: An Introduction to Study Paul Lauter
Section 4. Teaching Literature and Teaching Film
11. The Literature of Work Leonard Vogt
12. Notes on Teaching Masculinity and Homosexuality in Literature Joseph Cady
13. Reconciling Native Son and Native Daughters Onita Estes-Hicks
14. Science Fiction Novels and Film Les Perelman
15. Teaching the Hollywood Western Jack Weston
Section 5. Teaching Writing
16. Freshman Composition Richard Ohmann and Jack Weston
17. Teaching Basic Skills: Working with Contradictions Robert Lapides
18. As the (White, Middle-Class) World Turns: Teaching Soap Operas in a Writing Class Susan Radner
Section 6. Math and Science Education
19. The Myth of Neutrality: Race, Sex, and Class in Science Anne Fausto-Sterling
20. A Different Third R: Radical Math Marilyn Frankenstein
21. Never Meant to Survive: A Black Woman's Journey An Interview with Evelynn Hammonds by Aimée Sands
Part II. Where We Work
Section 1. Education as Oppression
22. Back to Basics Robert C. Rosen
23. Standardized Testing at JFK High Stan Karp
24. The Doctrine of Separate Spheres in Elementary Education Sara Freedman
25. The View from the Other Side Emily Abel
Section 2. Working Conditions and Struggles
26. Living at the Bottom: Part-Time Teaching at the City University of New York Susan Blank and Beth Greenberg
27. London Teaching Diary Susan Gushee O'Malley
28. Homophobia in the Schools, Or What We Don't Know Will Hurt Us Pam Chamberlain
29. Guests at the Table: Feminists and Contracts Arlyn Diamond
30. Black Women on the Frontline: Unfinished Business of the Sixties Andrée Nicola-McLaughlin and Zala Chandler
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Notes on Contributors
Radical Teacher Editorial Board Members
Index