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World, Class, Women: Global Literature, Education, and Feminismreviewed by Sarah M. McGough - 2004 Title: World, Class, Women: Global Literature, Education, and Feminism Author(s): Robin Truth Goodman Publisher: Routledge/Falmer, New York ISBN: 0415944910, Pages: 200, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com In response to many recent books in the area of gender studies
and feminist pedagogy that call for the privileging of
women’s experiences, celebration of caring, and respect for
the nurturing life of the private home, Robin Truth Goodman issues
a timely warning. She cautions her educationist audience of
the many problems that result from upholding the private at the
expense of the public. Unlike others who discuss
privatization, she centers the conversation in the context of
global capital and couches her reply in terms of critical pedagogy
and Marxist analysis, revealing that the public is currently viewed
as a “competitive private-business model” (p. 3) and
calling for a re-envisioning.
Goodman encourages feminist and educational theorists to
conceive the private as integrated with the public, yet, perhaps
fitting for the challenge she issues, she never fully spells out
how this integrated public might look. Problematically, this
can leave the average reader operating under traditional notions of
both the private and the public and seeing them as directly
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- Sarah McGough
University of Illinois E-mail Author SARAH M. McGOUGH is a doctoral student in Philosophy of Education and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois. Her primary areas of scholarship include educational theory and pragmatism. Her most recent work investigates how flexible corporeal habits may assist students in fruitfully changing the ways they enact and respond to race and gender.
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