Changing Perceptions About Feminists and (Still Not) Claiming a Feminist Identity

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aut.relation.journalGender and Educationen_NZ
aut.researcherHurd, Fiona
dc.contributor.authorDyer, Sen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorHurd, Fen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-01T03:21:16Z
dc.date.available2022-11-01T03:21:16Z
dc.date.copyright2016en_NZ
dc.date.issued2016en_NZ
dc.description.abstractWe examine student perceptions about feminists and feminism, and the willingness to claim a feminist identity and engage in collective activism, as stated at the beginning and end of a Women’s Studies course. Course participation simultaneously fostered more positive views towards feminists and feminism and entrenched the unwillingness to claim a feminist identity and engage in activism. These contradictory outcomes stemmed from the critical capacity to recognise that structural inequality is reproduced through disciplinary relationships. Thus, unwillingness was entangled with feelings of fear and vulnerability in relation to the national context whereby neoliberalism guides the governance of the self, and where gender equality has presumed to be achieved. The article highlights that developing the willingness to identify and act is intimately shaped and constrained by the socio-political context and personal relationships. We consider the implications of this insight in relation to pedagogical assumptions about developing feminist knowledge in the classroom.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationGender and Education, 30:4, 435-449, DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2016.1216524
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09540253.2016.1216524en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn0954-0253en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn1360-0516en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/15579
dc.languageengen_NZ
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_NZ
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dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.subjectFeminist identityen_NZ
dc.subjectFeminist knowledgeen_NZ
dc.subjectPedagogyen_NZ
dc.subjectStructural inequalityen_NZ
dc.titleChanging Perceptions About Feminists and (Still Not) Claiming a Feminist Identityen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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