Full Description
Contributors to this volume demonstrate how a feminist approach is strategically necessary for the community engagement movement in higher education to achieve its goals and illustrate the transformative potential of merging feminist theory with social action.
Contents
1. Introduction; Susan V. Iverson and Jennifer H. James 2. Feminism and Community Engagement: An Overview; Susan V. Iverson and Jennifer H. James PART I 3. Conversations from Within: Critical Race Feminism on the Routes of Change; Begum Verjee and Shauna Butterwick 4. Role Modeling Community Engagement for College Students: Narratives from Women Faculty and Staff of Color; Jasmine Mena and Annemarie Vaccaro 5. Social Media for Social Justice: Technofeminism in the Digital Village; Carolyn Cunningham and Heather Crandall 6. Transgressing Intellectual Boundaries Begins with Transgressing Physical Ones: Feminist Community Engagement as Activist-apprentice Pedagogy; Dana Bisignani PART II 7. Pay it Forward: Possibilities and Poignancies of Feminist Service-learning Enacted in a Collegiate Health Education Classroom; Christin Seher 8. The Personal is the Political: Community Engagement with Men as Feminist Border Crossing; Lamea 'Elle' Shaaban-Magana and Melanie Miller 9. Moving From Service to Action: The Rocxxy Summer Internship in Feminist Activism and Leadership; Angela Clark-Taylor, Quinlan Mitchell, and KaeLyn Rich 10. Developing Sustainable Community Engagement by Re-positioning Programs into Communities; Jana Noel 11. Conclusions: Re-visioning Community Engagement as Feminist Praxis; Jennifer H. James and Susan V. Iverson
