Femme interventions and the proper feminist subject: Critical approaches to decolonizing western feminist pedagogies

As it currently stands, little academic attention has been paid to the systematic devaluation of femininity or femmephobia. By adopting “femme” as a critical analytic, this paper dislocates femininity from its ascribed Otherness and demonstrates how empowered femininities have been overlooked within...

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Main Author: Hoskin, Rhea Ashley (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Cogent social sciences
Year: 2017, Volume: 3, Issue: 1
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Keywords:
Femininity
Feminist pedagogies
Feminist Theory
Femme
Femmephobia
Whiteness

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