WMST 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Beauty Myth, Michael Kimmel, Binary Opposition

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 1000
• Professor: Amy Butchart

Document Summary

Feminist pedagogy is the style of teaching and learning embraced in women"s studies. This style of teaching is one that itself has been developed to embody feminist goals and values. Kelly et al. point to three ways women have been marginalized in the education system. The first is the push to female careers. Women are too often encouraged to pursue occupations that have traditionally been associated with women rather than those that have traditionally been associated with men. Most notably women have not been encouraged to pursue careers in thee fields of science, technology, engineering and math (the so-called stem disciplines). This is in part because of gendered expectations of where women and men"s natural abilities lie, but it is also because once women get to high school, or university, they often encounter primarily male teachers or professors. Secondly, women are often constructed as passive and emotional.