Postcolonial Representations of Women Critical Issues for Education /

• Main Author: Bailey Jones, Rachel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Explorations of Educational Purpose ; 18
• Subjects: Education.; Art education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Education, general.; Sociology of Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Arts Education.; Gender Studies.

In this accessible combination of post-colonial theory, feminism and pedagogy, the author advocates using subversive and contemporary artistic representations of women to remodel traditional stereotypes in education. It is in this key sector that values and norms are molded and prejudice kept at bay...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Development of Feminist Postcolonial Theory.-Histories of Dominance, Colonialism, and Globalization
• Distorted Visions: Ethnocentric Forms of Education
• History of the Visual Regime
• The Gendered Subject/Object in Popular Culture
• Case study: the veiled women in the visual imagination of the west
• Possibilities for subverting the dominant visual regime
• Creating Postcolonial Visual Pedagogy
• References.