Chapter 6: Thinking Beyond Achievement in Education: Teaching Gender through a Radical Feminist Framework

This chapter is the result of their reflections on teaching feminism to undergraduates, graduate students, and future teachers. Their teaching has been grounded in their experience in sexual assault and relationship violence response and prevention. In teaching feminism, they begin with the reality of women’s and men’s lives and then ask students to consider the pervasive and often hidden impact of gender on their lives as an introduction to feminist theory. This chapter brings a radical angle as a critique of the more common liberal version of feminism in the classroom.