Feminist pedagogy’s refusal of the mind-body split makes Women’s Studies subversive

Evidence

One of the central tenets of feminist critical pedagogy has been the insistence on not engaging the mind/body split. This is one of the underlying beliefs that has made Women’s Studies a subversive location in the academy. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 386

Categorization

• DEFINE: Marks the mind/body split refusal as a defining tenet of feminist critical pedagogy.
• XREF: connects to: Transformation of consciousness depends on the erotic in the classroom; Western metaphysical dualism drives the erasure of the body in academic teaching — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 381; Early feminist classrooms uniquely allowed students to interrogate pedagogy itself — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 22 (+2 more)