1. Beginnings 2. Framing women and silence: Disrupting the hierarchy of discursive practices 3. taking (our) place in the academy 4. Learning femininity: Schooling and the struggle for self 5. De/siring text: Feminist student in the classroom 6. Interrupting patriarchy: Feminist teacher in the classroom 7. After the words
Biography
Magda Gere Lewis retired from the Queen’s University, Canada, where she taught in the Women’s Studies Programme. For close to thirty-five years, Dr. Lewis has been associated with a large variety of social transformation projects including peace education, alternative schooling, and critiques of the neo-liberal turn in society and culture. Her research and publications range from feminist and critical social theory with a focus on voice, equity, structures of power and social justice; critical analysis of Higher Education and the marketization of the academy; and critiques of neo-liberalism in programme delivery, administrative and ethics review processes in universities.
Review of the first publication:
“This is a very eloquent book, which uses almost - poetic prose to explore the contradiction between women's silence as oppression and as resistance. Lewis draws together concrete experience with theoretical abstractions to explore the meaning of silence.”
--- Brenda L. Beagan, University of British Columbia
