Uncovering Hidden Figures: Writing Women of Color Back into Feminist Herstory and the Feminist Classroom

• In Event: Women's Studies in the neoliberal university: Generating feminist leadership, citizenship and activism

Abstract

Using MAKERS and the feminist freedom warriors project as key sources for students to explore feminist leadership, I propose that employing a teaching strategy of “uncovering hidden figures” is a way to employ both bell hooks’ community of learning as well as a student-centered approaches that destabilizes stereotypes of feminist spaces and history. It facilitates a nuanced understanding of the diversity of feminist leadership, theoretical contributions, and social problems where students are able to develop a toolkit of women leaders and bring in a more diverse slate of women’s social problems that highlight their own interests in the field.

Presenter

• Jamie Lynn Palmer, University of Georgia