Pussy Riots as Legitimate Citizenship: The Case for Critical Feminist Citizenship Narratives in the Social Studies

• In Event: 42.083 - Roundtable Session 17
  In Roundtable Session: 42.083-7 - Domestic and International Diversity in Social Studies

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to center citizenship participation as a rhetorical and theoretical resource for history and civics education scholars and secondary teachers. In highlighting critical feminist citizenship as legitimate civic narrative within the 9­-12 social studies context, we seek to illuminate the fact multiple and varied expressions of citizenship have shaped history, even though these acts are not emphasized within state standards. The authors conduct a pedantic analysis of United States U.S. History and Government standards. We contend that by investigating the mainstream citizenship narratives that are communicated to. U.S. youth through state social studies curriculum, we can underscore the need for more differentiated visions of what it means to act as a citizen.

Authors

• Sunny Wells, Baylor University

• Ginney Wright, University of Arkansas