In this accessible combination of post-colonial theory, feminism
and pedagogy, the author advocates using subversive and
contemporary artistic representations of women to remodel
traditional stereotypes in education. It is in this key sector that
values and norms are molded and prejudice kept at bay, yet the
legacy of colonialism continues to pervade official education
received in classrooms as well as 'unofficial' education ingested
via popular culture and the media. The result is a variety of
distorted images of women and gender in which women appear as
two-dimensional stereotypes. The text analyzes both current and
historical colonial representations of women in a pedagogical
context. In doing so, it seeks to recast our conception of what
'difference' is, challenging historical, patriarchal gender
relations with their stereotypical representations that continue to
marginalize minority populations in the first world and billions of
women elsewhere. These distorted images, the book argues, can be
subverted using the semiology provided by postcolonialism and
transnational feminism and the work of contemporary artists who
rethink and recontextualize the visual codes of colonialism. These
resistive images, created by women who challenge and subvert
patriarchal modes of representation, can be used to create
educational environments that provide an alternative view of women
of non-western origin.
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