Disrupting Students' Misunderstandings (and Misgivings) about Feminism through a Popular Press Book: A Feminist Research Team's Practices as a Site of Analysis

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2020

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In response to the sustained and widespread resistance to feminism within US classrooms and the underuse of undergraduate researchers in large universities, we experimented with a popular press book on feminism in our research team. Using our research team as a case study, we argue that the book, Full Frontal Feminism, offered benefits including: (a) advanced understandings of feminism, (b) increased comfort with critiquing arguments, and (c) increased confidence and application of feminism. We hope the paper encourages other feminist-identified scholars to expand their use of feminist popular culture texts to cultivate interest, increase understanding of fundamental feminist sensibilities, and ultimately enhance their research projects while working with undergraduate researchers.

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Feminism, Research, Undergraduate Engagement, Teaching

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Christopher, S. D., & Sharp, E. A. (2020). Disrupting students’ misunderstandings (and misgivings) about feminism through a popular press book: A feminist research team’s practices as a site of analysis. Journal of Research on Women and Gender, 9(1). Retrieved from: https://jrwg-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/jrwg/article/view/144

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