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Foreword
The book we are presenting to readers is the result of the collaborative effort of
seven scholars, all of whom are members of the Travelling Selves group within
a larger project entitled Travelling Concepts in Feminist Pedagogy: European
Perspectives. The project has been developed by ATHENA3 – the Advanced
Thematic Network in European Women’s Studies.
The articles in this collection originate from diverse modes of thinking
discursive practices that, at the same time, interrelate with the various life
experiences and academic interests of the authors.
One of the aims of Teaching Subjectivity. Travelling Selves for Feminist
Pedagogy is to highlight the conceptual travel around the meanings of Self/ves
by promoting knowledge of the paradigms and mechanisms that determine
gender relationships in diverse fields as well as the deconstruction of such
paradigms and mechanisms.
The book is meant to become a useful educational tool in Women’s
Studies in an international and multicultural context. It aspires to enable students
from different cultural backgrounds to reflect on differences and l ikeness and
to consider some important issues of our time, including migration, identity
construction, vulnerability and contamination, dependency and interdependency,
the relationship with the Other, women’s writing, writing from exile,
feminist empowering, loss, and the meaning of the third space. The complexity
of the issues addressed in this collection allows teachers and students to consider
various theoretical viewpoints and develop new teaching and learning
skills within an interdisciplinary and intercultural context. The book can be
effectively used in multicultural classrooms where students of different cultural
origins and ethnic backgrounds learn together. The core concepts examined
in the book can be placed at the centre of critical discourse within a broader
political process.
We envision the book being used in contexts where gender difference is
perceived as a productive arena for further inquiry and as a learning resource.
The book may be used in high school multicultural classes, in the graduate and
postgraduate courses of Gender Studies and Women’s Studies Departments
at universities, in courses on gender differences offered by Women’s Centres
and International Women’s Houses, in institutions where debating groups and
thematic seminars are organised, in international summer schools, and in the
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