Feminist Community Engagement: Achieving Praxis (Community Engagement in Higher Education)

Contributors to this volume demonstrate how a feminist approach is strategically necessary for the community engagement movement in higher education to achieve its goals and illustrate the transformative potential of merging feminist theory with social action. "Cover" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Series Editorâ#x80;#x99;s Preface" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Chapter 1 Introduction" -- "Chapter 2 Feminism and Community Engagement: An Overview" -- "Part I Theoretical Considerations" -- "Chapter 3 Conversations from Within: Critical Race Feminism and the Roots/Routes of Change" -- "Chapter 4 Role Modeling Community Engagement for College Students: Narratives from Women Faculty and Staff of Color" -- "Chapter 5 Social Media for Social Justice: Cyberfeminism in the Digital Village" -- "Chapter 6 Transgressing Intellectual Boundaries Begins with Transgressing Physical Ones: Feminist Community Engagement as Activist-Apprentice Pedagogy" -- "Part II Feminist Applications" -- "Chapter 7 Feminist Student Philanthropy: Possibilities and Poignancies of a Service-Learning and Student Philanthropy Initiative" -- "Chapter 8 The Personal Is the Political: Community Engagement with Men as Feminist Border Crossing" -- "Chapter 9 Moving from Theory to Practice: The Rocxxy Summer Internship in Feminist Activism and Leadership" -- "Chapter 10 Developing Sustainable Community Engagement by Repositioning Programs into Communities" -- "Chapter 11 Conclusions: Re-visioning Community Engagement as Feminist Praxis" -- "List of Contributors" Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction....Pages 1-7 Feminism and Community Engagement: An Overview....Pages 9-27 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 Conversations from Within: Critical Race Feminism and the Roots/Routes of Change....Pages 31-51 Role Modeling Community Engagement for College Students: Narratives from Women Faculty and Staff of Color....Pages 53-74 Social Media for Social Justice: Cyberfeminism in the Digital Village....Pages 75-91 Transgressing Intellectual Boundaries Begins with Transgressing Physical Ones: Feminist Community Engagement as Activist-Apprentice Pedagogy....Pages 93-111 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 Feminist Student Philanthropy: Possibilities and Poignancies of a Service-Learning and Student Philanthropy Initiative....Pages 115-133 The Personal Is the Political: Community Engagement with Men as Feminist Border Crossing....Pages 135-153 Moving from Theory to Practice: The Rocxxy Summer Internship in Feminist Activism and Leadership....Pages 155-173 Developing Sustainable Community Engagement by Repositioning Programs into Communities....Pages 175-191 Conclusions: Re-visioning Community Engagement as Feminist Praxis....Pages 193-203 Back Matter....Pages 205-216 "Feminist Community Engagement" argues that feminism, with its emphasis on consciousness-raising, interrogating power structures, and activism, is strategically necessary for the community engagement (CE) movement in higher education. Following an editorial overview of perspectives on feminism and community engagement, the contributors to this volume illuminate successes and challenges of feminist community engagement, and many offer practical applications for our CE work. Feminist Community Engagement advances how feminism can serve as a theoretical and practical strategy for combining activist engagement with democratic concerns for social justice and equality. Iverson, James, and their contributors draw explicitly on a feminist lens to illuminate successes and challenges of feminist community engagement, and offer practical applications