Feminist Community Engagement ― Achieving Praxis

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.

Susan Van Deventer Iverson is Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration and Student Personnel at Kent State University, USA. Prior to becoming faculty, Iverson worked in student affairs administration for more than ten years. Iverson's scholarly interests include women and leadership, multicultural competence, feminist pedagogy, and the use of feminist poststructural research.

Jennifer Hauver James is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia, USA. Her scholarship explores teachers' lived experience as it influences their relationships with formal and hidden curricula, students, families and communities. She is co-author of Religion in the Classroom: Dilemmas for Democratic Education (2014).