Feminist Pedagogy: Gender Issues And Raunch Culture

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Apply Feminist Pedagogy In Art Class To Discuss Gender Issues And Raunch Culture
Art classes are regarded as a suitable place for discussion gender issues. Art teachers and students can create a dialogue to discuss gender issues through visual images to increase critical visual literacy. Specifically, in order to exam the issues of raunch culure and gender in art classroom, feminist pedagogy are suggested to be used in classroom discussion. According to Hahna (2013), feminist pedagogy incorporated feminist values such as reflexivity, social action, analysis of power differentials, challenging traditional assumptions regarding definitions of knowledge, incorporating lived experience into the classroom, and giving voice to those have been marginalized. …show more content…

Through the inquiry process, the students and teacher would make discovers about the work, the creator, the time periods, cultural values, and even about themselves. This iterative process could be more interactive and personally meaningful. Furthermore, feminist pedagogy can be traced back to the idea of critical pedagogy. Tavin (2003) mentioned that critical pedagogy referred to “a variety of practices that problematized the epistemological and sociopolitical nature of authority and experience towards the goal of social justice.” (P. 198) Also, Garber (2003) argued that feminist pedagogy was advocated to deal with race, gender issues in art class, which emphasized on the interpretation of knowledge from the new perspectives of students, women, and other marginalized groups. Correspondingly, Freedman (1994) recommended that art education should go beyond the initiatives that focused on using women artists to discuss gender issues in art class. Students could use method of feminist critique to analyze gendered representation in visual culture. In this teaching content, teachers should aware …show more content…

Consistent with Levy (2005)’s points, raunch culture referred to not just porn but the aesthetics and values of this red-light districts spreading throughout the entire culture. More specifically, it is demonstrated that women consider the definition of popular fashion was not only to be beautiful or thin, but must now also be considered sexy and comfortable with open, exhibitive sexuality (Whitehead & Kurz, 2009). On top, porno-chic has been celebrated by postfeminist. These initiatives also announced the arrival of a new places of western sexual culture and a new model of femininity in which an open attitude towards sex. In other words, this sex was considered as “sexy”, “cool” and most importantly, “sexually liberated” (McNair, 2002). Yet, the other perspectives view “raunch culture” demeans women. In line with Gill (2008)’s perspective, the extent of “raunch culture” can be regarded as a movement of women liberation in society should be broaden retake into

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