Feminist Community Engagement

Dana Bisignani, Purdue University, USAShauna Butterwick, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CanadaAngela Clark-Taylor, University of Rochester, USAHeather Crandall, Gonzaga University, USACarolyn M. Cunningham, Gonzaga University, USALamea 'Elle' Shaaban-Magaña, University of Alabama, USAJasmine A. Mena, University of Rhode Island, USAMelanie L. Miller, University of Alabama, USAQuinlan Mitchell, University of Rochester, USAJana Noel, California State University, Sacramento, USA Christin Seher, University of Akron, USAAnnemarie Vaccaro, University of Rhode Island, USABegum Verjee, University of British Columbia, Canada

"This innovative collection offers lessons from feminist praxis to demonstrate the collective power of critical community engagement for social justice. Challenging conservative approaches to service learning, the authors share their experiences in promoting social change through activist citizenship, feminist philanthropy, and collaborative action research. The editors deftly weave together a visionary text that should be read by feminist activists and scholars alike." - Nancy A. Naples, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Connecticut, USA "Feminist Community Engagement raises significant issues that will cause educators to reflect on and to rethink the teaching, research, and service functions of higher education. Particularly valuable is the constant movement between the description of individual cases and the connection of those cases to larger social structures, with implications not only for the design of community engagement experiences, but also for approaches to teaching and researching critical questions affecting both students and society in the twenty-first century." - Martha C. Merrill, Associate Professor of Higher Education and Coordinator, International Education Certificate, Kent State University, USA

• 1. Introduction; Susan V. Iverson and Jennifer H. James 2. Feminism and Community Engagement: An Overview; Susan V. Iverson and Jennifer H. James PART I 3. Conversations from Within: Critical Race Feminism on the Routes of Change; Begum Verjee and Shauna Butterwick 4. Role Modeling Community Engagement for College Students: Narratives from Women Faculty and Staff of Color; Jasmine Mena and Annemarie Vaccaro 5. Social Media for Social Justice: Technofeminism in the Digital Village; Carolyn Cunningham and Heather Crandall 6. Transgressing Intellectual Boundaries Begins with Transgressing Physical Ones: Feminist Community Engagement as Activist-apprentice Pedagogy; Dana Bisignani PART II 7. Pay it Forward: Possibilities and Poignancies of Feminist Service-learning Enacted in a Collegiate Health Education Classroom; Christin Seher 8. The Personal is the Political: Community Engagement with Men as Feminist Border Crossing; Lamea 'Elle' Shaaban-Magana and Melanie Miller 9. Moving From Service to Action: The Rocxxy Summer Internship in Feminist Activism and Leadership; Angela Clark-Taylor, Quinlan Mitchell, and KaeLyn Rich 10. Developing Sustainable Community Engagement by Re-positioning Programs into Communities; Jana Noel 11. Conclusions: Re-visioning Community Engagement as Feminist Praxis; Jennifer H. James and Susan V. Iverson