Teaching Boys Feminism
The following is cross-posted at Gender Across Borders and Equality 101 for their jointly hosted Feminism & Education series.
Each year, boys sign up for my high school course on feminism (photo, Ileana Jiménez)
When I was in college, I always thought that teaching girls about feminism was my life’s calling. It turns out that teaching boys about feminism has made that calling even more profound.
In the past three years, I have taught a high school course on feminism titled Fierce and Fabulous: Feminist Writers, Artists, and Activists. Each year, girls and boys sign up for the class and each year, these young men