Feminist Pedagogy and Sociology for Emancipation in India

This paper, titled ‘Feminist Pedagogy and Sociology for Emancipation in India’, by Prof. Sharmila Rege was published in the September 2005 issue of the journal Sociological Bulletin (SAGE Publications). Prof. Rege (1964-2013) was an Indian sociologist, feminist scholar and a proponent of the Dalit feminist standpoint in Indian academia. She was a faculty member at the Department of Sociology, Pune University. “Feminist pedagogy is a rallying term for educators who believe in a conscious praxis in the classroom” – begins Rege. The roots of such a discourse, she states, can be found in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, a book by Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire, first published in 1968. Most feminist pedagogies hold the view, Rege writes, that women are better equipped to know the world due to their social experience or nature...