Teaching Feminist Theory as a Man

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank J. Cherie Strachan and Jessica Jernigan for helpful conversations and ideas and would also like to thank Jessica Jernigan for editorial assistance.

Notes

This is true even though the course was taught by a man whom I greatly admired, which ought to have had some impact on me at the time.

It is a sign of how far we still have to go that Sterba’s argument is not all that different from those made by John Stuart and Harriet Taylor Mill in the 1860s as they explained to men why the subjection of women was not really in their self-interest in part because of the corrupting effects of unchecked power (Rossi 1970).

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Edward W. Clayton

Edward W. Clayton is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and Affiliated Faculty, Women and Gender Studies Program, at Central Michigan University.