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Feminine/Feminist: A Poststructural Reading of Relational Learning in Women's Social Action Organizations

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• • Leona M. English
  • St. Francis Xavier University

Abstract

This paper reports on research with 8 board members and 8 directors of women’s social action organizations. A poststructural reading of the data gives voice to an under theorized aspect of humanist relational learning in women’s organizations and makes visible the power-relationships. It explores women’s learned practices of resistance, and offers a paradoxical view of relational learning on social action that attends to the ethic of care as well as to power relations.

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How to Cite: English, L. M. (2004) “Feminine/Feminist: A Poststructural Reading of Relational Learning in Women's Social Action Organizations”, Adult Education Research Conference. 1(2004).