World, Class, Women: Global Literature, Education, and Feminism

This book powerfully challenges the central thinkers in feminist education criticizing psychoanalytic, postmodern and liberal perspectives. Part of what makes this book innovative and unique is that Goodman shows how seemingly emancipatory strains of thought affirm oppressive political ideologies and economic policies. She does so weaving literary examples with trenchant analyses of foreign and domestic policy. Deeply historical and tightly argued, this book is a must read for anyone concerned about feminism, education, and literary theory.