Without a Word

Without a Word (first published in 1993) raises the question of women's silence from a radical new perspective, lending at long last a theoretical basis and sophistication to this important issue. It dramatizes the issue of silence in a way that moves beyond the mere need for women to speak and be heard.

Magda Gere Lewis retired from the Queen's University, Canada, where she taught in the Women's Studies Programme. For close to thirty-five years, Dr. Lewis has been associated with a large variety of social transformation projects including peace education, alternative schooling, and critiques of the neo-liberal turn in society and culture. Her research and publications range from feminist and critical social theory with a focus on voice, equity, structures of power and social justice; critical analysis of Higher Education and the marketization of the academy; and critiques of neo-liberalism in programme delivery, administrative and ethics review processes in universities.

1. Beginnings 2. Framing women and silence: Disrupting the hierarchy of discursive practices 3. taking (our) place in the academy 4. Learning femininity: Schooling and the struggle for self 5. De/siring text: Feminist student in the classroom 6. Interrupting patriarchy: Feminist teacher in the classroom 7. After the words