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    Critical Thinking, Multicultural Perspectives and Feminist Pedagogy in Women's Studies

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    Women's studies are the focus of this paper consisting of five pages with such topics as multiculturalism, critical thinking, and feminist pedagogy discussed. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    of womens studies is to learn why the female gender upholds the various social, political, economic and intellectual positions throughout the world. By applying critical thinking, researchers like Sondra  Hale are able to delve deep into multicultural heritage in order to question why certain societies treat women certain ways. In Women: Images and Realities: A Multicultural Anthology, Kesselman  et al employs the use of critical thinking as a means by which to draw out some semblance of reasoning behind the way America has molded its female population.  Some of the critical thinking goals that pertain to womens studies in Women: Images and Realities: A Multicultural Anthology include dominant ideas about becoming a woman in American society, gender  and womens bodies, institutions that shape womens lives, differences dividing and connecting women, the consequences of sexism and organizing for change (Kesselman et al PG). Feminist pedagogy is directly connected  to the theoretical and practical concerns of feminist theory; its primary objective, according to Hale, is to reveal, comprehend and change the oppression and domination so readily associated with gender,  race and class (Hale PG). Additionally, feminist pedagogy is committed to the development and perpetuation of critical thinking as a way to empower women to address such social, political  and economic indiscretions. Certain pedagogical strategies are necessary for carrying out the goals of womens studies for the fundamental reason that womens studies has not been inclusive of all  women; in order to apply feminist pedagogy to as many women worldwide as possible, there is a need to format these strategies to address particular social and religious implications.  By reading what Hale and Kesselman et al have to say about the struggles of the global female population, one might readily surmise that womens studies and feminism have been 

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