During the development of this reflection, they were surprised and puzzled to discover that their feminist philosophy did not seem to impact in any significant way on their classroom practice. As a result of their reflections, they identified the following questions:

• How do we introduce woman-positive issues into the classroom?
• If we consider ourselves feminists, why haven't we already been doing this?
• Has our feminism affected our teaching in any way? How?
• Who and/ or what has kept us from doing woman-positive work in the classroom in the past? Why? How?
• So what do we do with the answers to these questions?

They decided to explore these questions by writing an article.

What was produced

Paula and Mary Ann completed an article, "More than semantics: Reflections on 'feminist' /'woman-positive' practices in a literacy classroom." It is published in Women in Literacy speak. They also did a workshop called "Making the classroom positive for women" at the Adult Basic Education conference in BC in April, 1993.

"We talked about having a women's class and a men's class.