Subject To Fiction: Women Teachers' Life History Narratives and the Cultural Politics of Resistance

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK), 1 avr. 1998 - 153 pages
Drawing on the life histories of three teachers, this book explores their narrative strategies to author themselves as active agents within and against the essentializing discourses of teaching. The complex and contradictory ways in which these women construct themselves as subjects, while simultaneously disrupting the notion of a unitary subject, provide new ways to think about subjectivity, resistance, power and agency.

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impossible fictions
1
Chapter 1 The life of theory
17
it is not what you teach but who you are
43
I could have lived another life and been just as happy
66
Being a teacher is like being a fish out of water
88
Chapter 5 Rewriting a life
108
Epilogue
126
References
134
Index
148
Back cover
155
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Petra Munro is an Associate Professor of Education at Louisiana State University. Informed by a feminist/poststructuralist perspective, her research interests focus on the narrative analysis of curriculum history, women's life histories and the discourses of qualitative methodology. She has co-authored Repositioning Feminism and Education: Perspectives on Education for Social Change. At the moment she is completing her book Engendering Curriculum History.

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