Subject to Fiction: Women Teachers' Life History Narratives and the Cultural Politics of ResistanceOpen University Press, 1998 - 153 pages Situated within current feminist/poststructuralist theories regarding the subject, this book focuses on the lives of three women teachers and their narrative strategies to author themselves as active agents within and against the essentializing discourses of teaching. The text argues that the complex and contradictory ways in which these women construct themselves as subjects, while simultaneously disrupting the notion of a unitary subject, point to new ways of thinking about subjectivity, resistance, power and agency. The implications of this, alleged, reconceptualization for feminist theorizing, curriculum theory and life history research are woven throughout the book. |
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... Despite my caution I remain committed to the potential of life history research to enlarge my understanding of the complex ways in which we make meaning . The heart of this book is the three narratives that I have con- structed . Born ...
... Despite my caution I remain committed to the potential of life history research to enlarge my understanding of the complex ways in which we make meaning . The heart of this book is the three narratives that I have con- structed . Born ...
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... Despite the sentimentalized visions of the independent schoolteachers that Agnes's narrative evoked in me , her recollections were much more ambiva- lent . Our school building had double desks , varying in size enough to seat the ...
... Despite the sentimentalized visions of the independent schoolteachers that Agnes's narrative evoked in me , her recollections were much more ambiva- lent . Our school building had double desks , varying in size enough to seat the ...
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... despite societal norms that she described as , ' I think you were expected to get married and have a family ' . I wondered why , despite her success , she per- sisted throughout our interviews to attribute her success to others or to ...
... despite societal norms that she described as , ' I think you were expected to get married and have a family ' . I wondered why , despite her success , she per- sisted throughout our interviews to attribute her success to others or to ...
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impossible fictions | 1 |
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It is not what you teach but who you are | 43 |
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