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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... interpreting women's lives has been central to the femin- ist reconstruction of the world ( Personal Narratives Group 1989 ) . That ' gender ' is crucial to this understanding is the very contribution of feminism . Yet , the notion of ...
... interpreting women's lives has been central to the femin- ist reconstruction of the world ( Personal Narratives Group 1989 ) . That ' gender ' is crucial to this understanding is the very contribution of feminism . Yet , the notion of ...
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... interpreted as resistance , Cleo named something else . In light of her successful career and what I perceived as an orderly pro- gression from teacher through chairperson to administrator , Cleo's self- representation was one that she ...
... interpreted as resistance , Cleo named something else . In light of her successful career and what I perceived as an orderly pro- gression from teacher through chairperson to administrator , Cleo's self- representation was one that she ...
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... interpreted as evi- dence of women's lack of commitment to work . Historically teachers have been perceived as working only for ' pin ' money or traversing dual responsibilities of teaching and family , resulting in an image of women ...
... interpreted as evi- dence of women's lack of commitment to work . Historically teachers have been perceived as working only for ' pin ' money or traversing dual responsibilities of teaching and family , resulting in an image of women ...
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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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