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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... oppression . Although categories like class and gender heightened my understandings of systematic oppression , these categories also got in the way of seeing the complex and contradictory ways in which reproduction and resistance func ...
... oppression . Although categories like class and gender heightened my understandings of systematic oppression , these categories also got in the way of seeing the complex and contradictory ways in which reproduction and resistance func ...
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... oppression , the question of who determines the knowledge and action necessary to eliminate oppression remains unre- solved . As I reflected on my decision to enter teaching , in which I had constructed my subjectivity as a ' change ...
... oppression , the question of who determines the knowledge and action necessary to eliminate oppression remains unre- solved . As I reflected on my decision to enter teaching , in which I had constructed my subjectivity as a ' change ...
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... oppression in one sphere while being privi- leged or oppressive in another ' . The assumption that there is a collective experience of oppression that can be named , obscures difference , especially in regard to gender and race ...
... oppression in one sphere while being privi- leged or oppressive in another ' . The assumption that there is a collective experience of oppression that can be named , obscures difference , especially in regard to gender and race ...
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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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