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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... position of authority becomes a strategy for working with men , whom Cleo later describes as being more comfortable ... position usually reserved for men . As a consequence , she was able to take up a position in the district as ...
... position of authority becomes a strategy for working with men , whom Cleo later describes as being more comfortable ... position usually reserved for men . As a consequence , she was able to take up a position in the district as ...
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... position as a ' step up ' the career ladder ; instead , it was a step away from students . In effect , their sense of agency in staying teachers acts as a form of resistance against hierarchical , patriarchal notions of success embedded ...
... position as a ' step up ' the career ladder ; instead , it was a step away from students . In effect , their sense of agency in staying teachers acts as a form of resistance against hierarchical , patriarchal notions of success embedded ...
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... positions and the conse- quent shaping of their understandings of teaching . I was caught off guard when gender did not ... position in shaping and creating their identities , through the var- ious ways identified above , reflects an ...
... positions and the conse- quent shaping of their understandings of teaching . I was caught off guard when gender did not ... position in shaping and creating their identities , through the var- ious ways identified above , reflects an ...
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